The 1984 Brighton bomb forced Margaret Thatcher to tear up what would have been the most divisive speech of her premiership, in which she planned to accuse not only militant miners but the entire Labour party of being “the enemy within” and part of an “insurrection” against democracy. Thatcher’s personal papers reveal that when the IRA bomb exploded in her Brighton hotel, at 2.54am on 12 October 1984, her secretaries were still retyping the final draft of her party conference speech, in which she was to accuse Neil Kinnock of being a “puppet” leader of a Labour party that had been “hijacked” by the “enemies of democracy”. Reports of Thatcher’s infamous “enemy within” speech, delivered in private to the Conservative backbench 1922 committee the previous July, provoked widespread outrage, because she had appeared to say Britain’s mining communities were as dangerous an enemy as the Argentinian dictator General Galtieri had been over the Falklands. Nuff said
Dint like him then. PS Did your employer pay for your house or drugs. NUM . At least get it right. I don't want to be mistaken as UDM.