Her cabinet were against it. They were even prepared to hand the islands over to Argentina as long as they agreed to maintain a British way of life for the inhabitants. The old fucking bag was having none of it.
Maintain a British way of life? What by locking them up against their will? Is that the British way of life?
Oh and if Thatcher is being accused of using the war down there s a distraction, then so was Galtieri. Inflation was running at 1000% at the time they invaded the Falklands.