Chapter 1650 – Visit to the Soviet Union

Immediately afterward, Alan Wilson went to see Major, the Minister of Industry, to discuss the plans for the City of Finance in London, and also to ask what he thought of Heseltine’s departure, and Major, with a look of bitterness on his face, said, “What is it that you wish to ask, Sir; whether it is what is to be expected of Heseltine as a man, or something else.”

“The Minister is truly loyal to the Prime Minister.” Alan Wilson smiled and complimented, “I can certainly understand the idea, but then, isn’t it true that his views on Europe have angered the Prime Minister?”

“Those Atlanticists, huh.” Major couldn’t help but shake his head as he replied, “They are skeptical of Europe and believe that Britain should stand with the strong, and the strong is of course America.”

“But it’s not good to be too strong.” Alan Wilson replied calmly, “Our geographical location cannot be changed, although those Atlanticists pay lip service to what Britain is a world power, you do not know that in the last two decades, the United States has nearly used every means possible in the hope that Britain will withdraw from the Straits of Malacca, and I doubt that the Atlanticists will hand over Malaya to highlight the special relationship between Britain and the United States. ”

John Major was hearing similar voices, except that they were not very loud, “Any voice in the electoral system will come up, but giving Malaya away to manifest the special relationship? That can’t be mainstream.”

The reason it’s not mainstream is entirely because the people who say it have an alarming incidence of cardiovascular disease, otherwise it might be mainstream in the Conservative Party.

The Minister for Industry is clearly unaware that the Supreme Authority has done too much for the benefit of the UK, Alan Wilson turned the tables, “I mainly want to find out about the progress of the Financial City, bearing in mind that perhaps my term of office is running out, and if I can make this work, it will be a contribution to the development of the UK.”

One of the items in the Financial City, the Doges Island Enterprise Zone, where there is no land tax, training tax, or planning restrictions, instead there is a one hundred percent tax break on capital costs and a ten year tax holiday.

The boundaries of the Enterprise Zone are restricted to the Isle of Doges, but the London Docklands Development Corporation is in fact territorially vast, mostly located north of the Thames in Tawerghamletts and Newham, and also extending to the south bank of the Thames.

After the reforms to financial regulation were passed, and the amount of work changed, Margaret Thatcher promised to fund an extension to the London Underground, and even offered to let civil servants work in Canary Wharf.

This was a definite no-no, and if civil servants went to work there, Alan Wilson would be hard pressed to find a reason to think that these elected ministers would be of any use at all.

As an aside, under current plans Canary Wharf offers 70,000 financial sector jobs, to overtake Frankfurt as a banking hub.

It is also no longer a monolithic office culture, employing some 120,000 people, counting hotels, stores and restaurants, and residential property is in full swing, and when complete, will be the heart of London’s financial city.

“The plan is satisfactory.” After talking about it, Alan Wilson spoke up, “I think it can be both, the leadership of the Sterling Area and a transit point for American investment in Europe. This project is also in line with the current international status of the United Kingdom, both of which are important, the pound area is the foundation, and when this foundation is strong, American investment in Europe will listen to our plans.”

In fact, the financial state brought about by the national strength is very weak, the latter day British pensions almost stormed, is not it after the departure of the European Union, the United Kingdom lacks the financial resources to realize? Whether it is a tax increase or a tax cut, the key is to have money. The lack of financial sources cannot always be compensated for by printing money.

In John Major here turned around, Alan Wilson went to 10 Downing Street, to the financial city are all praise words, Margaret Thatcher listened to the conversation muttered, “you still have defense against the United States.”

“America’s on the same course as Britain, of course I’m defensive.” Alan Wilson acknowledged with a nod, “The Soviet Union’s development is not in conflict with Britain’s, and the Soviet Union’s financial system is about as good as nonexistent. If the Soviet Union does not become a threat to the United States, is the United States going to use its strengths to crowd out areas where we also have strengths? Honestly, I want the free world to have an advantage over the Soviet Union, but never want the Soviet Union to be stepped on.”

The more the U.S. feels the advantage is mine, the more it treats its allies as if they were its own, and it’s all happened more than once. As it happens, what, decades later the US also feels the advantage is mine, at least the Democrats do.

In the face of competition from one of the major powers, the City at the Top of the Hill doesn’t see much of a problem as long as Europe cooperates fully with the U.S. and ensures that the U.S. economic cycle doesn’t go awry.

In the case of a bitter Europe, anyway, a certain big country’s population has collapsed, bite the bullet and die for ten years, a certain big country will have no backbone, although it may be difficult to deal with than the Soviet Union and Japan for a period of time, but the world is still the city on top of the mountain after all.

Of course, the premise of all this is that European countries should be willing to sacrifice for the greater good, anyway, Russia is not the Soviet Union, European countries sacrifice a little bit is not a big deal, as long as to ensure that the United States of America’s prosperity, of course, the free world will still be back, ten years after the biggest enemy are negative population growth, the ultimate victory still belongs to the United States.

If the European countries don’t cooperate with the program of prosperity of the United States, then the United States will have to make difficult decisions, and sometimes have to abandon some uncooperative good people.

A recession in Europe would also be able to inspire a wave of immigration to the U.S., and perhaps increase the percentage of whites in the U.S. It’s a two-for-one deal, but the bad elements, centered on France and Germany, always fail to look at the big picture. This is very much a headache for the United States, which wants to lead the free world to extreme sublimity.

“There is no way the Soviet Union will weaken, the confrontation will go on for a long time, but it’s just a way of relieving the pressure.” Margaret Thatcher rarely mocked up Alan Wilson, “In fact, my greatest extravagance is only to hope that the Soviet Union will give up its military pressure on Europe.”

“This is our common expectation.” Alan Wilson expressed his approval, “But next, without military pressure, isn’t it time to put military pressure on the Soviet Union? After all, everyone knows that NATO was founded before the Warsaw Pact, and originally we were going to besiege the Soviet Union, only then everyone in the United States got addicted to vegetables, causing the Soviet Union to override the United States. Once military pressure on the USSR diminished, would the next cycle be repeated, with military pressure on Eastern Europe, which would then lead to the USSR choosing confrontation again?”

Now the conversation is actually very politically incorrect, NATO was indeed founded before the Warsaw Pact, and it was even founded when Britain took the lead in joining forces with France and making a joint proposal to the United States.

“Sir, I didn’t realize it during my first term, but after the start of my second term, I noticed that you were leaning more and more towards the Soviet Union.” Mrs. Thatcher recalled the passing of several years and asked directly in return, “Have you been indifferent to all the crimes of the Soviet Union since its inception.”

“Am I not indifferent when I let local anti-British elements in Malaya disappear every day for the sake of Britain’s interests?”

Alan Wilson, thinking you’re joking, replied, “All I know is that triangles have stability, and Britain has to balance the world if it wants to make its voice heard. If the Soviet Union is a complete non-threat, Britain is next. The purpose of the Iron Curtain speech was to provoke a confrontation between the U.S. and the Soviet Union and to preserve the power for Britain to rise again, not some special Anglo-American relationship. Britain can have a special relationship with any country if there is an interest.”

“Sometimes Labour’s policy is a bit questionable, but it never touches the point of offshore balance, and I hope the Conservatives can do the same, and the Atlanticist voices still need to be kept in check.”

The Supreme Authority was very honest, and it was always through these private conversations that he made Mrs. Thatcher see that it was the right thing to do, rather than assuming that the Soviet Union was immensely powerful, to the point where it was all but withdrawing its troops from the GDR, only to come back and try to pull the strings.

Mrs. Thatcher may not have liked to hear it very much, as if unemployment had never been addressed in the two terms of the Conservative government, but she didn’t want to hear what Alan Wilson had to say as well.

For the development of the United Kingdom Alan Wilson has his own views, if Mrs. Thatcher’s term of office, it happens to get the plan failed, although some of the things in his youth so that he may have some loss of the Iron Lady, but there is no guarantee that it will not be the time to settle scores, and even Churchill’s descendants have been liquidated, and do not care about more than one.

Mrs. Thatcher obviously heard the strings, dissatisfied with the rhetorical question, “It seems that you to me as Prime Minister’s approach to governance, has always been viewed with a harsh eye, is that I led the United Kingdom to defeat Argentina.”

“The plan to defeat Argentina was formulated by me in the fifties. My son even went to the front line himself.”

Alan Wilson frowned and sneered, “You might as well have said something about the unemployment rate and the vow to control fiscal spending, only to have it all handed out as unemployment benefits, there’s still discussion to be had.”

Near Christmas, Margaret Thatcher had already set the trip to visit the Soviet Union, the time was set for after the year, in the private countless war of words, the name of the Cabinet Secretary also appeared among the visiting team, Alan Wilson a face I am afraid that you messed up the tone, so that the Iron Lady was full of disbelief.

Prior to her trip to the Soviet Union, Mrs. Thatcher was to visit Germany and France first, and then leave five days for the Soviet Union, the whole visit lasting a week. Alan Wilson had no objection to this, and there was a real need to unite the European countries before the Soviet Union made its visit.

Before that, Alan Wilson suggested to Margaret Thatcher that she send the Foreign Secretary, Geoffrey Howe, to visit once first as a warm-up, mainly to test the waters regarding the Iran-Iraq war.

If Mrs. Thatcher was able to get Maphead and herself to issue a joint statement in the middle of her visit to the Soviet Union, it is believed that this voice was decisive and helped the descent of peace in the Middle East.

Ten thousand reluctant foreign minister, full of complaints before the new year, traveled to Moscow in the cold winter months, the heart vowed to the time to leave the political world, must be exposed to the couples store.