The Iron Lady Movie Quotes

Which is your favorite quote? The Iron Lady is a surprising and intimate portrait of Margaret Thatcher (Meryl Streep), the first and only female Prime Minister of The United Kingdom. One of the 20th century's most famous and influential women, Thatcher came from nowhere to smash through barriers of gender and class to be heard in a male dominated world.

Quotes from The Iron Lady (2011) Movie

Margaret Thatcher: Watch your thoughts for they become words. Watch your words for they become actions. Watch your actions for they become...habits. Watch your habits, for they become your character. And watch your character, for it becomes your destiny! What we think we become. My father always said that... and I think I am fine.

Margaret Thatcher: It's time to get up! It's time go to work! It's time to put the great, back into Great Britain!

Margaret Thatcher: A crime is a crime is a crime.

Margaret: I will never be one of those women who stay silent on the arm of her husband. One's life must matter, Dennis.
Denis Thatcher: That's why I want to marry you, my dear.

Margaret Thatcher: With all due respect, sir, I have done battle every single day of my life and many men have underestimated me before. This lot seem bound to do the same, but they will rue the day.

Gordon Reece: That hat has got to go - and the pearls. But the main thing is your voice. It's too high and it has no authority.
Margaret Thatcher: I may be persueded to surrender the hat. The pearls, however, are absolutely non-negotiable. That's the tone that we want to strike.

Margaret Thatcher: I've decided to run.
Denis Thatcher: Are you saying that you want to be prime minister?!
Margaret Thatcher: This is my duty, and my...
Denis Thatcher: It's ambition that's got you this far - ambition! And the rest of us, me, the children, we can all go to hell!

Politician: Methinks the right honorable lady doth screech too much! If she wants us to take her seriously, she must learn to calm down!
Margaret Thatcher: If the right honorable gentlemen could perhaps attend more closely to what I'm saying, rather than how I'm saying it, he may receive a valuable education in spite of himself!

Margaret Thatcher: Gentlemen, if we don’t cut spending we will be bankrupt. Yes, the medicine is harsh, but the patient requires it in order to live. Should we withhold the medicine? No. We are not wrong. We did not seek election and win in order to manage the decline of a great nation.

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Yeah, mate, I said 30, you can't
expect to get away with it like that.

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Make a better deal or it's off.

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OK? Well, I'll see you tomorrow then,
ten o'clock, my place.

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One forty-nine, please.

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- How much is the milk?
- Forty-nine pence.

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- Thank you very much.
- Thank you.

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One pound, please. Thank you.

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Uh-uh. Too much.
Much too much butter.

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I like butter.

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Denis.

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Mmm.

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- Milk's gone up.
- Hm?

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- 49p a pint.
- Good grief!

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We'll have to economize.

21
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I suppose we could always sell the car.

22
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Or take in paying guests.

23
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Watch out. She's on the prowl.

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Eat your 699.

25
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- Goodness! There you are.
- Yes. Here we are.

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How did this happen?
How could she possibly have got out?

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It's very, very important
that the front door is left locked.

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- Of course.
- Please, make it clear

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- to whoever's on after you.
- Dixon.

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I'm afraid I'm going to have
to phone the station about this.

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- Anything could have happened.
- I understand.

32
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Maria, she's starting to clear
her husband's cupboard, so...

33
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- Mm-hm.
- I may need your help.

34
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Can you bring up any cases
that you can find in the basement?

35
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Of course.

36
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Mm!

37
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Beautiful day.

38
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- Mm...
- Oh, you've made a start.

39
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Carol's coming soon,
I'll get some bags.

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Anything you want to go to Mark,
I'll bring up a suitcase for it.

41
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Uh-uh.

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No, no, no, no. The grey.

43
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- You sure?
- Mm...

44
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Definitely the grey.

45
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Righty oh. Boss knows best.

46
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Don't let her take
my paper away.

47
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Oh, I haven't had a chance
to look at that yet, dear.

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Sorry.

49
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Atta girl.

50
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Ah! Damn!

51
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- Damn it.
- Blot it.

52
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- Blot it.
- Pardon?

53
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You're supposed to be looking after her.

54
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Now look what you've done.

55
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Are they to keep
the loonies out or you in?

56
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Hm...

57
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I'll be off then.

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Wear your scarf.
There is a chill out there.

59
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Good morning, Lady Thatcher.
Are you all right?

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- How are you feeling?
- I'm fine, thank you, Susie.

61
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I've just been reading
about the bombings.

62
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- Of course. Frightful.

63
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- Sorry-.

64
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These are the books for you to sign.

65
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I brought as many as I could find.

66
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Shall we go through your appointments?

67
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We said we'd go through them today.

68
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Yes. Of course, dear. Today.

69
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The invitation has come
from Downing Street

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for the unveiling of your portrait.
I'll put that on the mantelpiece,

71
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and there's an invitation
from Lord Armstrong

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for lunch on the first Friday
of next month.

73
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I said no, because you have
a concert that afternoon,

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but if you'd like to...

75
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It looks like a very
interesting program.

76
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What are they playing?

77
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Um, I think they said...

78
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...Rodgers & Hammerstein.

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Oh.

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Oh...

81
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Silly man.

82
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Oh, he hasn't got his scarf on.

83
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- Did someone cover the butter?
- I'll go.

84
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- Leave it!
- Margaret.

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Good girl.

86
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Tomorrow, no matter what they do,
it'll be business as usual.

87
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Two of the small beef,
Mr. Roberts.

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What is the life blood
of any community?

89
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It's business.

90
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Not just big business,
but small businesses, like mine.

91
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Margaret! Cups!

92
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We on this island are strong.

93
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We're self-reliant. Sometimes,
we're plain bloody-minded.

94
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But we also believe
in helping each other.

95
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And I don't mean by state handouts.

96
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Margaret, do you want
to come to the pictures?

97
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She's not coming out,
she's got to study.

98
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- Miss Hoity-Toity!

99
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Never run with the crowd,
Margaret. Go your own way.

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Go your own way.

101
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Never run with the crowd.

102
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Open it then.

103
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I've got a place at Oxford.

104
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Don't let me down, Margaret.

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Mother!

106
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My hands are still damp.

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"Margaret Roberts."

108
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Oh!

109
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Tea.
- Margaret! Cups!

110
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They're talking about you again.

111
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Wha... What time is it?

112
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Sun's not quite over the yardarm.

113
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- It's time for tea.

114
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- Look, Margaret.

115
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What have you got on your head?

116
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Found it in the cupboard,
and thought, bugger it,

117
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it's Friday, why not fancy dress?

118
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- You look ridiculous.
- Boss lady no like?

119
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No, Denis, boss lady no like.

120
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She's made a start,
that's the main thing.

121
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No, no, no. It's going fine.

122
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But it's taken Carol eight years
to persuade her to let his things go.

123
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Feet!

124
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Well, it's her pills.

125
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You can never be sure she's taking them.
I think sometimes she hides them.

126
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Oh, rumbled!

127
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They give her about an hour's
clarity, then she slips again.

128
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Can I suggest you remove
the sticker from the back of your car?

129
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- Sorry. It's always cash...
- Then take the sticker off!

130
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I call that false advertising,
wouldn't you?

131
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- I've got another...
- I would say keep the change,

132
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but there isn't any change.

133
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Hello, June. Any news?

134
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Look, I brought every single bag
I could find.

135
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He gave a speech recently,
trying to come up with a broad base...

136
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Hello, Ma.

137
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Bloody taxi driver
wouldn't take my card.

138
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I said don't have a sticker saying
you take Visa and then insist on cash.

139
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Oh! Can you believe it?

140
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Rummaging around the bottom of my bag.
He didn't get a tip.

141
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I didn't know that you were
dropping by today, dear.

142
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Yes, you said yesterday,
we were going to start on Dad's things.

143
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The cupboards,
then I was going to help you dress.

144
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- You've got Michael and...
- Jacqueline.

145
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- Coming for dinner tonight.
- Yes, of course.

146
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We're having halibut.

147
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This is a major
catastrophe that has struck our capital.

148
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- As you can see...
- Isn't it terrible?

149
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They think it's al-Qaeda.

150
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...are trying to get
all the people out of the building.

151
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The Prime Minister and his senior staff
were due to be staying at the hotel,

152
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- but checked out earlier.
- Denis!

153
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It'll be fine.
Come get your head down.

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- It's ten to three, for God's sake.
- Denis!

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At ten to three
this morning, an explosion

156
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extensively damaged
the Grand Hotel in Brighton...

157
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... Brighton, scene
of the Conservative Party conference.

158
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...the Prime Minister and
a number of her Cabinet were staying.

159
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They escaped unhurt,
but it's reported that...

160
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Five people have died,

161
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many others are injured,
some critically.

162
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The IRA have claimed
responsibility.

163
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We must release a statement,
offering our condolences.

164
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I'm sure they've already...

165
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We must never, ever, ever
give in to terrorists.

166
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Is it warm in here?

167
00:13:23,428 --> 00:13:26,147
Now, Ma, are we going long
or just below the knee tonight?

168
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Oh, below the knee,
I should think.

169
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No! Don't... Don't move those.

170
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I haven't finished sorting.

171
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I hear you went out today.

172
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You mustn't go out on your own,
Mummy. We've talked about that.

173
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There was no milk.

174
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Call Robert, he'll get it
for you if June's not up.

175
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I am not for the knacker's yet.

176
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Now, take it easy, Margaret.
- No one's saying that.

177
00:14:06,804 --> 00:14:11,184
If I can't go out to buy a pint of milk,
what is the world coming to?

178
00:14:11,351 --> 00:14:17,108
Really, Carol.
Please don't fuss about it.

179
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You've always been like this,
fuss, fuss, fuss.

180
00:14:21,944 --> 00:14:24,823
You must find something better
to do with your time.

181
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It's most unattractive in a woman.

182
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When I was your age,

183
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the last thing I wanted to do
was fuss around my mother.

184
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Four down, nine letters.

185
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Something B,
something T, something N...

186
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Something, something, something.
Refusal to change course.

187
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- Obstinate.

188
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- What?
- I knew you'd get it.

189
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Ob... I'll wear the pearls.

190
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I'll wear the pearls.

191
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There they are.

192
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My little twins.

193
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Thank you, dear.

194
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It's nearly all familiar faces:

195
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- William, Michael and his lovely wife.
- Jacqueline.

196
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And then there's Peter,
James R, James T,

197
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and that very nice man
we met last year.

198
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- I remember.
- He's bringing his new lady friend,

199
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just to mix things up a bit,
because we're rather short of women,

200
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but I'm sure we'll manage.

201
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I've always preferred
the company of men.

202
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- Ma?

203
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Ah, Miss Roberts. Hoping to be
chosen as our candidate for Parliament.

204
00:16:02,587 --> 00:16:06,683
Well, I don't like coalitions,
I never have.

205
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Start on the outside, work your way in.

206
00:16:19,020 --> 00:16:23,196
Attlee has his sights set on
the steel industry, you mark my words.

207
00:16:23,357 --> 00:16:25,359
They'll be nationalizing
the bloody air next.

208
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Yes, hold your breath, sir.
That's government property.

209
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Dreadful.

210
00:16:29,489 --> 00:16:32,834
Was your father a political man,
too, Miss Roberts?

211
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Oh, yes, to his core.

212
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And Mayor of Grantham.

213
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- And a grocer as well.
- Yes.

214
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And did you help... in the...

215
00:16:45,922 --> 00:16:48,846
- Oh, yes. It was a family business.
- ...shop?

216
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A very good starting point
for the political life, I'm sure.

217
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That and a degree from Oxford.

218
00:17:01,437 --> 00:17:03,064
No, don't. Whiskey, please.

219
00:17:10,696 --> 00:17:13,449
What I do think is
that a man should be encouraged

220
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to stand on his own two feet.

221
00:17:15,785 --> 00:17:19,289
Yes, we help people.
Of course we help people.

222
00:17:19,455 --> 00:17:23,961
But for those that can do,
they must just get up and do.

223
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And if something's wrong,
they shouldn't just whine about it,

224
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they should get in there and do
something about it, change things.

225
00:17:31,759 --> 00:17:34,979
With all due respect, Miss Roberts,
what may have served in Grantham...

226
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Can serve very well
for the people of Dartford, too.

227
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- Really?
- I know much more than those

228
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who have never lived
on a limited income.

229
00:17:42,895 --> 00:17:45,239
Just like the man or woman
in the street,

230
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when I am short one week,
I have to make economies the next.

231
00:17:50,152 --> 00:17:52,405
Nothing like a slice
of fiscal responsibility.

232
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A man might call it
fiscal responsibility,

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00:17:55,408 --> 00:17:58,378
a woman
might call it good housekeeping.

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I'm not sure a home economics lesson

235
00:18:02,957 --> 00:18:06,803
is quite what the Dartford
constituents need.

236
00:18:06,961 --> 00:18:09,965
They see industry being nationalized,

237
00:18:10,131 --> 00:18:13,931
the unions on the up,
the pound on the slide.

238
00:18:14,093 --> 00:18:18,189
Whoever can sort that lot out,
he's my man.

239
00:18:18,347 --> 00:18:20,941
- Or woman?

240
00:18:24,186 --> 00:18:27,065
Ladies, shall we?

241
00:18:28,149 --> 00:18:31,244
Miss Roberts, do join the ladies.

242
00:18:44,123 --> 00:18:47,377
Well. That's told us!

243
00:18:52,089 --> 00:18:55,810
So, Margaret, how would you have dealt
with this if you'd been Prime Minister?

244
00:18:57,595 --> 00:18:58,812
Where?

245
00:18:59,972 --> 00:19:01,599
The bombings, Mummy.

246
00:19:01,766 --> 00:19:04,440
Today.

247
00:19:04,602 --> 00:19:06,650
We were just talking about them.

248
00:19:08,689 --> 00:19:10,236
No... yes.

249
00:19:10,399 --> 00:19:13,448
We have always lived alongside evil.

250
00:19:13,611 --> 00:19:17,832
But it has never been so patient,

251
00:19:17,990 --> 00:19:19,867
so avid for carnage,

252
00:19:20,034 --> 00:19:24,710
so eager to carry innocents
along with it into oblivion.

253
00:19:24,872 --> 00:19:26,124
Hear, hear.

254
00:19:26,290 --> 00:19:30,045
Western civilization
must root out this evil,

255
00:19:30,211 --> 00:19:33,590
wherever it hides, or she risks defeat

256
00:19:33,756 --> 00:19:38,011
at the hands of global terror
in a nuclear age. Unimaginable.

257
00:19:38,177 --> 00:19:39,895
The Prime Minister made a very
good statement, I thought.

258
00:19:40,054 --> 00:19:43,103
Yes. Clever man.
Quite a smoothie.

259
00:19:45,601 --> 00:19:48,445
Miss Thatcher, it's been such
a pleasure to meet you.

260
00:19:48,604 --> 00:19:50,527
- You don't mind if I sit down.
- No, no.

261
00:19:50,690 --> 00:19:55,947
I heard you speak at the conference
in Brighton in 1984,

262
00:19:56,112 --> 00:19:59,332
just after the IRA
bombed the Grand Hotel.

263
00:19:59,490 --> 00:20:02,084
You were remarkable.

264
00:20:03,077 --> 00:20:05,956
I hope you appreciate
what an inspiration you've been

265
00:20:06,122 --> 00:20:08,591
to women like myself.

266
00:20:08,749 --> 00:20:13,596
Well, it used to be
about trying to do something.

267
00:20:13,754 --> 00:20:18,510
You see. Now, it's about
trying to be someone.

268
00:20:21,846 --> 00:20:26,647
- Mm. Anyway, I... thank you.

269
00:20:26,809 --> 00:20:29,562
- Good night, Lady Thatcher.
- Good night to you.

270
00:20:32,148 --> 00:20:34,401
I am so pleased to see
your mother looking so well.

271
00:20:34,567 --> 00:20:37,446
- Yes, doesn't she.
- She certainly does.

272
00:20:37,611 --> 00:20:39,784
William, great to see you,
thank you so much for coming.

273
00:20:39,947 --> 00:20:42,245
Thank you.
It was lovely, absolutely lovely.

274
00:20:42,408 --> 00:20:44,877
- Can I call you a taxi?
- No, no...

275
00:20:48,414 --> 00:20:51,463
OK, hold on to me, that's right.

276
00:20:51,625 --> 00:20:52,717
Ah.

277
00:20:52,877 --> 00:20:55,300
Better.

278
00:20:56,881 --> 00:20:59,805
Do the clasp. I can't quite...

279
00:20:59,967 --> 00:21:03,062
- OK.

280
00:21:03,220 --> 00:21:04,221
Yes.

281
00:21:05,806 --> 00:21:08,776
- Oh, you have an eyelash.
- Oh?

282
00:21:08,934 --> 00:21:11,562
- Make a wish.

283
00:21:21,739 --> 00:21:24,413
Oh, I spoke to Dr. Michael today.

284
00:21:25,910 --> 00:21:29,164
He's very good. Very expensive.

285
00:21:30,080 --> 00:21:33,835
I know you're not due
to see him for another month,

286
00:21:34,001 --> 00:21:37,551
but I've spoken to him
and he can fit you in tomorrow.

287
00:21:39,173 --> 00:21:40,265
Just for a checkup.

288
00:21:42,676 --> 00:21:44,678
Ma, please.

289
00:21:45,638 --> 00:21:48,107
What does Mark think about it?

290
00:21:49,225 --> 00:21:51,478
- Mark?
- Mm.

291
00:21:53,562 --> 00:21:57,192
Tell him to come up.
I want to talk to him about this.

292
00:21:58,943 --> 00:22:02,038
Mark's with Sarah and the children.

293
00:22:06,325 --> 00:22:10,580
Well, tell him to come up and see me
after he's kissed them good night,

294
00:22:10,746 --> 00:22:13,044
would you, Carol, darling?

295
00:22:30,808 --> 00:22:32,810
He's not here, Mummy.

296
00:22:35,020 --> 00:22:37,114
Mark lives in South Africa.

297
00:22:40,734 --> 00:22:42,953
And you're not Prime Minister any more.

298
00:22:47,449 --> 00:22:50,123
And Dad is, uh...

299
00:22:50,286 --> 00:22:52,129
Dad is dead.

300
00:23:00,546 --> 00:23:03,095
You look exhausted, dear.

301
00:23:06,427 --> 00:23:11,183
You really must try
to get some sleep.

302
00:23:15,311 --> 00:23:19,236
Taxis will be few and far
between at this hour.

303
00:23:24,486 --> 00:23:27,456
Righty oh. Night-night, Ma.
Sleep well.

304
00:23:27,615 --> 00:23:29,959
Good night, dear.

305
00:24:16,622 --> 00:24:19,250
Twenty-four-year-old
Miss Margaret Roberts lost her bid

306
00:24:19,416 --> 00:24:22,465
to win a seat in Parliament today,
but she has put new life

307
00:24:22,628 --> 00:24:24,801
into the Dartford
Conservative Association.

308
00:24:24,964 --> 00:24:27,433
Winning candidate, Mr. Dodds,
had better watch out.

309
00:24:27,591 --> 00:24:30,310
This bright young woman is on his tail.

310
00:24:40,688 --> 00:24:44,443
- Eat.
- Oh. Disaster.

311
00:24:44,608 --> 00:24:47,282
Hang on. Hang on.

312
00:24:47,444 --> 00:24:49,538
Hang on.

313
00:24:52,658 --> 00:24:55,537
You shaved thousands off their
majority. You did splendidly.

314
00:24:55,703 --> 00:24:58,047
Not splendidly enough.

315
00:24:58,205 --> 00:25:01,880
Ah, I see. Self-pity.

316
00:25:03,085 --> 00:25:06,180
No one's saying
you don't need a safe seat.

317
00:25:06,338 --> 00:25:08,090
You deserve a safe seat.

318
00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:12,553
But it does not come unless
you learn to play the game a little.

319
00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:16,020
- What game?
- You're a grocer's daughter.

320
00:25:16,181 --> 00:25:19,230
- And proud of being...
- And in their eyes...

321
00:25:20,728 --> 00:25:23,151
...a single grocer's daughter.

322
00:25:24,189 --> 00:25:27,068
But if you were to become the wife
of a moderately successful businessman,

323
00:25:27,234 --> 00:25:29,407
then you'd get to Parliament.

324
00:25:29,570 --> 00:25:32,494
And I'd get to be the happiest man in...

325
00:25:33,073 --> 00:25:35,622
...wherever they select you.

326
00:25:49,173 --> 00:25:51,050
Margaret, will you marry me?

327
00:25:56,055 --> 00:25:57,728
Well?

328
00:26:01,810 --> 00:26:03,608
Yes.

329
00:26:03,771 --> 00:26:05,694
Yes!

330
00:26:07,316 --> 00:26:09,114
- Oh...
- What?

331
00:26:09,276 --> 00:26:11,495
I love you so much, but...

332
00:26:11,653 --> 00:26:14,748
...I will never be one
of those women, Denis,

333
00:26:14,907 --> 00:26:18,332
who stays silent and pretty
on the arm of her husband.

334
00:26:18,494 --> 00:26:23,500
Or remote and alone in the kitchen,
doing the washing-up, for that matter.

335
00:26:23,665 --> 00:26:24,962
We'll get a help for that.

336
00:26:25,125 --> 00:26:30,973
No. One's life must matter, Denis.

337
00:26:31,131 --> 00:26:34,635
Beyond all the cooking
and the cleaning and the children,

338
00:26:34,802 --> 00:26:37,772
one's life must mean more than that.

339
00:26:38,472 --> 00:26:42,818
I cannot die washing up a tea cup.

340
00:26:42,976 --> 00:26:45,729
I mean it, Denis.

341
00:26:45,896 --> 00:26:48,399
Say you understand.

342
00:26:48,565 --> 00:26:52,240
That's why I want to marry you, my dear.

343
00:26:52,402 --> 00:26:54,530
Oh.

344
00:27:09,711 --> 00:27:11,588
Now eat.

345
00:27:59,136 --> 00:28:00,353
Oh!

346
00:28:01,305 --> 00:28:02,727
Oh...

347
00:28:07,394 --> 00:28:09,192
There we go.

348
00:28:15,819 --> 00:28:18,789
There they are, my little twins.

349
00:28:28,916 --> 00:28:31,590
Oh... Mark.

350
00:28:34,463 --> 00:28:35,680
Cornwall, wasn't it?

351
00:28:35,839 --> 00:28:37,762
Bloody hell.

352
00:28:41,303 --> 00:28:43,897
Look at 'em, little imps.

353
00:28:47,267 --> 00:28:50,237
You never really got golf,
did you'?

354
00:28:52,397 --> 00:28:54,240
You look happy.

355
00:28:54,399 --> 00:28:56,697
Yes, I do, don't I?

356
00:28:56,860 --> 00:28:58,828
You're drinking too much.

357
00:29:00,739 --> 00:29:04,494
Whatcha doing?
Not like you, looking back.

358
00:29:04,660 --> 00:29:08,005
Don't want to dig around too deep, M,
don't know what you might find.

359
00:29:10,582 --> 00:29:12,425
You can rewind it,
but you can't change it.

360
00:29:14,711 --> 00:29:17,885
They grow up
so fast, don't they?

361
00:29:38,652 --> 00:29:39,904
Mark.

362
00:29:41,822 --> 00:29:43,870
Oh...

363
00:29:56,503 --> 00:29:58,050
Mr. Eric Deakins,

364
00:29:58,213 --> 00:30:02,764
Labor, 13,437.

365
00:30:07,889 --> 00:30:10,642
Mr. Ivan Spence, Liberal,

366
00:30:10,809 --> 00:30:14,939
12,260.

367
00:30:15,105 --> 00:30:18,530
- We won!

368
00:30:18,692 --> 00:30:21,696
Mrs. Margaret Thatcher,
Conservative,

369
00:30:21,862 --> 00:30:25,583
29,697.

370
00:30:25,741 --> 00:30:29,416
I can now announce the new
Member of Parliament for Finchley,

371
00:30:29,578 --> 00:30:32,001
- 1959...
- Come along, please!

372
00:30:32,164 --> 00:30:34,462
...Mrs. Margaret Thatcher.

373
00:30:43,508 --> 00:30:45,556
Please!

374
00:30:45,719 --> 00:30:47,437
Mummy, don't go!

375
00:30:52,726 --> 00:30:56,651
You promised! Hey! Mummy!

376
00:30:56,813 --> 00:30:59,032
Wait, Mummy!

377
00:31:00,067 --> 00:31:03,241
Please don't go!

378
00:32:07,926 --> 00:32:08,927
No.

379
00:32:09,636 --> 00:32:11,730
Oh!

380
00:32:22,357 --> 00:32:23,904
Mrs. Thatcher.

381
00:32:24,067 --> 00:32:26,240
Excuse me. Sorry.

382
00:32:26,403 --> 00:32:28,531
Mrs. Thatcher, Airey Neave.

383
00:32:28,697 --> 00:32:31,701
Welcome to the madhouse.
Follow me.

384
00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:44,631
The Honorable Lady,
the Member of Parliament for Finchley!

385
00:32:57,476 --> 00:33:00,229
Order! Order!

386
00:33:00,395 --> 00:33:03,444
The Right Honorable Lady,
the Secretary of State for Education.

387
00:33:03,607 --> 00:33:05,450
Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

388
00:33:05,609 --> 00:33:09,113
The Right Honorable Gentleman
knows very well that we had no choice

389
00:33:09,279 --> 00:33:11,782
- but to close the schools.

390
00:33:11,948 --> 00:33:14,872
- Shame!
- Disgrace!

391
00:33:16,244 --> 00:33:19,373
Because his union paymasters

392
00:33:19,539 --> 00:33:23,043
have called a strike deliberately
to cripple our economy.

393
00:33:25,128 --> 00:33:28,177
- Rubbish!
- Teachers cannot teach

394
00:33:28,340 --> 00:33:32,265
when there is no heating,
no lighting in their classrooms.

395
00:33:32,427 --> 00:33:36,022
And I ask the Right Honorable
Gentleman, whose fault is that?

396
00:33:36,181 --> 00:33:38,149
Yours!

397
00:33:42,312 --> 00:33:46,112
Methinks the Right Honorable
Lady doth screech too much.

398
00:33:49,819 --> 00:33:52,823
And if she wants us
to take her seriously,

399
00:33:52,989 --> 00:33:55,208
she must learn to calm down!

400
00:33:57,702 --> 00:34:00,706
- Very good!
- If the Right Honorable Gentleman

401
00:34:00,872 --> 00:34:04,251
could perhaps attend more closely
to what I am saying,

402
00:34:04,417 --> 00:34:07,341
rather than how I am saying it,

403
00:34:07,504 --> 00:34:12,351
he may receive a valuable
education in spite of himself!

404
00:34:14,261 --> 00:34:18,858
Why has... Why has this
Conservative government failed?

405
00:34:19,015 --> 00:34:21,438
- It hasn't failed.

406
00:34:21,601 --> 00:34:25,276
Why has it forced
so many in the public sector

407
00:34:25,438 --> 00:34:29,739
into taking strike action
to save their own jobs?

408
00:34:34,447 --> 00:34:39,248
Minister, the breakdown
in essential public services,

409
00:34:39,411 --> 00:34:43,132
in transport, in electricity,
in sanitation,

410
00:34:43,290 --> 00:34:45,418
is not the fault of the trade unions.

411
00:34:45,584 --> 00:34:47,837
It's entirely the fault
of the trade unions.

412
00:34:48,003 --> 00:34:50,097
But of this Conservative government

413
00:34:50,255 --> 00:34:52,724
in which you so shamefully serve!

414
00:35:06,938 --> 00:35:11,114
These power cuts will continue
unless we can reach a compromise.

415
00:35:11,276 --> 00:35:15,076
The miners are asking
for a 35 percent increase in wages.

416
00:35:15,238 --> 00:35:17,912
Obviously, we can't
go anywhere near that.

417
00:35:18,074 --> 00:35:21,123
The unions are not our enemies
and never have been.

418
00:35:21,286 --> 00:35:24,881
We want, and have always wanted,
the broadest consensus.

419
00:35:25,040 --> 00:35:28,044
- Hear, hear.
- I'm sure we are all in agreement

420
00:35:28,209 --> 00:35:29,756
that we must do nothing for the moment

421
00:35:29,919 --> 00:35:32,013
that will further inflame
the current situation.

422
00:35:32,172 --> 00:35:34,049
- Hear, hear, Prime Minister.
- The fact of the matter is,

423
00:35:34,215 --> 00:35:37,014
it's absolutely crucial
that we are seen by the public

424
00:35:37,177 --> 00:35:41,023
to be acting as conciliators
and not aggressors.

425
00:35:41,181 --> 00:35:43,354
Hear, hear.

426
00:35:46,102 --> 00:35:49,356
- Yes, Education Secretary.
- Yes, Prime Minister.

427
00:35:49,522 --> 00:35:51,274
With the miners' union leader today

428
00:35:51,441 --> 00:35:54,615
calling for the army to mutiny
in support of the strikes,

429
00:35:54,778 --> 00:35:57,327
this seems the wrong time
for conciliation.

430
00:35:58,948 --> 00:36:01,667
Be patient.

431
00:36:01,826 --> 00:36:03,874
They'll come back on
again in a moment.

432
00:36:04,037 --> 00:36:07,132
- Anybody got a shilling?
- Ah, Boy Scout.

433
00:36:07,290 --> 00:36:08,758
Be prepared.

434
00:36:08,917 --> 00:36:10,919
Thank you, Margaret.

435
00:36:11,086 --> 00:36:12,759
Oh! It lives.

436
00:36:12,921 --> 00:36:15,595
Your thoughts are duly noted.

437
00:36:19,052 --> 00:36:22,522
Compromise,
compromise, compromise...

438
00:36:22,681 --> 00:36:25,525
We on this island are strong.

439
00:36:25,684 --> 00:36:27,561
We're self-reliant.

440
00:36:27,727 --> 00:36:31,072
Napoleon called us a nation
of shopkeepers.

441
00:36:31,231 --> 00:36:33,654
He meant it as an insult,
but to me it's a compliment.

442
00:36:33,817 --> 00:36:37,321
That's why he couldn't beat us,
that's why Hitler can't beat us.

443
00:36:40,156 --> 00:36:43,535
We Conservatives believe
in giving people the freedom

444
00:36:43,702 --> 00:36:48,048
and opportunity to fulfill their own
potential, especially the young.

445
00:36:48,206 --> 00:36:50,675
There's no good in pretending we're
all equal, we're not all the same,

446
00:36:50,834 --> 00:36:53,553
never have been, never will be.

447
00:36:53,712 --> 00:36:59,515
We should encourage our children
to aspire to achieve more than we have,

448
00:36:59,676 --> 00:37:03,180
for our children today
will be the leaders of tomorrow.

449
00:37:05,557 --> 00:37:08,436
It's 1974,
you'd think it was World War II.

450
00:37:08,601 --> 00:37:11,104
Blackouts, no petrol. It's a mess.

451
00:37:11,271 --> 00:37:13,273
Heath should resign now and make way

452
00:37:13,440 --> 00:37:15,408
for someone who's not afraid
to tackle the unions.

453
00:37:15,567 --> 00:37:17,820
I swear, it's all gone
completely out of my head.

454
00:37:17,986 --> 00:37:20,080
My driving instructor says
I should pass, but I feel

455
00:37:20,238 --> 00:37:22,957
as if I've hardly had any lessons.
Which is ridiculous, isn't it?

456
00:37:23,116 --> 00:37:25,585
- Maybe third time lucky.
- Right.

457
00:37:25,744 --> 00:37:28,998
The only thing you should
remember is that everyone else

458
00:37:29,164 --> 00:37:33,385
is either reckless or inept.
Usually both.

459
00:37:33,543 --> 00:37:37,298
One must be brave if one
is to take the wheel.

460
00:37:37,464 --> 00:37:39,717
- Right oh.
- Right, move.

461
00:37:39,883 --> 00:37:41,180
Move to your right a little bit.

462
00:37:41,342 --> 00:37:43,640
But if I move to the right, aren't
I on the wrong side of the road?

463
00:37:43,803 --> 00:37:45,555
- Carol!
- Well, he's in the way!

464
00:37:45,722 --> 00:37:47,349
- To the right. Move to the right!

465
00:37:47,515 --> 00:37:49,813
- Hey! Look out!

466
00:37:49,976 --> 00:37:52,980
So sorry! Terribly sorry!

467
00:37:58,359 --> 00:38:00,157
Hey, look at me, driving!

468
00:38:00,320 --> 00:38:01,822
Thanks, Ma, that was terrific!

469
00:38:01,988 --> 00:38:03,661
I really feel like I've got
a handle on it now.

470
00:38:03,823 --> 00:38:04,995
You should have seen us, Pa.

471
00:38:05,158 --> 00:38:08,287
Are you trying to cook
your own breakfast?

472
00:38:08,453 --> 00:38:10,831
- Denis!
- I can boil a bloody egg.

473
00:38:10,997 --> 00:38:12,044
Mummy took me for a test drive.

474
00:38:12,207 --> 00:38:14,209
We went absolutely everywhere.
All over the place.

475
00:38:14,375 --> 00:38:17,970
- Yeah?
- I've decided. I'm going to run.

476
00:38:18,129 --> 00:38:19,255
What for?

477
00:38:21,132 --> 00:38:24,602
I'm going to run
for Leader of the Party.

478
00:38:29,766 --> 00:38:31,359
- Silly me!
- Good luck!

479
00:38:31,518 --> 00:38:33,191
All the time I thought
I was having a driving lesson,

480
00:38:33,353 --> 00:38:35,481
it was all about my mother,
just for a change!

481
00:38:35,647 --> 00:38:38,526
- What's she on about?
- Her driving test this morning!

482
00:38:38,691 --> 00:38:42,161
- Oh, right. Of course.
- Are you saying you want

483
00:38:42,320 --> 00:38:43,572
to be Prime Minister?

484
00:38:43,738 --> 00:38:49,586
Oh! What I'm saying is that
someone must force the point,

485
00:38:49,744 --> 00:38:51,838
someone must say the un-sayable.

486
00:38:51,996 --> 00:38:54,215
None of these men have the guts.

487
00:38:54,374 --> 00:38:56,342
- The Prime Minister has been

488
00:38:56,501 --> 00:38:58,219
very loyal to you, MT.

489
00:38:58,378 --> 00:39:00,927
But he's weak,
and he's weakened the party.

490
00:39:02,298 --> 00:39:05,051
One must know when to go.

491
00:39:05,218 --> 00:39:06,765
You're shaking. Here, let me...

492
00:39:06,928 --> 00:39:08,521
I can do it!

493
00:39:08,680 --> 00:39:10,899
Goodness me!

494
00:39:13,685 --> 00:39:15,358
What is the matter
with everyone this morning?

495
00:39:15,520 --> 00:39:17,113
I've told you what the matter is.

496
00:39:17,272 --> 00:39:18,865
The business is a bit rocky
at the moment

497
00:39:19,023 --> 00:39:20,400
and the doctor says I need a rest.

498
00:39:20,567 --> 00:39:22,911
Do you need a rest?

499
00:39:23,069 --> 00:39:25,242
Oh, God.

500
00:39:25,405 --> 00:39:28,409
We both know it's highly unlikely

501
00:39:28,575 --> 00:39:30,202
that I would ever be elected leader.

502
00:39:30,368 --> 00:39:33,622
I'll never be elected leader.
But I will run. I will run.

503
00:39:33,788 --> 00:39:37,759
Just to nip at their heels and make them
reaffirm the principles on which

504
00:39:37,917 --> 00:39:40,796
- the Conservative Party must stand.

505
00:39:43,923 --> 00:39:46,802
There's so much to do.

506
00:39:46,968 --> 00:39:49,471
You're insufferable,
Margaret, do you know that?

507
00:39:51,931 --> 00:39:53,808
Denis, you married someone

508
00:39:53,975 --> 00:39:58,105
who is committed to public service,
you knew that.

509
00:39:58,271 --> 00:40:01,150
- And it is my duty...
- Don't call it duty.

510
00:40:01,316 --> 00:40:04,286
It's ambition that's gotten
you this far. Ambition.

511
00:40:04,444 --> 00:40:09,166
And the rest of us, me, the children,
we can all go to hell!

512
00:40:10,575 --> 00:40:13,249
Don't worry about me, I'll be fine!

513
00:40:13,411 --> 00:40:15,379
Where did you go?

514
00:40:15,538 --> 00:40:17,711
- South Africa.
- Yes.

515
00:40:17,874 --> 00:40:21,924
How many days passed
before you realized I'd gone?

516
00:40:22,086 --> 00:40:24,930
Probably had to ask
the cleaning woman where I was.

517
00:40:25,089 --> 00:40:28,059
When did I lose track of everyone?

518
00:40:29,093 --> 00:40:31,516
- Too busy climbing the greasy pole, MT.
- How did I...?

519
00:40:31,679 --> 00:40:33,852
Mrs. Thatcher,
I understand you recently visited

520
00:40:34,015 --> 00:40:36,234
- the United States of America.
- Oh, oh...

521
00:40:36,392 --> 00:40:39,566
What is it you took away
from your visit which may be of value,

522
00:40:39,729 --> 00:40:43,575
- here in Great Britain?
- That's rather easy to answer.

523
00:40:43,733 --> 00:40:47,078
They are unafraid of success.

524
00:40:48,071 --> 00:40:50,290
We in Great Britain and in Europe

525
00:40:50,448 --> 00:40:53,201
are formed mostly by our history.

526
00:40:53,368 --> 00:40:56,918
They, on the other hand,
are formed by their philosophy.

527
00:40:57,080 --> 00:41:00,630
Not by what has been,
but by what can be.

528
00:41:00,792 --> 00:41:04,217
Oh, we have a great deal that
we can learn from them, yes.

529
00:41:04,379 --> 00:41:05,756
Oh, yes!

530
00:41:10,426 --> 00:41:12,053
Well...

531
00:41:13,513 --> 00:41:15,436
Uh...

532
00:41:17,392 --> 00:41:20,817
For a start, that hat has got to go.

533
00:41:20,979 --> 00:41:22,572
And the pearls.

534
00:41:22,730 --> 00:41:27,076
In fact,
I think all hats may have to go.

535
00:41:27,235 --> 00:41:31,866
You look and sound like
a privileged Conservative wife,

536
00:41:32,031 --> 00:41:33,499
and we've already got her vote.

537
00:41:33,658 --> 00:41:36,707
You've got lovely hair,
but we need to do something

538
00:41:36,869 --> 00:41:38,621
with it, to make it more...

539
00:41:38,788 --> 00:41:41,632
- Important.
- Yes. Give it more impact.

540
00:41:41,791 --> 00:41:44,590
But the main thing is your voice.

541
00:41:44,752 --> 00:41:47,221
It's too high,
and it has no authority.

542
00:41:47,380 --> 00:41:50,224
Methinks the lady
doth screech too much.

543
00:41:50,383 --> 00:41:54,229
People don't want to be harangued
by a woman or hectored.

544
00:41:54,387 --> 00:41:58,858
Persuaded, yes. That "Oh, yes,"
at the end of the interview,

545
00:41:59,017 --> 00:42:01,486
that's authoritative,
that's the voice of a leader.

546
00:42:01,644 --> 00:42:03,191
Quite.

547
00:42:03,354 --> 00:42:07,029
It's all very well to talk
about changing my voice, Mr. Reece,

548
00:42:07,191 --> 00:42:12,413
but for some of my colleagues to imagine
me as their leader...

549
00:42:12,572 --> 00:42:15,542
...would be like imagining,
I don't know,

550
00:42:15,700 --> 00:42:18,169
being led into battle
by their chambermaid.

551
00:42:18,327 --> 00:42:21,331
It's my background and my sex.

552
00:42:22,457 --> 00:42:27,008
No matter how I've tried,
and I have tried, to fit in,

553
00:42:27,170 --> 00:42:29,593
I know I will never be
truly one of them.

554
00:42:29,756 --> 00:42:32,930
If I may say so, I think
that's your trump card.

555
00:42:33,092 --> 00:42:36,141
You're flying in the face of everything
the Tories have been thus far.

556
00:42:36,304 --> 00:42:39,979
It's really terribly exciting.

557
00:42:40,141 --> 00:42:44,066
One simply has
to maximize your appeal,

558
00:42:44,228 --> 00:42:46,447
bring out all your qualities,

559
00:42:46,606 --> 00:42:50,486
and make you look, and sound,
like the leader that you could be.

560
00:42:50,651 --> 00:42:52,449
You've got it in you
to go the whole distance.

561
00:42:52,612 --> 00:42:53,909
Absolutely.

562
00:42:54,072 --> 00:42:57,793
What... Prime Minister?

563
00:42:59,410 --> 00:43:03,631
Oh, no. Oh, no, no, no.

564
00:43:03,790 --> 00:43:05,463
In Britain?

565
00:43:05,625 --> 00:43:09,721
There will be no
female Prime Minister here,

566
00:43:09,879 --> 00:43:13,383
not in my lifetime. No.

567
00:43:13,549 --> 00:43:17,520
And I told Airey, I don't
expect to win the leadership,

568
00:43:17,678 --> 00:43:21,649
but I am going to run,
just to shake up the party.

569
00:43:21,808 --> 00:43:25,312
Respectfully, Margaret, I disagree.

570
00:43:25,478 --> 00:43:28,652
If you want to change this party,
lead it.

571
00:43:28,815 --> 00:43:30,442
If you want to change
the country, lead it.

572
00:43:30,608 --> 00:43:33,487
What we're talking
about here today is surface.

573
00:43:33,653 --> 00:43:36,907
What's crucial is
that you hold your course,

574
00:43:37,073 --> 00:43:38,916
and stay true to who you are.

575
00:43:39,075 --> 00:43:41,328
Never be anything
other than yourself.

576
00:43:41,494 --> 00:43:43,872
Leave us to do the rest.

577
00:43:50,878 --> 00:43:54,178
Gentlemen, I am in your hands.

578
00:43:54,340 --> 00:43:58,095
I may be persuaded
to surrender the hat.

579
00:43:58,261 --> 00:44:02,311
But the pearls were a gift from my
husband on the birth of our twins,

580
00:44:02,473 --> 00:44:05,272
and, um,

581
00:44:05,434 --> 00:44:09,189
they are absolutely non-negotiable.

582
00:44:10,690 --> 00:44:13,068
And...

583
00:44:15,278 --> 00:44:18,077
Good, I think we can lose
the handbag, Mrs. Thatcher. Yes?

584
00:44:19,031 --> 00:44:20,908
And hands down by side.

585
00:44:21,075 --> 00:44:24,830
Right up.

586
00:44:26,747 --> 00:44:29,921
Because this isn't about the voice,
it's about belief.

587
00:44:30,084 --> 00:44:34,260
The very core. So a nice deep breath
and really fill out against my hands.

588
00:44:39,385 --> 00:44:40,807
You're calling Mr. Thatcher,
how would you do that?

589
00:44:40,970 --> 00:44:43,473
- Denis.
- Yes, I want authority.

590
00:44:43,639 --> 00:44:44,982
- I want conviction, I want...
- Denis.

591
00:44:45,141 --> 00:44:47,519
That's right, one more time,
and breathing in. And...

592
00:44:47,685 --> 00:44:48,857
Denis.

593
00:44:49,020 --> 00:44:52,991
- Yes, M!
- Sorry. No, no, no.

594
00:44:54,609 --> 00:44:57,328
You are the backbone
of our nation!

595
00:44:57,486 --> 00:44:59,784
Small firms like
Loveday's Ice Cream.

596
00:44:59,947 --> 00:45:01,915
- So nice to meet you, ladies.
- Nice to meet you.

597
00:45:02,074 --> 00:45:05,669
I'll just have a small one,
because I'm watching my figure.

598
00:45:05,828 --> 00:45:08,001
Whoo! That's for you, young man!

599
00:45:08,164 --> 00:45:10,758
I passionately
believe that it's the growth

600
00:45:10,917 --> 00:45:13,716
of small businesses
into larger ones

601
00:45:13,878 --> 00:45:16,131
that is critical for Britain's future.

602
00:45:16,297 --> 00:45:19,392
Well, it has to be something icy
on a stick for Denis.

603
00:45:19,550 --> 00:45:23,600
That's the only way
that we will produce jobs,

604
00:45:23,763 --> 00:45:26,391
real jobs, jobs that sustain.

605
00:45:29,477 --> 00:45:33,232
The Trade Union Movement
was founded to protect workers.

606
00:45:33,397 --> 00:45:38,324
Now it persecutes them.
It stops them from working.

607
00:45:38,486 --> 00:45:42,081
It is killing jobs and it is bringing
this country to its knees.

608
00:45:42,240 --> 00:45:45,790
I say enough.
It's time to get up.

609
00:45:45,952 --> 00:45:47,954
It's time to go to work.

610
00:45:48,120 --> 00:45:52,876
It's time to put the "Great"
back into Great Britain!

611
00:45:54,085 --> 00:45:55,678
The incompetence
of the Labor government...

612
00:45:55,836 --> 00:45:58,089
- ...continue to misinform

613
00:45:58,256 --> 00:46:02,477
and spend in this incessant
and blasé manner.

614
00:46:02,635 --> 00:46:05,559
- We have paid the price...
- Mrs. Thatcher, they're ready for you.

615
00:46:05,721 --> 00:46:08,190
- Thank you.
- Give 'em hell.

616
00:46:08,349 --> 00:46:09,601
- You look magnificent.

617
00:46:09,767 --> 00:46:11,269
Next stop, Prime Minister.

618
00:46:11,435 --> 00:46:13,233
- Oh, Airey...
- Let's go.

619
00:46:13,396 --> 00:46:14,943
The new leader
of the Conservative Party,

620
00:46:15,106 --> 00:46:18,326
- Margaret Thatcher!

621
00:46:36,294 --> 00:46:38,137
Hm...

622
00:46:43,718 --> 00:46:45,595
Good night, Margaret.
- Oh...

623
00:46:45,761 --> 00:46:47,980
My money's on the filly to win.

624
00:46:48,139 --> 00:46:51,814
Oh...
Thanks, Airey. Good night.

625
00:47:01,360 --> 00:47:02,577
No!

626
00:47:02,737 --> 00:47:05,741
No, no! No! Airey!

627
00:47:07,241 --> 00:47:08,458
Ai Fey!

628
00:47:13,414 --> 00:47:15,587
The Irish National
Liberation Army has claimed

629
00:47:15,750 --> 00:47:18,845
responsibility
for the death of MP Airey Neave,

630
00:47:19,003 --> 00:47:22,177
Margaret Thatcher's spokesman
on Northern Ireland.

631
00:47:33,642 --> 00:47:36,646
If you want
to change the party, lead it.

632
00:47:36,812 --> 00:47:39,861
If you want to change
the country, lead it.

633
00:47:40,024 --> 00:47:43,449
You've got it in you
to go the whole distance.

634
00:47:45,404 --> 00:47:50,205
- Now, as the test draws near,

635
00:47:50,368 --> 00:47:52,587
- I ask your help.

636
00:47:52,745 --> 00:47:56,841
That together we can shake off
the shackles of Socialism

637
00:47:56,999 --> 00:48:01,425
and restore to greatness this
country that we love...

638
00:48:01,587 --> 00:48:05,808
And the only way is
for the Conservative Party to win!

639
00:48:07,343 --> 00:48:10,347
Is she gonna get there?
Watch those blocks rise...

640
00:48:10,513 --> 00:48:12,481
Go, Maggie!

641
00:48:34,912 --> 00:48:37,665
It's Friday the 4th
of May, an historic day for Britain,

642
00:48:37,832 --> 00:48:41,211
a Conservative government
led by Mrs. Thatcher is set to lead...

643
00:48:41,377 --> 00:48:44,130
Mrs. Bandaranaike
in Sri Lanka, Mrs. Gandhi in India,

644
00:48:44,296 --> 00:48:47,015
but never in the West has there
ever been a woman Prime Minister.

645
00:48:47,174 --> 00:48:49,643
The place that she has
now secured in British history,

646
00:48:49,802 --> 00:48:52,225
as the first woman ever to be
invited to form a government.

647
00:48:52,388 --> 00:48:54,686
The bonus of one of the most
famous addresses in the world,

648
00:48:54,849 --> 00:48:56,317
Number 10 Downing Street.

649
00:48:56,475 --> 00:48:59,695
This is it.
Steady the buffs, old girl.

650
00:49:08,529 --> 00:49:11,248
- Good afternoon.
- Congratulations, Prime Minister.

651
00:49:11,407 --> 00:49:14,206
- I should just like to say

652
00:49:14,368 --> 00:49:18,043
that I take very seriously
the trust placed in me

653
00:49:18,205 --> 00:49:23,006
by the British people today,
and I will work hard every day

654
00:49:23,169 --> 00:49:25,672
to live up to that responsibility.

655
00:49:25,838 --> 00:49:28,762
And now, I should like to share with you

656
00:49:28,924 --> 00:49:32,349
a prayer of St. Francis of Assisi.

657
00:49:35,014 --> 00:49:39,861
Where there is discord,
may we bring harmony.

658
00:49:40,019 --> 00:49:43,819
Where there is error,
may we bring truth.

659
00:49:44,523 --> 00:49:48,744
Where there is doubt,
may we bring faith.

660
00:49:48,903 --> 00:49:53,534
And where there is despair,
may we bring hope.

661
00:50:04,752 --> 00:50:06,971
- Shoulders back, tummies in!

662
00:50:07,129 --> 00:50:10,008
- Thank you, Michael.

663
00:50:10,174 --> 00:50:13,769
Look this way, please.

664
00:50:13,928 --> 00:50:15,225
Three, two, one.

665
00:50:25,105 --> 00:50:28,951
Robert, could you bring the car
around? She's been ready for ages.

666
00:50:33,489 --> 00:50:36,993
I am perfectly healthy.

667
00:50:37,576 --> 00:50:40,500
No need for any of this.

668
00:50:40,663 --> 00:50:43,007
Just let them look
under the bonnet, MT.

669
00:50:43,165 --> 00:50:45,463
Make sure everything is hunky dory.

670
00:50:45,626 --> 00:50:50,132
Oh, really, this is
becoming quite tiresome.

671
00:50:50,297 --> 00:50:52,299
- What is?
- You.

672
00:50:52,466 --> 00:50:58,098
I was on my own
for 24 years before I met you,

673
00:50:58,264 --> 00:51:02,440
and I can manage perfectly well
without you now.

674
00:51:03,435 --> 00:51:05,984
So will you please go away,

675
00:51:06,146 --> 00:51:08,820
and stop bothering me?

676
00:51:08,983 --> 00:51:12,704
Just look straight ahead,
straight at me, that's it.

677
00:51:12,861 --> 00:51:15,740
- Are you noticing night sweats?
- No.

678
00:51:16,657 --> 00:51:20,082
- Hallucinations?
- No.

679
00:51:21,620 --> 00:51:25,090
- Sleep?
- Yes. I sleep.

680
00:51:25,249 --> 00:51:27,422
Four, five hours a night.

681
00:51:27,585 --> 00:51:29,587
So you wake early?

682
00:51:29,753 --> 00:51:33,257
And I stay up late. I always have.

683
00:51:33,424 --> 00:51:35,518
We just want to keep
abreast of it, that's all.

684
00:51:35,676 --> 00:51:38,429
Yes. Of course.

685
00:51:38,596 --> 00:51:40,974
Grief is a very natural state.

686
00:51:41,140 --> 00:51:44,064
My husband has
been gone for years.

687
00:51:44,226 --> 00:51:46,194
Cancer.

688
00:51:46,353 --> 00:51:50,153
Carol says you've decided to let his
things go. Probably a good thing.

689
00:51:50,316 --> 00:51:53,069
Yes. It was my idea. To Oxfam.

690
00:51:53,235 --> 00:51:57,411
Perfectly good stuff.
People can use these things.

691
00:51:57,573 --> 00:51:59,325
Hm...

692
00:51:59,491 --> 00:52:01,619
Still, it must be a bit disorientating.

693
00:52:01,785 --> 00:52:05,164
- You are bound to be feeling...
- What?

694
00:52:06,832 --> 00:52:10,086
What am I "bound to be feeling"?

695
00:52:12,463 --> 00:52:15,262
People don't think any more.
They feel.

696
00:52:15,424 --> 00:52:18,849
"How are you feeling?"
"Oh, I don't feel comfortable."

697
00:52:19,011 --> 00:52:21,764
"Oh, I'm so sorry,
we, the group, we're feeling..."

698
00:52:21,930 --> 00:52:26,151
Do you know,
one of the great problems of our age

699
00:52:26,310 --> 00:52:29,814
is that we are governed by people
who care more about feelings

700
00:52:29,980 --> 00:52:33,359
than they do about thoughts and ideas?

701
00:52:33,525 --> 00:52:37,575
Now, thoughts and ideas,
that interests me.

702
00:52:37,738 --> 00:52:40,958
Ask me what I am thinking.

703
00:52:41,116 --> 00:52:43,539
What are you thinking, Margaret?

704
00:52:44,995 --> 00:52:47,544
Watch your thoughts,
for they become words.

705
00:52:47,706 --> 00:52:50,960
Watch your words,
for they become actions.

706
00:52:52,336 --> 00:52:56,182
Watch your actions,
for they become habits.

707
00:52:56,340 --> 00:52:59,844
Watch your habits,
for they become your character.

708
00:53:00,010 --> 00:53:04,311
And watch your character,
for it becomes your destiny.

709
00:53:04,473 --> 00:53:06,726
What we think, we become.

710
00:53:08,143 --> 00:53:11,022
My father always said that.

711
00:53:11,188 --> 00:53:14,067
And I think I am fine.

712
00:53:19,321 --> 00:53:22,916
But I do so appreciate
your kind concern.

713
00:53:29,581 --> 00:53:31,458
Oh, do please answer that.

714
00:53:31,625 --> 00:53:34,048
It might be someone
who needs you.

715
00:53:37,172 --> 00:53:39,550
I'll give Carol a quick ring,
let her know we're back,

716
00:53:39,717 --> 00:53:42,311
and then I'll put your
electric blanket on.

717
00:53:43,846 --> 00:53:47,020
Steady, steady, steady!

718
00:53:48,434 --> 00:53:51,734
Damn. Fore!

719
00:53:51,895 --> 00:53:54,774
What about that medicine man, eh?

720
00:53:54,940 --> 00:53:57,944
Ah. Cold supper.

721
00:53:58,110 --> 00:54:00,829
Standards are slipping, Margaret.

722
00:54:01,697 --> 00:54:04,246
You really gave it to that
quack, didn't you, darling?

723
00:54:04,408 --> 00:54:08,208
Just like the old days.
Hallucinations, my eye!

724
00:54:08,370 --> 00:54:11,624
How dare he? But then, you give us
all the runaround, don't you?

725
00:54:13,751 --> 00:54:18,757
I know you can hear me, sweetheart,
so there's no use pretending you can't.

726
00:54:19,798 --> 00:54:22,517
Enough. Denis, enough!

727
00:54:22,676 --> 00:54:24,519
Dismissed!

728
00:54:31,977 --> 00:54:34,696
She does it in the end. Kills him.

729
00:54:37,065 --> 00:54:39,534
I don't know why you're
being so scratchy.

730
00:54:39,693 --> 00:54:41,695
It's not as if you've
got anyone else to talk to.

731
00:54:41,862 --> 00:54:45,537
"When the Himalayan peasant
meets the he-bear in his pride..."

732
00:54:45,699 --> 00:54:49,749
It's a marvel to me that you can still
quote whole chunks of Kipling,

733
00:54:49,912 --> 00:54:52,290
but try remembering the name
of that woman who just made you

734
00:54:52,456 --> 00:54:55,175
that god-awful cold collation.

735
00:54:55,334 --> 00:54:57,883
No? Come on, you can do it.

736
00:54:58,045 --> 00:55:00,047
Month of the year.

737
00:55:00,214 --> 00:55:02,057
One syllable.

738
00:55:02,216 --> 00:55:04,560
Rhymes with moon.

739
00:55:04,718 --> 00:55:06,311
- June.
- June! Bingo!

740
00:55:06,470 --> 00:55:08,893
Knew you'd get there in the end.

741
00:55:09,056 --> 00:55:14,028
"When the Himalayan peasant
meets the he-bear in his pride,

742
00:55:14,186 --> 00:55:17,440
he shouts to scare the monster,
who will often turn aside."

743
00:55:17,606 --> 00:55:19,734
- "But the she-bear, thus accosted,"

744
00:55:19,900 --> 00:55:22,244
rends the peasant tooth and nail,

745
00:55:22,402 --> 00:55:25,906
"for the female of the species
is more deadly than the male."

746
00:55:26,073 --> 00:55:28,917
- "When Nag, the basking cobra,

747
00:55:29,076 --> 00:55:31,374
hears the careless foot of man..."

748
00:55:47,219 --> 00:55:50,393
If I can't hear you, I can't see you.

749
00:55:50,556 --> 00:55:52,979
If I can't see you, you're not here.

750
00:55:53,141 --> 00:55:57,021
And if you're not here,
I'm not going mad.

751
00:55:57,187 --> 00:55:58,655
I will not go mad.

752
00:55:58,814 --> 00:56:01,112
I won't go mad...
I will not go mad...

753
00:56:01,275 --> 00:56:04,324
I will not go mad. I will not.

754
00:56:04,486 --> 00:56:07,706
Baroness Thatcher made
an apparently routine visit

755
00:56:07,865 --> 00:56:09,082
to her doctors today.

756
00:56:09,241 --> 00:56:11,039
Although rarely seen in public.

757
00:56:11,201 --> 00:56:14,125
Britain's longest-serving
Prime Minister of the twentieth century,

758
00:56:14,288 --> 00:56:16,962
remains a controversial figure.

759
00:56:17,124 --> 00:56:20,628
Almost lovingly dubbed
by the Soviets "The Iron Lady,"

760
00:56:20,794 --> 00:56:23,217
she is credited,
with her friend Ronald Reagan,

761
00:56:23,380 --> 00:56:26,133
with a decisive role
in the ending of the Cold War.

762
00:56:26,300 --> 00:56:28,849
- Margaret...
- Her supporters claim she transformed

763
00:56:29,011 --> 00:56:32,356
the British economy and reversed
the country's post-war decline.

764
00:56:32,514 --> 00:56:34,437
- I am so sorry.
- Her detractors blame

765
00:56:34,600 --> 00:56:38,070
her savage public spending cuts
and sweeping privatization of...

766
00:56:43,984 --> 00:56:48,080
- I... don't recognize myself.

767
00:56:59,958 --> 00:57:01,551
Hm...

768
00:57:12,179 --> 00:57:14,932
Am I out of the doghouse yet?

769
00:57:17,100 --> 00:57:22,402
Oh. They're unveiling
that portrait of me

770
00:57:22,564 --> 00:57:24,658
at Number 10 next month.

771
00:57:24,816 --> 00:57:26,409
Mm.

772
00:57:27,945 --> 00:57:31,870
Yes, it's... the invitation,
it's on the mantelpiece.

773
00:57:32,032 --> 00:57:35,002
So it'll be Churchill,

774
00:57:35,160 --> 00:57:38,414
Lloyd George and me.

775
00:57:38,580 --> 00:57:41,800
- Just the three of us.

776
00:57:43,001 --> 00:57:45,595
I said I didn't want any big fuss...

777
00:57:45,754 --> 00:57:48,382
- No.
- ...but they insisted.

778
00:57:48,548 --> 00:57:52,098
Lovely little article in The Telegraph.

779
00:57:53,762 --> 00:57:56,982
"The Woman Who Changed
the Face of History."

780
00:57:57,140 --> 00:57:58,892
Huh...

781
00:58:03,397 --> 00:58:06,901
Less than two years ago,

782
00:58:07,067 --> 00:58:09,570
the Prime Minister quoted St. Francis...

783
00:58:12,030 --> 00:58:15,830
Yes, and talked about bringing faith,

784
00:58:15,993 --> 00:58:19,748
- hope, and harmony to this country.

785
00:58:19,913 --> 00:58:22,587
Mm... Denis?

786
00:58:34,761 --> 00:58:37,731
Can the Right Honorable Lady deny

787
00:58:37,889 --> 00:58:43,191
that having brought about the highest
level of unemployment since 1934...

788
00:58:43,353 --> 00:58:47,074
- ...the biggest fall in total output

789
00:58:47,232 --> 00:58:50,827
in steel and coal production
in one year since 1931

790
00:58:52,904 --> 00:58:57,626
...and the biggest collapse
in industrial production since 1921?!

791
00:58:57,784 --> 00:59:00,287
- Order! Order!

792
00:59:02,247 --> 00:59:07,299
Can she also accept
that her free-market economics,

793
00:59:07,461 --> 00:59:10,340
designed to create
a growing middle class,

794
00:59:10,505 --> 00:59:16,057
ensures that the rich get richer
and the poor are irrelevant?!

795
00:59:16,219 --> 00:59:18,597
Out! Out! Out!
Maggie! Maggie! Maggie!

796
00:59:18,764 --> 00:59:21,267
- Out! Out! Out!
- Look at me!

797
00:59:21,433 --> 00:59:24,357
Look at me!
You're supposed to be a mother!

798
00:59:24,519 --> 00:59:26,692
You're not a mother,
you're a monster!

799
00:59:26,855 --> 00:59:29,324
You're a monster!

800
00:59:29,483 --> 00:59:30,860
May we have a word,
Prime Minister?

801
00:59:31,026 --> 00:59:34,451
Yes, but in order
to arrive at the palace on time,

802
00:59:34,613 --> 00:59:37,583
Geoffrey and I are will be walking out
of that door in 15 minutes.

803
00:59:37,741 --> 00:59:39,459
- As you can see...
- I know you're running late, Margaret,

804
00:59:39,618 --> 00:59:41,370
but we have to address
this situation

805
00:59:41,536 --> 00:59:43,254
in the light of tomorrow's
blistering press coverage.

806
00:59:43,413 --> 00:59:45,131
Blistering! The knives are out.

807
00:59:45,290 --> 00:59:47,258
Your draft budget has
been leaked, Geoffrey.

808
00:59:47,417 --> 00:59:49,044
They are baying for our blood.

809
00:59:49,211 --> 00:59:53,466
Michael, we can't possibly buckle
at the first sign of difficulty.

810
00:59:53,632 --> 00:59:55,885
- No one is saying we have to buckle.
- But is this really the time

811
00:59:56,051 --> 00:59:57,553
to be making these spending cuts

812
00:59:57,719 --> 00:59:59,642
in the middle of one
of the deepest recessions

813
00:59:59,805 --> 01:00:01,682
this country has ever experienced?

814
01:00:01,848 --> 01:00:05,318
- We need a plan of action, Margaret.
- Absolutely. A strategy.

815
01:00:05,477 --> 01:00:07,650
- We must be armed.
- Agreed.

816
01:00:07,813 --> 01:00:10,032
There's a perception, Margaret,
rightly or wrongly,

817
01:00:10,190 --> 01:00:12,409
that we are now completely
out of touch with the country.

818
01:00:12,567 --> 01:00:15,867
Really.
How much is a pack of Lurpak?

819
01:00:16,029 --> 01:00:19,078
- Lurpak?
- Butter, Francis.

820
01:00:19,241 --> 01:00:23,212
Forty-two pence.
Anchor butter is 40 pence.

821
01:00:23,370 --> 01:00:26,670
Flora margarine,
still the cheapest, at 38p.

822
01:00:26,832 --> 01:00:30,427
I can assure you
I am not out of touch.

823
01:00:32,671 --> 01:00:35,891
- Sorry. I didn't hear you.

824
01:00:36,049 --> 01:00:38,222
- What did you say?
- Nothing, Prime Minister. Nothing.

825
01:00:38,385 --> 01:00:41,229
No, no, please.
Don't try to hide you opinions.

826
01:00:41,388 --> 01:00:45,985
Goodness me, I'd much rather you were
open and straightforward about them,

827
01:00:46,143 --> 01:00:51,195
instead of continuously and damagingly
leaking them to the press.

828
01:00:55,485 --> 01:00:56,953
Well?

829
01:00:57,112 --> 01:01:00,366
- Well...
- People can't pay their mortgages.

830
01:01:00,532 --> 01:01:02,785
The manufacturing industry
is practically on its knees.

831
01:01:02,951 --> 01:01:06,296
Honest, hard-working, decent
people are losing their homes.

832
01:01:06,454 --> 01:01:08,206
- It's terribly shameful.
- The point is, Prime Minister,

833
01:01:08,373 --> 01:01:10,046
we must moderate the pace...

834
01:01:10,208 --> 01:01:12,210
If we even have a hope
of winning the next election.

835
01:01:12,377 --> 01:01:15,722
Ah. Worried about our careers, are we?

836
01:01:15,881 --> 01:01:18,100
- Really.
- That's quite absurd.

837
01:01:18,258 --> 01:01:22,354
Gentlemen, if we don't cut
spending, we will be bankrupt.

838
01:01:22,512 --> 01:01:25,015
Yes, the medicine is harsh,

839
01:01:25,182 --> 01:01:29,688
but the patient requires it
in order to live.

840
01:01:29,853 --> 01:01:32,026
Should we withhold the medicine?

841
01:01:32,189 --> 01:01:35,693
No. We are not wrong.

842
01:01:35,859 --> 01:01:39,955
We did not seek election
and win in order to manage

843
01:01:40,113 --> 01:01:42,582
the decline of a great nation.

844
01:01:42,741 --> 01:01:46,211
The people of this country
chose us because they believe

845
01:01:46,369 --> 01:01:49,293
we can restore the health
of the British economy,

846
01:01:49,456 --> 01:01:51,550
and we will do just that.

847
01:01:52,375 --> 01:01:55,128
Barring a failure of nerve.

848
01:01:56,588 --> 01:01:58,181
Anything else?

849
01:01:58,340 --> 01:02:00,058
- Prime Minister.
- Prime Minister.

850
01:02:00,217 --> 01:02:05,519
You have saved the day once again,
Crawfie. You're an angel.

851
01:02:07,307 --> 01:02:09,935
You can't just
close down a conversation

852
01:02:10,101 --> 01:02:11,728
because it's not
what you wish to hear.

853
01:02:11,895 --> 01:02:15,820
Oh, Geoffrey, I don't expect everyone
to just sit there and agree with me.

854
01:02:15,982 --> 01:02:18,826
But what kind of leader am I
if I don't try to get my own way,

855
01:02:18,985 --> 01:02:21,488
do what I know to be right?

856
01:02:21,655 --> 01:02:23,703
Yes. But, Margaret...

857
01:02:25,408 --> 01:02:30,881
...one must be careful not to test
one's colleagues' loyalties too far.

858
01:02:46,471 --> 01:02:49,566
We are now one split nation,

859
01:02:49,724 --> 01:02:54,480
with a huge gulf dividing
the employed from the unemployed.

860
01:02:54,646 --> 01:02:59,743
The Thatcher plan is
to break the Trade Union Movement.

861
01:02:59,901 --> 01:03:03,030
There must be closures
of uneconomic coal mines.

862
01:03:03,196 --> 01:03:06,666
We seek only an efficient industry.

863
01:03:06,825 --> 01:03:11,126
The miners are being starved
back to work, the need is desperate!

864
01:03:23,925 --> 01:03:26,553
There are those
who would say hold back,

865
01:03:26,720 --> 01:03:29,724
there are those
who would make us retreat,

866
01:03:29,889 --> 01:03:33,018
but we shall never give in to them.

867
01:03:34,519 --> 01:03:37,864
We shall never waver, not for a second,

868
01:03:38,023 --> 01:03:42,950
in our determination to see
this country prosper once again.

869
01:03:51,870 --> 01:03:55,340
A car bomb has exploded
outside Harrods department store,

870
01:03:55,498 --> 01:03:57,717
killing six people and injuring 71.

871
01:03:57,876 --> 01:04:00,800
Eleven soldiers died
today when two bombs were detonated

872
01:04:00,962 --> 01:04:03,932
during military parades
in Hyde Park and Regent's Park.

873
01:04:04,090 --> 01:04:06,309
Seven horses also died in the blast.

874
01:04:06,468 --> 01:04:08,721
The IRA have claimed responsibility.

875
01:04:20,357 --> 01:04:25,238
And now,
it must be business as usual.

876
01:04:35,246 --> 01:04:38,216
Come on, love, come to bed.

877
01:04:38,375 --> 01:04:40,469
I don't know why you do this
to yourself every year.

878
01:04:40,627 --> 01:04:43,301
It's a speech at conference,
not the Magna Carta.

879
01:04:46,174 --> 01:04:48,393
Time to call it a day, darling.

880
01:04:48,551 --> 01:04:50,724
It's ten to three, for God's sake.

881
01:04:50,887 --> 01:04:53,185
Oh, I know, I'm coming, DT.

882
01:04:53,348 --> 01:04:54,941
- Come on...
- Nearly there.

883
01:05:06,945 --> 01:05:08,413
Denis!

884
01:05:12,117 --> 01:05:13,414
Denis!

885
01:05:17,997 --> 01:05:21,171
Oh, there you are.
Are you all right'?

886
01:05:26,589 --> 01:05:29,012
My shoes!

887
01:05:37,475 --> 01:05:40,649
That's
when I thought I'd lost you.

888
01:05:50,447 --> 01:05:52,245
Mark?

889
01:05:53,575 --> 01:05:55,543
Hello, darling.

890
01:05:57,287 --> 01:06:00,461
Oh... No. No, I'm fine.

891
01:06:00,623 --> 01:06:02,751
I... I'm very well.

892
01:06:02,917 --> 01:06:05,591
How... How is, uh...

893
01:06:06,880 --> 01:06:08,848
...Sarah?

894
01:06:09,007 --> 01:06:11,009
Yes, and the children?

895
01:06:14,262 --> 01:06:15,764
Oh.

896
01:06:18,057 --> 01:06:19,855
Oh, you can't.

897
01:06:21,019 --> 01:06:22,737
That's a pity.

898
01:06:25,148 --> 01:06:28,493
Well, I was hoping to see you.

899
01:06:30,487 --> 01:06:33,036
Yes. Oh, no, that's fine.

900
01:06:33,198 --> 01:06:36,202
Really, darling. That's fine.

901
01:06:37,494 --> 01:06:41,419
Of course. Another time.

902
01:06:41,581 --> 01:06:43,333
Yes, darling.

903
01:06:46,377 --> 01:06:48,675
Yes. I can't wait. Lovely.

904
01:06:50,590 --> 01:06:52,342
Yes.

905
01:06:54,844 --> 01:06:56,437
Mark?

906
01:06:58,515 --> 01:07:00,392
Mm...

907
01:07:01,851 --> 01:07:05,151
Oh. Oh, dear.

908
01:07:22,372 --> 01:07:24,500
That was Mark.

909
01:07:24,666 --> 01:07:26,418
Not able to come.

910
01:07:26,584 --> 01:07:28,712
That boy's always going AWOL.

911
01:07:28,878 --> 01:07:32,633
Well, it costs him a great deal
to fly everyone up here.

912
01:07:32,799 --> 01:07:37,771
There you go, making excuses for him.
Now look where it's got you.

913
01:07:37,929 --> 01:07:41,479
Did you know that Yul Brynner
was a gypsy from Vladivostok?

914
01:07:41,641 --> 01:07:46,112
Yes. Yes, he moved
to Paris when he was 14.

915
01:07:46,271 --> 01:07:49,275
And he played the King of Siam

916
01:07:49,440 --> 01:07:52,284
4,625 times

917
01:07:52,443 --> 01:07:55,743
on the London and Broadway stages.

918
01:07:57,657 --> 01:08:00,957
- What are you doing?
- One likes to make an effort.

919
01:08:01,119 --> 01:08:05,090
- A snifter?
- You're dead, Denis.

920
01:08:05,248 --> 01:08:08,923
- Well, if I'm dead, who you talking to?

921
01:08:09,085 --> 01:08:11,429
- Shall we dance?
- Oh.

922
01:08:40,742 --> 01:08:42,744
Oh!

923
01:08:50,418 --> 01:08:52,386
The Falkland Islands,

924
01:08:52,545 --> 01:08:55,173
the British colony
in the South Atlantic, has fallen.

925
01:08:55,340 --> 01:08:57,809
Argentina claims its marines
went ashore

926
01:08:57,967 --> 01:09:00,470
as a spearhead this morning
to capture key targets,

927
01:09:00,637 --> 01:09:03,106
including the capital, Port Stanley.

928
01:09:03,264 --> 01:09:09,112
Gentlemen, the Argentinean junta,
which is a fascist gang,

929
01:09:09,270 --> 01:09:13,491
has invaded our sovereign territory.
This cannot be tolerated.

930
01:09:13,650 --> 01:09:17,450
May I make plain
my negotiating position:

931
01:09:17,612 --> 01:09:22,459
I will not negotiate
with criminals or thugs.

932
01:09:22,617 --> 01:09:25,837
The Falkland Islands
belong to Britain,

933
01:09:25,995 --> 01:09:28,373
and I want them back.

934
01:09:28,539 --> 01:09:33,545
Gentlemen, I need you to tell me today
if that is possible.

935
01:09:33,711 --> 01:09:35,839
Possible... just, Prime Minister.

936
01:09:36,005 --> 01:09:38,508
We can have a task force ready
to sail in 48 hours.

937
01:09:38,675 --> 01:09:41,554
- Forty-eight hours. But?
- But...

938
01:09:41,719 --> 01:09:43,392
We have a very narrow weather window.

939
01:09:43,554 --> 01:09:46,273
We can't fight in winter down there,
nobody can.

940
01:09:46,891 --> 01:09:50,691
If we are going, we have to go now.

941
01:09:55,024 --> 01:09:58,995
Why were the islands left
without any naval protection?

942
01:09:59,153 --> 01:10:00,951
In the last round of defense cuts,

943
01:10:01,114 --> 01:10:04,038
we judged the risk of invasion
to be small.

944
01:10:04,200 --> 01:10:06,794
Did we?
- And if you remember, Prime Minister,

945
01:10:06,953 --> 01:10:10,002
you agreed that we should reduce
the naval presence in the area

946
01:10:10,164 --> 01:10:12,883
to an absolute minimum.

947
01:10:16,212 --> 01:10:22,060
Margaret, the cost of sending 28,000 men
and a hundred ships 12,000 miles,

948
01:10:22,218 --> 01:10:24,562
almost to Argentina,
will be absolutely crippling.

949
01:10:24,721 --> 01:10:28,100
I don't think we should be worrying
about money at this point, Geoffrey.

950
01:10:28,266 --> 01:10:29,768
We can't afford to go to war.

951
01:10:30,685 --> 01:10:32,528
We have to go now.

952
01:10:33,730 --> 01:10:35,448
Now.

953
01:10:37,734 --> 01:10:39,953
The government has now decided

954
01:10:40,111 --> 01:10:43,035
that a large task force will sail,

955
01:10:43,197 --> 01:10:47,668
as soon as all preparations
are complete.

956
01:10:47,827 --> 01:10:50,296
Prime Minister,

957
01:10:50,455 --> 01:10:53,550
we do still have three weeks
before our ships reach the islands.

958
01:10:53,708 --> 01:10:55,460
All we're saying is
that we shouldn't give up

959
01:10:55,626 --> 01:10:57,674
on trying to find a diplomatic solution.

960
01:10:58,713 --> 01:11:02,092
The US Secretary of State
has arrived, Prime Minister.

961
01:11:02,258 --> 01:11:07,139
So you are proposing
to go to war over these islands.

962
01:11:07,305 --> 01:11:11,310
They are thousands of miles away,
a handful of citizens,

963
01:11:11,476 --> 01:11:14,730
politically and economically
insignificant, if you'll excuse me.

964
01:11:14,896 --> 01:11:18,446
Just like Hawaii... I imagine.

965
01:11:19,901 --> 01:11:23,326
- I'm sorry?
- 1941,

966
01:11:23,488 --> 01:11:26,537
when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor.

967
01:11:26,699 --> 01:11:28,872
Did America go, cap in hand,

968
01:11:29,035 --> 01:11:32,084
and ask Tojo for a peaceful
negotiation of terms'?

969
01:11:33,122 --> 01:11:36,296
Did she turn her back
on her own citizens there

970
01:11:36,459 --> 01:11:39,133
because the islands were thousands
of miles away

971
01:11:39,295 --> 01:11:40,797
from the mainland United States?

972
01:11:40,963 --> 01:11:44,638
No! No! No!

973
01:11:44,801 --> 01:11:48,977
We will stand on principle,
or we will not stand at all.

974
01:11:49,138 --> 01:11:53,439
But, Margaret, with all due respect,
when one has been to war...

975
01:11:53,601 --> 01:11:56,229
With all due respect, sir,

976
01:11:56,395 --> 01:12:00,366
I have done battle
every single day of my life,

977
01:12:00,525 --> 01:12:03,324
and many men have
underestimated me before.

978
01:12:04,278 --> 01:12:06,997
This lot seem bound to do the same,

979
01:12:07,156 --> 01:12:10,035
but they will rue the day.

980
01:12:12,286 --> 01:12:14,539
Now, shall I be mother?

981
01:12:16,332 --> 01:12:20,428
Tea, Al, how do you take your tea?
Black or white?

982
01:12:32,181 --> 01:12:35,355
The Argentinean ship
the General Belgrano and her escorts

983
01:12:35,518 --> 01:12:39,273
are pursuing course 273 degrees
towards the Argentinean mainland.

984
01:12:39,438 --> 01:12:41,736
We are tracking them
with our submarine HMS Conqueror.

985
01:12:41,899 --> 01:12:44,243
Is this ship a threat?

986
01:12:44,402 --> 01:12:48,123
Both of these ships are carrying
Exocet missiles, Prime Minister.

987
01:12:48,281 --> 01:12:51,751
Just yesterday,
they launched, then aborted,

988
01:12:51,909 --> 01:12:54,378
an attack inside the exclusion zone.

989
01:12:54,537 --> 01:12:56,164
There is a risk they could try it again.

990
01:12:56,330 --> 01:12:59,004
The Belgrano is sailing
directly away from the islands.

991
01:12:59,166 --> 01:13:01,043
Can it really be regarded
as a threat?

992
01:13:01,210 --> 01:13:03,554
She's been changing course continually.

993
01:13:03,713 --> 01:13:06,387
There's a strong possibility
that they'll attempt a pincer movement

994
01:13:06,549 --> 01:13:08,267
on our carrier group.

995
01:13:08,426 --> 01:13:11,350
I advise that we engage them.

996
01:13:11,512 --> 01:13:15,608
Hit the Belgrano as a warning to the
others, send them all back to port.

997
01:13:15,766 --> 01:13:18,815
It'll play badly internationally.
We'll be seen as aggressors.

998
01:13:18,978 --> 01:13:21,401
This will be an escalation,
Prime Minister.

999
01:13:21,564 --> 01:13:25,114
If there is to be an escalation,
it's better that we start it.

1000
01:13:25,276 --> 01:13:28,371
It is steaming away, Prime Minister.

1001
01:13:40,917 --> 01:13:42,260
Sink it.

1002
01:13:58,184 --> 01:14:00,937
HMS Sheffield,
a Type 42 destroyer,

1003
01:14:01,103 --> 01:14:04,903
was attacked and hit late this afternoon
by an Argentine missile.

1004
01:14:05,066 --> 01:14:09,071
It is seen as retaliation
for the sinking of the General Belgrano,

1005
01:14:09,236 --> 01:14:11,284
in which over 300
Argentinean sailors died.

1006
01:14:11,447 --> 01:14:16,920
Prime Minister. The latest casualty
figures from the Sheffield.

1007
01:14:17,078 --> 01:14:20,048
- I must write to them.

1008
01:14:20,998 --> 01:14:22,796
Prime Minister?

1009
01:14:25,836 --> 01:14:27,804
The families.

1010
01:14:30,549 --> 01:14:32,222
I must write to them.

1011
01:14:32,385 --> 01:14:35,264
A Type 21 frigate, HMS Ardent,

1012
01:14:35,429 --> 01:14:37,807
was hit by bombs and rockets.

1013
01:14:37,974 --> 01:14:40,648
Antelope went the way
of the other two British ships

1014
01:14:40,810 --> 01:14:43,188
- lost so far...
- Foreign Secretary.

1015
01:14:43,354 --> 01:14:47,860
I've just been briefed by Admiral
Fieldhouse. He told me, bluntly,

1016
01:14:48,025 --> 01:14:51,655
that if the Argentineans are prepared
and willing to risk their aircraft,

1017
01:14:51,821 --> 01:14:55,200
they have enough Exocet missiles
to cripple most of our fleet.

1018
01:14:57,910 --> 01:15:01,505
President Reagan and President Belaunde
of Peru have some new proposals...

1019
01:15:01,664 --> 01:15:03,883
...new proposals for the peace plan.

1020
01:15:04,041 --> 01:15:07,511
Peace plan?
There will be no appeasement.

1021
01:15:07,670 --> 01:15:11,516
This is a war.
It's a war they started,

1022
01:15:11,674 --> 01:15:13,802
but by God, we will finish it.

1023
01:15:14,677 --> 01:15:18,352
Shall I tell you
what I'm going to Write

1024
01:15:18,514 --> 01:15:23,315
to every single one of these families,
these heartbroken families?

1025
01:15:23,477 --> 01:15:24,820
I'm going to tell them

1026
01:15:24,979 --> 01:15:30,907
that no British soldier will die
in vain... for the Falklands.

1027
01:15:31,068 --> 01:15:36,950
Lieutenant Colonel Jones.
Captain Wood. Captain Dench.

1028
01:15:37,116 --> 01:15:41,542
As the only Prime Minister
in the history of our country

1029
01:15:41,704 --> 01:15:46,210
who is also a mother
with a son of my own,

1030
01:15:46,375 --> 01:15:50,972
I can imagine your agony,
and your grief.

1031
01:15:52,923 --> 01:15:54,891
Prime Minister,
we have secured the beachhead.

1032
01:15:55,051 --> 01:15:58,305
The Argentinean troops are
demoralized and ill-equipped.

1033
01:15:58,471 --> 01:16:01,190
The paratroops have taken Goose Green.

1034
01:16:02,600 --> 01:16:04,648
Shortly after dark last night,

1035
01:16:04,810 --> 01:16:09,031
our forces surrounding Port Stanley
carried out what the Commander in Chief

1036
01:16:09,190 --> 01:16:13,115
has described
as a brilliant surprise night attack.

1037
01:16:20,910 --> 01:16:23,754
Thatcher, bed.

1038
01:16:23,913 --> 01:16:26,462
From their new
positions, our forces can see

1039
01:16:26,624 --> 01:16:29,377
large numbers
of Argentine soldiers retreating

1040
01:16:29,543 --> 01:16:31,796
and streaming back into Port Stanley.

1041
01:16:31,962 --> 01:16:35,842
Our forces are moving forward
to exploit their success.

1042
01:16:56,403 --> 01:16:58,576
- Well done, Margaret.
- Congratulations.

1043
01:16:58,739 --> 01:17:02,243
We congratulate
the men and women

1044
01:17:02,409 --> 01:17:06,209
of our armed forces
for their skill, bra very,

1045
01:17:06,372 --> 01:17:08,841
and loyalty to this country.

1046
01:17:08,999 --> 01:17:14,256
We were faced with an act
of unprovoked aggression,

1047
01:17:14,421 --> 01:17:19,769
and we responded
as we have responded in times past:

1048
01:17:19,927 --> 01:17:23,477
With unity, strength, and courage...

1049
01:17:23,639 --> 01:17:26,017
- ...sure in the knowledge

1050
01:17:26,183 --> 01:17:30,359
that though much is sacrificed,

1051
01:17:30,521 --> 01:17:34,617
in the end,
right will prevail over wrong.

1052
01:17:34,775 --> 01:17:37,779
Hear, hear!

1053
01:17:37,945 --> 01:17:41,575
And I put it to the Right
Honorable Gentleman opposite

1054
01:17:41,740 --> 01:17:44,619
that this is not a day for him to carp,

1055
01:17:44,785 --> 01:17:48,335
find fault, demand inquiries.

1056
01:17:48,497 --> 01:17:52,502
They will happen,
I can assure him of that,

1057
01:17:52,668 --> 01:17:54,921
for we have nothing to hide.

1058
01:17:55,087 --> 01:17:58,512
No. This is a day

1059
01:17:58,674 --> 01:18:01,848
to put differences aside,

1060
01:18:02,011 --> 01:18:05,356
to hold one's head high

1061
01:18:05,514 --> 01:18:08,233
and take pride in being British.

1062
01:18:08,392 --> 01:18:10,861
Hear, hear!

1063
01:18:17,359 --> 01:18:18,736
Well done, Prime Minister.

1064
01:18:32,625 --> 01:18:35,048
Gotcha!
Well, that paid off, old girl!

1065
01:18:35,211 --> 01:18:36,713
Your ratings have soared,

1066
01:18:36,879 --> 01:18:41,350
from the most hated Prime Minister
of all time to the nation's darling.

1067
01:18:41,508 --> 01:18:46,309
The world at your feet,
and Britain was back in business.

1068
01:18:46,472 --> 01:18:49,476
"I'm in Love
with Margaret Thatcher")

1069
01:19:14,708 --> 01:19:17,837
The Berlin Wall has
fallen. The gates have been opened!

1070
01:19:18,003 --> 01:19:20,552
The police are making no attempt...

1071
01:19:24,510 --> 01:19:27,855
I don't agree.
I don't agree in any measure.

1072
01:19:28,013 --> 01:19:31,688
Prime Minister, the question of the
European single currency will come up.

1073
01:19:31,850 --> 01:19:33,773
I don't think the country is
ready for it yet.

1074
01:19:33,936 --> 01:19:35,813
But we cannot bury
our heads in the sand...

1075
01:19:35,980 --> 01:19:38,574
A lot of Conservative
MP's and Ministers are saying

1076
01:19:38,732 --> 01:19:41,201
that there must be a change
in that style of management,

1077
01:19:41,360 --> 01:19:44,364
that Mrs. Thatcher must listen more,
and on occasion, give in.

1078
01:19:44,530 --> 01:19:45,998
The point is, Prime Minister,

1079
01:19:46,156 --> 01:19:48,454
I don't think we can sell
the idea of a tax

1080
01:19:48,617 --> 01:19:50,870
that asks everyone
to pay the same.

1081
01:19:51,036 --> 01:19:52,788
Our policies may be unpopular,

1082
01:19:52,955 --> 01:19:54,582
but they are the right policies.

1083
01:19:54,748 --> 01:19:58,469
Prime Minister, I just don't think
we can ask the poorest of the poor

1084
01:19:58,627 --> 01:20:01,380
to pay the same amount of tax
as a multi-millionaire.

1085
01:20:01,547 --> 01:20:03,845
There you go again! Why not?

1086
01:20:04,008 --> 01:20:07,137
- Because...
- Because people, on the whole,

1087
01:20:07,303 --> 01:20:09,772
think that the tax
is manifestly unfair.

1088
01:20:09,930 --> 01:20:12,558
Nonsense. Errant nonsense.

1089
01:20:12,725 --> 01:20:14,523
This is a simple proposition.

1090
01:20:14,685 --> 01:20:18,155
If you live in this country,
you must pay for the privilege.

1091
01:20:18,314 --> 01:20:21,739
Something, anything.
If you pay nothing, you care nothing.

1092
01:20:21,900 --> 01:20:25,200
What do you care
where you throw your rubbish?

1093
01:20:25,362 --> 01:20:28,992
Your council estate is a mess,
your town, graffiti, what do you care?

1094
01:20:29,158 --> 01:20:31,502
It's not your problem,
it's somebody else's problem.

1095
01:20:31,660 --> 01:20:34,288
It's the government's problem.

1096
01:20:35,748 --> 01:20:39,343
Your problem, some of you,

1097
01:20:39,501 --> 01:20:42,596
is that you haven't got
the courage for this fight.

1098
01:20:42,755 --> 01:20:45,508
No, you haven't had
to fight hard for anything.

1099
01:20:45,674 --> 01:20:49,304
It's all been given to you,
and you feel guilty about it.

1100
01:20:49,470 --> 01:20:53,475
Well, may I say, on behalf of those
who have had to fight their way up,

1101
01:20:53,640 --> 01:20:57,235
and who don't feel guilty about it,

1102
01:20:57,394 --> 01:21:00,819
we resent those slackers
who take, take, take,

1103
01:21:00,981 --> 01:21:03,075
and contribute nothing
to the community.

1104
01:21:03,233 --> 01:21:07,079
And I see the same thing,
the same cowardice

1105
01:21:07,237 --> 01:21:10,411
in our fight within the European Union,
cowardice,

1106
01:21:10,574 --> 01:21:15,330
for the sovereignty of Britain,
the integrity of the pound!

1107
01:21:15,496 --> 01:21:18,591
Some of you... want to make concessions.

1108
01:21:18,749 --> 01:21:21,172
Some of you want to make concessions.

1109
01:21:21,335 --> 01:21:24,930
I hear, some of you,

1110
01:21:25,089 --> 01:21:28,684
agree with the latest French proposals.

1111
01:21:28,842 --> 01:21:31,516
Well, why don't you get
on a boat to Calais? Hm?

1112
01:21:31,678 --> 01:21:33,521
Why don't you put on a beret,

1113
01:21:33,680 --> 01:21:37,685
and pay 85 percent of your income
to the French government!

1114
01:21:47,111 --> 01:21:49,489
Right.

1115
01:21:49,655 --> 01:21:52,454
What can we realistically hope
to achieve by the end of session,

1116
01:21:52,616 --> 01:21:56,621
Lord President? And why have we not made
more progress to date?

1117
01:21:56,787 --> 01:22:00,132
What is that?
Is that the timetable?

1118
01:22:00,290 --> 01:22:02,759
- I haven't seen that.
- It is, Prime Minister.

1119
01:22:02,918 --> 01:22:05,967
- May I see it?
- Yes, yes, of course.

1120
01:22:12,469 --> 01:22:14,972
The wording is sloppy here.

1121
01:22:17,808 --> 01:22:19,276
- And here.

1122
01:22:19,435 --> 01:22:21,403
- If you say so.
- I do say so.

1123
01:22:21,562 --> 01:22:24,065
- It's merely a first draft.

1124
01:22:24,231 --> 01:22:29,203
This is ridiculous. There are
two "T's" in "committee."

1125
01:22:29,361 --> 01:22:33,366
Two "T's." Geoffrey,
this is shameful. Shameful!

1126
01:22:37,453 --> 01:22:41,378
I can't even rely on you...
for a simple timetable.

1127
01:22:41,540 --> 01:22:42,541
Are you unwell?

1128
01:22:44,501 --> 01:22:47,630
Yes, you are unwell.

1129
01:22:50,257 --> 01:22:52,760
Give me your pencil.
Give it to me!

1130
01:22:58,015 --> 01:23:01,144
If this is the best you can do,
I had better send you to hospital,

1131
01:23:01,310 --> 01:23:04,735
and I shall do your job as well
as my own and everyone else's.

1132
01:23:04,897 --> 01:23:09,494
Gentlemen, as the Lord President has
chosen to come to Cabinet unprepared...

1133
01:23:10,944 --> 01:23:13,163
...I shall have to close the meeting.

1134
01:23:18,494 --> 01:23:20,588
Good morning.

1135
01:24:12,464 --> 01:24:18,062
Can't pay! Won't pay!
Can 't pay! Won't pay!

1136
01:24:52,796 --> 01:24:54,298
Geoffrey.

1137
01:24:54,464 --> 01:24:56,592
My letter of resignation.

1138
01:24:59,595 --> 01:25:02,474
Our differences, I'm afraid,

1139
01:25:02,639 --> 01:25:05,859
cannot be reconciled.

1140
01:25:17,571 --> 01:25:20,791
I have done
what I believe to be right

1141
01:25:20,949 --> 01:25:24,374
for my party and my country.

1142
01:25:24,536 --> 01:25:29,508
The time has come for others to consider
their own response

1143
01:25:29,666 --> 01:25:33,671
to the tragic conflict of loyalties
with which I have myself wrestled...

1144
01:25:33,837 --> 01:25:36,465
Geoffrey's speech
in the House of Commons was devastating.

1145
01:25:36,632 --> 01:25:38,634
He just couldn't take
any more of the bullying.

1146
01:25:38,800 --> 01:25:39,892
He was almost inviting someone

1147
01:25:40,052 --> 01:25:42,805
to challenge her for leadership
of the party.

1148
01:25:42,971 --> 01:25:44,314
She behaved appallingly.

1149
01:25:44,473 --> 01:25:47,602
I wouldn't have spoken
to my gamekeeper like that.

1150
01:25:49,853 --> 01:25:52,322
I don't think she can survive this.

1151
01:25:52,481 --> 01:25:56,236
I'm here to announce my decision
to put my name forward

1152
01:25:56,401 --> 01:25:58,654
as leader of the Conservative Party.

1153
01:25:59,655 --> 01:26:02,909
I have nothing but admiration
for our Prime Minister,

1154
01:26:03,075 --> 01:26:08,332
Margaret Thatcher,
but I believe our party

1155
01:26:08,497 --> 01:26:12,001
and our country need a new leader.

1156
01:26:12,167 --> 01:26:16,388
It's extraordinary...
- I'm the Prime Minister.

1157
01:26:16,546 --> 01:26:20,050
...make it possible
for Conservative MPs to depose

1158
01:26:20,217 --> 01:26:21,844
- a sitting Prime Minister.
- Sweetie.

1159
01:26:22,010 --> 01:26:23,933
He already has open support.

1160
01:26:24,096 --> 01:26:26,849
As Conservative MPs gather
in Westminster to decide

1161
01:26:27,015 --> 01:26:29,063
who they will back
in the leadership contest,

1162
01:26:29,226 --> 01:26:31,024
the Prime Minister said
she would not be diverted

1163
01:26:31,186 --> 01:26:33,484
from critical international affairs.

1164
01:26:33,647 --> 01:26:37,527
Tonight in Paris, Mrs. Thatcher
is among 34 world leaders

1165
01:26:37,693 --> 01:26:40,663
who came here to celebrate
the end of the Cold War

1166
01:26:40,821 --> 01:26:46,294
and to herald the start of a peaceful
new age of East-West cooperation.

1167
01:26:46,451 --> 01:26:48,328
There's a general feeling
that Mrs. Thatcher

1168
01:26:48,495 --> 01:26:50,247
is going to win on the first ballot.

1169
01:26:50,414 --> 01:26:52,087
"We're going to put it
to bed tomorrow night,"

1170
01:26:52,249 --> 01:26:54,172
is how one of her
campaign staff puts it.

1171
01:26:56,712 --> 01:27:00,717
M, I think you should
come home and defend yourself, old girl.

1172
01:27:00,882 --> 01:27:03,385
Heseltine is campaigning ferociously.

1173
01:27:03,552 --> 01:27:05,054
I do think
my time is better spent

1174
01:27:05,220 --> 01:27:07,518
seeing an end to the Cold War.
Don't you?

1175
01:27:07,681 --> 01:27:11,436
After all this time,
they know what I stand for.

1176
01:27:12,436 --> 01:27:15,656
Will she, or will she not,
be in the job tomorrow?

1177
01:27:15,814 --> 01:27:19,944
Margaret, they can't touch you.

1178
01:27:25,282 --> 01:27:27,751
Mrs. Thatcher
has failed to win enough votes

1179
01:27:27,909 --> 01:27:30,788
to secure an outright win
in the leadership contest

1180
01:27:30,954 --> 01:27:35,209
and must now decide whether to put her
name forward for the second round.

1181
01:27:35,375 --> 01:27:38,754
As Mrs. Thatcher
leaves Paris for London to make

1182
01:27:38,920 --> 01:27:42,265
her last-ditch attempt to pull together
support for her leadership,

1183
01:27:42,424 --> 01:27:44,847
the ship may have sailed.

1184
01:27:47,095 --> 01:27:49,223
Treachery!

1185
01:27:49,389 --> 01:27:52,859
We will never win another
election led by that woman.

1186
01:27:53,018 --> 01:27:54,611
We need a leader who listens.

1187
01:27:54,770 --> 01:27:56,647
This isn't about her,
it's about the party.

1188
01:27:56,813 --> 01:27:58,781
One must know when to go.

1189
01:27:58,940 --> 01:28:02,240
The question is,
how does anyone put it to her?

1190
01:28:02,402 --> 01:28:06,077
If you were to stand, I, of course,
would vote for you, Prime Minister.

1191
01:28:06,239 --> 01:28:08,617
Prime Minister, I, of course,
would vote for you...

1192
01:28:08,784 --> 01:28:11,913
But I don't think you can win.
The loyalty of all of my colleagues...

1193
01:28:12,078 --> 01:28:14,297
It was the people who put me here.

1194
01:28:14,456 --> 01:28:18,177
The loyalty of all of my colleagues
cannot be counted upon.

1195
01:28:18,335 --> 01:28:21,509
It's up to them to tell me when to go.

1196
01:28:21,671 --> 01:28:25,551
Margaret, you can't
let them do this to you.

1197
01:28:26,718 --> 01:28:28,971
Please, boss.

1198
01:28:29,137 --> 01:28:31,515
They'll destroy you.

1199
01:28:31,681 --> 01:28:34,025
Throw in the towel now, love.

1200
01:28:35,477 --> 01:28:38,981
Don't let those bastards
see you humiliated.

1201
01:28:41,775 --> 01:28:44,574
You just won't win, darling.

1202
01:28:44,736 --> 01:28:46,454
Not this time.

1203
01:28:47,906 --> 01:28:51,126
- Oh, Denis.

1204
01:28:54,120 --> 01:28:56,714
I am the Prime Minister.

1205
01:28:56,873 --> 01:28:59,717
Order! Order!

1206
01:28:59,876 --> 01:29:02,220
The Right Honorable
Gentleman is afraid.

1207
01:29:02,379 --> 01:29:04,723
This is their naked
strategy of closing

1208
01:29:04,881 --> 01:29:06,724
some coal mines and then selling off...

1209
01:29:06,883 --> 01:29:09,682
They believe in striking,
I believe in working!

1210
01:29:09,845 --> 01:29:12,519
This is the woman who's
watched ten men on hunger strike

1211
01:29:12,681 --> 01:29:15,150
starve themselves to death
and never ﬂinched!

1212
01:29:15,308 --> 01:29:17,356
Despicable and cowardly.

1213
01:29:17,519 --> 01:29:20,489
- Cynical Falklands war...
- More homeowners,

1214
01:29:20,647 --> 01:29:24,322
- more shareowners, more savings...
- Showing to the bankers...

1215
01:29:28,572 --> 01:29:31,621
Yes, yes, yes!

1216
01:29:31,783 --> 01:29:34,286
I offer my resignation

1217
01:29:34,452 --> 01:29:38,548
after 11 and a half
extraordinary years...

1218
01:29:38,707 --> 01:29:42,462
...proud to have left Britain
in a much better state

1219
01:29:42,627 --> 01:29:44,345
than when we took office.

1220
01:29:54,055 --> 01:29:55,352
What's this then?

1221
01:29:58,143 --> 01:30:00,521
A radio.

1222
01:30:00,687 --> 01:30:03,281
How useful.

1223
01:30:48,944 --> 01:30:51,413
Steady, MT.

1224
01:30:58,662 --> 01:31:01,290
Mrs. Thatcher!

1225
01:31:06,795 --> 01:31:09,344
The greatest
Prime Minister since Churchill

1226
01:31:09,506 --> 01:31:12,476
deposed by a bunch
of spineless pygmies!

1227
01:31:12,634 --> 01:31:16,935
All those years
of taking the tough decisions.

1228
01:31:17,097 --> 01:31:18,849
Does any of it matter now?

1229
01:31:19,015 --> 01:31:20,483
It's all been turned to mush!

1230
01:31:20,642 --> 01:31:23,111
- Hm?
- By these fools!

1231
01:31:23,269 --> 01:31:25,567
These lily-livered pinkos!

1232
01:31:25,730 --> 01:31:27,903
- These inept placaters.

1233
01:31:28,066 --> 01:31:30,034
Very good! These vacillators.

1234
01:31:30,193 --> 01:31:34,323
- Vacillators! Poll takers.
- Popularity seekers.

1235
01:31:34,489 --> 01:31:37,038
So busy taking
the pulse of the public!

1236
01:31:37,200 --> 01:31:40,704
- Weak! Weak! Weak!
- These weak, weak...

1237
01:31:40,870 --> 01:31:43,043
- All of them, weak!
- ...weak men!

1238
01:31:46,126 --> 01:31:49,801
Don't they know
if you take the tough decisions...

1239
01:31:51,381 --> 01:31:53,975
...yes, people will hate you today,

1240
01:31:54,134 --> 01:31:56,307
but they'll thank you for generations.

1241
01:31:56,469 --> 01:31:59,769
Or forget you entirely
and chuck you out with the rubbish.

1242
01:32:15,530 --> 01:32:17,123
Oh!

1243
01:32:19,367 --> 01:32:23,167
All I wanted was
to make a difference in the world.

1244
01:32:23,329 --> 01:32:26,879
And you did, love, you did.

1245
01:32:30,670 --> 01:32:33,389
Yes... Oh...

1246
01:32:33,548 --> 01:32:38,930
All I wanted was for my
children to grow up well and be happy,

1247
01:32:39,095 --> 01:32:41,393
happier than I was, certainly.

1248
01:32:46,227 --> 01:32:49,447
He kept all this.

1249
01:32:51,983 --> 01:32:54,953
Oh, yes.

1250
01:32:57,280 --> 01:33:00,375
And I wanted you
to be happy, of course.

1251
01:33:00,533 --> 01:33:02,752
Were you happy, Denis?

1252
01:33:06,915 --> 01:33:09,088
Tell me the truth.

1253
01:34:25,326 --> 01:34:27,203
Denis?

1254
01:34:30,707 --> 01:34:31,799
Denis?

1255
01:34:34,377 --> 01:34:36,220
Denis?

1256
01:34:39,465 --> 01:34:41,388
Here's your bag.

1257
01:34:41,551 --> 01:34:44,100
All packed, sorted.

1258
01:35:06,034 --> 01:35:07,502
Denis, wait.

1259
01:35:07,660 --> 01:35:10,539
Where are your shoes?

1260
01:35:10,705 --> 01:35:14,300
You... You can't go without your shoes.

1261
01:35:16,502 --> 01:35:19,381
- Not yet.
- Steady.

1262
01:35:20,465 --> 01:35:23,014
Yes. Steady.

1263
01:35:23,176 --> 01:35:25,395
- Steady the buffs.
- Steady the buffs.

1264
01:35:27,180 --> 01:35:29,729
No. Not yet!

1265
01:35:29,891 --> 01:35:33,896
Denis! Wait!

1266
01:35:34,062 --> 01:35:38,317
I don't...
I said I don't want you to go yet.

1267
01:35:39,317 --> 01:35:41,285
Denis! Please!

1268
01:35:41,444 --> 01:35:45,074
Not... Don't... No.

1269
01:35:45,240 --> 01:35:47,413
I'm not...

1270
01:35:47,575 --> 01:35:50,749
I don't want to be on my own.

1271
01:35:50,912 --> 01:35:53,586
You're gonna be fine
on your own, love.

1272
01:35:53,748 --> 01:35:56,217
You always have been.

1273
01:35:57,794 --> 01:36:00,593
Denis...

1274
01:36:00,755 --> 01:36:05,306
No, no, no!

1275
01:36:35,415 --> 01:36:38,464
Mummy.

1276
01:36:38,626 --> 01:36:40,424
- Good God!

1277
01:36:40,586 --> 01:36:43,385
- Mum, are you all right?
- Yes.

1278
01:36:43,548 --> 01:36:46,427
- What have you been doing?

1279
01:36:46,592 --> 01:36:51,018
Mummy, you should have called
for help, silly old sausage.

1280
01:36:51,180 --> 01:36:54,059
Have you not even been in your bed
properly? You've done all this?

1281
01:36:54,225 --> 01:36:57,775
Yes, it's all sorted. Finished.

1282
01:36:57,937 --> 01:37:00,781
Yes, well, don't worry about that.
June and I can crack on with it.

1283
01:37:00,940 --> 01:37:04,114
I was just going to get dressed.

1284
01:37:04,277 --> 01:37:08,282
Shall I call someone,
see if anyone can come and do your hair?

1285
01:37:09,157 --> 01:37:12,707
No... You do it.

1286
01:37:17,457 --> 01:37:21,052
Right, I'm off, June.
Susie's going to drive me.

1287
01:37:21,210 --> 01:37:24,885
- Just loading the car.
- OK. Bye!

1288
01:37:35,808 --> 01:37:37,310
Oh, let me do that, Margaret.

1289
01:37:37,477 --> 01:37:41,448
No, dear, it's all right. I'll do it.

1290
01:37:41,606 --> 01:37:44,280
Carol said you might go
to the House of Lords today?

1291
01:37:44,442 --> 01:37:49,744
- No, no. I'm not going anywhere.

Tagline
Never compromise

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Cast
Meryl Streep, Jim Broadbent, Harry Lloyd, Anthony Head.

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download free movies said...: Just wanted to say that Meryl Streep is one of the greatest actress ever. this one is supposed to be a great charecter for her.; December 29, 2011 at 4:14 PM
Anonymous said...: Margaret Thatcher: One's life must count.; January 16, 2012 at 1:19 PM
Anonymous said...: "It used to be about doing something; now it's just about being someone."

Or something along these lines.
It was said early on during the dinner party scene.
Maybe someone can verify???

Great movie.; January 22, 2012 at 3:08 AM
Anonymous said...: There is a quote in the scene when she is talking with the Dr. The quote is something like worrying about what you need to do instead of worrying about what you want to become . I'm trying to find the exact quote.....Please help!; January 22, 2012 at 11:07 AM
Anonymous said...: I like MT's quote about thinking versus feeling. She says everyone always wants to know what you are "feeling". She says something like...."What you think turns into actions and actions turn into doing things and doing things turn into habits and habits turn into character and character turns into destiny." Does anyone remember her quote better than I?; January 27, 2012 at 12:54 AM

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