"Mad Lizzie the Cornish Binge Poster" ???

Sorry to disappoint you but mind you with a handle like that I almost wish I was.

Falklands - Troops sent to "re-vitalise her flagging political carreer" - Naw Eric, that was the spin put on it by Labour when they lost the 1983 General Election, Gerald Kaufman, however, had it pegged more accurately. He commented that Michael Foot's 1983 Labour Party Manifesto was "The longest suicide note in history". What was it that the "dynamic" Labour Left were offering the people of Britain again:

- Unilateral nuclear disarmament;
- Higher personal taxation;
- A return to a more interventionist industrial policy - Nationalisation;
- Labour to abolish the House of Lords
- UK to leave the EEC.

(By the bye Eric the red, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown were among the Labour MPs newly-elected in 1983 who supported of this crap)

No bloody wonder that Foot's Labour Party lost to the Conservatives in a landslide.

Having been proved right, no self-respecting, left-wing Labour prat could ever actually own up to the fact that they'd got it wrong, or face the rather embarassing fact that the country had rejected them - yet again - so there had to be another reason. And that Eric old boy was where you got that particular line of crap about Maggie starting the Falklands War purely in order to get re-elected from. Plain truth was the country didn't trust Labour and the likes of Foot and Benn. They say that a week is a long time in politics, the General Election in 1983 was held almost one year to the day that British Forces in the Falklands were victorious, so your Labour spin doctors most certainly cannot deny that the Lady believed in forward planning - the whole premise is ridiculous of course.

The Falklands were retaken to protect and preserve the rights of the inhabitants of the Islands who have consistantly expressed their desire to remain under the protection of the British Crown.