Should We Diverting Some Of Our Income To Moving Us Up This League?

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.globalfirepower.com/countries-listing.asp
6 is not too bad but our anti British friends denigrate us daily so should we try and move ourselves up? At least to above France ?

[ToraToraTora]

well YMB, next time the argies invade we'll send in kromo and spicerack to sort it!

[Kromovaracun]

I did read it, yes.

[-Talbot-]

You really ought to read more about Thatcher and the Falklands TTT, YMB.

Or maybe you have but try to block it out.

[ToraToraTora]

I know all about it talbot what's troubling you?

[New Judge]

"...but it’s no disgrace to be behind France - and at least they’re on our side :-)"

When was that, then? As far as my history tells me, we've either been fighting them or digging them out of the proverbial. One doesn’t have to look too far back. During the Falklands conflict, Baldric and his mates who risked all on our behalf and to whom we should all be eternally grateful, were on the wrong end of French manufactured Exocet missiles together with various other items of French ironmongery which our “Allies” across the channel had been steadily supplying to Argentina. Only when war was all but inevitable did President Mitterand place an embargo on further exports.

However, that was just window dressing. In a memo dated 7 April 1982, France's then ambassador to London, Emmanuel de Margerie, described British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher as "Victorian, imperialist and obstinate". He went on to add that she had a "tendency to get carried away by combative instincts". In another document senior French official Bernard Dorin accused Britain of "superpower arrogance" and claimed the country had shown "profound contempt for Latinos". As well as that a French technical team - mainly working for a company 51% owned by the French government - stayed in Argentina throughout the war helping them calibrate and adjust some of their weaponry.

It’s a good job they were “on our side” because God knows what they might have got up to had they been against us.

[Spicerack]

Just to be clear, ttt. I made no criticism of Mrs Thatcher. I said her popularity soared after the Falkland War, which it did.
I'm always suspicious that political pygmies are keen on war in the hope of emulating her.
It's not a new idea.

[Spicerack]

The French can never forgive us for rescuing them, NJ.........twice. ;)

[johnny.5]

what a stupid question to waste the word denigrate on