When I hear the name of Richard Body I hear the sound of flapping white coats.
John Major 1994
Category: Insulting Conservatives, Eurosceptic
The EU will not stop wars: it wants an army to fight them.
John Redwood 2001
Category: Defence, War, Eurosceptic
It does mean, if this is the idea, the end of Britain as an independent European state...it means the end of a thousand years of history.
Hugh Gaitskell 03/10/1962
Category: Europe & Britain, Eurosceptic
I have very strong views about Europe. We're quite the best country. We rescued them. We're not going to get entangled with them. We've got to keep our own independence. Is that clear?
Margaret Thatcher 10/1999
At a party conference fringe meeting
Category: Eurosceptic
Europe is... a monument to the vanity of individuals, a programme whose inevitable destiny is failure.
Margaret Thatcher 03/2002
Category: European Union , European Constitution, European Federalism, European Integration, Eurosceptic
We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the State in Britain, only to see them re-imposed at a European level, with a European Super-State exercising a new dominance from Brussels.
Margaret Thatcher 20/09/1988
Speech to the College of Europe, Bruges
Category: Europe & Britain, Eurosceptic
I have never understood why public opinion about European ideas should be taken into account.
Raymond Barre
Category: Public Opinion, Eurosceptic
