THATCHER: POPULAR CAPITALISM

This is her in a nutshell:~

Margaret Thatcher und die Deutschen

THIS IS TYPICAL entertainment from the best policial TV show of the 1980s: SPITTING IMAGE. Notice how lifelike they made Thatcher's puppet...

Margaret Thatcher's speech: motion of no confidence, House of Commons, Tuesday 30th October 1990

THIS SHOWS WHY BRITISH POLITICS (ironically the last major democracy to bring cameras into the House) is the most televisual in the world.

Compare Margaret Thatcher's stately eloquence to the leering of those opposition gargoyles, Niel Kinnock and that one who spits all the time...



If there's no screen, click this link: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1395201692367397393 ...

Spitting Image Medley

(mit Deutschen Untertitel~ jawohl!)

All the stars of the 80s political scene are here: Margaret Thatcher, Niel Kinnock, Geoffrey Howe, Douglas Hurd, George Bush (I) etc etc etc... somehow the booming resonances of someone's living room only add to the rustic charm of this montage of Spitting Image's best.

HM the Queen and Lady Thatcher

WHEN SHE WAS IN POWER, it was frequently claimed that relations between HM and Mrs Thatcher were frosty. Well whatever the truth in that, a very old and doddery Margaret Thatcher here pays a birthday tribute to the sovereign: