Keith;

The established facts have not been established yet and are still locked away. It may well be that procedures had been followed, although it can hardly be offensive when the ruddy thing was effectively running away. It is an established fact that The Belgrano had orders to destroy British shipping and perhaps in the moral overview of 20/20 hindsight it averted a much larger carnage..

But she didn't know that, neither did her Ministers. One thing we do know is that the decision was not taken by local commanders assessing their situation but by No.10. She said as much at the time. The look on her face when a reporter questioned her at the time said it all. "How the hell did you know the decision was made here?"

If she asked us to rejoice the shooting gallery sitting duck murder of poor conscripts I can rejoice when she can no longer influence politicians through being alive. I lost a good mate in The Navy in that conflict, and allowing for single deaths being a tragedy and multiple deaths being a statistic, there were many statistical tragedies. I applaud her concern for a small farming community but wonder where her support for communities went a couple of years later?

I suppose when you have a sanction busting husband and a gun running son, you get a little confused over morals?