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00:09M bisschen
00:11I don't know
00:13How do you know
00:14What do you know
00:14I don't know
00:14What is he gonna do
00:16I can't take that
00:16I can't take that
00:20I don't know
00:23What's he doing
00:24I'm sorry
00:25That's how I put it
00:26That's not what I know
00:29I can't do
00:29Well
00:29It's not what I was
00:31This party, Mr. Heseltine says Britain should reach for the levers of power, if only to prevent others pulling them
00:37first.
00:38One dead in an ulster gun battle between soldiers and terrorists.
00:42Police make arrests over ballot rigging in the transport union.
00:46Confusion over plastic cling film after the government's cancer warning.
00:50And animals to the slaughter, how the RSPCA hopes to stop live animal exports.
00:56Michael Heseltine was speaking to a conference in Hamburg.
00:59Mr. Heseltine is now on his way back to London to be in the Commons this afternoon.
01:03There, Sir Geoffrey Howe is expected to spell out in detail the reasons for his resignation.
01:08Is there anything Sir Geoffrey is likely to say this afternoon that could influence Mr. Heseltine on whether to throw
01:13his hat in the ring?
01:13Well, Sir Geoffrey is an extremely cautious man.
01:16I suspect that his speech will be carefully written.
01:19And I just wonder whether it will be sufficiently in code, not really to damage the Prime Minister.
01:24Sir Geoffrey has very deep personal and ideological differences with the Prime Minister.
01:29I think he will spell them out.
01:31But whether he will spell them out in clear set terms that amount to an assault of her leadership, I
01:36think we have to wait and see for that.
01:37I remind the House that a resignation statement is heard in silence and without interruption.
01:45Sir Geoffrey Howe.
01:51Mr. Speaker, Sir, I find to my astonishment that a quarter of a century has passed since I last spoke
01:58from one of these back benches.
02:00Mr. Speaker, I believe that both the Chancellor and the Governor are cricketing enthusiasts.
02:05So I hope that there is no monopoly of cricketing metaphors.
02:09Increasingly, those of us close to the Prime Minister feel like opening batsmen being sent to the crease only to
02:14find the moment the first balls are bowled that our bats have been broken before the game by the team
02:20captain.
02:26The point, Mr. Speaker, was perhaps more sharply put by a British businessman trading in Brussels and elsewhere, who wrote
02:34to me last week.
02:36People throughout Europe, he said, see our Prime Minister's finger wagging and hear her passionate, no, no, no, much more
02:47clearly than the content of the carefully worded formal texts.
02:51It is too easy, he went on, for them to believe that we all share her attitudes.
02:55For why else, he asked, has she been our Prime Minister for so long?
03:02This is, my correspondent concluded, a desperately serious situation for our country.
03:08And sadly, Mr. Speaker, I have to agree.
03:11The conflict of loyalty, of loyalty to my right honourable friend, the Prime Minister,
03:17and after all, in two decades together, that instinct of loyalty is still very real.
03:24And of loyalty to what I perceive to be the true interests of the nation.
03:28That conflict of loyalty has become all too great.
03:33I no longer believe it possible to resolve that conflict from within this government.
03:38That is why I have resigned.
03:40In doing so, I have done what I believe to be right for my party and my country.
03:45The time has come for others to consider their own response to the tragic conflict of loyalties
03:50with which I have myself wrestled for perhaps too long.
03:58A little bit.
04:09The Queen?
04:10The drawing on her, Your Highness.
04:11Right.
04:13She has resumed her affair with Maisie Hewitt with flagrant disregard for the agreement
04:19we made in our meeting with you.
04:20A meeting in which is now clear she brazenly lied to your face.
04:26So, I hope you agree it leaves me with no option but to start a formal separation.
04:29Oh, Charles.
04:30I am wretchedly unhappy and yet there is someone else out there who would make me perfectly happy.
04:34Quick, switch on the television.
04:35Why?
04:36The Ides of March.
04:38The Julius Caesar role.
04:39How?
04:39When I say Julia Caesar.
04:41I am sorry, we are in the middle of an important conversation.
04:44...style of government.
04:45He says her nightmare image of Europe risks the future of the nation.
04:49Can Sir Geoffrey's peroration, where he said the time has come for others to consider their
04:54response, be read in any other way than a clear invitation to open a contest for the leadership?
04:59That is one of the implications.
05:00Some people would go further than that.
05:02They would say that he's urging people to vote against Mrs. Thatcher.
05:05Margaret Thatcher is facing the most serious threat to her 11 years in power.
05:08For the first time in 15 years, Margaret Thatcher has faced a serious challenge to earn the
05:12years in power, turned on her in the Commons today and accused her of risking the
05:17opposition Labour Party in the polls.
05:18He was explaining for the first time why he resigned as deputy prime ministering her over
05:22her refusal to keep in step with the European Union.
05:24And these have expected a coded diplomatic speech.
05:26Instead, years of resentment and frustration were pressed into a picture of time for Mrs.
05:31Thatcher and her attitude to Europe.
05:33He called on Conservative MPs to consider what he described as their conflict of loyalties.
05:38...leveled a stinging indictment of Thatcher in the House of Commons.
05:40...of bitterness on the Prime Minister's side, and they hoped there would be some reaction
05:44in her favour.
05:45It's now down to Conservative members of Parliament.
05:47...the challenge that could cost her her job.
05:50...MPs, ministers and peers are still trying to assess what one described as an incitement to
05:55mutiny, and another said, was an act of treachery.
05:59...
05:59...
06:00...
06:02...
06:37I don't know.
07:09I don't know.
07:30I don't know.
07:30Not long until the holidays.
07:33Love you.
07:37Well done, sir.
07:39I'll see you at Christmas.
07:41Goodbye.
07:42Bye.
08:01Is that it?
08:02I'm not going to talk again, ever.
08:05Since every time we do talk it ends in an argument, I'd say silence was preferable.
08:14What's this I hear about a trip to New York?
08:16Oh, don't look so surprised.
08:18The government requested it.
08:19Everyone knows I'm going.
08:20No one knew you were going on your own.
08:22What an ugly, avaricious piece of self-advancement that is.
08:26I'd sooner be doing it with my husband by my side.
08:29Doing what?
08:30What?
08:31The past few months you've barely been in a fit state psychologically to go to the hairdresser,
08:34much less represent the crown.
08:36Although I gather you've still found time to see certain other people.
08:43I think this conversation has gone as far as it can.
08:45You were the one who insisted on talking.
08:48I always said silence was preferable.
08:56One crisis rising above all the others to bear your majesty.
09:00Yes.
09:01An inconvenience one would dearly like to avoid given the significant challenges this country
09:07already faces.
09:08The crisis in the Gulf.
09:11Oh, that crisis.
09:13Well, that is the predominant challenge facing us.
09:16I thought you might be referring to matters closer to home.
09:18There are one or two minor domestic matters, some changes to fishing license conditions,
09:24but nothing I would want to waste your valuable time with.
09:28You don't think we should briefly discuss that speech?
09:31Which speech?
09:33The resignation speech made by Sir Geoffrey Howe that's caused such a stir.
09:37Why would we want to discuss that?
09:39Because a great deal of fuss is being made of it.
09:41Oh, poor Geoffrey.
09:42I had offered him the position of Deputy Prime Minister,
09:45and he seems to have taken it rather the wrong way.
09:48In the newspapers, his speech is being seen as a direct challenge to your authority.
09:52I think that all depends on which newspapers you're reading.
09:56Not just newspapers. Television, too.
09:58Or watching.
09:59And as Sovereign, I must ask you, do you expect a leadership challenge?
10:05The Prime Minister came to see me today.
10:07Ah, yes.
10:08To discuss the crisis in the Gulf.
10:10What?
10:12Not the fact that she'd just been knifed in the back by one of her longest standing allies?
10:16Yeah, I asked her about that.
10:18Did you really?
10:19Yes.
10:20You're brave.
10:22What did she say?
10:23Well, she said the situation was unfortunate.
10:25But it amounts to little more than petty rivalries and resentments being played out at the level of the schoolyard.
10:32I shall see them off in no time.
10:35And really, we should not dignify an insignificant internal party squabble with any more of our precious time.
10:57Sir Geoffrey's attack makes this, the criticism of Mrs. Thatcher, much more lethal.
11:02I think she's in deep trouble.
11:05Not that she will be beaten in the first ballot by Michael Heseltine, but more probably that there will be
11:10enough votes against her and enough abstentions to damage her seriously.
11:15One person said to me that he thought it possible, if she were badly enough damaged, that members of the
11:20Cabinet would go to the Chief Whip and say that she ought to consider her future.
11:24It's premature to say that yet, but undoubtedly there's a rather stronger tide running against Mrs. Thatcher tonight than there
11:31has ever been before.
11:34Oh.
11:35Yes.
11:37Yeah.
11:39I see.
11:45How many?
11:47Before short.
11:48Oh.
11:49Not enough to stop it going to a second ballot.
11:52Oh, it's a betrayal of the very wise kind.
11:58They owe their political lives to me.
12:01It's despicable.
12:01Oh, those little men!
12:05And you want me to get on my knees to them?
12:09Never.
12:09Never.
12:12Have them brought into me.
12:16One by one.
12:36First item on the agenda is Her Royal Highness's forthcoming solo visit to New York.
12:43Looking at the itinerary, our concern would be that it seems to be challenging several appointments each day.
12:52It's just four days, Edward, in multiple locations.
12:55We all know the toll a schedule of engagements can take.
12:59And I'm sure no one here would wish to see the Princess of Wales overstretched.
13:04Certainly not at a risk to her own health.
13:06The Princess of Wales' health is exemplary.
13:09Mental health.
13:11Not to mention the amount of time she'd be separated from her children.
13:15And the distress that might cause her.
13:17The Princess of Wales is well aware of what's required of her.
13:20And is very much looking forward to the trip.
13:39I have only one question.
13:44Will you support me?
13:47Of course.
13:49You will always have my unconditional support.
13:52I am with you.
13:54You can always count on me.
13:57The problem is, the numbers are against you.
14:00And your inability to unite the party behind you.
14:03Over Europe.
14:04Over the economy.
14:05Over taxation.
14:06Perhaps if your methods were less confrontational.
14:08And if you'd consulted with Cabinet rather than ruling by decree.
14:12Your rejection of core conservative values.
14:15Of moderation.
14:17Compassion.
14:18And your total disregard for the center ground.
14:20Leaves you vulnerable.
14:22Exposed.
14:23Isolated.
14:25I shall always defend you, Margaret.
14:27Always.
14:29But...
14:30As your friend.
14:32As an ally.
14:33I think I speak for the majority when I say...
14:36The time might have come for some new blood.
14:40And that it would be in everyone's best interests if you were to stand down.
15:00As an ally.
15:01Bastards.
15:03Bloody lot of them.
15:06Murderers.
15:14So...
15:16Is that it?
15:18Is that the end?
15:20No.
15:23I still have one card to play.
15:26Britain will send more troops to the Gulf.
15:29The Defense Secretary, Tom King...
15:31President Bush called to tell me he thought it barbaric.
15:35Chancellor Cole said it was inhumane.
15:38Mikhail Gorbachev reminded me that ten years ago,
15:41it was Britain holding democratic elections,
15:45whilst Russia staged cabinet coups.
15:48Now it's the other way around.
15:50What they all agree on is that getting rid of me is an act of national self-harm,
15:57which is why I've come to you, ma'am.
15:59That together we may act in the national self-interest.
16:03How might I help?
16:05By dissolving Parliament.
16:09What?
16:09We are on the brink of war.
16:13What kind of signal does that give to our enemies?
16:17To sit down.
16:18If we were to change leadership now, it would make us look hopelessly weak and divided.
16:24I agree it's not ideal.
16:26Have you consulted cabinet on this matter?
16:28I have not, ma'am.
16:30Surely that would be the normal course of action.
16:32With all due respect, the decision to dissolve Parliament is in the gift of the Prime Minister alone.
16:40It is entirely within my power to do this if I see fit.
16:45You are correct.
16:46Technically, it is within your power to request this.
16:50But we must all ask ourselves when to exercise those things that are within our power and when not to.
16:56Your first instinct as a person, I think, is often to act.
17:00To exercise power.
17:01That is what people want in a leader.
17:04To show conviction and strength to lead.
17:11I am merely asking the question whether it is correct to exercise a power simply because it is yours to
17:17use.
17:19Power is nothing without authority.
17:22And at this moment, your cabinet is against you.
17:26Your party is against you.
17:28And if the polls are to be believed, if you were to call a general election today, you would not
17:33win.
17:33Which suggests the country is against you.
17:38Perhaps the time has come for you to try doing nothing for once.
17:44The difference is, you have power in doing nothing.
17:53I will have nothing.
17:56You will have your dignity.
17:58There is no dignity in the wilderness.
18:01Then might I suggest you don't think of it as that.
18:05Think of it as an opportunity to pursue other passions.
18:08I have other loves.
18:11My husband.
18:13My children.
18:15But this job is my only true passion.
18:21And to have it taken from me.
18:25Stolen from me so cruelly.
18:30What hurts the most is that we had come so far.
18:36And now to have the opportunity to finish the job snatched away at the very last.
19:03I'm in hell.
19:04And he just hates me.
19:06And wants me to fail.
19:09He tells everyone I'm mad.
19:13They treat me like I'm mad.
19:15And I'm starting to feel mad.
19:18Why did I agree to this trip?
19:21I'm going to fall flat on my face.
19:23Buy with me.
19:41Excuse me.
19:48I'm good.
19:49Clicking in.
19:50Clicking in here at the end.
19:51Hello, anyway.
19:51We will do better how to roll семys were.
19:52Winamala anche.
19:52Listen down! Open the camera!
19:55Open the camera!
19:56Police! Help us over here, please!
20:28Don't want to weaponize it then!
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