This man is my grandfather’s great-uncle, or my great-great-great uncle. Very proud of my slight connection to him, and I admire his achievements greatly.
@elliotstannard5621
2 жыл бұрын
That's amazing! He was a wonderful man. I liked him a lot.
@mordecaiesther3591
2 жыл бұрын
Praise Jesus he sees how Thatcherism is garbage . Selling out to the major corporations . No good ol days of unionism and workers pay of 1950s to 1979
@mattthesilent777RED
2 жыл бұрын
Woah
@1989TS..
Жыл бұрын
I can tell we are in great hands..
@babylon218
9 жыл бұрын
One of Britain's last great PM's, and I'm saying that as a Labour supporter.
@ryan-tc3rk
5 жыл бұрын
'britons never had it so good'
@ronatopaz2793
5 жыл бұрын
babylon218 -erm. Clement Attlee?
@coldwar45
4 жыл бұрын
Rona Topaz Macmillan was after Attlee
@colinbaldwin3833
4 жыл бұрын
Manny Shinwell said he was the greatest actor in the House of Commons!
@secludedsnail3424
3 жыл бұрын
@@ronatopaz2793 he did say “one of” implying multiples
@ysgol3
4 жыл бұрын
Wonderful. Macmillan was so brilliant and, in private, so funny. When in 1972 an American seeking a presidential nomination burst into tears on TV when criticising the reporting of his wife's alcoholism, a watching Macmillan was heard to mutter how ridiculous such behaviour was. His companion asked him what he would have done if someone had said his wife (the Late Lady Dorothy, daughter of the Duke of Devonshire) herself had a drink problem. Macmillan instantly replied, "I would have said, 'you should have seen her mother' ''.
@atyabrashid2398
Жыл бұрын
In fairness, Macmillan had particular reason to be so unmoved by a comment about his wife - she was unfaithful to him for almost the entirety of their marriage, and the two of them lived largely separate lives in private.
@ysgol3
Жыл бұрын
@@atyabrashid2398 Yes - fair point. Allegedly Bob Boothby was having affairs with the PMs wife and Ronnie Kray at the same time!
@TheWiseMonkey8888
11 ай бұрын
0:03 ... you can always buy them back... ;)
@hozonkai9967
7 жыл бұрын
Last surviving Prime Minister to have been born in the Victorian Era.
@chrismatthews2040
Жыл бұрын
And the last one to serve in WWI!
@hozonkai9967
Жыл бұрын
@@chrismatthews2040 But, he wasn't the last born in the Victorian Era. That was Anthony Eden, born in 1897, three years after Macmillan. But Eden died in 1977, so Macmillan was the last _surviving_ . Blows my mind that he lived as late as 1986!
@chrismatthews2040
Жыл бұрын
I never said that he was the last surviving PM born in the Victorian era, that was your claim ;) I only said that Macmillan was the last British PM to have served in WWI, which is true. And he wasn't in some cosy office job either, he was right in the muck and mire of the trenches! "'Great War generation' For each of the 23 years between May 1940 and October 1963 men who had fought in the First World War held the office of Prime Minister. By contrast, Second World War veterans held the office for a mere seven years. Four British Prime Ministers saw active service in the Great War: Winston Churchill, Clement Attlee, Anthony Eden and Harold Macmillan. Churchill’s road to the front was unique: he began the War in the Cabinet; after he resigned in the wake of the disastrous Gallipoli campaign, he wangled his way into the command of a battalion of the Royal Scots Fusiliers in 1916; he returned to senior political office in 1917. Attlee, Macmillan and Eden were part of the more conventional ‘Great War generation’, men on who fell the burden of frontline fighting. All three volunteered. All three served as infantry officers, Attlee with the East Lancashire Regiment, Eden with the King’s Royal Rifle Corps, and Harold Macmillan with the Grenadier Guards." history.blog.gov.uk/2014/08/04/prime-ministers-in-the-first-world-war/
@KingKhan20000
7 ай бұрын
@@hozonkai9967 Maybe he meant last Primr Minister as he was the last to be elected born in the Victorian era.
@hozonkai9967
7 ай бұрын
@@KingKhan20000 But, he was 3 years older than his predecessor Anthony Eden. But, Eden died in 1977, nine years before Mac. The next PM born after Eden was Alec Douglas-Home, but he was born in 1903, when it was already Edwardian. It makes me wonder. We likely have to wait until the 2070s to have a PM who was born after Elizabeth II died.
@hauskalainen
9 жыл бұрын
It shows how idiotic the Conservative Party had become by Thatcher's time. Mac was telling them how stupid they were in selling off the family treasures and all his audience could do was laugh, as if he were telling a joke. He was being deadly serious.
@FurryAminal
8 жыл бұрын
They were laughing at Thatcher, which is who he was mocking.
@hauskalainen
8 жыл бұрын
They did sell the Coal Mines and now the Royal Mail is sold off. He was talking to the Tory Reform Group which did mostly disagree with Thatcher so you are right. The proceeds funded tax cuts which benefited the rich and the assets were sold at knock down prices which also benefited those with money to buy. What's left to sell? Even the playing fields of my youth have been sold for housing.
@TheDawgKatcher
7 жыл бұрын
They were laughing in support of a Statesman who had the guts to tell the truth. Some were also laughing with embarrassment at what they'd allowed themselves to be conned into by the bunch of spivs and chancers surrounding Thatcher.
@californiaslastgasp6847
3 жыл бұрын
See the backdrop? Tory Reform Group. They were anti-Thatcher.
@Jimmynable
11 жыл бұрын
Yes I think a mixed economy is needed. Maybe nationalised banking and they wouldn't have been lending left, right and centre to people who couldn't pay it back and the tax payer wouldn't have had to bail them out.
@stupendous1068
8 жыл бұрын
Macmillan was a good Prime Minister.
@keeley-jasminemaxinecavend9780
28 күн бұрын
Certainly far better that Thatcher, Cameron or Sunak, however he did preside over the decimation of the railways by commissioning the Beeching Report published in 1963. These cuts were shamefully continued by the incoming Wilson/Labour administration of 1964.
@bird6691
19 күн бұрын
@@keeley-jasminemaxinecavend9780that was a terrible decision but he's still a commie compared to Sir Keith and the foreigner
@dominicchallis2928
11 сағат бұрын
@@keeley-jasminemaxinecavend9780Bloody Beeching, Thomas the Tank Engine‘s final antagonist.
@mickmac1888
7 жыл бұрын
Macmillan was decent by tory standards, upheld the social democratic 1945 consensus.
@HuggyMackay
3 жыл бұрын
I am a Scot in exile. Had we followed Macmillan's policies, we would probably have had a quiet, decent devolution of powers, and perhaps the sectarianism seen in football matches would have been reduced in time, or perhaps even eliminated.
@acohen1980
3 жыл бұрын
he was by any measure..a decent man....
@sukritganesh6101
6 жыл бұрын
Wow - Harold is way funnier than I thought! I wonder why he isn't laughing along with the audience.
@markharrison2544
5 жыл бұрын
He was almost blind.
@christopherholland8435
Жыл бұрын
because he isn't telling a joke
@tshakah
Жыл бұрын
Deadpan humour is a very British thing
@starguy321
2 жыл бұрын
A good PM and one of the last true conservatives, who actually sort to conserve Britain’s institutions, values and people. His kind of one nation conservatism is the only kind that os actually conservative
@lennylaa1686
Жыл бұрын
They are left-wing liberals, blue socialists and they had an abysmal record in office.
@AdmiralBlake
11 жыл бұрын
In her book, serialised in a Sunday newspaper, Miss Thatcher wrote how her mother confused Bosnia and the Falklands during a conversation about the war in the former Yugoslavia. She wrote: "I almost fell off my chair. Watching her struggle with her words and her memory, I couldn't believe it. She was in her 75th year but I had always thought of her as ageless, timeless and 100% cast-iron damage-proof."
@vashna3799
2 жыл бұрын
A decent man who old school Tories and Labour voters both respected.
@chris01625
11 жыл бұрын
But that isn't what Macmillan was talking about, he was talking about selling off state own industries and concerns that were profitable (no-one would have bought the unprofitable ones). The revenues from the sales were used to give tax breaks, in effect the population that owned state industries were given lower taxes from the sale of assets they had previously owned. It was a short sighted policy
@zephyruk
13 жыл бұрын
Respond to this video... Harold Macmillan later stated: 'When I ventured the other day to criticise the system I was, I am afraid, misunderstood. As a Conservative, I am naturally in favour of returning into private ownership and private management all those means of production and distribution which are now controlled by state capitalism. I am sure they will be more efficient. What I ventured to question was the using of these huge sums as if they were income.'
@billhaywood3503
2 жыл бұрын
but he meant what he said the first time
@thomasd2444
Жыл бұрын
Discovering the movement of money into circulation is from Source to User forever erases the incorrect teaching that money moves from User Account to Source Account & back again to User Account All who were taught money moves ONLY from User 1 - Voters to User 2 - Currency-Using-Government can be forgiven their not-knowing that there is a difference between a Currency-Issuing-Self-Government & a Currency-Using-Self-Government
@zephyruk
13 жыл бұрын
@RichardElden The First World War left Britain economically crippled. Even before that, Britain had started to be overtaken by the USA and Germany economically. For about 50 years before the First World War, the Empire had started to cost Britain more than it brought in. Anyone who thinks we would still have an Empire today if we hadn't been in World War II lives in cloud cuckoo land. The Empire had started to disintegrate long before that.
@najbritcol
2 жыл бұрын
A decent and humane Tory. He'd be spinning in his grave at the sight of what his party has become.
@zufgh
3 жыл бұрын
A few days later, in the House of Lords: 'When I ventured the other day to criticise the system I was, I am afraid, misunderstood. As a Conservative, I am naturally in favour of returning into private ownership and private management all those means of production and distribution which are now controlled by state capitalism. I am sure they will be more efficient. What I ventured to question was the using of these huge sums as if they were income.'
@rachel.mcgowan
Жыл бұрын
Sounds a bit like a hostage statement. Oh well, he was right the first time anyway. And his meaning was clear enough.
@zufgh
Жыл бұрын
@@rachel.mcgowan Cope.
@zufgh
26 күн бұрын
@@jpc2470 cope harder
@Kevinasp
13 жыл бұрын
@RichardElden Rubbish! I am a socialist, but I recognise that unemployment was low throughout his Premiership, as was inflation, there was spending on the NHS and Welfare state, he started to dismantle the Empire in Africa, society was fairly stable during this time. One of the best peacetime PM's we have had.
@hozonkai9967
2 жыл бұрын
It blows my mind that Macmillan lived until 1986!
@MarkHarrison733
14 күн бұрын
He was only 62 when he became Prime Minister.
@hozonkai9967
14 күн бұрын
@@MarkHarrison733 That was old back then.
@liamj2363
7 жыл бұрын
Can we have these Tories back please? I'm by no means a conservative, but neither are the radical neoliberals who masquerade as such. I'd take men like this over dogmatic Thatcherites who are so blinded by money they care nothing for the greater good.
@betaleftist9218
7 жыл бұрын
Liam J There is nothing Conservative about the current Conservative party that is why I refuse to call them the Conservatives and prefer to call them the Tories.
@neil5568
6 жыл бұрын
There's nothing Tory about them either!
@BenedictusFan
9 жыл бұрын
Notice here that MacMillan refers to the Queen's speech as the King's speech here? Fascinating that he served under both a king (or possibly Kings!) and a Queen
@TheBespectacledN00b
7 жыл бұрын
BenedictusFan He was only PM under the Queen but had been in more junior positions under George VI
@xxjonboy
12 жыл бұрын
He said "The King's Speech"!
@kareemwail4495
3 жыл бұрын
He was an old man. For half of his life and career it was indeed "the King's Speech"
@niklilly4857
5 жыл бұрын
I am Geraldine Macmillan of Chicago ..this is a distant but not to distant relative who is is widely acclaimed as a great leader. Of his time...
@markharrison2544
5 жыл бұрын
By who???
@Aaron-ir4he
5 жыл бұрын
How?
@zephyruk
13 жыл бұрын
@hellsbells056 The UK would have gone bankrupt in the 80s if it hadn't been for North Sea oil. We simply weren't producing anything because of the industrial holocaust that took place. The Thatcher government toyed with Monetarism, and ended up being criticised by Milton Friedman himself for being so cack handed with it. The fact is that the Thatcher government destroyed a lot of very good businesses as well as bad ones, leaving the UK economy dangerously dependent on the financial sector.
@iconic
13 жыл бұрын
That information is not in the description but I am sure someone knows. We will put it to the viewers, can anyone tell us what year this was?
@lennylaa1686
Жыл бұрын
8/11/1985.
@zephyruk
13 жыл бұрын
@hellsbells056 I was also rebutting an argument that someone had made earlier that privatisation had 'earned' the country £7 billion. It hadn't. As Macmillan pointed out, the Thatcher government trying to claim it was income was dishonest. It was just moving assets into cash. As I said earlier, it was like moving £100 from your savings to your current account and then saying you were £100 richer.
@syedadeelhussain2691
6 жыл бұрын
A great sense of humor.
@sukritganesh6101
6 жыл бұрын
Looks like Supermac was truly Superman!
@lynnehaywood5305
4 жыл бұрын
In 2002 this video speech by Conservative Harold MacMillan had 51K views Someone removing the evidence? Harold Macmillan giving a speech on Margaret Thatcher's Privatization policies which he calls 'Selling off the Family Silver'.
@zephyruk
13 жыл бұрын
@hellsbells056 He was making an indirect point - disagreeing without trying to seem publicly critical of her. Behind closed doors, he told her she should drop her policies because they were shredding the social fabric of the UK. There's a good article on the BBC web site about it, following the declassification of official documents. Macmillan wrote an 11 page letter to Thatcher telling her she should change direction.
@stewartburns2473
5 жыл бұрын
a great man - was fascinating watching the documentary about the night of the long knives from 1962 - if he had waited instead of getting rid of so many cabinet minsters en masse, they may well have recovered and quite possibly there would have been no Harold Wilson as a prime minister
@warlockcow6891
5 жыл бұрын
Stewart Burns The Night of the long knives wasn’t the main reason why Wilson came into power though. It was the lack of progressives within the Tory party at the time in an ever progressive society that brought their downfall. Neither Macmillan nor Lord Home were seen as likeable during the 60’s due to their ties to the aristocracy and the old boys’ club in a country that was growing ever more hostile towards the establishment.
@theredraven
8 жыл бұрын
While I can understand the reservations about the selling off of certain assets (such as power and water supplies)...................Why on earth does the government need to run things like airlines, bus companies, telephone companies, steel companies, car manufacturers etc?
@Tokopol
8 жыл бұрын
Because they would have been gutted otherwise, which they were.
@theredraven
8 жыл бұрын
Tokopol British Airways hasn't been gutted. Neither has BT. Bus companies all seem to do very well financially. That leaves steel and car makers. Why should tax payers prop up a car maker if it isn't viable?
@laithal-khalaf5601
8 жыл бұрын
For a number of reasons, firtly it can be seen as a provider of employment in times of difficulty which can stimulate demand in times of crisis. Further, these firms often held communities together which is why Thatcherism led to a lot of social strife. Moreover, it can be used for public good rather than private profit (green cars for example) there are numerous reasons why publically run enterpruses are an asset
@theredraven
3 жыл бұрын
@Matt Washer Nothing stopping investors here buying them back is there?
@theredraven
3 жыл бұрын
@Matt Washer you still haven't come up with a good reason for politicians to run car companies.
@hellsbells056
13 жыл бұрын
@globalloon Britain is a capitalist nation. If it was a socialist nation, our situation would be much worse. The government never has or never will have the money to be able to fund jobs and national assets. It struggles with the NHS alone. Consider how abysmal the economic situation would be if the government had to support gas, electricity, water, the railways, aviation, mining, oil, the list is endless.
@billhaywood3503
Жыл бұрын
He supported the miners and labour did not
@davidsalmon3469
7 жыл бұрын
Does anyone have the full transcript of this speech
@nathanbridle
13 жыл бұрын
stevenross100 Thatcher was hardly a 1st class 'individual', not politician, I disliked her policies, but even I would admit she was influential, & would say she was of the 2nd rank, like Salisbury, Wilson & Macmillan himself. Might I also suggest, just calling him an 'idiot' is not just offensive, but obviously untrue. Surely it is preferable to put forward well constructed points, in a courteous manner, which might better convey your view, rather than simpletons barrack room language.
@vibhavagarwalla8718
2 жыл бұрын
Would H.M still stand by these words? Hasn’t the returning back of giant monolithic state monopolies to private ownership and free market competition been revolutionary?
@afgor1088
Жыл бұрын
this comment aged poorly (and it was stupid at the time)
@lennylaa1686
Жыл бұрын
Nationalisation was an absolute shitshow.
@nathanbridle
13 жыл бұрын
This speech took place at the Tory Reform Group, held at the Royal Overseas League on 8 November 1985.
@Jimmynable
11 жыл бұрын
Absolutely. I've always been a conservative supporter but very recently I've all but lost faith in them. Not that I think Labour is much better tho. Take the railways they make heavy losses, were privatised but the tax payer is still subsidising it, kind of doesn't make sense to me but we need it, I like your style, the things that we absolutely need like gas, electric, water, rail etc we should all be paying for or if they make money should be spent improving schools, hospitals, etc.
@hellsbells056
13 жыл бұрын
@RichardElden Your disrespect disgusts me. He was married and went on to have four children. The Earl of Stockton. Yes, he followed the consensus but under Macmillan the country enjoyed relatively low employment, yes it peaked at nearly 900, 000 in one year but generally it stood at only around 600, 000. At the time, Britain had 'never had it so good.'
@Jimmynable
11 жыл бұрын
I don't know, I think building affordable housing would be a great place to start, there is a housing shortage and when new houses get built a lot of people get employed, plumbers, electricians, etc. Problem now is banks are reluctant to lend money and their relationship with businesses isn't what it should be. It will all take some sorting out, I'm no expert in economics I just read enough to get a grasp of what is going on.
@oskarxkxgaming2774
2 жыл бұрын
Well, does anyone cry by hearing his voice?
@harveycarter9627
11 жыл бұрын
The Winter of Discontent was a decade after 1968.
@sallysmith1484
11 жыл бұрын
Very true
@haroldlockwood9688
11 жыл бұрын
Carol made it sound much more serious. In reality Baroness Thatcher is doing fine, as shown by her 87th birthday celebrations.
@nathanbridle
13 жыл бұрын
This was also the last speech of his lifetime.
@admirsizif
26 күн бұрын
I wish I could have wife like his. So loyal and respectful. Real lady .
@Beach_comber
11 жыл бұрын
It's fascinating to hear this Tory defend state ownership in preference to privatization. There's no analyses in this clip though. Did he have a clue what he was talking about? Britain suffered a lot of relative decline under his leadership and Thatcher undertook all the difficult reforms that no party now proposes to reverse.
@chiyungszeto3454
6 жыл бұрын
When
@mohdnasir5140
Ай бұрын
Page 232 By July, Britain knew that decisive action was necessary to pull itself out of its economic slump.
@mohdnasir5140
Ай бұрын
Stocks and bonds fell in value because of the fear of business cutbacks, and a series of strikes indicated opposition to the belt- tightening methods
@zephyruk
13 жыл бұрын
@hellsbells056 In which ways am I contradicting myself?
@nathanbridle
13 жыл бұрын
@stevenross100 I also thought you might forgive, since you made a similiar error, he was not Mr Macmillan at this stage, he was Lord Stockton, he had not been Mr Macmillan since a year or so before.
@hellsbells056
13 жыл бұрын
@RichardElden Britain certainly lost its status as a major player, but all major politcians, and everyone at the time saw this as being inevitable. Once India callled for independance and got it in 1948, Britain knew the other Commenwealth nations would demand it, plus Britain after WW2 had been crippled economically by the war, and it could not maintain the Empire. As a part of taking the Empire down, under ATTLEE all Commenwealth members had the right to live in Britain.
@Jimmynable
11 жыл бұрын
I think Anthony Eden has that wrapped up, Blair next though.
@matthehat
11 жыл бұрын
He hit the nail on the head really; once you start selling off your assets you're on a slippery slope
@Cotswolds1913
10 ай бұрын
Except for the fact that assets of all kinds perform much better under market ownership than under a state monopoly
@matthehat
10 ай бұрын
@@Cotswolds1913 not really the case though, as demonstrated by the number of bailouts that the government has had to hand to these privatised companies over the last 30 years.
@Cotswolds1913
10 ай бұрын
@@matthehat You don’t have to take my word for it. Across the world, in study after study, and especially in countries with large amounts of state undertakings as well as private companies, the state performs horribly on asset value, very often leading to negative equity. And also please consider, that the existence of a bailout to this or that private company, not only isn’t a rebuke of the overall trend, but very importantly…..signals that the state was going against consumer preferences in forcefully holding up the supply of this or that good. This reflects poor judgement on whatever private interests bought up the asset too, but in a market context the capital allocation likely wouldn’t have been there to begin with; there’d have been nothing to buy up.
@matthehat
10 ай бұрын
@@Cotswolds1913 bailouts exist because the services cannot be allowed to stop - they're essential. How can there be meaningful competition in markets like water and energy? They're natural monopolies. I can't decide that I don't like my water supplier and switch to a different one because there's only one pipe to my house. Ditto for electricity. In the natural monopolies the free market has failed in the UK. Even in the rail sector where it could be argued that there is competition the service is broken. The UK government has had to take responsibility for big chunks of the network because private companies failed to deliver a decent service. They still managed to pay their shareholders a nice chunk, but they failed to deliver a service.
@Cotswolds1913
10 ай бұрын
@@matthehat You can’t switch to a different water supplier because you’re not allowed to, by law. Meanwhile commercial customers are allowed to choose between providers all they like, this is feature of the political arrangement the state has set up, not a bug. As for energy, any energy provider isn’t just competing with all other companies in one industry, but with all other sources of energy and their respective industries, as well. As far as rail goes, you never had privatization. The state owns and controls the lines, the signals, capital allocation decisions (that’s why there’s been so little investment, private firms aren’t allowed to do it unless it’s for their train cars), scheduling, almost everything. This is why you have such inefficient routing where stops with hardly any people have to be maintained, it literally takes years to get the gov to approve a schedule change, if they even do. Anything that is losing money can be allowed to stop, unless ofc it’s for security reasons.
@MrEdwardsg
Жыл бұрын
He was right and has been proved right
@zephyruk
13 жыл бұрын
@hellsbells056 And this is exactly what Harold Macmillan was criticising here - the Thatcher government claiming the sale of the nationalised industries as income - it's not. It's like taking £100 out of your savings account, putting it in your current account, and then claiming you're £100 richer.
@NitropunkArts
8 жыл бұрын
Damn, Ian McKellen's been around.
@AdmiralBlake
11 жыл бұрын
Daily Telegraph August 24th 2008 Lady Thatcher, one of the most commanding figures of the 20th Century, struggles to finish sentences, does not know where she lives and even forgets that her husband Denis is dead. In a memoir to be published next month, Carol Thatcher paints a picture of "the new Lady T," a much-diminished figure created by the progressive effects of dementia and a series of minor strokes.
@thomasd2444
Жыл бұрын
Speech Archive
@zephyruk
13 жыл бұрын
@RichardElden Only because we and the French were looking after protectorates after the disintegration of the Ottoman and German Empires. It's worth noting that Ireland soon became independent after that. Incidents such as the Boer War had dented the Britain's confidence, and there was an increasing realisation that we were overstretched (part of the reason why we signed the Entente Cordiale with France). WWI also increased the desire for independence in many parts of the Empire.
@hellsbells056
13 жыл бұрын
@RichardElden What was bad about them then? Yes, unemployment did at one point peak at 900, 000. Their ecomic policy was also rather basic, and that can be criticised. But in general his time in office cannot be labeled as being bad at all.
@fodsaks
6 жыл бұрын
Right then... And right now.
@Bastiat90
12 жыл бұрын
I did: he couldn't handle me and sent me away
@hellsbells056
13 жыл бұрын
@zephyruk But many of our major industries were failing. By selling them off, they had to face competition. Only the strongest businesses survived which strengthened our economy. Under Thatcher, Britain bailed out no 'lame ducks.'
@MagicMrNameless
11 жыл бұрын
I miss One Nation Tories.
@AdmiralBlake
11 жыл бұрын
indeed, heath wouldnt have, but douglas - home, gaitskell or Maudling might have. wilson was essentially the last british prime minister to not have a pro american bias
@gautamisshocking
12 жыл бұрын
@Bastiat90 Failure as a man? Someone who regarded people at the core of politics, rather than heartless profitis not a failure. The greatest PM we've ever had, so much integrity, strength, conviction and love. What Tories used to stand for
@AK_9o7
4 жыл бұрын
Video: My brain: Contact, Enemy Patrol Dead Ahead
@bird6691
19 күн бұрын
It's weird to watch someone speaking so relevant to today decades ago who was born in the 1800s
@Jimmynable
11 жыл бұрын
It's the policy where employers are required to pay into a pension for u and u pay the same amount. You can opt out tho and u only get taxed on wages after your contribution has been deducted. It's not a lot of money I think employer and employee contribute 1% each but as far as I'm aware it rises to 3% not sure the whole facts on it, I'm probably gna opt out and go into the works pension once I get my own house.
@hellsbells056
13 жыл бұрын
@zephyruk But I previously stated that I liked the Macmillan and Thatcher governments, so you're contradicting yourself.
@AdmiralBlake
11 жыл бұрын
i didnt say he was a great prime minister, and your right about Suez. But he was the best CONSERVATIVE prime minister weve had.
@chris01625
12 жыл бұрын
For the person who laments Suez, what a discreditable crisis that was. Eden and the French got together and chummied up to the Israelis who they got to invade Egypt, then the British and French tried to reoccupy Suez as peacekeepers............what a legacy Eden left
@ganonisthebest
12 жыл бұрын
@stevenross100 He didn't 'give away' the empire, he gave it back. And the plans to do that had been around before Macmillan took office anyway, after WWII and being in so much debt to America it wasn't economically feasible to be running an empire.
@haroldlockwood9688
11 жыл бұрын
Who cares what Carol made up for her book? Ron Reagan Jnr did the same thing. I will certainly enjoy losing all those Scottish MPs from Westminster.
@101MRSPICE
2 жыл бұрын
Gladstone, Hume, MacMillan are Scots by ancestry you must be from Pakistan
@hellsbells056
13 жыл бұрын
@ We could have. But all of our colonies would have been invaded anyway, so even if we did not join in 1939, we would have been forced to do so, otherwise we would have lost the empire against Britain's will.
@mortalclown3812
Жыл бұрын
Who knew he'd beat bloody laugh riot.
@haroldlockwood9688
11 жыл бұрын
British industries were hugely reliant on Marshall Aid money during Macmillan's premiership.
@dantory1
11 жыл бұрын
I'm a moderate one nation tory but I believe the privatization of the car companies, rolls royce, defence companies, steel, BT, british airways was right as they became more productive and efficient. However I do have some sympathy with people who say that railway and gas companies should be in some form of public ownership as households and small businesses are being ripped off
@NatDemUK
13 жыл бұрын
What year was this?
@lennylaa1686
Жыл бұрын
8/11/1985.
@AdmiralBlake
11 жыл бұрын
yes, but if he had have reformed the unions in '68 then they woldnt have been able to be as irritating as they were during the winter of discontent
@Bastiat90
12 жыл бұрын
Please go further
@hellsbells056
13 жыл бұрын
@aeronuk1 The Westland Affair in 1986 being such an example. Well I suppose that that is better than the government having to support failing nationalised industries.
@arthurgeorge2343
2 жыл бұрын
He is my great grandfather
@rankingtrevor
10 жыл бұрын
He looks like a tired old Labrador here.
@barney6888
2 жыл бұрын
anyone else have a feeling this speech was written by Peter Cook?
@hellsbells056
13 жыл бұрын
@zephyruk What is your point in that Macmillan stated how he technically agreed with her policies? You have just highlighted to me that he agreed with Thatcher, despite stating that privatisation was like the 'selling of the family silver.' You just told me to respond to the video, rather than to your reply...
@poundlandspeedwagonrequiem
3 жыл бұрын
MY ALLEGIENCE IS TO MAC, TO DEMOCRACY! DEATH TO THATCHERISM! DEATH TO NEO-LABOURITES!
@buci7290
3 жыл бұрын
Registered TNO moment
@kurnma3776
6 ай бұрын
now i am a proud HMMLR supermac beveridge report patriot
@hellsbells056
13 жыл бұрын
@globalloon Norway is definitely in a better situation, and don't reply with the recent crises, that is irrelevant. For a start it is not in the EU - and it can therefore make all of its own laws, it remains to be a true democracy. Whereas Britain, a member state, has 75% of its laws made by a council who we do not elect. And you are praising this?
@AdmiralBlake
11 жыл бұрын
well the US was pretty useful in the war the eu isnt finished, the british people wont vote to leave, only the 12% of people that support ukip, and some tories will vote to leave, the rest of us know what the sensible option is
@hellsbells056
13 жыл бұрын
@aeronuk1 Are you telling me that he was a homosexual? Wow. However I do know that Anthony Eden (Macmillan's predecessor) had a son called Nicholas Eden who was a homosexual, and he died in the mid eighties from AIDs.
@haroldlockwood9688
11 жыл бұрын
Nobody would have supported LBJ. Heath was just as opposed to Vietnam as Wilson.
@AdmiralBlake
11 жыл бұрын
not really, Wilson nearly reformed the Unions in 1968, if he'd suceeded then the winter of discontent would have been avoided and thatcher would have seemed like the extremist in the '79 election
@haroldlockwood9688
11 жыл бұрын
That's right. Wilson was the worst Prime Minister we ever had, after Blair and Brown.
@Bastiat90
13 жыл бұрын
A failure as a man and a failure as Prime Minister.
@kieranpower97
3 жыл бұрын
Why?
@haroldlockwood9688
11 жыл бұрын
What are you then? The SNP?
@jojojojo4332
3 жыл бұрын
Look it's a human being of a prime Minister
@nathanbridle
13 жыл бұрын
Stevenross; I am sure we can allow a man who was so obviously frail & old one slip like that. I am sure our parents, grandparents & elderly friends have made errors of the kind. I also do not see why it has to be pointed out he was past his prime, I am sure it is obvious to anyone watching he was not young. At 92 I think we can forgive him one minor slip.
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