After you read the full story in the Telegraph, follow the link there, “Trafalgar Square has room for another great warrior.” That column says “A little outrage would do us good, reminding us that our enemy – socialism – is worth fighting against.”
‘I can’t bear Britain in decline, I just can’t’ Margaret Thatcher shortly before her election to Prime minister
I know how she felt. I can’t bear America in decline, I just can’t. But for now it is out of my control..........
I love England.
Though I’ve never been there, I feel sentimental about:
Maggie Thatcher, Churchill, the Union Jack, Tower Bridge, “There’ll always be an England,” Wordsworth, Parliament, Queen Elizabeth I, Elizabeth II, The late Queen Mother Elizabeth (love the pics of her and the King during WWII, Oxford, Alfred the Great, the English language, Isaac Newton, King Arthur, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Elizabeth Browning (and her husband, whats-his-name), Vivien Leigh, William Wilberforce, William Caxton, William Harvey, William Shakespeare, Prince William, the King James Bible, Mother Goose, Big Ben, Greenwich, the Lake District, the Thames, Richard the Lionheart, Sherlock Holmes, Wedgewood china, the Crown jewels, Magna Carta, Rule Britannia, penicillin, Radar, the spinning jenny, the steam engine, the electric motor, the locomotive, the sandwich, the lawnmower, the bicycle, the pencil, the Spitfire, Queen Victoria, Chaucer, Lord Nelson, Windsor Castle, Halley’s comet, Gilbert and Sullivan, the concept of free enterprise, the Industrial Revolution, the Victorian Age, and the greatest English genius of all, Joseph Gayetty, the inventor of toilet paper.
"Rule Britannia, Britannia rule the waves..."
But almost nobody can tell you the SECOND line of the refrain..
"Britons never, never, never, will be slaves.."
Today, alas , they're working on it...
But the Iron Lady knew well the price of freedom.
I lived in Britain the the 80’s. Thatcher IS my Prime Minister.