There is an artcle that totally supports your statement
Your link is very respectful of Margaret Thatcher in the main:-
Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient The Right Honorable Margaret Thatcher:-
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“ Margaret Thatcher led her country with fearlessness, determination, integrity, and a true vision for Britain. In over a decade of achievement, she extended ……...”
“In her retirement, Thatcher has continued to be an outstanding influence in British politics.”
“Margaret was educated at the local grammar school, Kesteven and Grantham Girls' School, and Somerville College, Oxford, where she studied chemistry. She also became president of the university Conservative association. Her father, a shopkeeper and the mayor of Grantham, was a major formative influence. Following graduation, Margaret became a research chemist, yet politics was her first love. In 1950, she ran for Parliament unsuccessfully, then took a job testing cake fillings and ice creams for a London company while she read for the Bar. She worked at night to become a barrister (attorney) before being elected in 1959 as the Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Finchley.
Her marriage in 1951 to Denis Thatcher freed her to devote herself to politics. Denis Thatcher, as the first male PM spouse in history, was likely to be the center of media attention. When Margaret met him, she remarked, "It was clear to me at once that Denis was an exceptional man — he had a certain style and dash." Described as a man of integrity, humor and common sense, he fought with the Royal Artillery during World War II and had a strong business background. It was said that Denis was in "the Thatcher party, not the Tory party." He once famously remarked, "It's better to keep my mouth shut and be thought a fool rather than open it and remove all doubt." When Denis died in 2003, his wife paid tribute: "Being PM is a lonely job. In a sense, it ought to be — you cannot lead from a crowd. But with Denis there I was never alone. What a man. What a husband. What a friend."
“Along with her ally and friend, President Ronald Reagan, Thatcher forged the 1980s into a decade of conservatism and anti-communist sentiment in the midst of the Cold War. “
“Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was a woman of formidable will in the face of doubt. Her political philosophy took the moniker "Thatcherism." Her impact on Britain was sweeping and lasting, leaving a market economy and a more right-wing Conservative party. In 1990 she was awarded the Order of Merit and in 1994 she was made a baroness.”
Prevailing political opinion avers that without the 1982 Falkland Islands War and a disorganized opposition party, Thatcher never would have won a second term in 1983 — which she managed in a landslide.
Of course this is a complete non-statement. What is 'prevailing political opinion'? What is 'political opinion'? Whose 'political opinion'? Who measured it and what did they measure? Prevailing where, and among who?
This claim is absolutely hypothetical. No-one can tell how the 1983 election would pan out. All we know is that it was landslide; that should speak for itself.
BritinAfrica;464711 said:
The following totally supports perseus view regarding Jim Callaghan in 1977, he didnt abuse and waste mens lives like Thatcher.
A Royal Navy task force was sent to the Falkland Islands to defend them from Argentine attack five years before the war there, archive papers have shown.
Unfortunately this planted the seed that Britain found so difficult and costly to have to deal with in 1982. Unfinished business. Within 5 years the Argentine junta was back for more, for a bigger and better go, more ready and organised than ever.
Lord Owen, who was foreign secretary in 1977, said that if Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government had taken similar action to that of five years earlier, the war would not have happened.
Complete supposition from a man who defected from the Labour party to help create the Social Democrats.
By 1982, the Junta had been taken over by the ambitious Galtieri, his Argentine economy was in absolute tatters, and he needed to make the Argentine people look elsewhere. The Falkland Islands was the victim.
If Labour had been in power in 1982, the Falklands would have been occupied by Argentina since then.
Here's an example why : 1977 under Jim Callaghan :- Defence of Falklands:-
"HMS Dreadnaught was told if it was attacked by Argentine anti-submarine weapons it must "surface or withdraw at high speed submerged, whichever will be of least risk to life".
BritinAfrica;464711 said:
Which again brings me back to my question- “Did Thatcher know about the forthcoming invasion by the Argentines?
How is it, that James Callaghan knew about the Argentines intentions in 1977, yet, how come Thatcher was taken completely by surprise in 1982?
It is so simple. In 1977, Callaghan was alerted by the arrival on the island of some 50 or so Argentinian scientists .
In 1982, Thatcher was alerted by the arrival on the island of some 50 or so Argentinian scrap- metal dealers.
The Argentinians then invaded the island . Thatcher was advised by her military advisers that action was required and that it was imperative that it was fast.
Thatcher did the necessary, Argentinians were removed.
N.B. They did not come back for more this time.
Your conspiracy theories are nothing but that, IMHO, supposition and wish-list.
