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AnatolyKasparov wrote:Terrific news about Farage and HnH.

Home Secretary Amber Rudd has suggested Britons could only book a holiday abroad if they went through the Foreign Office before Margaret Thatcher came to power, in a speech at a centre-right thinktank. (Politics Live, Guardian)

“I remember my father, who set up a business, saying to me that if you wanted to get a telephone line in your business it could take months, it could take years,” she told the guests at the launch, in previously unreported remarks.

Those were extraordinary days then, if you wanted a sandwich on British Rail you had to be pretty hungry. If you were going on holiday, you booked it through the FCO rather than through Thomas Cook or Booking.com. Those were such different days and most of us, until very recently, thought that those days had gone for good.

PorFavor wrote:

Home Secretary Amber Rudd has suggested Britons could only book a holiday abroad if they went through the Foreign Office before Margaret Thatcher came to power, in a speech at a centre-right thinktank. (Politics Live, Guardian)

I think it was rather more than a suggestion if the following quote (same source as the one above) is accurate:

“I remember my father, who set up a business, saying to me that if you wanted to get a telephone line in your business it could take months, it could take years,” she told the guests at the launch, in previously unreported remarks.

Those were extraordinary days then, if you wanted a sandwich on British Rail you had to be pretty hungry. If you were going on holiday, you booked it through the FCO rather than through Thomas Cook or Booking.com. Those were such different days and most of us, until very recently, thought that those days had gone for good.

Edited - typo

Russia used 419 fake accounts to tweet about Brexit, data shows

Researchers find that accounts run from a St Petersburg troll farm tried to sow discord between Britons over the referendum (Guardian)