"simon"  wrote:

>
>"Tony Polson"  wrote in message 
>news:r5mld4566nac3v4662b7rkpqijcdqcft69@4ax.com...
>> "simon"  wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>"Stimpy"  wrote in message
>>>news:0001HW.C50061AF0230B951F0407648@news.eclipse.co.uk...
>>>> On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 09:17:37 +0100, Chris  Tolley wrote
>>>>> simon wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Then there was Maggie who could read, absorb and use the information 
>>>>>> to
>>>>>> go
>>>>>> on and make a magnificant job in the wider political role.
>>>>>> IMHO that is.
>>>>>
>>>>> If she had been that good at taking in information and understanding 
>>>>> it,
>>>>> she wouldn't have been caught unprepared in 1982 when the Argies went
>>>>> into the Falklands. If her premiership had not endured past that point,
>>>>> she would have a reputation no better than Neville Chamberlain's.
>>>
>>>Depends on the information she was given.
>>
>>
>> She was given a load of duff information by the then Foreign
>> Secretary, Lord Carrington, whose grave misjudgment of the Argentines'
>> aspirations, frustrations and intentions led directly to the invasion
>> of, first, South Georgia, then the Falkland Islands themselves.
>>
>> Carrington resigned. He had to; he had shown the most breathtaking
>> incompetence and he knew it.  Thatcher then had to act - with the
>> dubious benefit of a new Foreign Secretary (Francis Pym) who had not
>> the faintest idea what had gone on in the negotiations with Argentina.
>> Pym didn't last long.  He was appointed in April 1982, but was not
>> re-appointed to the post after Thatcher's June 1983 election victory.
>> During the 1983 election campaign, he had said ""Landslides don't on
>> the whole produce successful governments".  Thatcher immediately
>> rejected this statement, and probably never forgave him for making it.
>> Pym never served in Cabinet again.
>>
>
>Thank you Tony, youre a treasure.


You're very welcome.