Chapter 1613 – Anticipating the Enemy Beyond a Thousand Miles

In order to leave Margaret Thatcher high and dry to go and manifest a close ally with Reagan, Alan Wilson offered to bring Scargill, the coal union leader, to sit in the police station while Margaret Thatcher was on her trip to take the heat out of the Prime Minister who had manifested his love for her.

“Can we really do that?” Mrs. Thatcher didn’t show the slightest difficulty; in her opinion that’s how it should be done, and there are times when socialism has something to teach.

“To put Margaret in a good mood for her trip, and anyway, you’re not in the country, so who are they accusing?” Alan Wilson patted his chest and said that everything was left to him, daring to upset his own prime minister like that? Should not pay a little price?

The prime minister is also called the first chancellor of the exchequer, the first chancellor of the exchequer to visit, the chancellor of the exchequer, Lawson, is the word of the United Kingdom, play the role of leading the government. Alan Wilson remembers that Lawson, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, is not a walk in the park replaceable, do quite a few years of the Conservative government giant.

He decided to talk to Arnold, and a phone call made Arnold come to himself and asked how the relationship with Nigel Lawson was.

“Sitting on a rocket.” Arnold replied dryly, then asked rhetorically, “Father, why are you asking about this, I’m getting along with Hurley now, and although she’s a little vain at times, she’s very well-behaved and obedient in front of me… something like a union?”

“Who asked you about such a thing? I’m just asking about connections, when did I ask you about the rocket ride? You’re the one who didn’t ask anyone, opened your mouth and blurted it out.” Alan Wilson frowned, “Emotional matters are also more prone to hatred, do you think I don’t have enough enemies? In erecting a Chancellor of the Exchequer out of it.”

Arnold understood as soon as he heard it, and immediately began to comfort, “Lawson and I have a good relationship, and now we also maintain a good friendship? Can help each other out.”

“That’s not bad, I don’t care about you this year, but there is a mental preparation for the civil service exam. Albert is actually a bit more age appropriate, but he had to join the military. I and the age of retirement is not very far away, can only try my best will pull to the right position, also depends on your own performance to do so.”

Alan Wilson inquired to the son who inherited the mantle, “What route are you going to take? The native route or the overseas territory route, the latter is easier to promote, just like how officers in the Rheinland Group Army are promoted faster than native officers. The former is easier to accumulate connections.”

If there was enough time, Alan Wilson designed from efficiency, of course, to get his rank up in the overseas territories first and then return to the home territory to parachute into important departments.

If it is from the military Albert, it is certainly very suitable, but set on Arnold seems to merit time is tight task heavy.

Want to have a smooth career, in addition to Whitehall itself, if there is a cabinet to look favorably more half-heartedly, in addition to the prime minister, the cabinet number two is the chancellor of the exchequer, at least do not appear hostile.

So now Arnold must answer honestly, there is no because of emotional problems in the future to cause obstacles.

“Father, I’ll be able to get Lawson out in no time.” Arnold gambled and swore that he definitely didn’t make the daughter of the Minister of Finance into an enemy, the relationship between the two was really good, and in order to aggravate his sincerity, he also continued, “I’ve already mapped out Camilla’s recent itinerary, and I’ll be able to get it done right away.”

“Hm? What’s that supposed to mean? As if I know the inside story, in a country the size of England, all sorts of accidents happen every day. Is there a need to specialize?” Alan Wilson replied absentmindedly, “The past will eventually become the past, and the Crown Prince will always face reality. It’s up to the Crown Princess to cope.”

The news that Scargill had been detained the day after Mrs. Thatcher’s trip caused outrage among the coal workers, and forty miners stormed the London headquarters of the Coal Industry Authority and occupied the Industrial Relations Office, demanding that the authorities release Scargill immediately.

The situation became even more critical. The steelworkers sympathized with the coal miners’ strike. They just haven’t gone on strike yet. Dockers, on the other hand, launched a strike struggle in solidarity with the coal miners, and some ports ceased operations.

In fact, Scargill in the London Police Department is not how, Alan Wilson also took the time to come and sit for a while, and this workers’ leader talked and laughed, but also to let it recognize the reality, inflation has fallen off, the unemployed population, although the unemployed population is straight to the two million, but the digestion of unemployed people’s re-employment training is also in progress, as long as the coal workers do not continue to insist that the United Kingdom is fully able to open the industrial upgrading.

“Wouldn’t it also be good for the unemployed steelworkers to now be put to work building the national telecoms network? Whitehall would also like to see the plans moved forward on time, and Mr. Scargill will know my speech in the House of Commons about the nation’s dependence on finance for its livelihood, which is also something Whitehall opposes.”

If it had been a third-country lezzo man, Alan Wilson minding this sort of crap would have been set on boring, I’d have to watch the blood flow and expect a big story out of Britain.

In any other country he would have had to send someone towards the striking workers to shoot them to solve the problem, but this is after all the country he lives in and can’t do that.

At the same time as Mrs. Thatcher’s visit, the Cabinet also lashed out at the striking workers, and the ministers concerned also came out in force, making speeches to verbally attack the striking workers and accusing the union leader, Arthur Scargill, of inciting a riot and intentionally “bringing down parliamentary democracy”.

Alan Wilson didn’t go on the record, but merely reiterated some of the old clichés, such as that the Scargill-led strike could not be won.

Then there was the hope that the Labor Party in opposition would help the government at this time, and that although consensus politics no longer existed, Labor could still have a beneficial influence.

After all, traditionally, Labor’s relationship with the major unions speaks for itself, and Alan Wilson met with Callaghan, the father of the House of Commons, before releasing coal union leader Scargill. It was even suggested that Callaghan could be allowed to sit in during the negotiations and work together to find a solution to explain the misunderstanding.

Prime Finance that is a prime ministerial proposition with long hair, Whitehall’s proposition is to carry out upgrading of high end industries, which are vastly different and not a plan at all.

Obviously anyone with eyes can tell which one is more favorable to Labor, and Callaghan has said that Labor has been keeping an eye on the progress of the strikes while being ready to help the ruling party clear up misunderstandings at any time.

Misunderstandings, that’s what Alan Wilson has been saying to the various industrial unions, not the government’s Cabinet ministers, mouthing off some threat to democracy.

“Look at Pamela’s Arms Manufacturing Company, when has there ever been a strike?” Alan Wilson spoke up, “The resignation rate is a little higher, but every laborer who leaves is satisfied.”

The key people is the Huawei model, after swallowing this Saudi military sales, the same is in accordance with the previous distribution of money, the whole of the United Kingdom alone. Of course the research and development costs are really high, now exploring the development of the next generation of fighter jets, the general business can not learn.

The difference is that Mountbatten Arms Manufacturing is really profitable, these coal mines remain unprofitable even if they are maintained, and the country will not allow this to continue.

While the strike on the mainland still continues, Margaret Thatcher has traveled to Camp David, the vacation destination of the American President, for bilateral talks with President Reagan.

The two discussed and clarified the issue of the Star Wars program, which was affecting relations between the United States and the Soviet Union, as well as the United States and Europe. Reagan said in the meeting, “Star Wars program” is desirable, because it will be a huge pressure on the Soviet Union’s economy, the Soviet Union also has the technical ability to carry out the “Star Wars program”, but in the economy can not afford it.

Reagan emphasized that “there must be a limit to the ascetic life to which the Soviet government will drive its people. Soviet leaders will have to make an agonizing choice between continuing high military spending and improving the lives of their people, and as a result their internal reforms must be accelerated.”

But Mrs. Thatcher had just read from the Cabinet Secretary, before she arrived, that the United States was running a record deficit this year, a sign that American competitiveness in industry was eroding sharply.

People don’t need American products and are beating the U.S. industrially, so she spoke up and said, “The key is to balance the finances and not to have problems on our own side. But the current situation in the UK, as the President knows, is a really serious problem.”

“America’s protection is mutual, some countries can’t take advantage for nothing without paying.” Reagan said this seeing that Mrs. Thatcher didn’t reply and emphasized, “Of course the country I’m talking about is not Britain.”

“There is no denying the strength of the United States to a country that has a U.S. garrison present on its soil.” Mrs. Thatcher tried to remember Allen Wilson’s facetious words, “What we did with the colonies, Washington can do with Germany and Japan, it just depends on whether Washington wants to.”

“Victory will be ours as long as the finances can support it.” Mrs. Thatcher squeezes out a smile to express her approval of Reagan’s views.

Mrs. Thatcher reiterated the following points: that the purpose of the United States and the West was not to achieve superiority but to maintain parity while taking into account Soviet developments; that the implementation of the ‘Strategic Defense Initiative’ would be negotiated, in accordance with obligations under the treaty; that the most important purpose of the program was to strengthen rather than weaken the nuclear deterrent; and that the purpose of East-West negotiations should be to gain security by reducing the levels of offensive weapons on both sides.

No one believes these words literally, and Mrs. Thatcher’s takeaway from this visit is that the U.S. is going to do something about its own sure-to-be-record-breaking trade deficits this year, and that Alan Wilson said the U.S. would do something about the two defeated countries, and Mrs. Thatcher was going to believe it, but it seems to me now that it’s just a matter of when it’s going to start.

“There he goes again.” Mrs. Thatcher, with a dastardly look on her face, and an expression that he had faked it again, had actually judged that the United States would not ignore the trade deficit, and the next solution.