Extract from the 9 June 1985 edition of Frost on Sunday, in which David Frost questions Margaret Thatcher about the sinking of the Argentine cruiser, General Belgrano, on 2 May 1982 during the Falklands Conflict.
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@danielklimovchannel3 жыл бұрын
That's how she dealt with them. I was a schoolboy in USSR approx at that time, I still remember how she literally tore apart two soviet journalists interviewing her. I laughed out loud though I was about 13. The next day soviet TV banned the interview.
@jaredt85262 жыл бұрын
Was that the interview she gave in 1987 on youtube?
@traceyunderwood5566 Жыл бұрын
Would love to see that interview!
@MariaGonzales-om7pk10 жыл бұрын
This is so stupid...giving a PM grief because they sunk an enemy ship at war? I don't get it?
@davidfg0007 Жыл бұрын
The ship was outside the demarcated war area, which is why they question it for murdering innocent people at that time
@peterbradshaw801811 ай бұрын
The captain of the Belgrano said Maggie Thatchers decision was legal. But you are so wracked with hatred for the woman his opinion means nothing to you expert in the law of war. How dare he think otherwise. Moron doesn't adequately describe your low level of cognition.
@gabrielfranciscorp7 ай бұрын
Héctor Bonzo, captain of the ARA Belgrano, stated in an interview twenty-five years after the sinking: “It was absolutely not a war crime. It was an act of war, lamentably legal".
@thedolphin54287 ай бұрын
@@gabrielfranciscorp What the hell is a "designated war zone" when a destroter can fire ?10-300 kms? at will through missiles.
@gabrielfranciscorp7 ай бұрын
@@thedolphin5428 @thedolphin5428 It's International law and what hinders with it is, therefore, considered impermissible. “Similarly, during the Falklands/Malvinas War, both Argentina and the U.K. declared legally questionable exclusion zones. Argentina threatened to attack any British vessel in its declared war zone, which extended to the entire South Atlantic. The U.K. “total exclusion zone” (TEZ) was equally problematic. The U.K. declared any military or civilian ship or aircraft, regardless of flag found within the TEZ without the permission of the U.K. Ministry of Defence would “be regarded as operating in support of the illegal occupation” of the Falklands and would “be regarded as hostile” and liable to attack by British Forces. Despite its apparent overreach, however, the TEZ was located away from the main shipping lanes in the South Atlantic and was of relatively short duration. Arguably, the TEZ was designed to support British military operations in the Falklands by facilitating the identification of legitimate military targets rather than target all contacts in the zone. In this regard, the British declaration indicated that ships or aircraft within the zone were warned of possible attacks and there is no evidence that foreign-flag vessels within the TEZ were actually attacked by British forces.” (Maritime Exclusion Zones in Armed Conflicts, by Raul (Pete) Pedrozo, International Law Studies, 2022).
@Lukeiswayne10 жыл бұрын
When you enlist in the armed forces you accept that you may be killed on the line of duty. Sinking an enemy ship is not a war crime, especially if it is a war ship and not a merchant ship. Argentina provoked war and they got what was coming for them. Nobody claims the sinking of HMS Sheffield was a war crime, so how is that the case with the Belgrano?
@marshalllucky10 жыл бұрын
We should give the penguin Islands back to the Argentines. In 2014 we have no business in the South Atlantic . Our days of colonizing the world are over. We should hand back Gibraltar also ;-)
@chrisriordon485210 жыл бұрын
***** It seems to me the only decent and honorable way of solving most of these issues is to recognize them as a matter of self-determination. If the people of the Falklands/Malvinas want to be part of Argentina, then they should be. If they want to remain part of Britain (as they apparently do), then that too should be respected. DItto Gibraltar. For example, Canada has a similarly strong geographic (though weaker historical) claim on the islands of St Pierre and Miquelon. They're 20km (!!) from Canadian soil, and over 3800 km from France. The people of those islands, AFAIK, still wish to remain French. Fair enough.
@PlanXV10 жыл бұрын
Belgrano sinking was prior to Sheffield. In fact all events after the sinking of the Belgrano were in retaliation. Countless lives were lost due to an act of cowardice by the British government.
@1who2what3where4when9 жыл бұрын
***** They never achieved anything.
@1who2what3where4when9 жыл бұрын
Because the UK allows them to be.
@BlytheWorld19723 жыл бұрын
omg she is a legend 3:41 told him and no mistake lol best prim we ever had
@SMSJSC10 жыл бұрын
The Belgrano had to go. It didn't matter which direction it was sailing in. It formed part of a pincer movement against the British fleet. If we'd lost either carrier, it would have meant the end of the war.
@giuliovaloppi47562 жыл бұрын
Exactly. You knew you were gonna lose so you had to commit a war crime. You really are still nothing but pirates!
@marycahill5462 жыл бұрын
No interviewer EVER got the better of Margaret Thatcher.
@dlk1dlk110 ай бұрын
The Walden interview in 1989 on Lawson is a possible contender as it was already designed to trip her up.
@barryemery162 жыл бұрын
David Frost did say it was a turning point, actually he’s quite right, the Argentinian Carrier was taken away from the theatre, thus the Argentinian fighter bombers then had range issues. Margaret Thatcher was absolutely correct to order the sinking of the Belgrano.
@Matt-Durham2 жыл бұрын
The enemy ship's captain even said he was preparing weapons to fire against the British, so yes she did the right thing. I would love Maggie to be here now to rip Boris Johnson apart.
@mrneutral8423 Жыл бұрын
Yeah she didn't stutter or blunder. Whatever the situation, I don't think she was lying here.
@traceyunderwood5566 Жыл бұрын
Such a ridiculous charge against her. I admire her stand unwavering...painful posture nonetheless bold and brave.
@seguridad-digitalhouse27588 ай бұрын
that, literally, means the opposite. Where did you go to school? in USA?
@thomasedgerley11529 жыл бұрын
Imagine if Cameron argued with an interviewer like that nowadays.
@davidpar29 жыл бұрын
She wasn't having ANY of his bullshit. She was awesome and the baddest of badasses
@declanisdeclan14799 жыл бұрын
She wasn't a badass. She was just an ass
@n34932 жыл бұрын
@@declanisdeclan1479 you are.
@shanesuch72882 жыл бұрын
I wish we had a leader like her now 👍🏼
@leej709 жыл бұрын
"Don't cry for me Argentina...."
@magna410010 жыл бұрын
HMS Hermes sunk. Several hundred British sailors killed. David Frost "Ah well, these things happen." Well done, Maggie. The first British leader since Winnie that actually had a pair.
@vladislavskalicky62839 жыл бұрын
by god she was so admirably eloquent and tore to shreads anyone including even Frost.
@UberNonymous9 жыл бұрын
No, she was a pathological liar and a horrible woman.
@obfuscated30902 жыл бұрын
@@UberNonymous I defy you to supply a tactical or strategic reason to spare Belegrano. The question is military.
@filmneek9 жыл бұрын
we need a PM like her
@musicalmagpie7413 жыл бұрын
I am so divided by this woman. I was born in Scotland and sadly missed the 80s but was brought up to think of Thatcher as a monster. In fact, you simply didn’t mention her name (and still don’t) yet she is a fascinating woman. She divided the country as much as (ironically) Eva Peron did in Argentina. She is a fascinating historical figure at any rate.
@app1esuk2 жыл бұрын
I am with you, I was born only knowing MT as the PM and being told she was nasty and responsible for all evil. When she died, I did not batter an eye lash. I can say I have watched most of the interviews and documentaries on you tube and my opinion has totally changed. The fact is she is very intelligent, not scared to face these guys 1 on 1, and tells it how it is. So many politicans could learn from watching her. You might not like them, but she has her principles. Too many MP's today, go with popular opinion. I encourage anyone to spend time watching her debate these people. She does not shy away
@mrneutral8423 Жыл бұрын
I'm northern english. I vote with my heart (i.e not Tory). Yet she did a few things right. That's the best I have to offer. She defended british interests in regards to foreign conflict with passion. 99% of British people I know don't have any issues with Argentinian friends. So she at least didn't persecute people. History is crazy. The stopped clock metaphor etc.
@musicalmagpie741 Жыл бұрын
@@jde9711 I’ve been saying the same recently and have received several verbal beat downs. I’ve never once said we need Margaret Thatcher back, but we need someone forward thinking with a backbone. Glad I’m not alone. Thanks!
@dlk1dlk19 ай бұрын
I remember Richard Wilson couldn't even say her name.
@mikee75810 жыл бұрын
I knew befor i watched this that he wouldnt be in with much of a chance up against Margret.
@MichaelKingsfordGray2 жыл бұрын
A remarkable woman.
@stephensharp3033 Жыл бұрын
The most evil person born during the twentieth century.
@MichaelKingsfordGray Жыл бұрын
@@stephensharp3033 Glib accusations do not work with adult discussion. What, in your opinion, were the three most "evil" things that Mrs. Roberts committed? This should be good! She is, according to you, worse than Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, Mao Tse Tung, to pick but a few...
@senor25010 жыл бұрын
The Belgrano was a threat, hence we sunk it.
@markstuckey66393 жыл бұрын
You bloodythirsty fucking poms are always in the right. Bachelors' walk. Amritsar, subsequently Gujranwala Chumik Shenko. North King St. Peshawar Bazaar. Athens. Palestine. Just a few from the first half of the 20th century. I don't think there's room in these comments to list even 1/2 of the British military's brutality.
@hippiegutierrez27663 жыл бұрын
Hello, Friend, despite being from the Losing Side, I agree with your answer, since El Ara Gral Belgrano represented a great danger and even though he was outside the conflict zone, the good thing is that they have already begun to declassify some documents by For example, the Mikado operation or the Plum Duff operation that were already directed to attack on the continent, These are things that I hope will not happen again, a hug from Argentina.Sorry for not knowing English (it's the google translator)
@BoathouseShark11 жыл бұрын
The Total Exclusion Zone was a protective measure for civilian merchant shipping. It did not apply to the Argentinian Navy. Argentinian Naval warships would still be a legitimate target sitting in home-port in that situation. Sinking the Belgrano was a legitimate act of war, and her skipper is on the record as agreeing.
@tscottme10 жыл бұрын
Unless Belgrano was flying a white flag it was a legitimate target AFTER Argentina started the war. The direction it was steaming is irrelevant. Had the Argentines discovered a UK Vulcan bomber on it's return trip after bombing Port Stanley's runway would it have been illegitimate to shoot it down? It was leaving the area. No. Belgrano wasn't a hospital ship. It wasn't a civilian ship. It hadn't surrendered. The war was on and it lost.
@nuttypiglet9 жыл бұрын
Have any of you read comments made by argentinian forces about this? It was definitely a part of their strategy and had just been ordered to act as a pincer ship with the others in the area and attack british forces. Thatcher made a great choice and the right one end of.
@Matt-Durham3 жыл бұрын
The ship was arming weapons to attack British forces, this was fed back to MT, who then gave the orders to sink her.
@traceyunderwood5566 Жыл бұрын
In another interview she stated perhaps 30 years later all of the facts will come out, and here we are over 30 years and the accuracy and brilliant action taken is made undeniable by revealed facts! She's iconic ✨️
@erikal8510 жыл бұрын
Should they have waited until some british men had died and then gone ahead and attacked the argentinian force or what is it that he wants?
@devonputra43623 жыл бұрын
The last sentence should shut him up
@maginot2u9 жыл бұрын
If the Belgrano was sailing away from the Falklands and back to Argentina, why didn't the Argentine government announce that the battle ship was being withdrawn in an effort to foster peace negociations??
@gbrinksman9 жыл бұрын
maginot2u Because they wasn't expecting a psychopathic response.
@giuliovaloppi47562 жыл бұрын
Because they don't need to? They were literally going back to Argentina sailing OUT of war territory, England saw an opportunity to act like bloody coward pirates and attack from the back a boat that would've given England lots of trouble. Dumb
@maginot2u2 жыл бұрын
But why was the Belgrano going back to Argentina when the war was not over.?There were reports that the Belgrano was going to pick up more Exocet missles . Also the Russians had started to support the Argentines sending submarines to follow British ships and sending intelligence information to the Argentines. Today we have the Chinese as the threat. I don't think Argentina will ever be able to take over the Falkland Islands. Did you know that the Falkland Islands are one of the wealthiest counties in the world. Check out the CIA Factbook. Argenitna goes from one crisis to another. As does Venezuela, Peru, and other Latin American countries. The Falkland Islands are a stable and wealthy country.
@giuliovaloppi47562 жыл бұрын
@@maginot2u lol, did not expect you answering me after 6 years. The thing is it doesn’t matter if it was going to get more missiles or if they were being helped with russian intel. England was being helped with US and chilean intel too, that’s not the point. The point is like Frost very well said, the argentines had not killed any british soldier before that and the Belgrano was sailing out of war territory so there was no reason to sink it. It was a war crime
@maginot2u2 жыл бұрын
@@giuliovaloppi4756 6 Years ago? I just got your message today, Oct 15, 2021. Was the sinking of the Belgrano a war crime? It depends on who you ask. Do a Google search on this topic and you will see that many say the sinking WAS a war crime but as many say It WAS NOT. Pick your side. The fact was that the Argentines invaded and took control of the Falkland Islands on April 2, 1982. The Belgrano was sunk a month later on May 2, 1982. The war was a month old at that time.
@mrblondeno210 жыл бұрын
Best PM we've had, smashed the corrupt unions who were in bed with their corrupt labour paymasters, saved industry from terminal industrial decline and put Britain back on the international stage as a world power by establishing a more market driven economy. Love her or hate her, she was always blunt, had balls of steel and believed in Great Britain, something todays politicians should take note of.
@Buildbeautiful3 жыл бұрын
Now britian is ruled by currupt fascist tories that line the pockets of their mates that brainwashed people to vote for brexit
@uioplkhj2 жыл бұрын
Public services were cut across the board while she was PM. The poll tax was a terrible tax.
@spencersfarm2 жыл бұрын
To have an opinion on this subject you have to look at the full facts. Many facts were kept secret at the time. In particular, the British monitored Argentinian signals and knew the plan to use the Belgrano against the Royal Navy. The Belgrano's captain has never described the sinking as a war crime. The histrionics come from other sources.
@snova12910 жыл бұрын
She did the right thing in the circumstances - that's what strong leadership is all about. Let's face it, those who "hate" her do so really because she was a woman and they have no basic argument or alternative to her policies - which were right and exactly what the UK needed.
@BlytheWorld19723 жыл бұрын
Do you think Mr frost that i spend my days prowling around the pigeonholes of the ministry of defense then if you do then you must be bonkers lmfao hahahahah
@stuntroamer59 Жыл бұрын
Margaret Thatcher accomplished her duty. Defend the sovereignty of her homeland's territory and recover the Falkland Islands. And she achieved her mission in the brightest way ! The Iron Lady at her best.
@STEAMLOCO719 жыл бұрын
it was an enemy ship and it was sunk TO BAD
@gregmoulton2609 жыл бұрын
I agree. Don't invade someone if you don't want your ships sunk.
@jacktanner49489 жыл бұрын
Having good naval intelligence is a wonderful thing.
@giuliovaloppi47562 жыл бұрын
That info was given by the US Navy. It was a coward act that you WILL pay for.
@jacktanner49482 жыл бұрын
@@giuliovaloppi4756 I trust you have evidence for that? It was an entirely justified act, the Belgranos own commander has stated this, the only "cowardice" is from the Argentinian surface fleet as it bravely sailed towards its own waters and stayed there for the rest of the war - good thing too probably, it reduced the number of lives needlessley wasted so a tin-pot dictatorship could remain in power.
@giuliovaloppi47562 жыл бұрын
@@jacktanner4948 I agreed with you in that last sentence. In the long run it was probably for the best that Argentina lost that war because otherwise that dictatorship would’ve kept going on forever. But it is known that England was able to win the war thanks to US and chilean intel. Like it or not, the sinking of the Belgrano was a war crime
@fumanchu9701 Жыл бұрын
If you went to war, you’d want no one else apart from Thatcher at number 10. The lady is a legend - more balls than any male PM.
@traceyunderwood5566 Жыл бұрын
In a different interview she stated perhaps when I leave politics I will go into business and call it "rent a spine" 😆 My shero indeed...legendary and iconic ❤️
@edcampion399810 жыл бұрын
iron lady tough as nails
@leonardol474510 ай бұрын
War is war. PM Thatcher, as leader, made the correct choice.
@rewdwarf1232 жыл бұрын
Strange to criticise the British attack on the basis no Falkland Islanders had died. That's like saying the police shouldn't shoot an armed robber of a bank because no hostages had been killed at that time.
@WestHamBestie11 жыл бұрын
Quien te enseño eso? La area de exclusión no fue para los argentinos. El barco iba a atacar en un momento mas adecuado según los jefes de de la armada argentina. Lee los comentarios de Enrique Molina o Pedro Luis Galazi. Tenés razón sobre ella, pero no de está incidente.
@Elena19Rose10 жыл бұрын
I love how people who do not study anything about strategics, militaristic nor politics believe they can criticize everything like if they had been right there.
@obfuscated30902 жыл бұрын
The ignorant should be ashamed to HAVE an opinion on military affairs let alone express it.
@joaquincastellvi72958 ай бұрын
Who justifies the British invasion to an Island 8 thouthand miles away I have a question: If certain people invaded the yard of your house without you noticing, over time these people have children raised with the culture and sense of belonging of their invading parents, and someone asked these children who owns the yard of that house, what do you think they would answer?Then, is the fact that these children feel that the yard of your house belongs to them enough for them to take it away from you?
@BLUEOHIO9 жыл бұрын
Ohio here the Usa and the only woman I would vote for to lead the Usa would be the strong but caring Margaret Thatcher and Margaret Thatcher WE LOVE YOU!!
@tarync65392 жыл бұрын
It helped win the war as it struck great fear in Argentina as they had no way to fight off a nuclear sub as they had no such technology
@magmamere10 жыл бұрын
The Argentineans were absolutely asking for trouble.
@giuliovaloppi47562 жыл бұрын
Argentina literally had NOT killed any british soldier before that coward act, how were they looking for trouble? Dumb.
@jonahjones2510 жыл бұрын
In world war 2 the Bismarck set out for the Atlantic not to fight the British fleet but to go after the convoys yet the British navy sank her, was it wrong to sink that ship ? No of course not as it would have gone on to sink ships and take many lives. The Belgrano was a threat as long as she was a float, and never forget Argentina made the first aggressive moves by invading the Falklands. If you become the aggressor then you must live with the consequences of your actions and finally if they did not intend to use her in combat then what was she doing there in the first place ?
@tonycypriot940110 жыл бұрын
I totally agree with you as that is the exact point I've used in the past and often criticised for comparing the sinking of the bismark with the belgrano as irrelevant. But the underlying fact is that bismark was also sailing away at the time back to port and yet the British forces knew she had to be sent to the bottom of the Atlantic if the royal navy stood a chance of protecting the convoys and it had the overwhelming support of the British public and the free world. The belgrano sinking although on a smaller scale is no less relevant to the fact that even if she was sailing back to port she was still in firing distance from the task force waiting for landings with her 16 inch guns and her being an undoubtedly an obstacle she had to be sunk. Mr Frost should of put in a question not of criticism but of bravery as to how Mrs Thatcher handled that situation as it did not only save British lives but also it led the other two argentine battleships to be ordered back to port. Had Churchill been in her place he'd probably ordered all of them to had been sunk. War is what it is.
@PlanXV10 жыл бұрын
Tony Vasiliou Belgrano was 236 miles from the landing zones. 16 inch guns don't have that range.
@tonycypriot940110 жыл бұрын
War is war gandalf grey, ships can alter course and no doubt it would of done to fire at the landings. It can only be in Britain that a PM is criticised for sinking an ENEMY ship that was a threat to British lives whether in or outside an exclusion zone (and that doesn't have to stay official). Honestly the stupidity of some...
@marshalllucky9 жыл бұрын
Your understanding of history does not seem to go back beyond 1982. How exactly did the Falklands become `British`? .
@Henry-dt9ht Жыл бұрын
The commanding officer of the Argentine warship the General Belgrano believe the attack on his ship was justified. He did not blame the Conqueror or prime minister Thatcher for their actions their nations were at War ships at sea during wartime our subject to attack himself it goes without saying. As a former sailor myself in the Navy you know full darn well that your ship is a warship and it has a great big Target on it just like your opponent's chips have got targets painted on them. It's an accepted risk and when wartime is prevalent that risk maybe ramped up to a certainty. An uncle of mine was on the Franklin when she was hit by a kamikaze. He didn't think of it as a war crime it was simply an act of War it was a risk and he was one of the 700 survivors who sailed the Franklin by way of the Suez Canal all the way back to New York City where she would have been do for repairs had not the war ended during your Transit. The whole idea of trying Margaret Thatcher in negative light is media bias with an unhealthful dose of self righteousness on the part of the interviewer. I like David Frost I've enjoyed his programming but I thought that this interview in the whole questioning of her actions during the Argentine war with England was scared to turn up controversy in the media. The nation was at War and when Nations go to war people get killed. You don't join the Navy to see the world you do join the Navy to protect your nation from foreign aggression. And as far as English citizens on the Falkland Islands were concerned they were violently attacked and occupied. The Argentine Army also engaged in combat with the small Marine Garrison on the Falklands in the early days of the war. The argentinians weren't exactly defenseless they sank several Royal Navy ships racking up a good portion of deaths among the crews of these ships. Such is the nature of War. It's in human nature to have conflict with others whether violent or simple disagreements. It's unfortunate it's just the way we are and all we can do is to go through a day simply saying today I shall not kill or I shall not argue or I shall not get into a fight. You say that every day of your life and you will need peaceful existence providing somebody does not come along and try to take away those parts of your life that you treasure and hold dear.
@bastymanguyАй бұрын
Why is she tolerating this line of questioning from this interviewer
@imaboygenius9 жыл бұрын
What a sensationalizing jerk Frost was. She was right.
@Bondek1996 Жыл бұрын
Had Belgrano launched and the 25 de Mayo group, the outcome could've been disastrous for Britain. Right decision. Only Britain, since the 80s, can find umbrage of sinking an enemy ship in a conflict.
@industrialfun10 жыл бұрын
Frost destroyed!
@version736ha2Ай бұрын
Balls of this woman. And as if the Argies wouldn't have done the same!!!
@rohanpandey43642 жыл бұрын
she could look someone in the eye and argue a point
@chrish1234510 жыл бұрын
couldn't they have at least moved the actual juice jug out of camera shot, with three glasses of juice there as well this seems like overload
@blueknight07 Жыл бұрын
David frost just said it as it was. We need more journalists like that
@n3493 Жыл бұрын
Uncapable to do their job? We already have enough.
@minimaxi802 Жыл бұрын
Thatcher and Frost both died in 2013.
@nickwilson571110 жыл бұрын
She would have been justified to sink their entire fleet in Beanos Arseholes harbour.
@Steveoqotsa10 жыл бұрын
The luckiest ship in the US navy according to QI....never knew it was the only ship not sunk at Pearl Harbour..!!!
@cristop53 жыл бұрын
Apparently the Royal Navy had a duty of care for the Argentine Navy
@TheChickenLine Жыл бұрын
Thank god for Thatcher! We certainly need her type today; in Britain! As for the treacherous
@Voice-Actor2 ай бұрын
Frost, owned.
@cryingclown7810 жыл бұрын
Tulaenelorto, I don't eat fish and chips, that's a stereotype my friend. Neither did South America invite your Spanish ancestors. I am not homophobic but will defend the interest of the people of the Falkland Islands, the islands which were inhabited and discovered before the nation as known as Argentina was discovered by the Spanish. So please go back in your shell before you accuse another nation of colonising another territory.
@stuartshelley1810 жыл бұрын
I love it how people slate Thatcher, it really shows how uneducated they are. I as a true English man believe in everything she did, she really shaped Britain in her time and thanks to a certain party and it's followers, we lost everything. A true hard British woman, a shame we lost her RIP Maggie
@willbarber-taylor917010 жыл бұрын
So, simply because someone disagrees with your point of view you suggest they are uneducated? Wonderful argument. I'd also like to point out that her party made 3 million people unemployed in the 1980s. During her era more people were unemployed than ever before. The only time you could find more unemployed people was during the Great Depression. Another point, if she was so brilliant then how come she would have lost the 1983 general election if she hadn't gone to war with Argentina? I'm sorry she died but she caused a great deal of trouble, heartache and misery to "the hard working people of Britain" (to use a cliché) so a bunch of middle class yuppies like yourself could sit back in your armchairs during your declining years and say "Wasn't she a wonderful leader! Thanks for all the money Maggie!"
@piratepat449 жыл бұрын
Holy shit was she the most contreversial politician of all time or what!? Pretty sure there's exactly 50/50 pro/anti Thatcher people in the comments here xD
@alainriviere7950 Жыл бұрын
God save Mrs. Thatcher! The greatest Prime Minister since Mr. Churchill.
@PimpPancreas10 жыл бұрын
You start a war and lose a ship, you don't get to complain about it. Who the hell would even question the sinking of an enemy vessel in a war? Who gives a shit where it was heading, it's a military vessel. The Fauklands are so close to Argentina, you wonder why they never simply had people move to it and , over time, change cultures.
@deanodog36672 жыл бұрын
Yeah she was a legend, supported Pinochet, apartheid and the Khmer rouge!
@ponomar10 жыл бұрын
Margaret Thatcher. Whenever I think that England is the greatest nation in history, I remember that the English didn't like her. And then I change my mind.
@johnking51743 жыл бұрын
Interesting interview from TV-am, as TV-am was always considered by Margaret Thatcher and her government to be very friendly to her government. Bruce Gyngell their MD was a big supporter of Thatcher. Maybe she thought she would get a soft ball interview here, she didn't.
@Tulaenelorto10 жыл бұрын
I don't have time for lengthy chats with pirates.
@SgtBeansprout1319 жыл бұрын
It seems you do consider you spew you're anti British comments on every video concerning The Falklands
@Tulaenelorto9 жыл бұрын
Sgt Beansprout anti-Empire. I love the people of the islands that do not support imperialism.
@Polo-po2 жыл бұрын
You don't seem to have the knowledge for such either.
@kevindare31136 ай бұрын
Maggie never had time for bullshit
@tracycole148111 жыл бұрын
She did the right thing, look after our own boys first! Best PM we ever had!
@Snagprophet10 жыл бұрын
I don't have any sympathy. The Argentinian government put their sailors in danger and risk. Funny how us attacking someone is controversial but someone invading our land is swept under the rug. All these people moan about the facts we know now but what about then? We don't have the time to ask everyone's intentions during a war and after we'd been attacked. What was his point about 'they took no British lives' oh shall we just invade any country we like and as long as we take no lives we hold the moral high ground? Utter bollocks.
@gbrinksman9 жыл бұрын
Al Haigh: The Peruvians have a peace plan that Argentina will accept but Francis Pym wont answer the phone. Ronnie Regan: Maggie wants a skirmish.
@TheKonga889 жыл бұрын
Peter Pan took Mrs Thatcher to the moon and gave her 17 mice that he bred there!! When she returned to the Earth, she was a changed woman and Dennis gave her a golliwog doll for comfort!!
@ChrisJones-xd1re11 жыл бұрын
What is your reaction to shooting someone in the back? If it is outrage, as it certainly is for a great many people, and you say this is business as usual for war, then where is your outrage against war?
@paullinnane8135 Жыл бұрын
David frost won this argument, he really gave it to her in the end, 1 war many lives lost,
@SabotPottery9 жыл бұрын
For me the bottom line is Britain should get out of the Falklands
@gregmoulton2609 жыл бұрын
Why?
@chrish1234510 жыл бұрын
but wrong
@doctorsocrates44133 ай бұрын
David frost was clearly feeding an agenda in this terrible interview...He always has been a terrible interviewer....
@TheMorbius111 жыл бұрын
Am just watching this because Frost died today. I think he does a brilliant job here. Maggie's reactions are quite hilarious!
@Polo-po2 жыл бұрын
good grief.
@kevindare311310 ай бұрын
Brilliant job at what, making himself look a fool.
@Tulaenelorto9 жыл бұрын
One Democratic Republic and one Nuclear Empire in a dispute. The Empire expells former dissidents and deny entry of Argentines. Then it holds a Putin-style referendum. Any suggestion for a solution?
@Polo-po2 жыл бұрын
Argentina was not a democratic republic in 1983. Learn your history and definitions.
@soulmate710 жыл бұрын
Thatcher lost this argument badly. It was her negligence and stupidity which lost the Falklands in the first place. Then soldiers had to die to get them back. She blunders and flounders over the Belgrano. Her reply to Frost's point that the Belgrano was sailing away that it might have turned around is ridiculous. Thatcher was a monster.
@Polo-po2 жыл бұрын
Mindlessmate.
@kevindare31132 жыл бұрын
No doubt you have never been in a war, what would you know
@doctorsocrates44132 жыл бұрын
What a load of bollocks.
@airborae10 жыл бұрын
Thatcher obviously floundering here...not answering the questions that Frost is putting to her...
@Polo-po2 жыл бұрын
"obviously"? What interview were you watching?
@jaredt85262 жыл бұрын
she wasn't allowed to admit that British intelligence knew the Belgrano was going to turn around. Her hands were tied.
@syourke311 жыл бұрын
Thatcher was a monster, a war criminal, a heartless and ruthless politician. Frost makes his point very well and I only wish that we had a press that could really press American politicians to answer the tough questions. Thatcher sunk the Belgrano when it was retreating from the Falklands in order to raise her numbers in the polls and win re-election. Unfortunately for Britain, it worked.
@Polo-po2 жыл бұрын
No, he doesn't 'make his point very well' as you can see him fumbling reaching for his socks as he's been put in place with his silly, weak line of 'but what about if' questioning forgetting there was a war going on and the risk of British lives. Clueless - as was your posting.
@polisomno10 жыл бұрын
a war crime, a killer and that´s it Britain and Argentina can do better than this
@bulllea10 жыл бұрын
war crime ? why ? Belgrano was a fishing ship ?
@Polo-po2 жыл бұрын
Hunh?
@obfuscated30902 жыл бұрын
I defy you to cite military or legal support for your statement. You made an assertion of LAW now back it up.
@pranceydog11 жыл бұрын
I had almost forgotten just how much I despised Thatcher. Thanks David Frost for your tenacity.