Thatcher: "No! No! No!"
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Uploaded by ninthwave on Sep 21, 2007
A heavily edited version of Margaret Thatcher's statement of 30 October 1990 to the House of Commons on the European Council meeting at Rome held on 27/28 October.
The Council was meant to discuss the Uruguay Round on General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade which was due to end in a few months but for which the EC had not developed a policy (alone out of the trading blocs). However the Italian Prime Minister, Giulio Andreotti, decided that the Council would refuse to discuss the GATT and instead push for the final stage in European Economic and Monetary Union in an attempt to get Thatcher to either agree or to force her to say "No" and thereby bring about her downfall by Europhile members of her party. Thatcher's hostility to a federal Europe led to Geoffrey Howe resigning from the Government on 1 November and to his fellow federalist Michael Heseltine's bid for the Tory leadership which brought down Thatcher on 22 November.
As Howe later said: "I wanted to change the policies, not the leader. But if that meant the leader had to go, then so it had to be". After the Rome Council a French official was asked whether it had failed. He answered: "On the contrary, the Council had been an outstanding success, since it had re-established an eleven-to-one situation in the Community and destabilised Thatcher at home".
Includes Eurosceptic interventions by Norman Tebbit (Con.), David Owen (Ind.), Ron Leighton (Lab.), Tony Favell (Con.), and Tony Benn (Lab.).
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm198990/cmhansrd/1990-10-30/Debate-...
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FUCK LABOUR
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People in my countries house of parlamen, most of them can barely speek their own language, never mind having a serious debate like this...
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@aeronuk1 Center-left governments are better at fiscal management than center-right governments. It's fairly logical. Increase the tax on the upper classes and corporations, and that's a MUCH larger amount of money diverted to the government.
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@PlymouthianOne as a Portuguese I can tell you that Barroso is no Socialist, just an opportunistic and careerist idiot. That's all
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She's a first class bitch
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@aeronuk1 Doesn't matter what she thinks about the UK not joining the Euro. The UK is in a depression anyway!
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i thought this video was going to be funny... my mistake
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"A back door to a federal European state"... it's almost like a prophecy. Just think, if we hadn't had 13 years of Labour (and a couple years of Major), the EU would look very different to how it is today. Labour allowed the socialists like Barroso to take complete control. Thatcher also mentions how disastrous Labour's economic policies are... look how true that was.
I hope future generations of voters watch this video and learn from it.
PlymouthianOne 2 weeks ago 36
She was totally vindicated on Europe and the Euro and she was right about Labour too, they always f*ck the economy up and leave the country in a mountain of debt.
aeronuk1 1 week ago 28