{Crisis Resolving?}[22nd November 1990]

[Redbook8:119][1990[1]122:1039]{Crisis Resolving?}[22nd November 1990]

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The news that Mrs Thatcher* is not to stand for re-election as leader is like the lifting of a great burden from one’s outlook on the World. The Sun shines, the air is crisp and clear, the blood runs warmer and more strongly in the arteries; anything, and everything, is possible.

Personally, I hope that Michael Heseltine now loses the contest,** because he is his Party’s best chance of re-election, and we need a change of government.

But I can afford myself a little pat on the back for intuitive foresight – I identified Michael Heseltine as a strong contender back in 1983. There again, for all I know I may have picked this off someone else.

*[Margaret Thatcher, United Kingdom Prime Minister 1979-1990]

**[He did]

{I heard this [about the candidates] [on the radio]in a Carmarthen shop on the last day of the leadership elections:

‘Douglas Hurd could be your grandad

That John Major*** looks a nice lad

But we are the Hesleteenies....’}

[Based on the Ovalteenies song from the Radio Luxembourg show sponsored by Ovaltine from the 1930s]

***[He won]

***ref II. [[Redbook2:268-270][19830510:2030c]{Malvinas}[10^th May 1983]ff,] 268,

[[­& esp][Redbook2:268-270][19830510:2030f]{Malvinas [continued (4)]}[10^th May 1983],] 270,;

[[Redbook2:285-287][19830612:1230]{Circles of History}[12^th June 1983]ff, &esp [Redbook2:286-287][19830612:1230b]{Circles of History [continued]}[12^th June 1983],] 286.

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