'helping Industry' Is The Elephant

The Prime Minister, Shortly After She Came Into Office, Received A Sobriquet As The 'iron Lady'. It Arose In The Context Of Remarks Which She Made About Defence Against The Soviet Union And Its Allies; But There Was No Reason To Suppose That The Right Honourable Lady Did Not Welcome And, Indeed, Take Pride In That Description. In The Next Week Or Two This House, The Nation And The Right Honourable Lady Herself, Will Learn Of What Metal She Is Made.

I Would Sooner Receive Injustice In The Queen's Courts Than Justice In A Foreign Court. I Hold That Man Or Woman To Be A Scoundrel Who Goes Abroad To A Foreign Court To Have The Judgments Of The Queen's Courts Overturned, The Actions Of Her Government Countermanded Or The Legislation Of Parliament Struck Down.

As I Look Ahead, I Am Filled With Foreboding. Like The Roman, I Seem To See "the River Tiber Foaming With Much Blood.

A Little Nonsense Now And Then Is Not A Bad Thing - Where Would We Politicians Be If We Were Not Allowed To Talk It Sometimes.

Independence, The Freedom Of A Self-governing Nation, Is In My Estimation The Highest Political Good, For Which Any Disadvantage, If Need Be, And Any Sacrifice Are A Cheap Price.