Thread by @docrussjackson

Stephen Colbert: "Why did you go from acting into politics?"

Glenda Jackson: "Because my country was being destroyed by Margaret Thatcher. Anything that I could have done that was legal to get her & her Govt out of office, I was prepared to have a go at"

"The clincher for me was when she said 'there's no such thing as society', & even though I'd seen my country being destroyed, everything I'd been taught as a child to regard as vices, she told me were virtues: greed wasn't greed it was 'independence'..."

"selfishness wasn't selfishness, it was 'taking care of yourself & your family'; & a friend of mine, an artist, came back from the centre of London & said 'London is now a city that Hogarth would recognise' - & he would have recognised it, because..."

"Every single shop door, not only in London but across the whole of the country, every doorway, at night, was the bedroom, bathroom, living room of some poor homeless person, not unusually also suffering from mental illness, because she'd closed all the long-stay mental homes."

Thanks for the clips of the magnificent Glenda Jackson @1kilroywashere.

Fun fact: Glenda is Hodges' mum & said she could go to Jeremy Corbyn “day & night at any hour” with any issue, describing him as “amazingly helpful", "not a racist" & not anti-Semitic, but "pro-Palestinian".