In 1979 Britain had unemployment fever, and then Margaret Mummy Thatcher came along and gave us so much calpol we OD’d.

Part 1 of 6

 

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CHAPTERS:

00:00 - Mummy’s home 

 

06:53 - Margret Hilda Roberts 

11:45 - Thatchers woke dad  

15:13 - Dangerously self-opinionated  

18:05 - The flood gates have opened  

21:13 - Milk snatcher  

24:50 - Thatcher as party leader  

27:06 - Iron Lady  

31:22 - First female PM, are you wet?  

35:43 - Britain be shopping  

39:43 - Thatcherism  

45:32 - Bobby Sands  

49:02 - Ronnie and Mags  

51:46 - Not looking good until…

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