Nightjar wrote:
On 17/04/2012 21:35, Rod Speed wrote:


"Nightjar" wrote in message
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On 17/04/2012 19:04, Tim Streater wrote:
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Nightjar wrote:

On 17/04/2012 14:24, ARWadsworth wrote:
Nightjar wrote:
On 17/04/2012 01:24, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Hugh - Was Invisible wrote:
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She was heading for a huge election defeat until she
manufactured the Falklands War.

*shrug* takes two to tango.

It would have been cheaper to give every inhabitant a
million pounds and ask them to relocated to a Scottish
island, which, at the time, is where most people in
Britain probably thought the Falklands were.


That's called surrender in my dictionary. And Mrs T was not
Italian.

I have little doubt that she would have been quite willing to
leave the islanders to their fate, if that had been the
politically best policy and if the geology of the seabed
around the Falklands were not very similar to that of the
North Sea oil fields.

Don't be silly. She'd have lasted five minutes in office with a
policy like that.

I did say if it had been politically the best policy, which
obviously it was not.

You're also seriously misreading her character.

Nobody gets to be PM without a serious lust for power.

That's not right, some end up PM by default like Major did.

Your argument being that he didn't want it?


He gave it to Edwina:-)

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Adam