What Lord Howard unsurprisingly omitted to mention,
in his "inflammatory comments" about Gibraltar, is that when Thatcher sent the
task force "against another Spanish-speaking country", she was way behind in the
polls (Tories fire off warnings on future of Gibraltar, 03/04/17). The Falklands
crisis was the result of diplomacy being abandoned in favour of the prime
minister`s political gamble.
The same thing
happening again over Gibraltar cannot, however, be ruled out; someday soon, the
electoral penny will drop, the truth about helping the "just about managing",
and other such unfulfilled promises, will be revealed, and May will need a
pre-election boost!
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