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January 30, 2010 at 1:19 pm

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Lady Thatcher was eating up to 28 eggs a week as part of a high-protein diet in the run-up to the 1979 general election, newly-released files suggest.
Intended to help her shed 20lb (9kg) in two weeks, the diet is outlined in a note found in a diary from that year.
“I think she was looking to get in trim for the cameras,” says Chris Collins of the Thatcher Foundation.

BBC News – Thatcher on ’28-egg diet’ ahead of 1979 election
January 30, 2010 at 2:57 pm

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@General Lighting 370796 wrote:

BBC News – Thatcher on ’28-egg diet’ ahead of 1979 election

u can’t dress up shit tbh :laugh_at:
January 31, 2010 at 7:21 pm

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28 eggs a week lol, keep up that for long and ur likely to get MS
January 31, 2010 at 10:25 pm

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@DaftFader 370807 wrote:

u can’t dress up shit tbh :laugh_at:

you can put glitter on it though 😉

that wouldnt even have worked for her……..
February 1, 2010 at 5:21 am

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Thatcher is a legend.
February 2, 2010 at 5:35 am

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@Buzz 370876 wrote:

28 eggs a week lol, keep up that for long and ur likely to get MS

i hope it has had some sort of detrimental effect on her health, i’ve been keeping these fireworks for ages
February 4, 2010 at 1:55 pm

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@MisterDuck 371014 wrote:

i hope it has had some sort of detrimental effect on her health, i’ve been keeping these fireworks for ages

*fingers crossed*

dont you just love how everyone speaks about her as if shes dead anyway?
February 5, 2010 at 10:30 pm

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@MisterDuck 371014 wrote:

i hope it has had some sort of detrimental effect on her health, i’ve been keeping these fireworks for ages

Just curious but where has your rage for Thatcher come from?
February 6, 2010 at 9:15 am

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@DJCliffy 371404 wrote:

Just curious but where has your rage for Thatcher come from?

she took my milk away :cry::cry:

oh and made alot of politically bad decisions IMO
February 6, 2010 at 9:23 am

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Maybe but hey at least she got the Falklands back. Best decision she’s ever made. Considering there’s a vast untapped oil field underneath it.

Scientists believe that the Islands could have up to 60 billion barrels of oil underneath it thus making it one of the largest oil reserves in the world.

Also it would be British owned as well and worth billions of pounds which in turn is good for the economy.

Cheers Thatcher, you may of taken peoples milk but at least replaced it with black gold!

Now who thinks that was a bad decision and would any of you give the Falklands back to the Argies now?
February 6, 2010 at 2:02 pm

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TBH I think any British leader irrespective of political party would have acted to save a bit of British sovereign territory what got invaded or to protect British economic interests. Its going back a very long time and I literally only just starrted becoming politically aware then (I was only 10 after all) but the only real criticism I remember of the war from the opposition was only that the Royal Navy did covertly bring a SSBN (submarine with nuclear missiles)into the region, which was a bit silly (as it could have sparked a global nuclear confrontation!) – we could easily have won the war without doing this!

We nearly went to war with Iceland over fish in the 1950s and 1970s, with both Tory and Labour governments getting involved.

After all Tony Blair went to war to try and secure cheap oil for our nation much more recently. It didn’t work so everyones slagging him off, but I bet if we had ended up with 50p a litre petrol now and fewer dead soldiers he’d be a war hero rather than up before some tribunal, even if he lied about the WMDs…

BTW the scientists only found oil in the Falklands there in 1998…
February 6, 2010 at 2:23 pm

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@General Lighting 371448 wrote:

BTW the scientists only found oil in the Falklands there in 1998…

Yeah i know, I didn’t say Maggie knew the oil was there. Personally I see this as more of a unexpected bonus from her actions in reclaiming the islands. Can you imagine the uproar had the Islands fell and the Argies found the oil instead? :crazy:

Man I’d love to be on those islands when they start drilling though. They’ll be some of the richest people on the planet. Most of the islanders invested in the exploration as well so they’ll be fucking minted soon. :crazy_dru
February 6, 2010 at 3:11 pm

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@DJCliffy 371450 wrote:

Yeah i know, I didn’t say Maggie knew the oil was there. Personally I see this as more of a unexpected bonus from her actions in reclaiming the islands. Can you imagine the uproar had the Islands fell and the Argies found the oil instead? :crazy: [/quote]

we’d just end up going to war now instead (which would be logistically way more difficult as our troops are deployed elsewhere).

the wider problem (which most people below the age of 30 will not be aware of) was that this stroke of luck boosted thatcho’s prospects and enabled her to do things like privatise loads of public businesses and crush the hippy/drug/alternative scene, which in hindsight weren’t as good for the nation as people thought.

if Blair had been more lucky in Iraq he’d still be PM today…

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Man I’d love to be on those islands when they start drilling though. They’ll be some of the richest people on the planet. Most of the islanders invested in the exploration as well so they’ll be fucking minted soon. :crazy_dru

that is assuming they yield oil at a decent price for the costs incurred in getting it. The reason it wasn’t extracted in 1998 was because it is too expensive…

actually if there is oil there there is every chance of a second Falklands war…
February 6, 2010 at 3:52 pm

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@General Lighting 371458 wrote:

actually if there is oil there there is every chance of a second Falklands war…

I can see it happening. The Argies aren’t happy at all that oil has been found right on their doorstep.

Gordon Brown told em as well there’s no chance at all of them reclaiming the Islands. I wonder though, if it kicks off again will our govt have the balls to go and take em back?
February 6, 2010 at 3:56 pm

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