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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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The blessed Margaret single handedly brought the communist trade unions to heel and frightened the life out of the would be new world order EUSSR plotters with just a swipe of her handbag. Give me back my money she demanded and they did. Where is her like now? Someone to put the needs and wishes of Great Britain first and devil take the 5th columnists. Can you imagine how she would have squashed wee Burney and agent cob? Then had Tusk and the drunkard Junker cowering before lunch. I can.
You couldn't be more wrong if you tried diddlydo.
Thatcher, in fact, saved this country.
The ruinous Labour Governments of the 70's and the absurd amount of power wielded by unions ruined the country in the 70s, and only Thatcher's success in 79 saved us.
Fast forward 40 years and, astonishingly, some want a return to 70s Labour ideology. Mental.
Thatcher, in fact, saved this country.
The ruinous Labour Governments of the 70's and the absurd amount of power wielded by unions ruined the country in the 70s, and only Thatcher's success in 79 saved us.
Fast forward 40 years and, astonishingly, some want a return to 70s Labour ideology. Mental.
Tora Man = the Frank Doberman of AB. Diddly's correct. Twatcher destroyed the industrial base of this country. Labour closed the mines because they were no longer viable. Twatcher closed them out of vindictiveness towards the miners and the unions, and her tyranny caused years of hardship. Her statue should be torn down and scrapped.
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