we all agreed that we should send a task force——Source: Hansard HC [23/14-18]

well I had doubts about the wisdom of it.

The royal 'we' - maybe. I suppose in a way Woodward was right, if you're in a war - you don't piss about. They're there to kill you, you're there to kill them.

It was a sad business for England. the SDP pretty much had the tories by the throat. Whatever you thought of Williams/Owen/Steele - it was THE one chance England had of the electoral reform it needs so much.

Of course once Maggie had done the can can in Union Jack knickers, the chance had gone.