Who used as propaganda to get rid of Thatcher

[WillsBabe]

I feel like I've fallen into a time warp or something. I guess that's fitting for this forum, afterall.

 

[The Borg Queen]

Didn't you think she looked tired?

 

[WillsBabe]

Didn't you think she looked tired?

Tired? She looked like something that had crawled out of a frakking crypt. (But that might just be my politics showing! )

 

[ROBE]

I remember the Falklands War, it always puzzled me why the British Left objected to the sinking of an enemy ship during war?
However the British Left always love to run down their own country, the West in General and especially America.
They couldn't stand Thatcher standing up for 3000 Islanders against a Military Junta.

 

[Bones2]

I remember the Falklands War, it always puzzled me why the British Left objected to the sinking of an enemy ship during war?
However the British Left always love to run down their own country, the West in General and especially America.
They couldn't stand Thatcher standing up for 3000 Islanders against a Military Junta.

Here here.

...or is it hear hear? Rarely see it in writing.

 

[Blamo]

Why is there all this focus on Doctor Who? The majority of the media hated her guts back in those days. Spitting Image alone was made successful due to the dislike of the conservative government, going as far as to make fun of the people who voted for them.

 

[Sci]

I remember the Falklands War, it always puzzled me why the British Left objected to the sinking of an enemy ship during war?
However the British Left always love to run down their own country, the West in General and especially America.
They couldn't stand Thatcher standing up for 3000 Islanders against a Military Junta.

Speaking as someone on the left -- and as someone who thinks that the United Kingdom was perfectly entitled to defend the Falkland Islands against the Argentine junta -- I'm afraid that I disagree with the idea that fighting inequality and encouraging a more egalitarian economy is the same thing as running down one's own country. Equality benefits everyone.

 

[diankra]

I remember the Falklands War, it always puzzled me why the British Left objected to the sinking of an enemy ship during war?
However the British Left always love to run down their own country, the West in General and especially America.
They couldn't stand Thatcher standing up for 3000 Islanders against a Military Junta.

Actually, 'the British left' generally supported the war, at least during the war: the then Labour party leader, Michael Foot, might have been a bit of an idealist, pretty left wing and in favour of unilateral nuclear disarmament, but he'd also made his name as one of the critics of appeasing the Nazis during the 1930s (Munich, etc), and was equally opposed to handing the Falklanders over to the dictatorship then running Argentina (wheras members of the Reagan cabinet like Jeanne Kirkpatrick were horrified when Reagan decided to back Britain rather than staying neutral).
The controversy over the Belgrano built up after the war, in particular over suggestions that statements to Parliament might have been 'economical with the truth', in Alan Clark's marvellous phrase.

(To divert from Neutral Zone-ish stuff to trivia: as QI pointed out, the Begrano was - before the US sold it to Argentina - a survivor of Peal Harbor known as 'the luckiest ship in the Navy'.)

 

[Captaindemotion]

I remember the Falklands War, it always puzzled me why the British Left objected to the sinking of an enemy ship during war?
However the British Left always love to run down their own country, the West in General and especially America.
They couldn't stand Thatcher standing up for 3000 Islanders against a Military Junta.

Here here.

...or is it hear hear? Rarely see it in writing.

'Hear, Hear.' As in 'I like what I'm hearing.' That's what I've always taken it to be.

 

[Starkers]

I remember the Falklands War, it always puzzled me why the British Left objected to the sinking of an enemy ship during war?
However the British Left always love to run down their own country, the West in General and especially America.
They couldn't stand Thatcher standing up for 3000 Islanders against a Military Junta.

Actually, 'the British left' generally supported the war, at least during the war: the then Labour party leader, Michael Foot, might have been a bit of an idealist, pretty left wing and in favour of unilateral nuclear disarmament, but he'd also made his name as one of the critics of appeasing the Nazis during the 1930s (Munich, etc), and was equally opposed to handing the Falklanders over to the dictatorship then running Argentina (wheras members of the Reagan cabinet like Jeanne Kirkpatrick were horrified when Reagan decided to back Britain rather than staying neutral).
The controversy over the Belgrano built up after the war, in particular over suggestions that statements to Parliament might have been 'economical with the truth', in Alan Clark's marvellous phrase.

(To divert from Neutral Zone-ish stuff to trivia: as QI pointed out, the Begrano was - before the US sold it to Argentina - a survivor of Peal Harbor known as 'the luckiest ship in the Navy'.)

Wow I never knew that. And good informative post...as always!