People Are Disposed To Mistake

A Little Nonsense Now And Then Is Not A Bad Thing - Where Would We Politicians Be If We Were Not Allowed To Talk It Sometimes.

Lift The Curtain And 'the State' Reveals Itself As A Little Group Of Fallible Men In Whitehall, Making Guesses About The Future, Influenced By Political Prejudices And Partisan Prejudices, And Working On Projections Drawn From The Past By A Staff Of Economists.

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.

If In The Words Which The Secretary Of State Has Just Used, The Use Of A Nuclear Weapon Is To Be Avoided 'at All Costs'. What Is The Point Of Having One?

Yet We Slink About Like Whipped Curs:;... Our Self-abasement Principally Takes The Form Of Subservience To The United States:;... We Are Under No Necessity To Participate In The American Nightmare Of A Soviet Monster Barely Held At Bay In All Quarters Of The Globe By An Inconceivable Nuclear Armament And By Political Intervention Everywhere From Poland To Cambodia. It Is The Americans Who Need Us In Order To Act Out Their Crazy Scenario... We Simply Do Not Need To Go Chasing Up And Down After The Vagaries Of The Next Ignoramus To Become President Of The United States.