maggie thatcher

[geoff]

RIP all the servicemen who died unnecessarily. They had plenty of warning to prevent it happening in the first place.

 

See I'm not getting political,& feel I'm not crossing that line when I ask you to name one pm in the last 50 years who has not sent our soldiers abroad in harms way.

 

Can ya!

[Matthew Storrs]

See I'm not getting political,& feel I'm not crossing that line when I ask you to name one pm in the last 50 years who has not sent our soldiers abroad in harms way.

 

Can ya!

 

Took the words out of my mouth. If you think about it any war could be prevented shame it doesn,'t happen tho

[arbogrunt]

totally right Geoff. She was a true 'leader', whatever you think of her politics and deserves some respect because of it. If you think that Britain would be a better country if Michael Foote had been the PM instead...well...keep taking the tablets....

[geoff]

Took the words out of my mouth. If you think about it any war could be prevented shame it doesn,'t happen tho

 

Absolutely mate.

[Gary Prentice]

See I'm not getting political,& feel I'm not crossing that line when I ask you to name one pm in the last 50 years who has not sent our soldiers abroad in harms way.

 

Can ya!

 

Its the governments job to do so.

 

It's also the governments job to act on the intelligence they receive, in a timely manner, to forestall a crisis. The Falkland islanders pleaded for an increased presence by the British Navy well before they were invaded.

 

Our own intelligence services, I believe, were also advocating this and advising our government that the military junta, being so unpopular at the time, were looking to deflect the population away from the economic crisis they were suffering.

 

There were no winners or losers in that conflict, apart from the islanders who stayed British, too many died, IMO unnecessarily.

 

I also hold no political alliance to any party and don't particularly want to continue in this thread. I simply can't justify glorifying showing the argies a thing or two:001_tt2:

[wisecobandit]

Seems the only ppl that didn't like her where from the mining community?

 

She had the british interest and pride at heart and it was a much better place than it is now. The economy was a much better place.

 

So lets take Arthur Scargil, thrown out the NMU in the end by the members, claimed tax in the expenses row for a flat that didn't exist, helped reduce a sentence on a murderer down to 8 years imprisonment....

[treequip]

She never lost an election.

 

Come on Dave, the first election was on the back of the winter of discontent and a Callaghan government that couldn't keep the lights on, the second was on the backs of the servicemen who won the Falklands back. You could have got a chimp elected on either ticket.

 

Oh yes and then her own party booted her out because she was a sure fire looser for the next one

[arbogrunt]

really...ask these fella's what they thought of her...

[chrisgilltreesurgery]

Always a shame when people pass away, I feel for her family but not as much as i feel for all the families that she left with unemployment and now living in povety strucken areas, i feel for simon western, everyone who lost their jobs in the shipyards, consert steel works and the coal mines!

[geoff]

Its the governments job to do so.

 

It's also the governments job to act on the intelligence they receive, in a timely manner, to forestall a crisis. The Falkland islanders pleaded for an increased presence by the British Navy well before they were invaded.

 

Our own intelligence services, I believe, were also advocating this and advising our government that the military junta, being so unpopular at the time, were looking to deflect the population away from the economic crisis they were suffering.

 

There were no winners or losers in that conflict, apart from the islanders who stayed British, too many died, IMO unnecessarily.

 

I also hold no political alliance to any party and don't particularly want to continue in this thread. I simply can't justify glorifying showing the argies a thing or two:001_tt2:

 

Me neither,(glorifying etc),but you stuck your tounge out too early mate,you never directly answered the question.