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There are more myths about Black Wednesday than the Greeks ever created.

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John Major
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 29
Autobiographer
Bank Manager
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Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
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London
England
Sir John Major
Rt. Hon. Sir John Major
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In housing in the fifties in Britain and the sixties, we pulled down the terraces - destroyed whole communities and replaced them with tower blocks and we built walkways that became rat-runs for muggers. That was the fashionable opinion. But it was wrong.
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When your back is against the wall, there is only one thing to do, and that is turn around and fight.
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I don't think nations can stand aside for ethnic cleansing and genocide.
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They seem to have moved from total opposition to total subservience.
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