Older, frailer, Margaret Thatcher is still alive as her warnings about the Euro--the issue that brought her down twenty years ago--are being born out. The people in her own party, as well as on the left, who opposed her then are not much interested now in defending their reasons to the press, Peter Oborne says in tomorrow's Telegraph, "Margaret Thatcher Knew the Single Currency Would Devastate Europe."
Mrs. Thatcher lost office, but her position somehow prevailed.
Writes Oborne, "Baroness Thatcher has often been accused by her politically motivated enemies of callousness. But backers of the European project are today happy to countenance unlimited human suffering in their mission to enforce economic and monetary union. Mrs Thatcher knew this would be the result of their deranged plan, which is why she fought to stop it. Her last battle as prime minister could not have been fought in a greater or more compassionate cause."
In addition to the article by Oborne, read Claire Berlinski's Why Margaret Thatcher Matters. Claire, a Discovery fellow, turns out to have been very timely, too.
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