John Major

[MarillionFan]

Labour aren't "my lot". You are a thick agent which isn't any better than a thick Labour (or Lib Dem automaton). You have no cogent argument for anything, you're just a thick mudslinger, lounging around in the cosy glow of all your Tory boy chums on here repeating the same dogmatic tosh over and over in the hope you can make yourself and everyone else believe it.

ftfy

[Doggy Styles]

Yes.

Something else to thank Grocer Heath for.

And I would be thanking him now if it had remained an European Economic Community.

Which is all we actually wanted.

But it didn't, and he knew it wouldn't, so he's in my little black book.

[sasguru]

. Whether he left a deficit or not does not matter the fact is that he left the economy in good health. .

Can an economy with a deficit be in good health?

[Doggy Styles]

Can an economy with a deficit be in good health?

It depends on a lot of other circumstances, but I believe it can be.

Not in the 'good times' though, which was the biggest cause of today's problems. That's when you should be running a surplus to save up for the 'bad times'.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

And I would be thanking him now if it had remained an European Economic Community.

Which is all we actually wanted.

But it didn't, and he knew it wouldn't, so he's in my little black book.

So you'd better add Thatcher (single European Act)
and Major (Maastricht Treaty)

to your "little book"

[Doggy Styles]

So you'd better add Thatcher (single European Act)
and Major (Maastricht Treaty)

to your "little book"

Little black book.

Major would get an honororary mention, not only for that but also for ERM even if he didn't start it. However, that disaster did more than anything to keep the UK out of the common currency, so he gets into the white book too, even if he didn't mean it.

Thatcher, no.

[BrilloPad]

Can an economy with a deficit be in good health?

While the defecit is growing - its not a problem.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Thatcher, no.

BBC News | Ever closer union? The UK and Europe

So it turned out that Europe, ultimately, was the rock which sank the Thatcher premiership.

But ironically it was Prime Minister Thatcher who in 1987 signed the Single European Act - the landmark treaty from which much of the EU's future integration has flown.

In later years she bitterly protested that she was misled as to its meaning.

So either she knew what she was doing or she was so useless that she let the Europeans get one over on her. Seems an odd complaint from someone who was supposed to be so invincible "ooooo don't blame me, them natsy continentals told a load of fibs" I don't buy it.

[DodgyAgent]

BBC News | Ever closer union? The UK and Europe

So it turned out that Europe, ultimately, was the rock which sank the Thatcher premiership.

But ironically it was Prime Minister Thatcher who in 1987 signed the Single European Act - the landmark treaty from which much of the EU's future integration has flown.

In later years she bitterly protested that she was misled as to its meaning.

So either she knew what she was doing or she was so useless that she let the Europeans get one over on her. Seems an odd complaint from someone who was supposed to be so invincible "ooooo don't blame me, them natsy continentals told a load of fibs" I don't buy it.

You wouldnt buy anything if it was'nt for her freeing up the markets for people like you to become part of the worlds top 1% of richest people.

[Doggy Styles]

BBC News | Ever closer union? The UK and Europe

So it turned out that Europe, ultimately, was the rock which sank the Thatcher premiership.

But ironically it was Prime Minister Thatcher who in 1987 signed the Single European Act - the landmark treaty from which much of the EU's future integration has flown.

In later years she bitterly protested that she was misled as to its meaning.

So either she knew what she was doing or she was so useless that she let the Europeans get one over on her. Seems an odd complaint from someone who was supposed to be so invincible "ooooo don't blame me, them natsy continentals told a load of fibs" I don't buy it.

That wouldn't qualify for the little black book then, would it.