Reply to: Thatcher statue

[Old Greg]

That's just rhetoric. Meaningless in the legal sense of how the agreement takes effect in practice.

It's a clear statement of direction of travel. It shouldn't be a surprise to anyone.

[original PM]

Yeah - I mean joining a group of countries to form a single trading block to help levy better deals is one thing.

Forming a government with a country - which when that video was from - tried to take over the world and did kill millions only 40 years previously was probably a step too far....

[vetran]

Well done NAT for actually doing the mod job for once. I thought cojak was the only effective mod round here.

Surely the first female PM deserves a statue in Westminster? Show just how sexist still is.

I still think women in the workplace are one of the untapped potentials the UK has.

I don't think they are ready for you to tap that!

[GJABS]

The relevant line is "Determined to lay the foundations of an ever closer union among the peoples of Europe"

That's just rhetoric. Meaningless in the legal sense of how the agreement takes effect in practice.

[minestrone]

Wonderful Prime Minister and a wonderful woman.

[GreenMirror]

Well done NAT for actually doing the mod job for once. I thought cojak was the only effective mod round here.

Surely the first female PM deserves a statue in Westminster? Show just how sexist still is.

I still think women in the workplace are one of the untapped potentials the UK has.

[Old Greg]

The relevant line is

Determined to lay the foundations of an ever closer union among the peoples of Europe

[TwoWolves]

Treaty establishing the European Economic Community - Wikisource, the free online library

Only a few hours of your time and you may actually start knowing what you are talking about. Nevertheless, this is not the treaty that did the dammage. The problems start with the Maastricht Treaty and finally the Lisbon Treaty which was the travesty that has people in arms against the union.

[Yorkie62]

I've read the opening lines.

What do they say?

[Old Greg]

Have you read it?

I've read the opening lines.

[TwoWolves]

I expect she got as far as the opening lines of the Treaty of Rome.

Have you read it?

[Old Greg]

She was anti - the political union side of Europe though:

I expect she got as far as the opening lines of the Treaty of Rome.

[GJABS]

Brexiteers only attack live MPs, so the statue should be safe from that quarter.

Until they see this:

She was anti - the political union side of Europe though:

[xoggoth]

Probably need another Nelson's Column to keep it safe from the lefties.

Mind you, not only lefties who do these things:

Karl Marx's London grave vandalised in suspected hammer attack | Books | The Guardian

PS Actually it probably was, trying to frame us righties!
PPS Maybe, to try and heal political divisions, we should have a statue of someone everybody hates and we can vandalise it together. Tony Blair?

[TestMangler]

You, sir, are what Dr Spooner would term a "Shining Wit"

And he would have called you a sheep shagger.