Margaret Thatcher accused of holding 'unabashedly racist' views

[joebloggs]

Margaret Thatcher has been accused by the Australian foreign minister of having held "unabashedly racist" views after he revealed that the late former British prime minister had warned him of the challenge posed by immigration from Asia.

read more here .. http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2...d-racist-views

[Dedworth]

All the germs and filth are coming out of the woodwork - my mate in Sydney said Carr's bent and does nothing but line his and his mates pockets. He said they had that Germaine Greer trollop on the TV last night saying Mrs Thatcher should have been prosecuted as a war criminal

[Arthur Little]

Most likely Thatcher was referring to the HUGE influx from the Indian sub-continent and Pakistan ... and certainly NOT to migrants from the Philippines.

Indeed, I read somewhere recently that she had been extremely praiseworthy of Ex-President Fidel Ramos and the people of these islands in a speech she gave to them during a mid-1990s visit to Manila.

[grahamw48]

Well she was probably right.

Just because I was married to a Filipina for 15 years and have a mixed race son and two Filipino stepkids doesn't mean that I can't make honest comments on immigration and its possible effects on the 'host' population.

[raynaputi]

Indeed, I read somewhere recently that she had been extremely praiseworthy of Ex-President Fidel Ramos and the people of these islands in a speech she gave to them during a mid-1990s visit to Manila.

Yep. I posted this link http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/108355 in the other thread about her speech when she was in the Philippines on 1996.

[Arthur Little]

Yep. I posted this link http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/108355 in the other thread about her speech when she was in the Philippines on 1996.

Yes ... come to think of it, that IS the one I read, Rayna.

[joebloggs]

All the germs and filth are coming out of the woodwork

or is it the truth dedworth

I've posted before about this, thatcher made 'the primary purpose rule' law in 1982, your lucky labour scrapped it dedworth or maybe your wife wouldn't have been allowed in the UK

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/special/po...05/straw.shtml

[Dedworth]

or is it the truth dedworth

I've posted before about this, thatcher made 'the primary purpose rule' law in 1982, your lucky labour scrapped it dedworth or maybe your wife wouldn't have been allowed in the UK

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/special/po...05/straw.shtml

Mrs D's a Nurse & came to the UK on a work visa

[joebloggs]

Mrs D's a Nurse & came to the UK on a work visa

well we're the lucky ones then, because 1,000s of spouses were refused visa's under thatcher, thatcher and family values, but really a 'homebreaker'

[grahamw48]

The Tories were in power when my ex got her visa.

Cost me 40 quid and a few simple 'proofs'.

Same for the kids 5 years later...also under the Tories.