Margaret May

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How many of you thought, in her blue outfit, greying hair and necklace, that TM looked more MT?

I certainly did!
 
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much in common

Did you forget to post Margaret Thatchers concerns regarding the EU:

May 1992:
The Single European Act has not come fully into effect. And yet already we have the Maastricht treaty. It is a long, detailed document and should be studied extremely carefully. Moreover, because the language is often opaque, governments should be asked precisely what certain clauses mean. I suggest that those who have to decide whether to include its provisions in their own laws should ask four questions.

First, will it ensure and enhance democratic government? The answer must be no, for it involves enormous transfers of powers from national governments to a centralised bureaucracy. It speaks of a common foreign and security policy. It extends Community authority in a host of fields and provides for majority voting in many of them. For most states other than Britain it introduces a social chapter which was first mooted at the Madrid summit and which has already given rise to more than 43 initiatives, of which 17 are new draft directives.

Moreover, with the exception of Britain, which is keeping its options open (thanks to Prime Minister Major), it is committed to the creation of a single currency no later than 1999. A single currency means a single interest rate, a single monetary policy, a single economic policy, and eventually a single minister. But control over economic policy and the supply of money to the executive is at the heart of parliamentary democracy.

The fact is that the Maastricht treaty passes colossal powers from parliamentary governments to a central bureaucracy. A dispassionate observer could perhaps be forgiven for wondering whether it is we in the West who are trying to convert the East to democracy, or they who are converting us to bureauracy.
 
observer could perhaps be forgiven for wondering whether it is we in the West who are trying to convert the East to democracy, or they who are converting us to bureauracy.

how strange. You mean she thought Russia was a member of the EU?
 
Did you forget to post Margaret Thatchers concerns regarding the EU:

May 1992:

Moreover, with the exception of Britain, which is keeping its options open (thanks to Prime Minister Major), it is committed to the creation of a single currency no later than 1999. A single currency means a single interest rate, a single monetary policy, a single economic policy, and eventually a single minister. But control over economic policy and the supply of money to the executive is at the heart of parliamentary democracy.
How wrong she was.
 
youve never heard of the Euro I take it.....
or its problems:
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/jun/13/euro-growth-eurozone-joseph-stiglitz
or the exchange rate mechanism.....
Twist and turn it which way you like, and MT did not mention the ERM nor the current euro problems, (whatever you think those are).

Did you forget to post Margaret Thatchers concerns regarding the EU:
May 1992:
Moreover, with the exception of Britain, which is keeping its options open (thanks to Prime Minister Major), it is committed to the creation of a single currency no later than 1999.
Wrong! Many EU countries do not use the Euro.

A single currency means a single interest rate,
Wrong! Each member state, including those in the eurozone, sets its own interest rate.

a single economic policy,
Wrong. Each member state including those in the eurozone, sets its own economic policy.

and eventually a single minister.
Wrong again!
All wrong!
 
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Twist and turn it which way you like, and MT

Much of what she said is true.

In any case my post wasnt about what is correct or not, it was to highlight MT was also a critic of the EU -so point proven old bean
 
It's become apparent recently that notchy has now totally lost the plot...

They do say a picture paints a thousand words :)

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