Real-life Thatcher acted a US agent, so it was a good casting choice.

Well, it's fairly not that well known but though she was born in the US, she grew up in England. They brought that up in her interview on Top Gear which is how I found out. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/r5mPkpqbnMiYcoE.html

Terrific actress. Just brulliant

I met Thatcher several times and I can tell you, she was some girl. Nobody sane would cross her but oh boy she could kick butt. Greatest PM of my lifetime, betrayed by a bunch of cavilling rats.

A testament to Thatchers blank expressionless face. All Gillian Anderson had to do was get daily injections of botox, and speak through clenched teeth as if she was trying to breath through her bum.

Funny how Britain always does well when we have leaders like Margaret Thatcher and Winston Churchill.

Here here. There aren't many leaders who are known just by their surnames, Churchill, Thatcher. Can there ever be another PM with that kind of impact? Naturally I'm a Conservative 🇬🇧👌

Agreed.

@@samuel10125 What ? Thatcher's government was the most unpopular of the 20th century.

@@cragerzz What ? Which leaders are known by their first name ? Blair ? Reagan ? Major? Adolf ? Are you thinking of Fidel , and Ho ?

Agreed.

I bet this is spot on. She was bloody fantastic. She was ours!!!

Yeah of course, she closed states companies also related to mining in UK and let people without their work..also she didn't understand the islands were not from Britain and sink the Belgrano.

@@mharg6408 concuerdo

What are you talking about..?? Your country is considered stealing territory, pirate, power to sell slaves in Africa, ... and what happens is that the British tell their citizens the beautiful part. But the truth is the UK is a factory to make ENEMIES

They were a bunch of muderous SS style thugs. Did the argies a favour giving them a kicking , that foul junta fell soon afterwards.

El Gobierno militar NO FUE FASCISTA PORQUE FUE UN GOBIERNO "BRITANICO" y Estadounidense en lo financiero. La subversion de 1970 a 1980 fue sostenida militarmente por el Reino Unido y pruebas se encuentran judicializadas sin prosperar nunca como es usual. Fuente:"Dossier Secreto" de Martín Andersen o ""La Argentina" Henry Ferns¡ ! Estudiamos!

@@jamjuridico They attacked Islands, on which the population did not want to be part of Argentina, but ruled by the British and forcibly suppresed any opposition to their occupation , sounds pretty facist to me

@@royw-g3120 Thatchers govt was the most unpopular that century. Half of Britain cursed the I R A for missing her at Brighton. Her conduct in Ireland had her government indicted at the European Court of Human Rights. Not long after , they forced 3000 British citizens from islands in the Indian Ocean with ONE box of belongings and £30 - into the slums of Mauritius , several thousand miles away , where the suicide rate among them was EIGHT % WHY ? *They were not white* The island was to be made into a B-52 base , finished just in time for the Desert Storm. It was vicious hypocrisy. The Americans asked about the native population , the reply was "SEAGULLS AND GANNETS"

Chile was worse. Far worse. And they were allied to Britain during the conflict. The intelligence war was won by British agents in Chile.

Boris Johnson is one.

such a great call back to Season 1 too. "To do nothing is the hardest job of all."

Despite the embarrassment of the Tory scum who’s in power now, i don’t think Britain needs advice on the quality of state leaders from Eastern Europe my friend.

@@sbraypaynt I am not from Eastern Europe my friend. I am British now and I don't care about your personal opinion.

@@morning_glorymonster3473 You cared enough to respond. Well, no matter. Britain is dying country anyway.

@@Piola4830 Only if we don't care to defend it.

Incipient lunacy, more like.

​@@thundertick5666found the fascist

@@thundertick5666whatever you say

@@thundertick5666 I agree it is truly lunacy to ask anyone to be responsble for their decisions. ... UHuh

That's fucking right

Then all the men in the room...I know it's just a film, but I remember admiring her as a kid, even though I was American...President Regan and Margaret Thatcher...tough as iron...

@@marksmadhousemetaphysicalm2938 The Argentinians should have known the Americans would side with the British over them any day.

Of course, though she and Regan did have occasional tiffs... like Grenada...😁 we did cover for one another and even today it's our closest ally...we're still politically cousins...

I only see a harming human being dressed as a woman and going to a war to save herself and her disaster as prime minister.

​@@griseldafernandez9824 Mad because the Argentinians lost ?

You are right from Norway 👍👍👍🇳🇴🇬🇧

More balls than old rubber nose Weston had left after the Argentineans melted his face anyway 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@@BerghemDeSura You clearly have no education, no class and no dignity. You should refrain from posting such offensive rubbish.

Ironically so

You're terrible 😂

We mobilised the Navy and we called up the Marines!

You mum

@@theamazingengineer1901 we sailed two weeks till we reached the Falkland Islands.

"are ships"... true blood Brit... can't speak the language properly 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@@BerghemDeSura wow now I wish we conquered Argentina after we won back the Falklands be whole lot less of you gits around

So Tony Blair "tagging along the Americans" to Iraq in the early 00's was "spineless" ?? *That* was a *far* greater decision. You see, everybody knew that unlike a military junta which barely had enough support to control their own country (Argentina), invading Iraq and occupying the country wasn't going to stop with just deposing Saddam Hussein. *Nobody* needs a PM with a "spine". What they *do* need is a PM with a good head on the shoulder. You see, politicians with a "spine" tend to be rather nasty and short-sighted. A certain Adolf Hitler actually gained widespread support among the majority of Germans just for having a spine. The Germans who listened to him did so because he "dared saying what needed to be said". And who understood that the "German people will never live under some other nation's boot." Are you absolutely certain you wouldn't be supporting said dictator had you been living in 1930's Germany?? Beware of politicians with a spine, they might go too far. Fret not, there are TONS of people in other countries also madly infatuated with leaders with a spine (Putin being just one of them). One day you might realize how it feels like on the receiving end. By then you can worship any local politician with a spine all you want. It'll be too late. You be lucky you won't catch a bullet on the battlefield fighting the other people who were stupid enough to listen to their "leaders with a spine". Fool. FAR greater cultures have ended their days sacked and pillaged. Most of them truly deserved it. Chimps look up to spines. Thinking humans are defined by reason.

What about the Iranian embassy?

Tony Blair showed spine with the he Middle East whether you agree with his actions or not.

iron lady, broh 👏🏻

Yeah, she probably killed more British people than any of her enemies...

When she wasn't selling it off and privitising it anyway. She wanted to end school milk being free and to charge for library books. Fuck her, forever.

Iron Lady

Seeing everyone run around London, naked and drunk, yelling "Maggie Maggie Maggie!!! Oy Oy Oy!" To be there at that moment, even if the Queen wasn't proud of them, lol!!!

Her old man had to be drunk before he'd sleep with her lol.

Her and Reagan- May they Rest In Peace! 🇺🇸❤️🇬🇧!

@@BerghemDeSura Comments like your's would get you the firing squad in Russia if you uttered such garbage and toilet language about leaders such as Putin and the Khomeni . Be respectful of our great lady .

Don't forget the direct strike on that Welsh traitor big rubber nose Weston when the Argentineans melted his face off 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

As stated on the cover page of a leading news magazine of the day. TIME or NEWSWEEK ?

The sun never sets on the British Empire.

Yeah

@@craiglarge5925 and in a james bond movie as well

Well she was the Iron Lady, no wonder why Reagan loved her so much, and was feared by the reds for her sheer might as well as class

Kudos to the production, "We have just won war", ambiguous, and, she did of course go on record later for claiming, "We have become a grandmother"... :D

Ruining people's lives even long after her death. Impressive.

Fitzsimmons siding with the Brits over invasion of territory... couldn't make it up lol.

@@BerghemDeSura The thing is that, the UK have the island long before Argentina was even a country. Spain used to have a legitimate claim for the island sure, but that ends when the UK threats them, plus when Argentina declare independence from Spain, they lose all the legitimate claim for the island. Otherwise Italy can basically claim all the Europe.

I've always thought that considering public opinion includes sending the message that all citizens would be equally protected, whether they're in (for the UK) London or the Falklands

​@@BerghemDeSurayou nutcase.

O'Keefe... so you've sold out then...

Defending them from what ?

@@olliephelan defending the commonwealth people from an aggressive invasion by Argentina, do you seriously not know anything about the Falklands War??

@@td370 Defending a commonwealth people ? Like Northern Ireland ? The Argies didnt burn anyone out of their homes. What about the Chagos islands ?

@@olliephelan the IRA bombed innocent women and children, I don’t know what you’re trying to get at? You wanted Britain to just do nothing about a terrorist organisation bombing populated areas? How could you possibly defend Argentina when they aggressively invaded a British island, solely populated by ethnically English citizens who are culturally English and wanted to be British. Even the few Argentinians on the Falklands wanted to be British. If the Falklands were Argentinian the island would be poverty stricken and significantly poorer like Argentina. Why would you wish a worser life for people?

That’s Right

For a bunch of islands?

@@itsblitz4437 That you think the campaign in 1982 was about a 'bunch of islands' shows your total lack of understanding about the British mentality and our values let alone why we went down there. That 'bunch of islands' were British Territory and anyone invades British Territory they get kicked out. But the REAL reason was that British people had been attacked, subjugated and treated appallingly by a foreign power. For that crime the Argies had to be not only beaten but beaten well and humiliated. And they were. I suggest you read more and write less.

@@1chish attacking, subjugating, and treating other peoples appalingly is a british national pastime lol

@@ivche13 Errr ..... The Falkland Islands were and are British. Always have been. It was Argentina that did the "attacking, subjugating, and treating [British] people appallingly" not the other way round. D'UH! I would suggest you read a lot more and write a lot less. Because on THIS you simply do not have a clue. And stereotyping a nation because of some other events 200 years ago is frankly stupid.

the war was unnecessary. Britain people stole those island from us, it was so unfair.

@@catalinaferreyra3948 poor dear it was Britain that discovered the islands and settled in it Its people are British and voted to stay brits It was your govenment the Junter led by a bunch of fascists in it that attacked these territories and were repeled thanks to the bravery of the British army The falklands never were Argentinian. You should pick up a history book

@@guermouchemarouane5116 i think u should pick a history book boludazo. the island became ours when we freed ourselves from Spain in 1810, u should search ab it dear. then Britain came out of nowhere and took them from us in 1833 wanting to control international routes cause u had none power. u should search that also babe. now y’all r just mad bc u r a little island which controls nothing lmao.

@@catalinaferreyra3948 Argentina never claimed the islands 1st When the brits came in there were nobody then they colonised it after over 150 years your country, suddently woke up saying these islands are yours poor dear The little islands called Britain is one of the strongest nation in term of economy ,military, political influence. A country that gave us the greatest writers, Monarchs, technological and architecturel achievements Fought and repelled Nazism, Fascism Communism THAT IS BRITAIN 🔥🔥 Far better than your nation, which is and was nothing more nothing less than a vulgar Spanish colonie with a chaotic economy big and useless

@@catalinaferreyra3948 Guess what britain controls to this day.. that's right - the FALKLAND ISLANDS BRITISH OVERSEAS TERRITORY

And if you didn't want her, we'd give her a warm welcome in Chile

I wonder what actions would she have taken on the Ukraine war...

You have another neoliberal bigot. No difference basically.

You can't invade your own territory you absolute fruit. Actually read up about las Islas Malvinas, the history and legal case, instead of just spouting whatever drivel you actually think you know lol.

@@BerghemDeSura salty Argentina boi

@@BerghemDeSura Wait? Does someone want to talk about a claim about the Falkland? OMG haha. The UK have the island long before Argentina was even a country. Spain used to have a legitimate claim for the island sure, but that ends when the UK threats them, plus when Argentina declare independence from Spain, they lose all the legitimate claim for the island. Otherwise Italy can basically claim all of Europe. And fuckin Britain can claim half of the world.

@@BerghemDeSura The people of the Falkland Islands voted to be British, you absolute fruit. Only three voted to be Argentinian and those three were bought one-way plane tickets to Argentina by the other residents of the island.

@@BerghemDeSura you mean the falklands not Islas Malvinas also the Argentinian army is terrible our four state of the art aircraft stationed there could easily take out your airforce our ships could shoot down all of South America’s airforce

Agreed, Falklands happened a full two months after Mark went missing and was found. However, she said that experience is what gave her an understanding of what the Falklands mothers went through. and She also wrote a condolence letter to every single family of a fallen soldier, sailor, and marine.

Gillian's acting was weird in this series! She greatly exaggerated Thatcher's voice and mannerisms! It got weird!

@ThePierre58 Thank you for fighting for your country, I am American, but I have relatives in Wales, who my family still talks to. Question, what do you think of Thatcher as a whole, I know she had some controversial opinions, but she seems like a pretty good leader overall.

@@usauk3605 I liked her, but then, I come from rural Oxfordshire where she enjoyed support. Wales however, especially the mining community, loathed her. As a whole, I think Donald Trump is the best comparable example. If I was American, I would live in Alabama and hunt things that begin with D. I drove fuel trucks in Iraq for the US Military, outstanding people, it was a honour to know them.

@ThePierre58 Understood, yeah, I live in the rural U.S, and Trump was pretty popular around here. But that was not the case everywhere. Also, I have some family friends who served in Iraq, and they feel the same way about the British military as you do about the American, so thank you for that. Nice to know we still have some friends across the pond.

Antonio Javier Isaza + Because its not Meryl.

@@henryvagincourt4502 Meryl was 1000% better at portraying Lady Thatcher. Gillian played her like she was a stroke victim.

@@rah62 + I met Maggie once when I came back after the Falklands, I was 18, I would go more with Gillian. Is but a personal choice mucker.

was she not a big part of why the Argentinians attacked? Cuts to the military. Like Britain scrapped her last two big carriers which carried the f4 phantoms and buckaneers a year or two b4 the war?

You do know "Britain" isn't a country, right? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@@BerghemDeSura it's a United Kingdom

@@jmcfintona999 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

@@Monty2022 yes. 4 kingdoms United as one.

School defo didn’t teach you to hate conservatives, you should hate them anyway

@@lucarhodes3175 Nice tolerant attitude I see. Have a nice day Joseph:)

@@SaigonBrit as if any conservative is tolerant

@@lucarhodes3175 Actually yes conservatives tend to listen to others, have measured debates and can respectfully disagree with others. It tends to be the left who are ultra intolerant, cannot stand or accept differing view points and resort to cancel culture, personal shaming and personal attacks when they don't agree with someone. The left also tend to project the most. They bleat on about anyone who disagrees with them is a terrible person, a sexist, a racist, a xenophobe and so on but it is they who classify people according to their immutable characteristics. Conservatives tend to look at the indvidual.

@@SaigonBrit wow it’s amazing that every thing you wrote in that paragraph was just a big fat lie like literally everything, first they don’t listen that’s why shit like Grenfell happen aswell as a terrible Brexit shitshow, maybe yes they were better at listening and being more respectful in thatchers era and before that but now they are the worst possible party to be leading our country, and the people the “left” name sexist, xenophobic, or racist are usually called that for a reason so don’t come at me saying we just pass those words around for nothing, the conservatives aren’t out to help anyone but the top 10% of people are the rest of us just get poorer and poorer but people keep voting for them coz our education system doesn’t teach us about politics and world issues coz if they did no one would vote for the right wing conservatives

She was playing a good Thatcher. It will never happen

Maybe is was all intended to increase the popularity of the most hated figure since Oliver Cromwell ? Thats why she stood in for the queen.

@@williambodin5359 Hitler was very popular in Germany. If anyone hates you with a "seething" then thats not too good. Not the World ? The European court condemned her government for torture of her own citizens. Miners and their families went hungry in England. Republicans in Ireland starved because of her policies. If you are popular with fascists and the wealthy , thats not good. In fact, even those fascists ended up burning effigies of her.

@@williambodin5359 Oh, she was well aware of peoples feelings toward her. People starved themselves rather than accept her fascism. Bobby Sands was elected to Westminster while her pigheadedness guaranteed his death. They had to move the British embassy in Tehran because the street was renamed after him. Usually people who stop arguing is because they cant.

@@williambodin5359 You already did and are now making a strategic withdrawal. Its often oppressors who refuse to negotiate. Its often the most powerful military who create "rules" for war. Its often the Right Wing who ban books and hide information Its often Right wing who will refuse to debate. And regularly the ones who will use attempts at insult as a weapon of first and last resort. Youve already tried to attack the messenger rather than the message. *You claim to know my views and "who I am" from 15 lines* ? Thats the obscene level of simplistic outlook typified by a right wing Nationalist or Nazi. Its similar to religious lunatics who claim to know what god wants. You claim I "hate them" , and then just based on that assumption claim to know WHY ? What could you possibly know about Thatchers history in Ireland considering there was a blanket ban in your schools, colleges and media. Even books published by British journalists were banned. So, where did you get youre information ? The same places which spread lies about everything from WW1 to WMDs and Sanctions on Iraq ? Its called Neo-nazi. You will refuse to engage with anyone who has a different opinion. The basis of it being that if they dont agree , they must be untermensche.

@@williambodin5359 Just as I predicted.

A filthy warmonger who laid claim to a an Island off the coast of Argentina. In other words, a typical European leader overflowing with contempt for people that are not white enough. By your comment, your heritage is laid bare.

What a shity woman! She wanted to send a Nuclear bomb to Argentina. She is in the hell.

Her people were never in the slightest danger. Falklands islanders could have been moved in their entirety to mainland Britain with no impact whatsoever. She just wanted a war to win the next election, that's all.

So we suppose to be thanked with you...F*ck you! 😄

Lo de USA es mentira. Y no fueron 30 mil

Hi Martin, as an argentinian I can say you are not correct. It wasnt the outcome of the war what lead the junta to is resignation but their resistance to sell the national companies to foreign companies. A fascist dictatorship that was supported by other foreign Capital suddenly found itself Without money due to is position towards the national companies.

The official unemployment figures put it at 3.5 million it was probably alot higher. Whole industries decimated British comunites laid waste. The poll tax . Thatcher used the Falklands like her counterpart in Argentina to create a diversion from what was going on at home .Thatcher had no intention of negotiating with the possibly of a peaceful outcome. It was a huge gamble which luckily paid off for her .

@@chrisholland7367 Shite. The UK economy was utterly failing under socialist policy and choices were mass unemployment for a short period of time or a national catastrophe. She ripped the plaster off quickly, as was needed. The UK was the sick note of Europe before Maggie took over, by the time she left we were a G7 country.

@@tomben6180 what utter bollocks. Tell that to the miners ,steel workers ,ship builders and print workers. It wasn't just the direct effect of people loosing their jobs but also the families men who were the main bread winners. The suppliers and communities in which those shop keepers relied on the custom of those effected by the job cuts. Just before you get to teary eyed about Maggie don't forget the Hillsborough cover up who was prime minister then.

@@chrisholland7367 I know exactly what happened to those people but unfortunately they were working in industries that weren’t making a profit… so what do you want, just keep paying them until the country resembles Zimbabwe under Mugabe? She was ruthless and many people, my people as I’m from Northern England, were put out of work but it needed to be done and thankfully we had a PM who knew that. Poll tax was a bad idea and she faded towards the end of her tenure and became more bitter towards those around her but she truly was one of the greats of UK politics. The prosperity that came in the 90s and 00s before 2008, were all down to her policies working. My family personally didn’t do well because of Thatcher’s policies, I really could throw my toys out of the pram but I look at the wider picture.

You kind of look like Churchill... very lardy! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

The Iron Maiden was a medieval torture device. Appropriate.

You would have supported UK or Argentina ? ..

@@gonzalogauna46 President Ronald Regan publicly said at the time "We're with Britain" however help from the US wasn't required, but thanks anyway Ron. 👌

You're absolutely right. As weird as it may be for you, doing that helps non-Brits recognize her and identify with her through what we recognize, and then we can get to know the real her through people like you. I had to go through this same process a few years ago myself.

Yet she was pro europe

Tras su manto de neblinas No las hemos de olvidar Las Malvinas Argentinas Clama El viento y ruge el mar 🎶🎶🎶

Keep in mind that the Russian president Gorbachev said he was more worried about dealing with Tatcher than he was Reagan. Strange times.

Get help.

@@thundertick5666 after you

Sad.

And now you have to sell paper poppies just so you can have beer money for Christmas such is the esteem your state holds you in... 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Both were the same!!!

Two bastards in a row.

yeah, and their hability to colonize, subjugate and exploit other nations and land for the own interests

It is not really an "occupation" any more than Argentina is an "occupation" by Spain. The Falklanders have lived there for many generations and are largely self-governing (as much as a small territory like that can be). The Falklands were uninhabited before the British landed there, and they became a British territory long before Argentina was even a country. The whole of South America was created by European imperialism. Is it such a big deal if a tiny part of it 500km off the coast happens to have been settled by the British rather than Spain or Portugal?

@@oganesson118-qo7wr Potato, potatoe-a trivial distinction, perhaps, in the grand scheme. Indeed, each nation's genesis is marred by injustice. Yet, it is noteworthy that not even the most zealous of Kirchnerites has suggested the expulsion of the Falklanders. Their proposition has invariably been a binational solution, reminiscent of the now-defunct proposals for Gaza and the West Bank. My point is that the conflict has rendered such aspirations untenable. And, in a twist of historical irony, it was the British who once suggested to Perón that the islands might fly both flags-an offer obliterated by the advent of the Junta, ideological kin to Thatcher in their shared antipathy for communism.

Absolutely he did with Devolution and all that has led to, open door migration 7 years before anyone else in the EU, the Iraq War and now we are seeing the results of his going into Afghanistan in 2001. All left huge damage to the UK and its reputation. However Major started the rot by a) removing Thatcher, b) signing the Maastricht Treaty which c) had us join the EU without so much as a 'by your leave' of the electorate.

@@1chish you’re absolutely right. It almost makes me weep.

Dassault ceased technical support with the argentine navy upon outbreak of the war.