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Maggie Prepares For Bruges
An extract from Charles Moore's Thatcher biography;
'Later that summer, Mrs Thatcher’s public hostilities with Delors resumed. The casus belli was the general growth of Brussels’ power. Delors made the first move. Addressing the European Parliament on July 6 1988, he predicted that “10 years hence, 80 per cent of our economic legislation, and perhaps even our fiscal and social legislation as well, will be of Community origin”. He spoke of an embryonic European government.
All this was a provocation. In Charles Powell’s view, it was a “turning point” for Mrs Thatcher: “In her mind, a Rubicon had been crossed.” Mrs Thatcher was due to make a speech on the future of Europe in Bruges in September. When a draft reached the Foreign Office, it caused unease, though not panic.
There were some noises of protest from Geoffrey Howe. He had noticed “some plain and fundamental errors” and fretted about warnings against a “United States of Europe”, but he singled out one particular passage for praise: “Let me say bluntly on behalf of Britain: we have not embarked on the business of throwing back the frontiers of the state at home only to see a European superstate getting ready to exercise a new dominance from Brussels.”
'Later that summer, Mrs Thatcher’s public hostilities with Delors resumed. The casus belli was the general growth of Brussels’ power. Delors made the first move. Addressing the European Parliament on July 6 1988, he predicted that “10 years hence, 80 per cent of our economic legislation, and perhaps even our fiscal and social legislation as well, will be of Community origin”. He spoke of an embryonic European government.
All this was a provocation. In Charles Powell’s view, it was a “turning point” for Mrs Thatcher: “In her mind, a Rubicon had been crossed.” Mrs Thatcher was due to make a speech on the future of Europe in Bruges in September. When a draft reached the Foreign Office, it caused unease, though not panic.
There were some noises of protest from Geoffrey Howe. He had noticed “some plain and fundamental errors” and fretted about warnings against a “United States of Europe”, but he singled out one particular passage for praise: “Let me say bluntly on behalf of Britain: we have not embarked on the business of throwing back the frontiers of the state at home only to see a European superstate getting ready to exercise a new dominance from Brussels.”
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Tories target the working class and benefit claimants to try and reduce expenditure. They believe that anyone who claims benefits doesn't need them and is being fraudulent. It doesn't matter how severe the legislation that targets these people, as they don't/won't vote for us anyway.
Labour targets the high earners, financiers, etc as they think they are all tax-dodging, exploitative and money-grabbing at the expense of hard working people. It doesn't matter how severe the legislation that targets these people either, as they don't/won't vote for us anyway.
Brexit has nothing to do with it. My prediction is no over all majority.
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