it is thursday time for world view would dennis campbell dennis is editor in
chief of u_k_ progressive magazine and host of world view show on youtube it
at youtube dot com slash world view show will dennis we now know of the passing
at the age eighty-seven of margaret thatcher the first female prime minister
of the united kingdom there has been well during her life there was
widespread disagreement over her legacy
posthumously there continues to be widespread disagreement and controversy
over her passing give us a little bit of a sense of the types of discussions and
and protests really that we've seen
well margaret thatcher
was so there is that she was uh... was a diseases
figure
in british politics particularly
uh... we're based in wales and uh... here as well as in scotland and northern
ireland uh...
are there was uh... several more celebration advertising because of the
impact
the law of the thatcherism policies had on coal mines and
armand is in the city the father of
what had been a a labor union bay system so most of the uh... most of the process
that you're going to see
we're going to come out of that particular background
now armed arm of the opinion that uh... i disagree with everything that she
stood for inclusion was
and she was in historical figure here in this country she was the first woman
prime minister and out of respect to the family is probably a good idea for
everybody to behave at least further period of the next week or so and so
she's laid to rest in wednesday then the debate can begin a new about what her
policies were and what they meant
we're seeing uh... quite a bit of uh... of pundit uh... opportunism on both
sides of the pond where
people are quick to to to rush to judgment and and russia
make statements about who she was and quite frankly in there because she was
such a decision here
uh... you know you don't accomplish anything in life
if you don't make enemies and obviously she had lots of enemies so
some would say that she has indeed accomplished a lot of her life well it's
fascinating because not only is there a lot of discussion happening from you
know
my home country of argentina and people discussing how margaret thatcher's
policy affected argentina and from many parts of the world but there is
fascinating video which you sent me from that the floor of the house of commons
of labor m_p_ glenda jackson speech where she went on i wouldn't
characterize it as a tirade but some are calling it a tirade against thatcherism
and uh... it was interesting because they actually they called into question
whether her comments were an order and the verdict at least
uh... ap in in data on the floor of the house of commons seem to be you know
uh... did nothing and that is being said here is against our roles but that being
said maybe it's not the most polite tape of statement to be making
exactly in and thank you john broke out is uh...
you know this is a fairly diversification of is the gentleman but
actually spoke at the end of that video that i sent you
and you know he's basically said look we all have opinions and and this is a
you know an official today to you know in discussion
and people should be allowed to say whatever it is they say it was served
clearly not hate speech it was clearly not anything that could be of uh...
punishable or or uh... prosecutable in any form
this was in representative or into the area of more funding that has been hit
exceptionally hard by the policies of margaret thatcher
speaking out against the policies of batteries and i think that's one of the
distinctions that
kind of gets blurred when you start uh...
looking at it for commentary point of views that uh... you know criticize the
policies without necessarily to meaning the accomplishments
of the individual and i think that's the that's what
uh... a lot of people were upset that was that the tended to blur the line on
the conservative
what rori side which was her party
and saying that she was actually attacking margaret thatcher
when clearly when you look at the table you listen to what she said
she was attacking the conditions that that brought along and quite frankly
mom you know most people would look at what she's done and what ronald reagan
have done and what to talk to push the second of done
in terms of exacerbating the class divide in this world
uh... you know we used to have just two or three classes now i read an article
last week there were there about seven classes but if you're at the bottom of
any of those you're not doing particularly well here in the united
kingdom
dennis can you give us a second overview so to speak i'd think
for a lot of our viewers in the u_s_ and really probably in a lot of part of the
world we may anecdotally c criticisms or praise of margaret thatcher but could
you give us a sense of currently if you please do survey uh... people in the
united kingdom now and kind of do like a retrospective approval rating of
margaret thatcher word of the numbers actually stand how popular is she today
well as it as a figure as uh... as it was a issues basically a shopkeepers
daughter
who want to parliament and in
a hierarchical upper-class party which is what the
conservatives usually is worse you basically turned up on the audience the
air
and if you move that you know how she came into power
and how she wielded power policemen often said during the course of this
week if you worked
for margaret thatcher
you whether it was in the house of number ten downing or a member of her
staff they absolutely adored her
if you were in a minister in the cabinet of margaret thatcher
you're constantly pulling your hair out because she wasn't playing the game by
the traditional rules here in the united kingdom
saw the whole you'll see a huge outpouring of support because
the british people feel it is their duty
to attend these it's not exactly a state funeral that will be an official funeral
there will be the public's stoic form of of support
for the family
then that you have to look though at the debate upper policies what happened
there and they're pretty much the gloves are off the minutes of very divided
nation here
and if you tend to fall on the conservative although what we would call
the republican g_o_p_ side
you will think that she was indeed state department
just as the the g_o_p_ in the united states lionize is the same ronald reagan
neither of them can do no wrong in because of the conservative victory
party
if you look for at the labeled the democratic side of the agenda
you will find that they're is very very strong
opinions against his usual with npg accident
issues in a very famous actress but she's also spent twenty years as a
member of parliament
uh... speaking about not without the support but without the support by the
way of of anybody else in the chamber
you look at that time for the labor side of the others almost completely empty so
nobody saw this comment yet people on that side will come to her defense
because she was speaking truth about the policies of margaret thatcher
would one might just question whether or not that was the time to do it
alright dennis campbell editor in chief of u_k_ progressive magazine subscribe
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dennis thanks as always will talk to you next week
thank you