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Thatcher explains world history

Fist Fun

21:03 / 18.03.02

"During my lifetime most of the problems the world has faced have come, in one fashion or another, from mainland Europe, and the solutions from outside it," she writes.

"That generalisation is clearly true of the Second World War. Nazism was, after all, a European ideology, the Third Reich an attempt at European domination.

Kind of scary to think how much power this person actually had.
How can we explain this point of view? Is there something behind it?

tom-karika nukes it from orbit

21:14 / 18.03.02

What? humans voted for her? I can't understand this point of view on any level, and hope I never will. She's batty.

w1rebaby

21:18 / 18.03.02

quote:"That generalisation is clearly true of the Second World War. Nazism was, after all, a European ideology, the Third Reich an attempt at European domination.
yes, of course it was dear. Now it's time for your nap.

[ 19-03-2002: Message edited by: fridgemagnet / w1rebaby ]

higuita

21:47 / 18.03.02

I'm not too good with translating the ravings of diseased minds, but this seems to come out as -

'Only filthy Europeans cause trouble, and really, honestly, the US has all the answers.'

Good point, Mad Maggie! Let's stick our tongues down the back of Bush's y-fronts! Move over Tony, Maggie sent me!

This, of course, is nothing to do with the issue of European integration...

Fist Fun

10:51 / 19.03.02

Why do you think anyone would cling to a statement like "Nazism was a European ideology" to explain political judgements/choices today? Is it valid and/or useful?

Our Lady of The Two Towers

10:57 / 19.03.02

The good thing is I genuinely feel that Thatch's views have little influence these days, if Iain Duncan-Smith has done nothing else as Conservative leader (and he hasn't) he's disowned her views, modern Conservatives tend to find economic and/or social reasons for their xenophobic racism, and find the ramblings of people like Maggie and Tebbit extremely embaressing.
The only place this kind of thing plays well too is the BNP and Conservative fringe rallies, which are almost the same thing.

m. anthony bro

19:34 / 19.03.02

hrrrm.
Can she explain why, for a large section of the world, a lot of problems are a result of colonialism? And, if I recall, in places like here, and Australia and all, we don't speak German, so it must be another country that we have to thank for it...an island, I think.
And, she can very well take some raps on the knuckles for that, thanks to the falklands war, that's colonialism in action. Someone called it "two bald men fighting over a comb". dig that.
Okay, and! Explain why the BNP did so well in Oldham? (it was oldham, eh?) and who Oswald Mosely is, and what is David Blunkett saying now?
Does anyone have that cool quote by Hanif Kureishi about how Britain isn't such a humdinger place since the Tories took over in '79?

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