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agree with you totally, as thatchers was the poll tax

ah, but that was agood idea badly promoted!

actually thatchers "Falkland" moment WAS The Falklands (we won that remember)

Are you called dennis thatcher by any chance ? Good idea

I think your missing the point

Thatcher gained credibility (and won votes) by sending HM Forces to retake the Falklands, Blair thought he could do likewise with his dodgy (forged) info about WMD which Saddam simply didnt have, if theres an illegal war you know who to blame.....

anyone with any common sense cannot argue with the basic principles of the Poll tax, why shouldnt 1 person pay less than 4 or 5, its not a taxi ride!

Your missing the point if you read my post i dont support the war never did.But think youll find the tories were all for it.As for poll tax get real,good idea so single man in house pays same as millionaire in mansion ,it was her downfall.Greed is good thatcher went with a tear....

I think you're re-writing history.

Thatchers defence cuts probably led to the Falklands Conflict.

As for the poll tax, why should a multi millionaire pay the same as a widow on a council estate?

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thought i just said that ?

You missed the Falklands success

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

yes, 1 we won, we WONT win in aghanistan, the russians couldnt, we couldnt in the 1800s, the yanks couldnt win in vietnam, indigenous native guerilla fighters rarely lose

1. Did the Falklands garrison get depleted prior to the invasion?
2. There are millions of pensioners as against very few multi-millionares, id rather the pensioner benefit and risk a multimillionare maybe gaining

Yes agree with you was never a winnable war,same as the irish which coincidently the tories really fu45ed up.Then we get back to protest which you dont like.The vietnam war was probally finished by protest.You seem to be digging yourself holes whatever way you turn.

Did the garrison get depleted? I dont think so, but then again, having 80 troops there could be described as a little unambitious?

In 1980 low funding caused many ships to be in harbour for months due to lack of spare parts and fuel. The largest cut in the Royal Navy's conventional forces led to the resignation of the Navy Minister Keith Speed in 1981.

John Nott's defence review concluded that anti-submarine defence would be performed more cheaply by a smaller number of destroyers and frigates. The carrier HMS Hermes was therefore to be scrapped and HMS Invincible sold to Australia. Under the review, the Royal Navy was focussed primarily on anti-submarine warfare under the auspices of NATO. Any out-of-area amphibious operations were considered unlikely. The entire Royal Marines was in jeopardy of being disbanded and the sale of HMS Intrepid and HMS Fearless was mooted.

He was widely criticised by the Royal Navy chiefs for his decision to cut back on government naval expenditure during the severe economic recession of the early 1980s — the cuts originally included the proposed scrapping of the Antarctic patrol ship HMS Endurance, shortly before the outbreak of the Falklands War.


source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aftermath_ ... klands_War

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Nott

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thatchers defence cuts caused the falklands i agrree .Maybe cameron should look at his own cuts.aircraft carriers? history repeating itself ? i hope not but fear so these feckers couldnt run a minicab office !

Galtieri was tempted to invade because a few ships were de-commisioned?

well thats 1 viewpoint, in reality he felt cocky cos France was selling him Mirage jets and excocet missiles, his failing was to attack ships not the harriers flying off them, in which case he could have gained air superiority and won (numerically superior and much faster) , then again Hitler made much the same mistake by switching air raids from our airfields to targetting London, obviously the argies didnt read up on history and air superiority

if the cuts caused the war we should see Argentin try again then.....this time we wont have the harriers

Getting far too deep this.lets just stick to facts thatcher was a greedy good for nothing bitch ! There endeth the lesson