ARWadsworth wrote
Mr Pounder wrote
Nightjar wrote
The Natural Philosopher wrote
Hugh - Was Invisible wrote

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. Colin Bignell

Ha!
At the time a mate of mine said that the wops had invaded the channel
islands.

And had the Falklands fallen

That wouldn’t have happened. The yanks were keeping
an eye on what was happening and would have ****ed
over the Argys if there had been any possibility of that.

Turned out the Argys were so completely ****ing
hopeless that the yanks werent needed.

then Gibraltar would have been next.

Nope.