A scene from “Unfinished Business”

Queen Elizabeth II: When you've been in my position as long as I have, you see how quickly and how often a nation's fortunes can change. Joblessness, recession, crises, war. All of these things have a way of correcting themselves. Countries bounce back. People do. Because they simply have to.

Michael Fagan: That's what I thought. That I'd bounce back. And then I didn't. First the work dried up, then my confidence dried up. Then the love in my wife's eyes dried up. And then you begin to wonder, you know, where's it gone? Not just your confidence or your happiness, but your ... They say I have mental health problems now, but I don't. I'm just poor.

Queen Elizabeth II: The state can help with all of this.

Michael Fagan: What state? The state has gone. She's dismantled it along with all the other things we thought we could depend on growing up. A sense of community, a sense of, you know, obligation to one another. A sense of kindness. It's all disappearing.

Queen Elizabeth II: I think you're exaggerating. People still show kindness to one another, and they still pay their taxes to the state.

Michael Fagan: And she spends that money on an unnecessary war and declares the feel-good factor is back again. In the meantime, all the things that really make us feel good (the right to work, the right to be ill, the right to be old, the right to be frail, be human) gone. You may think you're off the hook, but she's got her eye on your job, too. Let me tell you. You'll be out of work soon.

Queen Elizabeth II: Let me assure you, Mrs. Thatcher is an all-too-committed monarchist.

Michael Fagan: She has an appetite for power, which is presidential. And in this country, a president and a head of state cannot coexist. Mark my words, she's put us out of work. She's quietly putting you out of work.