Argentina takes Falklands row to UN

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clapham_gull

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Aug 20, 2003
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Stop talking bollocks, no one mentioned "conspiracies" and it's typical of your false flag tactics to pretend otherwise. The truth is a mixture of incompetence and hypocritical dishonesty.

In 1981 Thatcher removed the right of the Falkland Islanders to full UK Citizenship: British Nationality Act 1981 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Her government also wanted to scrap HMS Endurance:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Endurance_(1967)

and the plan to lease the Islands to the Argentines was only rejected by an alliance of Labour front bench and Tory back bench MPs:

Falklands: (Ridley visit & leaseback) [minister badly mauled in Commons] | Margaret Thatcher Foundation

You are right however to say Thatcher did not win the Election because of the war (which Foot supported). She won it because of the egomania of the Gang of Four. The Tory vote actually dropped from 1979 but the anti-Thatcher vote was split by the SDP.

United Kingdom general election, 1983 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

.. and in 1980 Thatcher sent Ridley down to try and convince the Islanders they were better off being part of Argentina. The Islanders weren't having it, but Ridley suggested (on returning) a Hong Kong style leaseback scheme.

Did this lead directly to Argentina invading ? Who knows, but why do people continue to deny this happened ? It's all on record.
 




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