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AIBU to not at all surprised at things the news are saying about Thatcher?

34 replies

Roasties · 28/12/2012 13:48

I'm not surprised

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yohohoho · 28/12/2012 13:54

Link?

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threesocksfullofchocs · 28/12/2012 13:55

???
some of us are caught up in kid land....

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WhereMyMilk · 28/12/2012 14:14

What are they saying?...

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BigShinyBaubles · 28/12/2012 14:15

?!!

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Roasties · 28/12/2012 14:18

I try and find a link.....

They are linking her to Jimmy Saville and saying she never Argentina as a threat so the whole war thing was political

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Songbird · 28/12/2012 14:19

yanbu!

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Roasties · 28/12/2012 14:20

jeez If I could type I'd be more dangerous than Thatcher

I'll She never saw

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roundtoit · 28/12/2012 14:26

read on guardian site that she made sure she paid all the costs for finding her stupid son who got lost in the desert. cannot stand the woman but can you imagine this lot in parliament now paying out anything from their own money. They claim for bloody toilet roll , kit cats and anything else they can get away with.

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yohohoho · 28/12/2012 18:44

I can't find anything that say anything that makes me think anything bad.

She and jimmy savile communicated via letter and she donated money to Mandeville hospital. Lots of people knew jimmy Saville and donated money. Doesn't mean they were party to child abuse.

There was an agenda for Argentina. The agenda was 'we want that island and they tried to take it back, we will show them' which was pretty evident at the time and since.

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mx5hairdresser · 28/12/2012 18:45

she should never be forgiven for the falklands war. all those lives lost for some shitty little island

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MrsBW · 28/12/2012 18:45

mx5 huh????????????

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Alisvolatpropiis · 28/12/2012 18:45

Er just because she knew Jimmy Saville doesn't mean she knew he was a paedophile Hmm

I think the Argentine agenda was quite real as well.

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MrsBW · 28/12/2012 18:46

And back on topic.... Link? What's been said?

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YuleBritannia · 28/12/2012 18:46

mx5hairdresser

Your comment shows how little you know about the islands.

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MsElleTow · 28/12/2012 18:48

mx5 "some shitty little island!"Hmm.

For a start The Falkland Islands are more than one island, they are not shitty and more importantly the people who live there are British!

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Uppermid · 28/12/2012 18:50

Shitty little island?! Really. What about the people who live there? I think they were (and still are) incredibly grateful.

This reminds of the time a friend said they couldn't see the poi t of the armed forces ......

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nancy75 · 28/12/2012 18:51

Mx5, if you lived on those shitty little islands you would rather pleased they weren't just given to Argentina I would imagine?

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AllSnowballsAndNoKnickers · 28/12/2012 18:53

Can't beat a 'Thatcher' thread for bringing out the frothing ill-informed loons Grin

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tiggytape · 28/12/2012 18:54

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LeBFG · 28/12/2012 18:55

The war was hugely popular at the time. It has certainly been proposed long before now it was at least partly a publicity/distraction stunt....politicians do that sort of thing all the time. So no news there.

Fraid the Savile/Thatcher link get a big whatever from me.

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Chubfuddler · 28/12/2012 18:59

Can't say I've read anything so very dreadful. She found it hard to believe there was a credible argentine threat before the invasion because invading would have been so stupid - with hr there.

As for a saville "link" she knew him. So did lots of people. Big deal.

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Horsemad · 28/12/2012 19:07

Re the Falklands - it's also about the oil...

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FrankelcenseAndMyhrr · 28/12/2012 19:14

My DH spent 7 months in the Falklands a few years ago (armed forces tour of duty). The islanders are fiercely patriotic and adamant that they wish to be British and not Argentinean. The right to self determination is enshrined in UN law and we are morally obliged to protect our citizens.

Allowing Argentina to take the islands by force would have been a disastrous message to send to other tinpot dictatorships

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Jux · 28/12/2012 19:40

My cousin was involved in the Falklands war. It is ignorant and idiotic to say they are shitty little islands and to onfer that the only reason we defended them was some mad idea of Thatcher's. All those people who live there are British citizens; it is our duty to defend them from invasion.

It is one of the few wars which of the late 20th century which was entirely justified.

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EldritchCleavage · 28/12/2012 23:49

I could never understand, then or now, how so many right-on people decided it was ok to abandon the Falklanders to invasion by a facist junta. Because they were blinded by hatred of Thatche, I suppose. I hated her too, but come on.

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