Quote Originally Posted by tibilicus View Post
Thatcher was a tale of two halves..

Her terrible guidance over the NI troubles was also an issue, she certainly didn't help ease the situation over there. Another bad point for me was the way she threw her foreign policy around like the British were still a world player, no doubt Thatcher tried to hold onto the remaining British colonies with all she could. The Falklands isn't such a big issue for me, all the sinking of the Belgrano was..
What was bad about her handling of NI?

What was bad about her handling of foreign policy? The two biggies were Cruise/Pershing and the Falklands?
And your disparaging remarks about the falklands totally belie the fact that it was sovereign british territory, the inhabitants of which wished to remain british. The belgrano was an enemy warship, which threatened a very precarious military mission to recover british territory and subjects from an invading aggressor, i would have sunk the ship, whats your problem with it?
The final point i'll make about the falklands is that it allegedly discredited the KGB in the eyes of the politiburo for their bad call on the reaction to the falklands invasion, which in my opinion is a magnificient occurance, confusion to your enemies and all that.