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Re: Owen Paterson: Anger as Tory MP avoids suspension in rule shake-up
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Originally Posted by Pierre
I know she made speeches on law and order, just not the one in the picture you posted.
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We all make mistakes - except, in this case...
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I come last to what many would put first. The Rule of Law.
The first people to uphold the law should be governments. It is tragic that the Socialist Government, to its lasting shame, should have lost its nerve and shed its principles over the People's Republic of Clay Cross. And that a group of the Labour Party should have tried to turn the Shrewsbury pickets into martyrs.
On both occasions the law was broken. On one, violence was done. [end p41] No decent society can live like that. No responsible party should condone it. (Applause).
The first duty of Government is to uphold the law. If it tries to bob and weave and duck around that duty when its inconvenient, if government does that, then so will the governed, and then nothing is safe—not home, not liberty, not life itself.
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https://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/102777
1975 Oct 10
Margaret Thatcher
Speech to Conservative Party Conference
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There is always light.
If only we’re brave enough to see it.
If only we’re brave enough to be it.
If my post is in bold and this colour, it's a Moderator Request.
Last edited by Hugh; 08-12-2021 at 11:05.
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