Thatcher and Reagan's bombing of Gadaffi.

I was still living in England in April 1986, starting a new business, but increasingly mystified by the growing stupidity and isolationist ignorance of many of my fellow countrymen. The facts about the bombing of Libya are fully detailed from here.

France's President Mitterand, had refused overflight rights to the American bombers which had taken off from England with Maggie Thatcher's consent, (Read Hansard PMQ response, from here). President Reagan went on TV and justified the raid, as follows, as quoted in the above link:

Colonel Qadhafi is not only an enemy of the United States. His record of subversion and aggression against the neighboring States in Africa is well documented and well known. He has ordered the murder of fellow Libyans in countless countries. He has sanctioned acts of terror in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East, as well as the Western Hemisphere. Today we have done what we had to do. If necessary, we shall do it again.

He concluded his address:

We Americans are slow to anger. We always seek peaceful avenues before resorting to the use of force – and we did. We tried quiet diplomacy, public condemnation, economic sanctions, and demonstrations of military force. None succeeded. Despite our repeated warnings, Qadhafi continued his reckless policy of intimidation, his relentless pursuit of terror. He counted on America to be passive. He counted wrong. I warned that there should be no place on Earth where terrorists can rest and train and practice their deadly skills. I meant it. I said that we would act with others, if possible, and alone if necessary to ensure that terrorists have no sanctuary anywhere. Tonight, we have.

 There has been an interesting spat in the blogosphere regarding whether certain university degrees turn out politicians who are intrinsically evil, it is between Samizdata and Counting Cats in Zanzibar, all very worth reading with valid points on either side.

My concern, this morning, is more with the actions of all the West's leaders since President Reagan and Maggie Thatcher left office. As the broadcast news informs us that Gadaffi plans to send his thugs from house to house to individually deal with protesters and their families, what are we to make of the moral foundations of the politicians who have left this man in office without any sanction.  In the very particular case of Blair, Brown and Scotland's Salmond the general indictment is even more severe given the BP issue.

What indeed of our present coalition leaders, Cameron, Clegg,  Hague and Fox, who are presently engaged in the disarmament of the nation in the midst of a world in growing turmoil, just what in hell's name is their game, grounding trained pilots and declaring redundant those still in training, all in the face of a clear potential Armageddon, scrapping active aircraft carriers to build future seaborne bases for our historic enemy, who has already been handed effective governance and economic control of the nation? Evil or immorality, I know not which, their treacherous actions can be seen far more clearly than their thoughts or motives can ever be divined! What point our MPs and Sovereign watching idly on, as all this is permitted to come to pass?

Other links are available from this paragraph from Answers.com, including the fact that less than one in three Briton's according to a poll, approved of the bombing:

In April 1986, Thatcher permitted US F-111s to use RAF bases for the bombing of Libya in retaliation for the alleged Libyan bombing of a Berlin discothèque,^[86] citing the right of self-defence under Article 51 of the UN Charter.^{[87][nb 3]} Polls suggested that less than one in three British citizens approved of Thatcher's decision.^[89]

Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/margaret-thatcher#ixzz1ElcferoP

Thatcher's 1980 Cabinet notes brilliantly illustrate the true treacherous natures of those now controlling this Coalition Government.

The rule under which Cabinet papers are only kept secret for thirty years is about to pay huge dividends to those of us who have spent that entire period fighting for the independence and return of democracy for our nation.

Heseltine's return (predictably lauded by The Guardian) is the long coming repayment by the odious David Cameron for his unwarranted bunk-up the political pole in furtherence of the continued infringements of national wealth and independence to the now thankfully fatally crisis struck EU. Some of the choicer comments from Maggie Thatcher are in the 1980 papers on the then Common Market and are reported here, from which I quote the following:

A note of a conversation with the Foreign Secretary, Lord Carrington, in February 1980 states: “She added that she did not think Departments were being tough enough or imaginative enough in arguing the British case.
“The French had struck at the roots of the Treaty in defending their point of view on sheepmeat. We should be prepared to pursue our interests with similar vigour.
“The sort of ideas we should be considering were the imposition of a levy on the imports of French (and German) cars; the sale of oil to Europe at spot prices or subject to a special tax; the reopening of the offset agreement.
“She repeated that she was less interested in the methods by which redress of the budgetary imbalance was achieved than by the fact that it was achieved.”
On Valentine’s Day 1980, a meeting at which the Foreign Secretary and the Chancellor, Geoffrey Howe, considered “North Sea Oil policy at the Community budget” and “possibly Community oil levy or tax”.
Mrs Thatcher denounced the proposals in a note written on a copy of the meeting’s minutes, stating: “That statement would be disastrous for Britain and I am not prepared to make it.
“The idea that we should have to sacrifice our main assets to receive more of our own money back is one that may appeal to the Foreign Office but it does not to me.
“Wouldn’t it have been courteous to say the least to have come to me first?” 

BRITAIN IS BROKEN AND BANKRUPT AS 2011 DAWNS DUE THE TREACHEROUS ACTIVITIES OF THOSE IN GOVERNMENT SINCE MAGGIE THATCHER WAS REMOVED!
What now follows as the new year proceeds is all down to the treasonous actions of recent governments, the individuals responsible should steadily be brought to account. 13th January 2011 in Oldham and Saddleworth should provide a great starting point on such a path!

London's Mayor demands an apology for all Euro-sceptics! What about Major over Thatcher?

The amusing article with a harsh, strong and hard element of truth is in the Daily Telegraph this morning, linked here. The short piece concludes as follows:

Politics made the euro, and politics can destroy it, especially if electorates start to feel it is a machine for German domination and the destruction of benefits and wages; or if the German electorate feels that it is a machine for fleecing Germany. 

In the meantime, all those snooty Europhile politicians and journalists who sneered at us for our doubts should be forced to crawl in penitence to Dublin Castle, scourging themselves with copies of the Maastricht Treaty. We have been vindicated, and the least they can do is admit it. They know who they are.

In fact, matters are far more serious than the vote-dependent London Mayor dares to proclaim as he is a member of one of the three main British political parties that have wrought this disaster. Those responsible for the destruction of the nation's democracy, as can now be be seen for reasons almost solely connected with the aquisition of unaccountable political power and personal gain from their self-perpetuating obscene perks and subsequent pensions need to be completely stripped of both, if any kind of return to accountable democratic rationality requiring a broad national healing process is to be achieved.

Watch one such smug, self-satisfied, former Conservative Prime Minister (signatory of Maastricht) on TV only yesterday morning, acting for all the world as though he were an ordinary decent human being with no connection to the man who benefitted from replacing MaggieThatcher only 20 years ago when she warned the nation in Parliament of the grave dangers we faced, from here.

Below this is the fighting lady this smarmy low-life, John Major, actually fought against to gain power and his present fat pension and appear on the nation's main BBC TV channel and propaganda outlet for the EU, on a Sunday morning and support a left-leaning ultra pro-EU Coalition Government (which has ceded more power in a few months to the EU than others have done over years):