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Maggie Prepares For Bruges
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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of course they are DD they are socialists, they cannot comprehend that their tax plans collect much less revenue in the end. In 1979 when TGL won the election the basic rate was 33% that has been reduced over the years to 20%, when TGL started cutting income tax, in the early 80s, total tax receipts increased because people were more inclined to work longer and harder if they could keep more of their own money. Would even the Labour supporters on here want the basic rate at 33%, Gulliver? Diddly? 10cs? You see, lefties, you need to sometimes do paradoxical thinking.
diddly: well it's more a question of not believing the fairy tail answers:
to summarise:
1) You claim to have a degree but won't say what subject/grade
2) You claim to have a higher rate tax paying friend who wants to pay more.
3) you claim to have a DIL who is an economist who thinks that raising taxes won't drive businesses away.
to summarise:
1) You claim to have a degree but won't say what subject/grade
2) You claim to have a higher rate tax paying friend who wants to pay more.
3) you claim to have a DIL who is an economist who thinks that raising taxes won't drive businesses away.
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