Margaret Thatcher — "We are not asking for a penny piece of community money for Britain. What we are …"
We are not asking for a penny piece of community money for Britain. What we are asking is for a very large amount of our own money back, over and above what we contribute to the community, which is covered by our receipts from the community.
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British Prime Minister (1979-1990) whose free-market reforms and confrontation with trade unions defined the late-20th-century right.
Closely associated with
Ronald Reagan (her closest international ally).
For an intellectual contrast, see
Tony Benn, Labour cabinet minister and democratic-socialist figurehead — Benn was the loudest parliamentary opposition to Thatcherism throughout the 1980s. His diaries and Thatcher's autobiography are the two opposing histories of the period — Britain's class politics is structured around which view was right.