Thatcher in hospital for checks

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Hmm! can't find a ref:

Link please!

Well, it is my recollection of events also.

[Diver]

Well, it is my recollection of events also.

Originally Posted by Diver View Post
Hmm! can't find a ref:

Link please!

Linky ?

[sasguru]

Good argument Diver, she was always right?

Monetarism works- wrong, even Friedman admits it and he invented it. The crux of her mantra, discredited.

Law and order- badly wrong, just as bad as new labour

Poll Tax- wrong, so wrong she got sacked

Dismantle industry, and create service sector jobs that can and were transfered overseas. No interest in fixing the industries when political scores need to be settled.

Maybe she could see what was wrong, but the methods she employed didn't do a good job of fixing them, in the long term anyway the main legacy now is the underclass.

...which many here will be joining soon. So no manufacturing worth speaking off and increasingly service jobs, especially IT, sent abroad in pursuit of the free market. Where does that leave us? My Plan B is to set up a hairdressers school for all you unemployed geeks.

[Diver]

...which many here will be joining soon. So no manufacturing worth speaking off and increasingly service jobs, especially IT, sent abroad in pursuit of the free market. Where does that leave us? My Plan B is to set up a hairdressers school for all you unemployed geeks.

hairdressing salon

[threaded]

Linky ?

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/m...05/ai_n8781734

[Marina]

My Plan B is to set up a hairdressers school for all you unemployed geeks.

If you look anything like your avatar I could improve your hair with a pudding basin and a pair of garden shears.

[DimPrawn]

...which many here will be joining soon. So no manufacturing worth speaking off and increasingly service jobs, especially IT, sent abroad in pursuit of the free market. Where does that leave us? My Plan B is to set up a hairdressers school for all you unemployed geeks.

sasguru - camp hairdresser to the discerning (but now unemployed) programmer

Right up your street sassy.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Hansard - http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/c...lkland-islands

We supposed, and we were told, that the aim was to maintain British sovereignty over the Falkland Islands, but I am bound to say, having followed the earlier negotiations of my hon. Friend the Member for Cirencester and Tewkesbury (Mr. Ridley), and having had some experience of the Foreign Office's views about the Falkland Islands, that that aim was pursued with singularly little conviction. As for the means, they were non-existent. After the withdrawal from Simonstown, we no longer had a fleet almost permanently in the South Atlantic, but no attempt was made to carry out the main recommendation of the Shackleton committee to enlarge the airfield so that, when weather conditions allowed, we could have reinforced the Falkland Islands with a big enough garrison in a time of crisis.

Beyond that, a number of us have been pleading over the years that our defence forces should not only be tailored to the NATO requirements but should be prepared and strong enough to defend our interests outside the specifically NATO area. That advice was not heeded by the Government. Quite the contrary. They proposed to cut back the Navy and, more particularly, HMS "Endurance" and HMS "Invincible". These, ironically, are now two of the ships that are most mentioned in plans for the forthcoming operations. We were told that the cuts were inevitable because of cost. I can only say to the Government that the consequences of our defeat yesterday will be a good deal more expensive than would have been the cost of maintaining those ships.

At the same press conference, my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Defence said that no amount of intelligence could have guided the Government to a different course. I do not understand that. It was in February, well within sailing time to the islands, that the Argentine Government first began to speak in a tone which all of us who know anything about the Falkland Islands detected as quite unusually aggressive.

[Diver]

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/m...05/ai_n8781734

threaded! After all these years, I can't believe you fell for that one.

Wasted all those precious moments of your life, googling for something relating to a subject that I couldn't become passionately interested in enough; to google myself, if you put a gun to my head and threatened to rape my wife in front of me.

Very good link though, well found that man.

[Diver]

Hansard - http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/c...lkland-islands

We supposed, and we were told, that the aim was to maintain British sovereignty over the Falkland Islands, but I am bound to say, having followed the earlier negotiations of my hon. Friend the Member for Cirencester and Tewkesbury (Mr. Ridley), and having had some experience of the Foreign Office's views about the Falkland Islands, that that aim was pursued with singularly little conviction. As for the means, they were non-existent. After the withdrawal from Simonstown, we no longer had a fleet almost permanently in the South Atlantic, but no attempt was made to carry out the main recommendation of the Shackleton committee to enlarge the airfield so that, when weather conditions allowed, we could have reinforced the Falkland Islands with a big enough garrison in a time of crisis.

Beyond that, a number of us have been pleading over the years that our defence forces should not only be tailored to the NATO requirements but should be prepared and strong enough to defend our interests outside the specifically NATO area. That advice was not heeded by the Government. Quite the contrary. They proposed to cut back the Navy and, more particularly, HMS "Endurance" and HMS "Invincible". These, ironically, are now two of the ships that are most mentioned in plans for the forthcoming operations. We were told that the cuts were inevitable because of cost. I can only say to the Government that the consequences of our defeat yesterday will be a good deal more expensive than would have been the cost of maintaining those ships.

At the same press conference, my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Defence said that no amount of intelligence could have guided the Government to a different course. I do not understand that. It was in February, well within sailing time to the islands, that the Argentine Government first began to speak in a tone which all of us who know anything about the Falkland Islands detected as quite unusually aggressive.

Er! this isn't copyright material is it