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Thatcher: "No! No! No!"

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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.parlia...

Channel: News & Politics
Uploaded: September 21, 2007 at 1:43 pm
Author: ninthwave

Length: 09:57
Rating: 4.72
Views: 117740

Tags: benn  eu  euro  europe  euroscepticism  nationalism  patriotism  tebbit  thatcher  thatcherism  tony  

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dragonlee90 (July 23, 2008 at 3:17 pm)
The scourge of socialism in the 70's
dragonlee90 (July 23, 2008 at 3:17 pm)
The Conservatives left the best pension system in Europe in 1997, and it has been destroyed by Labour. We have the most expensive energy because of the fuel tax escalator imposed by Gordon Brown. Our transport system is actually not that bad, but buses can't avoid getting stuck in traffic. We had one of the best education system in the world under the Tories, until Blair and his cronies dumbed it down to make the A level and GCSE results look better. Thatcher increasing spending NHS by 33%
mattknight (July 23, 2008 at 1:15 pm)
Rescued it from what? employment?
mattknight (July 23, 2008 at 1:14 pm)
Trust me, you don't!
p4eugeot (July 23, 2008 at 7:25 am)
Socially to the left? We still work the same hours more or less ,as we did forty years ago worst holidays in europe holidays,worse transport system,worse nhs,worse pensions,worse eeducation.worse food,worst care for the elderly,most expensive housing,if you can get one,most expensive energy,no dentists,canI go on? and all of this after a lurch to the left,fuck knows what will happen if it ever goes to the right.
1stinvincibles (July 23, 2008 at 3:19 am)
just wish the bitch dies soon. her voice grates,her attitude induces bile and her policies have led to the breakdown of communities and families. as for a state funeral-hoo fuckin ra. give me a day off.
dragonlee90 (July 23, 2008 at 3:05 am)
She rescued this country... I have no problem. Those who fail to realise her greatness are the ones who have a problem.
Scaaveiro (July 23, 2008 at 1:10 am)
I'm not British, but I like Mrs. Thatcher. I'd like to have got some politicians like her in my country. I don't mind if they're for or against her ideas but at least they would work.
iamtherealclakekent (July 23, 2008 at 12:16 am)
Matty if you are ENGLISH listen carefully to the speech and conpare with what we have now. Brussells rules ugh
mattknight (July 23, 2008 at 12:10 am)
Look, the fact that you back Margaret Thatcher already means you have no leg to stand on! It's ridiculous!!!


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