If you don't accept that Argentina had made a lot of noise about not allowing Britain to have 150 years of sovereignty over the Falklands.
If you don't accept that the Tories had decided to remove HMS Endurance from service in the South Atlantic against advice.
If you don't accept that the "scrap merchants" landing on South Georgia gave a clear signal to the British government of Argentinas intentions.
If you don't accept that Thatchers tories were a racing certainty to lose the next election after pushing unemployment to 10% and three million.
then yes, it is indeed a load of shit.
Matthew, 30 Jan 2016, 09:21 AM Your simplistic view is so flawed it is not worth debating. The current oversupply will be swallowed in 12 months. By the time dumb shits like you realise this prices will already be rising.
The Australian dollar on Monday hit a new high against the British pound, as markets reassess the possibility of Scottish independence from the UK after a weekend poll put supporters of a split in the lead for the first time.
The UK currency has lost more than 6 per cent against the Aussie in the past two months, and is nearly 10 per cent off this year's high in late January.
In late trade on Monday, the local currency was fetching 57.88 pence, up 0.6 per cent on the level seen late Friday, and close to a new year-to-date high of 57.97 recorded early in the session.
The decline of the pound is tied almost exclusively to the growing possibility of a win for Scottish separatists in next week's referendum. A weekend opinion poll showed 47 per cent of those surveyed said "yes" to independence, while 45 per cent said "no", with the rest undecided.
Markets have started to price this into the pound, betting that a win for Scottish independence would force the Bank of England to delay a much anticipated cycle of monetary tightening.
Given overwhelming Scottish support for Britain's centre-left political parties, independence might also create the conditions for a Tory government to take the remainder of the UK out of the European Union.
There are also bets that a "yes" vote might lead to a complex currency union between Scotland and the rest of the UK and affect confidence in UK government bonds.
However, Fidelity Worldwide Investment's head of quantitative research David Buckle has dismissed much of this.
"The position of England and the rest of the union is 'we won't share a currency with you; if you want to peg to us, then that's up to you'," he said. "So Scotland would still have to issue and print its own currency.
"It would then be the new Scottish central bank's responsibility to try and maintain that peg," he said.
Meanwhile,the Australian dollar stayed firm within its now customary trading range against the US currency on Monday, after positive indications on local jobs and solid trade figures from China offset worries about the sinking price of iron ore.
In late trade, the local unit was steady around US93.65¢, down about 0.14 per cent on its level at the same time on Friday and about 0.4 per cent on a late US price of US94.02¢, after softer-than-expected payroll figures put the greenback under pressure.
If you'd have read any decent historical account of it, which you haven't, you'd know it was a load of shit.
The Argentine government was under far more political pressure.
Britain nearly lost that war. But for the sinking of the Belgrano, they probably would have lost.
It was seat of the pants stuff
I know the history of the Falklands conflict quite well. I was around at the time and I had two cousins who were based at Lympstone and were shipped out. Both fought at Goose Green.
The Argentine Junta had made it clear for a long time that they would not allow 150 years of British sovereignty over the Falklands and yet Britain had made public the fact that it was going to remove its naval presence from the area as part of a defence cost cutting exercise.
There was even talk of removing the 50 man garrison from Port Stanley.
The Argentines thought they could just walk in and take it and that the British would do nothing about it. Yes, they needed a victory to keep the people happy, but the Tories seemed to have handed it to them on a plate.
After the invasion, the Tories took advantage of the nationalist fervour sweeping Britain and mounted the task force.
Most people had no idea where the Falklands was, but all of a sudden there was talk of vast oil reserves and Antarctic mineral rights.
The fact that the UN denounced the invasion and refused to recognise Argentine sovereignty meant that any rights would have remained in British hands anyway.
Nonetheless, Britain went headlong into a war to protect a small number of people who had been supplied by Argentina for years and whose kids went to boarding school in Buenos Aires.
Maggie rode the wave of victory over a third rate conscripted opposition and called an early election in 1983 and won.
Britain did have some dodgy moments in the Falklands, mainly due to the fact that they had such a long supply line. The Argentine had air superiority due to the proximity of the mainland.
However, the British were never in any real danger of losing. The Belgrano sinking was after the taking of South Georgia and British losses up to that point were minimal.
Both of my cousins came through and one is still serving. I saw him last summer on a trip to Devon.
Matthew, 30 Jan 2016, 09:21 AM Your simplistic view is so flawed it is not worth debating. The current oversupply will be swallowed in 12 months. By the time dumb shits like you realise this prices will already be rising.
Biggest problem I see is how we're going to deal with all the Scottish asylum seekers. We'll have to build a wall i guess.
Spoke to my Scottish car share about it today. I asked her if she was worried about getting deported.
When she said no, I asked her if that made her English, as she wasn't allowed to vote.
Laugh. Total shambles. Why can't Scottish born vote, whereas English living there can?
It would either have to be a Scots born only vote (which would be unfair to those living there) or a residents vote only.
If you mixed it up (residents + scots born non residents) then you get the ex pat nationalist thing thrown in and a guaranteed yes vote.
Take a drive around Scotland and you won't see many cars with a Saltire bumper sticker. Drive around Perth in WA and you see them everywhere.
People become very nationalistic when they move overseas.
Matthew, 30 Jan 2016, 09:21 AM Your simplistic view is so flawed it is not worth debating. The current oversupply will be swallowed in 12 months. By the time dumb shits like you realise this prices will already be rising.
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