○  撒切尔夫人1985年离职演说稿  ○

People all over Britain are finding a new confidence and a new pride.The Conservative Government didn't create that spirit. It's the true spirit of the British people. What we did was just set it free.We were determined to give people back the incentive to work and the confidence to save.That’s why we have to cut inflations：that’s why we would determine to take power from the trade union bosses and give it back to Union members;and that's why we abolished a whole mass of controls，and we stopped government trying to run businesses，which is something politicians have never been much good at. So we privatised them. The manager is managed，the workers shared in the ownership and the industries turned from losses into profit. As a result of all this，the living standards in this country are the highest there have ever been. Britain really is a country again and his prosperity is spreading steadily through the Community.

　　过去8年，英国发生了变迁，这一变迁对于当代或许尤为重要。简而言之，这一变迁即精神的革新。英国举国上下正致力探寻一种新的自信、自豪的精神。这种精神不是保守党政府的发明创造，而是英国人民的真正思想。我们所做的只是使其释放。我们坚定不移地将工作动力和储蓄信心归还民众。所以，我们要降低通货膨胀;所以，我们让工会老板还权于民;所以，我们革除诸多桎桎梏，制止政府经商，因为这非其所长。所以，我们进行私有改造，使经理接受管理，工人分享所有权，企业扭亏为盈。其结果是，人民生活水平得以空前提高。英国再次真正成为一个国家，其繁荣向整个欧共体稳步延伸。

　　Thirty years ago only thirty people in a hundred owned their own homes. Today it's sixty-five in every hundred.

　　30年前，有房者只占30%，如今这一数字达到65%。

　　It's always the dream and the ambition of the Conservative Party that what used to be the luxuries of the few should become the daily experience，indeed the necessity of the many.It's happening with homes：it’s happening with shares，and it is happening with savings. And the result has been a greater prosperity. It's not only our standard of living that has increased，it means we’ve been able to put greater resources into health and social security，but you can only do that when you first created the prosperity.And all this has been achieved by government and people toget

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