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Echoes of the past

Saturday 7th November 2009 15:26 in Politics, Religion | 59 views logged | No comments

The BNP have two elected Members of the European Parliament. Mrs Thatcher explains why this has happened, in an interview recorded in 1978:

“There is a feeling that the big political parties have not been talking about this and sometimes, you know, we are falsely accused of racial prejudice. I say “falsely accused” and that means that we do not talk about it perhaps as much as we should.

In my view, that is one thing that is driving some people to the National Front. They do not agree with the objectives of the National Front, but they say that at least they are talking about some of the problems.

Now, we are a big political party. If we do not want people to go to extremes, and I do not, we ourselves must talk about this problem and we must show that we are prepared to deal with it.”

- Margaret Thatcher

Conservatives, listen.

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