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 discus...
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.).
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It is easy to forget what Britain was like in 1997 - the NHS on its knees, schools crumbling, crime doubled and millions of families still scarred by unemployment over three million and interest rates still recovering from hitting 15 per cent on Black Wednesday.
And while we know that everything is not perfect now, Britain is, without doubt, a better, more prosperous and fairer place.
Thatcher is history. Why do people live in the past and waste their lives hating her and vote Labour not because they believe in Labour but just to spite the Conservatives even though Labour give them a shit deal. I don't vote Labour or Tory but to vote for Labour just because you hate Thatcher is braindead these days. In 50 years time no-one will give a shit about Thatcher. It's just pathetic.
Anton Interesting article in the Telegraph Google Janet daley global
Where she discusses how the idea of global agreements made behind closed doors by world leaders, without reference to their own electorate are going to control our lives... Its happening already...Gordons favourite word is global "There were "global challenges", the only possible resolution to which lay in "global solutions" necessitating "global agreements". Gordon Brown actually suggested something called a global alliance."
It is of concern that so many Quangos have sprouted post Thatcher with seemingly ambiguous objectives. It is becoming clearer that the State is trying to exert by stealth and under the umbrella of terrorism etc..more indirect and direct control. It would be interesting to discover what groups such as ( only 2 examples) "The Club of Rome" and the Charity "Common Purpose" are up to
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And while we know that everything is not perfect now, Britain is, without doubt, a better, more prosperous and fairer place.
VOTE LABOUR
Interesting article in the Telegraph
Google Janet daley global
Where she discusses how the idea of global agreements made behind closed doors by world leaders, without reference to their own electorate are going to control our lives...
Its happening already...Gordons favourite word is global
"There were "global challenges", the only possible resolution to which lay in "global solutions" necessitating "global agreements". Gordon Brown actually suggested something called a global alliance."
Common purpose is apparently preparing it's members for a post democratic era, there is one or two interesting videos on google video about it.
Interesting comment.
It is of concern that so many Quangos have sprouted post Thatcher with seemingly ambiguous objectives. It is becoming clearer that the State is trying to exert by stealth and under the umbrella of terrorism etc..more indirect and direct control.
It would be interesting to discover what groups such as ( only 2 examples)
"The Club of Rome"
and the Charity "Common Purpose" are up to