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The Prime Minister, Shortly After She Came Into Office, Received A Sobriquet As The 'iron Lady'. It Arose In The Context Of Remarks Which She Made About Defence Against The Soviet Union And Its Allies; But There Was No Reason To Suppose That The Right Honourable Lady Did Not Welcome And, Indeed, Take Pride In That Description. In The Next Week Or Two This House, The Nation And The Right Honourable Lady Herself, Will Learn Of What Metal She Is Made.

I Would Sooner Receive Injustice In The Queen's Courts Than Justice In A Foreign Court. I Hold That Man Or Woman To Be A Scoundrel Who Goes Abroad To A Foreign Court To Have The Judgments Of The Queen's Courts Overturned, The Actions Of Her Government Countermanded Or The Legislation Of Parliament Struck Down.

We Must Be Mad, Literally Mad, As A Nation To Be Permitting The Annual Inflow Of Some 50,000 Dependents, Who Are For The Most Part The Material Of The Future Growth Of The Immigrant-descended Population. It Is Like Watching A Nation Busily Engaged In Heaping Up Its Own Funeral Pyre.

When We Look At The Astonishing Material Achievements Of The West. We See These Things As The Result, Not Of Compulsion Or Government Action Or The Superior Wisdom Of A Few, But Of That System Of Competition And Free Enterprise, Rewarding Success And Penalising Failure, Which Enables Every Individual To Participate By His Private Decisions In Shaping The Future Of His Society.

I Do Not Keep A Diary. Never Have. To Write A Diary Every Day Is Like Returning To One's Own Vomit.