The Falklands
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- Nairn0
Crippled the North and Northern Ireland? How so? Seems to me the 'troubles' did most of the crippling in Northern Ireland, and the 'North' was too heavily reliant on increasingly-subsidised industries which would've very swiftly fallen away to foreign development and imports anyway - deferring, at best, this 'suffering' you speak of for a decade or so.
Unless, of course, you'd deny other nations' right to development and export, the overall ambition of worldwide development.
Perhaps you've forgotten the stranglehold the unions had in the 70s? Perhaps you've neglected the decades of trouble in Northern Ireland (and the Anglo-Irish agreement which was drawn up under Maggie's tenure?)
The reality is, we live in a hard capitalist world, and she was the best representation we could have hoped for at that time.