This insular program of national revival increasingly estranged her from continental Europe’s more dirigiste approach. In her famous Bruges speech in 1988, she thundered: “We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain, only to see them re-imposed at a European level, with a European super-state exercising a new dominance from Brussels.”
这一孤立的国家复兴计划让他与欧洲大陆的国家干预经济方式渐行渐远。1988年，在著名的布鲁日演讲中，她振聋发聩地说道：“我们没有能够在英国成功地撤回国家的界线，而是让国家回到了欧洲水平，一个超级欧洲国在布鲁塞尔行使新主宰权。”她把英国与欧盟的关系弄得一团糟，直至今天从未恢复。