Oil, natural gas and vast reserves of coal were well known at the time. It was also termed the first war that was fought over natural resources.
She wasn't a footy fan like. http://keirradnedge.com/2013/04/08/...mbership-cards-and-the-1980-olympics-boycott/
Good owld Glesga. http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/201...ay-fo_n_3041861.html?1365484435&ncid=webmail1
Spot on. The Falklands was the most blatant waste of the brave men and women our armed forces, purely to get that **** elected back into an office she knew she wasn't going to happen. Her opinion rating was deeper at the time than the pits she happily closed. Tony Blair is labelled a war criminal for attempting to tackle the scourge of world peace in international rouge states and terrorism, that were plotting to kill citizens of the US and western Europe well before any Iraq invasion but Thatcher is lauded for sacrificing Britains finest for a 10 square mile of frozen wasteland 8000 miles away and off the coast of Argentina. Or did she just help her political financiers in the oil industry retain their drilling fields whilst pretending to be Winston Churchill reincarnated? If she had served 1 term in office and then been ****ed off, she would have been moderately successful. Council house sales were a good policy and no one denies that unions needed tackling but not ending. In serving 12 years, she totally ****ed this country for generations to come. She decimated industry and ended the UK's ability to self support and turned us into 1 giant call centre owned by Germany, the utilities now rape us every day, railways are beyond the working family, communities are split and society lies in ruins. The NE was laid to waste then its population labelled moaning Minnies and told to leave its families and travel South to take up menial tasked, minimum paid skivvy jobs. Far from being an iron lady in Europe, the French and Germans just laughed at her and basically carried on regardless. We, instead of being dominant in Europe were dangled like a sprat off the fishing rods of the real power brokers. She looked after the rich to the detriment of everyone else. Even half of her party plotted to rid us of her for most of her dictatorship. They knew what a danger she was. Who will forget Geoffrey Howes resignation speech in the Commons, where a senior member of the Cabinet savaged the then glorified public face of what was a rotten, vile, evil person behind the Satchi & Satchi generated false image. Oh and then there is the poll tax and the devastating riots she instigated. Respect? You can shove it up your arse Thatcher. I'm just gutted it didn't happen 30 years ago and this country would have been so much better off. There will be no silence in my household; no mourning for the loss of this witch. Good riddence I say.
What if it had been the IRA that had done it though, and were successful in the Brighton bomb...see posts above
I didn't want any terrorist organization to end her reign I wanted the voters to do it. They would have done so too in the 83/84 election, as her opinion poll ratings were lower than ANY serving PM since polls began. She manufactured the Falklands War purely as political vehicle and retained office on the backs of the brave and honourable men and women of our amazing armed forces. I am a democrat not a terrorists ally chum. The ballot box is my weapon of choice.
They didn't go to war over the grazing rights to the land mate, it was ALL about the oil, no mistake and time will tell cos back then we didn't have the technology to get at it, now we do.
Not a great PM, but at the time the best thing to happen to this country, deffo better than Blair & Brown, especially the lying 2 faced sell us out to Europe Blair
hey! It's not all bad there! I spent a few years living there... Ok, you may be right. Arbroath are still my scottish team, nothing beats a trip to Gayfield!
Call Blair all you want, but during his time in office our country was as fair and prosperous as I have ever known it either before or since..His best, and so far most lasting legacy, was in my opinion, the introduction of the minimum wage. This put paid to the virtual slave labour, that is people working long hours for under a quid an hour, which came about under Thatcher due to the mauling of the unions and reduction of workers rights and conditions..
