Margaret Thatcher speaking at the Conservative Party Conference in 1986:<\/p>\n
[youtube]kMSGW0otfrs[\/youtube]<\/p>\n
This Government has rolled back the frontiers of the State, and will roll them back still further.<\/p>\n
So popular is our policy that it’s being taken up all over the world.<\/p>\n
From France to the Phillipines, from Jamaica to Japan, from Malaysia to Mexico, from Sri Lanka to Singapore, privatisation is on the move, there’s even a special oriental version in China.<\/p>\n
The policies we have pioneered are catching on in country after country.<\/p>\n
We Conservatives believe in popular capitalism\u2014believe in a property-owning democracy.<\/p>\n
And it works!<\/p>\n
In Scotland recently, I was present at the sale of the millionth council house: to a lovely family with two children, who can at last call their home their own.<\/p>\n
Now let’s go for the second million!<\/p>\n
And what’s more, millions have already become shareholders.<\/p>\n
And soon there will be opportunities for millions more, in British Gas, British Airways, British Airports and Rolls-Royce.<\/p>\n
Who says we’ve run out of steam.<\/p>\n
We’re in our prime!<\/p>\n
The great political reform of the last century was to enable more and more people to have a vote.<\/p>\n
Now the great Tory reform of this century is to enable more and more people to own property.<\/p>\n
Popular capitalism is nothing less than a crusade to enfranchise the many in the economic life of the nation.<\/p>\n
We Conservatives are returning power to the people.<\/p>\n
That is the way to one nation, one people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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