http://www.nationalreview.com/articl...rs-ahead-curve
awesome. Lady Thatcher was ahead of everyone on this. she was not impressed the Eurpean Union. I think she regretted going along with it.
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Originally Posted by In her book "Statecraft", Lady Margaret Thatcher says:
Europe, she had concluded after years of trying was “fundamentally unreformable”. It was “an empire in the making . . . the ultimate bureaucracy”, founded on “humbug”; inherently protectionist, intrinsically corrupt, essentially undemocratic, and dedicated to the destruction of nation states. “It is in fact a classic utopian project, a monument to the vanity of intellectuals, a programme whose inevitable destiny is failure.” That being so, she now called, as she had never done so explicitly before, for a fundamental renegotiation of Britain’s membership, and if that failed — as it was bound to do— for Britain to be ready to leave the union and join the North American Free Trade Area instead, turning its back on the whole disastrous folly.
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Lady Thatcher & the European Union
