Rousing call to supporters

About 170 Conservatives from throughout Cornwall and Plymouth heard a stirring message of political spirit and humour when Mrs. Thatcher spoke to them after the lunch at the Queens Hotel, Penzance, on Saturday.

She even commented on the “tiny demonstration” outside from CND supporters that greeted her arrival at the promenade. It may make a lot of noise, she told her audience, but Conservatives believed in the rule of law internally, and upholding our security through sound defence externally.

She found time, before leaving, to meet almost everyone of the guests, moving from table to table with Mr. David Harris MP., shaking hands and talking with them. She had been given a standing ovation at the end of her address.

Mrs. Thatcher spoke of the Government's efforts to get the country's financial climate right, and spoke of the recent news that General—Motors was to invest £100-million. “The reason they gave was that now they could invest in Britain because the whole climate was different … and it is,” she declared

She stressed the importance of helping the unemployed through the youth training scheme, and the new MSC community scheme such as that at Marazion.

She described NATO, now celebrating its 35th anniversary, as “our shield and our security,” and of the EEC she told her audience: “We are right to belong to the European community, let there be no doubt about that. As long as we stick together we have an enormous amount to give the rest of the world.”

As well as a trading block, it was the bastion of science, art and philosophy.