{"id":21580,"date":"2025-03-21T11:04:11","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T18:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=21580"},"modified":"2025-03-21T11:04:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T18:04:11","slug":"firing-line-friday-the-british-mess-with-the-first-lady-of-british-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2025\/03\/21\/firing-line-friday-the-british-mess-with-the-first-lady-of-british-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Firing Line Friday: The British Mess, with the First Lady of British Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.\u2019s \u201cFiring Line\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The U.K. is now suffering from yet another Labour ministry following and building upon the incompetency of a previous Tory administartion. Half a century ago a similar situation was at hand, which William F. Buckley, Jr. discussing <a href=\"https:\/\/digitalcollections.hoover.org\/objects\/6376\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the British mess, with the First Lady of British Politics<\/a> Margaret Thatcher, then newly minted leader of the Conservative Party and later Prime Minister, with additional discussion with Michael Kramer, Sam Roberts, Jeff Greenfield.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Hf9rNeTN4V0?si=bZqzw2o36HDylW9p\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Until next Friday.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Margaret_Thatcher_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Margaret_Thatcher_thumb.jpg 303w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Margaret_Thatcher_thumb-300x276.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1px) 100vw, 1px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Firing Line Friday: The British Mess, with the First Lady of British Politics \"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The U.K. is now suffering from yet another Labour ministry following and building upon the incompetency of a previous Tory administration.  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Buckley, Jr.\u2019s \u201cFiring Line\u201d. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The U.K. is now suffering from yet another Labour ministry following and building upon the incompetency of a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2025\/03\/21\/firing-line-friday-the-british-mess-with-the-first-lady-of-british-politics\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9,95],"class_list":["post-21580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-europe","tag-firing-line-friday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21580"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21582,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21580\/revisions\/21582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}