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Thatcher: "No! No! No!" 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-1.html Tags: thatcher thatcherism euroscepticism eu euro europe nationalism patriotism tebbit tony benn |
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Signing of the Anglo-Irish Agreement The Anglo-Irish Agreement was signed on 15 November, 1985 in Hillsborough, County Down, Northern Ireland by the British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and the Irish Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald. Tags: 1985 ulster hillsborough thatcher loyalist unionist nationalist republican ira |
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Conservative Party Political Broadcast I downloaded this just over a year ago, I think from the Channel Four website. It's not a real PPB if I remember correctly. UPDATE: The song is Bent - As You Fall. Tags: tory conservative labour socialism michael howard britain politics travellers gypsies cannabis crime law order alcohol |
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Rev. Ian Paisley says "Never!" Paisley rejecting the Anglo-Irish Agreement signed by Margaret Thatcher and Garret FitzGerald in 1985. Tags: paisley ulster loyalist unionist dup 1985 |
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Reagan bombs Libya BBC news report of the US air strike against Colonel Gaddafi's outlaw régime. Tags: reagan libya gaddafi qaddafi 1986 war |