Ex-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher dies

[London_Manila]

I don't need to spend ages telling you why,Terpe summed it up perfectly.
I was pissed off with an the miners and unions holding the country to ransom.
The country was just a pile of washed out crap according to the rest of the world.
I was working hard earning good money,Maggie appereared and for me and many,many others was the figurehead the country needed to feel we were once again an Important country.
Sometimes you need to be pushed and to some extent told what to do,for me she took know ....,unions were strangling the country and as sad as it was for the miners she was right,it was uneconomical to continue as it was.
now call me a mean git but thats life,If I got to work and no-one wants a taxi anymore are you gonna bail me out ?
Doubt it,it's up to me to do something else.
People think the are owed a living makes me puke
It's like the measures being taken now-we have overspent but the majority of the voting public dont grasp it,they will vote for another party as they dont like being told to tighten their belts,as much as we can blame the bankers we all have to take responsability for spending too much.
We did not need the Platinum visa card £15,000 credit limit but we took it anyway and spent it,then moaned when we had to pay it back!
Moving on to the Falkands dispute,I remember being shocked when that guy came on tv and said Hms Sheffield had been sunk!
I was wanting to bomb Buenos Aries!
Our guys did us proud and as for the sinking of the Belgrano great job carried out,not our fault the junta government filled it full of conscripts,they wanted to defeat the British and failed so maybe don't invade the Falkands Islands then!
Never felt more British and proud when we defeated them and in total admiration of Maggie in her unwavering and decisive leadership.
Yes she had brutal decisions to make-but she did them and never hid away.
totally admire the woman,always will.

Oh so its so great working in this country nowadays

Most employers here are paying peanuts = care to blame that on the unions

A few rocks in the middle of nowhere how do we stake a claim for them ?
thatcher entered that war because she looked at it as a vote winner (it worked)
i just viewed it as a total waste of life and it could have been handled better

Btw the british empire ended years ago so stop harping on about a bygone age

[les_taxi]

Oh so its so great working in this country nowadays

Most employers here are paying peanuts = care to blame that on the unions

A few rocks in the middle of nowhere how do we stake a claim for them ?
thatcher entered that war because she looked at it as a vote winner (it worked)
i just viewed it as a total waste of life and it could have been handled better

Btw the british empire ended years ago so stop harping on about a bygone age

It was British territory! A few rocks lol
Home to the Falkland islanders I'm sure they would dispute that with you
How does many of the Large powers past and present lay claim to anything then?
She entered the conflict because the Falklands were invaded by a foreign army,do you think she should have abandoned them
How do ya handle it better,ask them nicely to leave
Parts of the Empire still remain I'm glad to say.

[London_Manila]

It was British territory! A few rocks lol
Home to the Falkland islanders I'm sure they would dispute that with you
How does many of the Large powers past and present lay claim to anything then?
She entered the conflict because the Falklands were invaded by a foreign army,do you think she should have abandoned them
How do ya handle it better,ask them nicely to leave
Parts of the Empire still remain I'm glad to say.

The islanders could have been given the option to move to the uk
Sending a large task force there was not a great idea and cost the lives of many
I respect those servicemen who fought in that war but i never agreed with that conflict
Really how can we claim those islands with them being so far away

It turned out to be a good vote winer for Thatcher anyway and she realized that in the first place

[KeithD]

The islanders could have been given the option to move to the uk
Sending a large task force there was not a great idea and cost the lives of many
I respect those servicemen who fought in that war but i never agreed with that conflict
Really how can we claim those islands with them being so far away

So going by your line of argument if the Germans had invaded this country and taken over we all should have been shipped off to other British land... like The Falklands?

As for distance, I already explained that in an earlier post ... distance in land ownership is irrelevant, otherwise all the Brits who own land abroad should have it taken off them!

[joebloggs]

So going by your line of argument if the Germans had invaded this country and taken over we all should have been shipped off to other British land... like The Falklands?

As for distance, I already explained that in an earlier post ... distance in land ownership is irrelevant, otherwise all the Brits who own land abroad should have it taken off them!

According to one official: 'She did not for a moment think that Hong Kong was in any way comparable with the Falklands, despite the paranoia in the Foreign Office. There were many important differences, number one among them being, from her point of view, that if Britain had had to welcome every last islander and every last sheep from the Falkland Islands into Britain, then there would have been no political consequences for the person who had opened the door. If Britain had to accept even a fraction of the population of Hong Kong, it would be political suicide.'

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-en...a-1543375.html

as for ownership maybe you should tell the chinese about that, when they claim Twain and Scarborough Shoal