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:

Tara Palmer Tomkinson: These Boots (Were Made For Walking)

SEVERAL NON-SINGING CELEBS agreed to do BBC TV's Fame Academy, an X-Factor or American Idol style show where wannabe pop stars train and develop. And get kicked out one by one. Tara Palmer Tomkinson is a very posh British "it girl" in the Paris Hilton mould, who counts Prince Charles as a family friend. In the true "do anything" attitude of public school tradition, she here gives Nancy Sinatra's classic a good going-at:~

Tara Palmer Tomkinson Poppadum Flavour Crisps Ad

TARA PALMER TOMKINSON is the only socialite I really like. Here's her Walker's Crisps ad featuring retired footballer Gary Linneker for Poppadum flavour snacks (just shows how much Indian culture has got under the British skin!)

Elizabeth R: 1992 documentary on HM Queen Elizabeth II

This is the entire close-up documentary about HM the Queen as shown on BBC TV back in 1992

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Part 11 of 11 Summer hols in Balmoral, Scotland