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THE Falklands... God, that takes me back to that most appalling period in late 20th history when, to quote the great Elvis Costello, ''England was the whore of the World and Margaret was her madam, and the future looked as bright and as clear as the black tarmacadam...'' in his fantastic song 'Tramp The Dirt Down'.
And if we're on the subject of that TOTALLY AVOIDABLE conflict - also summed up brilliantly in his poignant song 'Shipbuilding' and Crass's finest 45 'What's It Like To Be The Mother Of A Thousand Dead?' - it was that alone that got that bitch re-elected by a landslide in 1983 and so determined the fate of the thousands of dockers, miners, steelworkers and their devastated families and communities for the rest of the decade.
Along with the economic policies of her mate Ronnie in the White House, it really was a fabulous time to be right wing and rich.
Ah yes, they were good old days all right...
No, I'm with Declan Patrick McManus and 'Tramp The Dirt Down'... When Maggie eventually goes to stoke Satan's fire: ''I'll stand there laughing, and tramp the dirt down...''
Bitter? Too bloody right!!!
''The people's flag is deepest red, it's shrouded oft' our martyred dead...''

Hey Marc, My cousin (sadly departed) was on the job, despite what the official version was he told me it went as planned. There was a few doco's done about it and they were shit. While we are on the subject. What about the two squadies who got dragged out their car at the funeral in Belast. Opinion's gentelmen.

Phil McC

That was a horrible event, and it's never been satisfactorily explained what they were doing in such a dangerous area at such a dangerous time. The conspiracy theorist in me thinks they were set up.

I feel its more likely they were doing what everyone says they were doing there monitoring the provo scum who where there by the cartload.

The Falklands aren't our sovereign land. Just a little bit of Argentinian land that we took by force in the mid-19th century. The Falklands war was waged for one reason: to win Thatcher the 1983 election that she would have otherwise lost. Nobody serious gave a shit about a small sheep-farming community thousands of miles away.

The Falklands were a diversion. At the time, the big prize was mineral rights in Antarctica. If Argentina had managed to hold on to the Falklands and South Georgia, that would have been the next target. A moratorium on any major excavation work in Antarctica has made all that academic now.

Worth bearing in mind that the "British" Falkland Islanders pay no tax, got a spanking new airport out of those of us who do, and resented any mainland UK citizens who thought about moving to Bennyland. Well worth saving.

the falklands have been british about 300 years longer than argentina's existence,its only its proximity to argentina is the reason why they claim it,i'm not sure if they have ever owned the islands for eny great period of time.

I recall being at a pub quiz down in England about 20 years ago, and the question came up, "What do the Argentinians call the Falkland Islands?"

While all the scribbling of Malvinas was going on, a Scottish voice (probably too broad to be understood by the locals) shouted, "Ours!"