Happy Birthday Baroness Thatcher

Happy birthday Baroness Thatcher. Britain's greatest peace time Prime Minister would have been 89 today. People up and down the country remember her free market radicalism which led to a revolution in Britain for all people. Margaret Thatcher was a capitalist working class radical.

Exclusive: Conor Burns MP - Lady Thatcher Never Supported UKIP

Conor Burns, Conservative MP for Bournemouth West, yesterday told a group of tory activists that Margaret Thatcher never supported UKIP.

At a dinner after a RoadTrip to Clacton Conor Burns said “Margaret Thatcher was a Conservative to her fingertips and wished nothing more that our party in General Elections and good governance to the United Kingdom. And to anyone who speculates that Margaret Thatcher might have had sympathy for another political party, I tell you categorically she did not."

Conor Burns was a close friend Lady Thatcher and is well respected on the right wing of the Conservative Party. #ThingsElliottSays exclusively filmed this speech.

Exclusive: Harlow Labour PPC Falsely Claims Thatcher's Legacy On Apartheid Was 'Shocking'

The Labour PPC for Harlow has falsely claimed on Twitter that Thatcher's legacy on 'Apartide [sic] was shocking'.

Suzy Stride, who Ed Miliband wants in the House of Commons in 2015, has said this despite a great deal of evidence that Thatcher was very much against Apartheid. Nelson Mandela and Thatcher had a very good relationship on the world stage, for example. There are documents that show Thatcher lobbied for the release of Mandela in the 1980s. Furthermore, Mandela went on the record and said of Margaret Thatcher “She is an enemy of apartheid… We have much to thank her for.”

I wonder what the rest of Labour think of Suzy's false accusations of Margaret Thatcher.

It is surprising and shocking that a Labour PPC holds such 'shocking' and false views on Margaret Thatcher. It is even more disturbing to find that Suzy is a major player in Labour as she gave a speech at their conference this year. How much further will the Left's hatred of Thatcher continue into the land of nonsense? Even the Guardian believes that Thatcher was anti-apartheid.

Suzy Stride's statement has been challenged on Twitter:

@suzy4harlow @LabourList Don't know about apartide, but I love the time when Mandela thanked her for her help in ending apartheid ...
— James Price (@jameseprice1) September 22, 2014

@suzy4harlow 1) Apartide? I dont think thats a word 2) Even the Guardian credit Thatcher for helping to end apartheid http://t.co/nZ6ShD4Vcl
— Louisa Townson (@LDTownson) September 22, 2014

Perhaps Suzy Stride should publicly apologise on Twitter for her shameful and incorrect comments.

A public apology is needed.

Donal Blaney: Margaret Thatcher Centre $1 Million Donation

Blaney, Thatcher and Burns. #Sound

Last night at the CWF Summer Reception, on the Terrace of the House of Commons, it was announced that the building of the Margaret Thatcher Centre had taken one giant step forward. Donal Blaney, CEO of Conservative Way Forward, CEO of the Margaret Thatcher Centre and YBF extraordinaire, was 'proud' to announce that in the last 24 hours a $1 million donation had been made towards the building of the Margaret Thatcher Centre. Mr Blaney also announced that the Centre had achieved charitable status. All in all a massive step forward.

'a place where people of all ages from across Britain and around the world will be able to learn how Britain’s first female Prime Minister

The Margaret Thatcher Centre is being built by her #Sound followers in order to 'focus on Lady Thatcher’s remarkable life and achievements and will be a place where people of all ages from across Britain and around the world will be able to learn how Britain’s first female Prime Minister shaped the world in which we are living today.' The Margaret Thatcher Centre will follow the example of that Ronald Reagan Library and Ronald Reagan Ranch, a museum, an academy and testament to the great Ronald Reagan. Soon there will be such a building for Lady Thatcher too.

The real 'special relationship'.

The plan has been backed by many great Conservatives from across the World. Dave has said "I am delighted that young people will be able to come to the Thatcher Centre and learn about her achievements, and ensure her legacy lives on." Whilst Boris put in his two cents in by saying "I love museums, and am of course thrilled to read in The Sunday Telegraph that we are going to have a Thatcher foundation and museum in London, world capital of culture."

The project will cost around about £15 million and is well worth supporting. You can make a donation on the Margaret Thatcher Centre website (I've just given a tenner) and make sure you also like the Facebook page for the Centre. It's all going to a good cause. I bet Lady Thatcher is very proud of Donal and the Margaret Thatcher Centre team, well done and #Sound.

One Year On

A year ago today Margaret Thatcher died at 11pm in the Ritz hotel. When a great world leader goes it is always a sad day but for Baroness Thatcher it must have been a happy day as she reunited with her husband Denis. Margaret Thatcher left a great legacy. She saved Britain.

This is one of those moments where people will say "where were you?" so I shall tell you. I was in Rome about to board a plane back home having spent a wonderful week exploring the heart of the Roman world. Being there it was clear that Margaret Thatcher was well respected and admired across the world. Just look at what the Italian newspapers had to say. According to il Gornale Baroness Thatcher was "the daughter of a grocer" who later became "the enemy of the unions" through "the handbag [that] became legendary". Even the centre left paper La Republica had good words to say about Baroness Thatcher calling her "the Iron Lady who changed Britain".

Margaret Thatcher meant a lot to many people. She also meant a lot in a variety of different ways. It's impossible to go through all those good traits which ultimately saved Britain. But to me the great revolutionary change in the country is the most important. Through a strong personal will Baroness Thatcher stopped Britain's decline and led the world as it forged forward in creating better lives for people with a strong economy. Margaret Thatcher was a revolutionary and because of this Britain was a very different and much better place after he terms in office.

Happy Margaret Thatcher Day

Happy Margaret Thatcher Day. This public holiday is celebrated on the Falkland islands since 1992. Cheers to the Iron Lady who saved Great Britain. Let's have a party.

Update

You may have noticed some inaccuracies with the unedited post. Personally I blame Robert Graham for this.

Never trust your sources. Lesson learned.

Merry Xmas

Merry Xmas from #ThingsElliottSays. Hope you have a great day and are full of festive goodwill.

This is one of the presents I got today.

Happy Birthday Margaret Thatcher

Today is Margaret Thatcher's birthday. If she were still alive today she would have been 88 years old. Mrs Thatcher is of course, and probably quite obviously if you often read this blog, a good inspiration to me. So I wish her a very happy birthday wherever she is. Here are two videos about her (the later one will be heard very often by freshers throughout this year).

Lego Thatcher

Photo of a Lego version of Margaret Thatcher entering Downing Street in 1979. A chap called James Pergum has built a history of the world from Stonehenge to Margaret Thatcher and photos of some of the scenes can be seen on the Telegraph.

Happy Birthday Milton Friedman

Today is Milton Friedman's 101st Birthday. He was one of the most influential economists in the world who doggedly advocated the introduction of free market capitalism across the world in order to make people better off. He noted that the best thing for the state to do was to retreat from public life as much as possible. With such economic arguments the holes in Communism and Socialism were easily pointed out.

Long live the Free Market Economy.

He also pointed out the one big killer in holding back economies and thus people's lives, inflation. His ideas were a great influence upon the thinking of President Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. Both of them followed a policy of monetarism which aimed to cut inflation by cutting the supply of money, a policy which saw Britain lead the world.

Here are a few of my favourite videos of him.    

#ThatcherDebate

Yesterday I attended, with other members of NUCA, a debate organised by the Debating Society of Tthis House Regrets Thatcherism'. I don't like suspense and so i'll tell you we won by a about 10-20 votes, a victory for Thatcher against the socialist oppressors.

This is what happened, I'll tell it partially through Twitter and what I remember, unlike at Port and Policy this is possible. One of the proposition members was James Manning, ex NUCA member, who was corrupted by socialism or rather joined a party that promotes elitism and the post war consensus that he probably believed in anyway. Jenny said some agreeable words on the topic.

James kicked off the debate, or rather he tried to. He spoke so fast we didn't know what he was saying.

This was true of all but one of the debaters though, who I do congratulate for giving some good passion.

The debaters were not the greatest (bar the one), more practice in public speaking. I know that I'm not perfect but the lack of facts let them down the most in my opinion.

I am also critical of Rob though.

#Shame to the love child of Chris Martin and Tim Montgomerie. However did you notice the new #socialistoppressor. This has come about because I asked a question to the proposition about why they supported socialist elitism and they gave me some ramble on welfare. Seemingly everyone is now using it though.

There was a lot of nonsense from the proposition of course. Someone claimed that the Miners' Strike was balloted and democratic. Others wanted working class people to be forced to live in their mining villages in a new age serfdom. All of course from members of the SWP or from the asylum. There wasn't a really good argument against Thatcher, in the sense of one that was using correct facts and could be spun in a misconstrued way against the great lady, which was a shame.

But what was the most shameful was the proposition essentially inferring the Falkland Islands should have been left to the Argentina and not liberated. Well I'd just like to point out that Argentina at the time had inflation of 130% and a military dictator that killed 30,000 people at least. So 1982 Argentina was a great country unless you wanted to eat or have any freedom. In all fairness the proposition may have different views, but I and the Falkland Islanders after the debate would like to know your stance, just leave a comment at the bottom.

We won. Thatcher won another popular mandate. It's getting to a point where I cannot recall how many times she has had sweeping majorities in votes across the country. But weirdly there were many abstentions.

My Thanks goes to the debating society for organising this, however I would like to be constructively critical of the way it was laid out.

Firstly, why did we have to be totally silent? Ok, it's not Port and Policy but even in Question Time people can clap at comments and react with disgust. I ask why it is not acceptable to react with disgust at proposition essentially saying we should not have retaken the Falkland Islands?

Also, the debaters seemingly knew little about Thatcherism. The propositions absurd tacit claims that Thatcher abolished state education and all welfare spending seems to based on ignorance rather than that of trying to create an argument that she was an evil elitist*. It was up to the floor to present the facts of Thatcher, both the proposition and opposition knew very few, which is a shame.

There was a good opportunity for a good debate but in my opinion it was missed. I invite you to Port and Policy to see what a real debate is like. I still enjoyed myself though. 

*An argument which although is totally false is used by those who oppose Thatcher.

Weekly Poll Lowdown

Well I'm very disappointed. Only 3 votes in a Thatcher Poll and this is supposed to be a Tory Blog. There was no winner either, a three way split. Or as the Liberal Democrats would call it, everyone is a winner.

No, No, No!	1 (33%)
This Lady is Not For Turning	1 (33%)
The Spirit of The South Atlantic	1 (33%)
Bruges Speech	0 (0%)
Last Stand Against Socialism	0 (0%)

So what is the one I like the most. It has to be 'No, No, No!' as this is the start of identifying the problem of the EU. The Bruges Speech may have been technically the start but I actually agree with Ken Clarke when he says 'the Bruges Speech would not sound Euro-sceptic today'. What No, No, No has is the passion in which the EU needs to be fought against, it is a wonderful bit of rhetoric. I like the a 9 min addition of the speech on YouTube because it really exposes the Labour stance on the EU too, they are quite prepared to give away everything we have so long as they are down with Barroso and all the other cronies. Not a place I would, nor the British people, like to be. So here it is get the popcorn out.

Please Vote in the next poll.

Quotes

Now that my Blog is back to the normal colour have you noticed something different? Well look on the side bar and wonder at the political quotes in pictures. Do you like them? Well if not tough because I do, I'll keep changing them every so often however so you're not bored. Here's a collection of some of them that did not make the first cut.

For all you Republicans out there I have included some by my Favourite American, Ronald Regan. Whenever people point to Obama and say how popular he is or how he won a landslide in the 2012 elections just remember this.

 This is a landslide!

Winston Churchill is another much quoted figure. From wise wit on drinking ugly people's whisky to being a genuine believer in the free market. Winston is a great man. Did I mention he also saved the World?

Lady Thatcher is also another person hailed for good quotes. From what I've heard from people who actually knew her she was actually very good at these one liners.

Always Remember this however.

Saying Goodbye to Baroness Thatcher

Yesterday I was at the funeral of Mrs Thatcher. Not in St Pauls I'm not that important, a member of opposition, a former member of her government, friend or some hanger on that shouldn't be there*. No, I was lining the route of procession then celebrating her life with members of our party and the Freedom Association/Bow Group.

My day involved a lot changes from bus to train to bus and train for a very long time. But I was on the Grantham line for a while.

The Procession itself was very well attended. I arrived at 9:30ish and everywhere was at least, mostly more, two deep. By the time the gun carriage came past the streets were full. I walked past the demonstration at Ludgate Circus, where 200 communists and anarchists handing out copies of the socialist worker had congregated. Someone was on top of a telephone box for some reason and they were all quite nasty; but 10,000s had turned up to say goodbye to Mrs Thatcher far outnumbering these extremists. The protesters were only there because Thatcher destroyed their vision of a socialist UK.

We saw some quite famous people. Guy Bentley, my NUCA friend and the biggest Libertarian this side of the Atlantic, pointed out people from lots of groups and think tanks. Also Jacob Rees-Mogg, in a great top hat, and Jeremy Clarkson walked past. I said hello to them and both greeted me back, which is very nice.

The Procession itself was very good. One chap had brought a step ladder and said, jokingly, he would charge 10p a photo on top of it. Lady Thatcher would have been pleased. I caught a glimpse of the coffin and felt saddend by the fact I never met her, Mrs Thatcher politically meant a lot to me. Remember though that Thatcherism lives on, today it is even stronger than when she was in power.

A Cunning Idea

The Best Picture I got of the Iron Lady

I then went to the event organised by the Freedom Association where lots of people were present including some NUCA members. MPs who were there at the time of Thatcher or are now in Parliament came to say how she changed Britain forever. We will never know how awful the 1970s were for this country and that's precisely because the UK was saved from high inflation and uncontrollable Trade Unions by the great lady. Also speaking were MEPs (including two of mine), think tank leaders, Oliver Cooper, and UKIPers who were strangely preaching loyalty. I find this UKIP prescence weird because all of them just hated David Cameron, so they're not really loyal. Mrs Thatcher would have hated this.

NUCA Friend, Alex Bright, enjoying the 'soapboxing'.

So what did I learn/emphasise more now because of this event. Well Thatcherism is not dead, if anything it is growing in popularity. Everyone in the Tory Party has to like or pretend to like Thatcher. Next, David Cameron needs to do better. Some speakers spoke frankly about how bad DC actually is as a leader. Essentially they said because of our huge debt we probably need a new Thatcher soon. Finally never ever give in. When times look bad if you fight hard enough they will change, but never just think things will change.

Conor Burns MP, a close friend of Mrs Thatcher, gave an excellent speech saying why he preferred to be with the foot soldiers of Thatcherism.

The event was packed and lasted several hours, my thanks go to the organisers of the event. 

Strangely the day was actually very good. Mrs Thatcher is now properly at peace and we celebrated what she did and what she meant to the people. Hopefully now we as a party can actually try live up to what she meant.

*Someone I know who Mrs Thatcher would have turned in her grave if she knew he was there.