Posted on 04/09/2013 4:09:23 PM PDT by naturalman1975
Port Stanley, the capital of the Falkland Islands, should be renamed Port Margaret as a tribute to Baroness Thatcher, senior figures in the Foreign Office and Ministry of Defence are suggesting.
The idea is being backed by MPs and is also attracting considerable support on the islands, which Lady Thatcher was responsible for liberating in 1982.
The proposal is likely to trigger fury in Argentina, which has been ratcheting up the rhetoric over the sovereignty of the Falklands around the 30th anniversary of the conflict.
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Several lib heads would explode in the UK and Scotland.....Love it.
Not to mention the Argies...
That would put a big bleep-you on the Argento’s Reconquista plans for the Falklands
Shouldn’t Argentina be returned to Spain?
Don’t you mean Germany??
They should put up a larger than life statue of Maggie. We should build one in this country as well. We should carve Ronald Reagan’s face in granite on a mountain! Maybe in California! The Liberals would have a fit—But their days are numbered.
A great idea. The Plastic bitch queen in Argentina would go nuts.
If anyone like Obama were PM of England he/she would do a Bengazi on them.
If the islanders really wanted to rub salt, they could erect a statue with Baroness Thatcher on an elevated pedestal, with a Royal Marine Para representing 3 Commando Brigade, and a Gurkha, representing 5 Infantry Brigade, standing to her left and right, scowling menacingly to the West.
no, it was a Spanish colony, not German, though they had a large number of German migrants in the 1800s (just as we did) and in the 1900s...
And in 1945.
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