thatchers done one

Didn't Frankie Boyle used to be a comedian? What's he doing now that he's ceased to be funny?

 

She died in the Ritz Hotel and had been staying there since Christmas..... WTF????

 

Because of course he wasn't a terrorist. Was he?

 

Ulster is British, the Irish Republic is Irish- not sure what your point is, Stan.

I imagine Gerry and co are just pissed off because she and her government stood up to the 10 Hunger Strikers.

Perhaps their killing of Airey Neave shaped her views?

Their blowing up of the Brighton Hotel confirms she was 100% right.

 

Apparently they had bigger rooms and better lifts, and in her frailty, these were of value.

(**** that she was/is)

 

Jesus, that made me laugh.

Some of the stuff on this thread is lower than a snake's belly and it genuinely saddens me to see so many people consumed by their illogical toxic hatred of one of our democratically- elected (3 times in a row) PMs.

Some real political basket cases on here.

 

Know your history, Dumbo. The Six Counties were carved out of Eire precisely because Britain had previously inundated them with Scottish Protestants.

 

There were more than a few questions asked at the time about why we hadn't sent even a minimum force to defend the islands considering there had been a so many rumblings about an imminent Argy invasion.
But as is often the case soldiers lives are usually expendable when it comes to politics and there's nothing like a good war to pick up a few votes.

 

That's one view, Stan. There are others. How far do you want to go back?

 

More a fact than a view...

If you want to go back further, you'll find there is even less reason for Great Britain to be involved in Ireland at all.

 

Down to complacent embassy officials in Buenos Aires and a lack of rigour in intelligence circles.

However if you wish to see it through a bizarre distorting prism of some plot to kill working class men that's your perogative.

 

What part of "biased and for an IRA leader" don't you understand?

 

88 years too late

 

There was plenty. Educate yourself pls Stan.......

 

This is an exception to prove the rule about no politics on here. I'll let it run, as long as people are 'reasonable' and we don't drift off too far, as such can we end the discussion on Ireland on here. Ta.

 

The Ulster plantations go back centuries and are older than the USA, Ulster is British by the democratic will of the majority there and Thatchers defiance in the face of IRA attacks has helped keep Ulster British to this day. No surrender.

 

Absolute ****e. It was General Galtieri's main policy, and he made no secret about it. Don't try to re-invent history to protect your Tory idol, she was a ruthless bitch.