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LADY THATCHER'S VALEDICTORY by Rod D. Martin, 10 April 2002 At the end of March, just before announcing she would never again speak in public, Margaret Thatcher capped off her remarkable career with the Times serialization of her new book Statecraft, sounding a note of vision and patriotism worthy of Washington's Farewell Address. The European Union is "fundamentally unreformable," the former Prime Minister thundered from the page. Enoch Powell was right: Britain is quickly being subsumed into a socialist superstate, and soon the heritage of a millennium will irretrievably disappear into the continental quagmire. Or, as this author has written on occasion, Europe, in trying to reinvent the USA, is actually recreating the USSR; and Britain better get out now. Thatcher states that Britain should renegotiate the terms of its EU membership to allow what amounts to secession: the right to leave the common agricultural and fisheries policies, the common foreign and security policy, even the common trade policy. But she knows this is impossible: the result could only be either Britain's withdrawal or expulsion. This does not bother her in the least. As she writes in Statecraft: "It is frequently said to be unthinkable that Britain should leave the European Union. But the avoidance of thought about this is a poor substitute for judgment." What Thatcher wants, and what many Britons thought the then-EEC would be when they joined it, is a European NAFTA: free trade without political institutions. But she knows it's too late for this. And so she proposes a truly revolutionary solution, that which Conrad Black (as well as this author) suggested almost four years ago. She proposes that Britain join NAFTA itself.
