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Meet the Radical Majority
Globalization and immigration have many losers, not few. Britain's just spoke up.
The good ole' days.
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When Margaret Thatcher visited the College of Europe in 1988, she joked that a British leader coming to address an elite college of European civil servants was like Genghis Khan being invited to a peace conference. But in what became known as the Bruges speech, Thatcher's message was anything but hostile. Nobody, she said, can deny that Britons are European; there are plenty of poppies in the fields of Flanders to prove it.
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