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Falklands War | Studio Debate | 1982

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Published 12 Nov 2016

Thames Televisions Llew Gardner and Denis Tuohy host a 'TV Eye' special about the escalating Falklands Crisis. First shown in 06/05/1982 Presenters: Denis Tuohy Lew Gardner Panel: Dr. David Owen Sir. Anthony Kewshaw Denis Healey If you would like to license a clip from this debate, please e mail: archive@fremantlemedia,com Quote: VT26843

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@Werrf14 years ago It' s very easy for me to say this, as a briton looking back on these events forty years later, but frankly this is all ridiculous. There were 1, 820 . ...Expand 83
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@fasthracing3 years ago The falkland isles were british before argentina even existed as a country! 28
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@stevieh98604 years ago Im not quite sure sir, that you addressed yourself entirely to my question
they dont make em like that anymore. 15
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@andy99ish2 years ago " was it worth losing lives to maintain the principle that armed aggression should not pay? " is a manipulative question, as it leaves out the . ...Expand 12
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@mxxx04042 years ago Gentlemen all of them. No interruptions, just courtesy and mutual respect. Our modern politicians could learn a great deal from these men. 9
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@fasthracing3 years ago Thank god we had mrs t as prime minister at the time. 31
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@AndreiTupolev5 years ago " impossible to exercise continuous political control" says denis healey pompously. I bet the commanders on the ground were extremely grateful for that. 22
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@darrenclapson92006 years ago How wrong all of these men were. Defend your citizens and your lands and the people will always be with you. 54
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@CharlieVane216 years ago That phone was state of the art in 1982. Lol amazing the difference in feel with modern media. What will it be like 40 years from now? 5
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@HuplesCat5 years ago When the task force sailed it was 70% in favour. When they sunk the first ship about 99% 23
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@Celts183 years ago Haig as is us secretary of state al haig, not hague as in some vague international agency. 1
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@JandJProductionsJNN3 years ago Im quite a lefty, but ill admit that had foot and healey been in power they wouldve bungled this entire situation. 10
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@brandonnow41887 years ago The peruvian peace deal! Remember that! 8
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@jamessayers14285 years ago It would have been irresponsible to use force without attempting to resolve the conflict satisfactorily by diplomatic means. It was necessary to do so to maintain domestic and international support for the action. 14
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@naczspecrembud7 months ago Very interesting - seeing it now. Before military victory by uk, they contemplated ceasefire and feared that temporary situation becomes permanent, like . ...Expand
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@aananhenderson26893 years ago Why did he have the phone on set in the first place. 2
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@CharlieVane216 years ago On an attack on the mainland. Uk didn' t have the wherewithal to attack the mainland in 1982, it had no realstrike capability. The bombers couldn' t even shut down the airfield on the islands, so no point going after their bases in argentina. Would have ended in disaster. Totally different now, though, as the rn has a real deep strike capability - tomahawk, storm shadow, soon the f35, drones even. Could end a war even before its really got started.
not that the argentinians would ever go there again. Though, would the uk launch such an attack unilaterally? That would be interesting. Brings in the debate on gps and galileo, would the us or the eu let the uk launch such an attack? Therefore should the uk have its own satellite system?. ...Expand 2
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@doctorsocrates44132 years ago Why acut situation and mrs thatcher sorted it. 1
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@alexm77434 years ago El ataque del 1 de mayo a tres buques ingleses por parte de aviones de la faa sigue siendo un secreto militar bien guardado por los ingleses.
este qu barco era?. ...Expand 3
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@chrissheppard50686 years ago As soon as you put this so called sacrifice limit in place you might as well get the white flag out. Tossers. It was great patrolling into stanley watching . ...Expand 23
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@pmays4last year If i call him, will he pick up and have a chat with me live on air? 2
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@YARROWS94 years ago We went down there with no early warning aircraft and shit counter measures for dealing with fast attack aircraft that the argies had. Plus we scrapped . ...Expand 4
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@alexm77434 years ago Please, can anyone tell
what happened the first day of the conflict (1st of may) with three royal navy
ships attacked by argentine aircrafts? remain an unclassified military secret. ...Expand
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@starguy3213 years ago All these people criticising healey and owen when both of them were part of the labour government that actually stopped a war in 1977, when argentina tried . ...Expand 5
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@sputnik13153 years ago I can' t help noticing the style of those politicians and the way they spoke and comparing it to the shouting we hear today on tv. I arrived to this . ...Expand 4
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@douglastaggart93604 years ago Imagine jeremy corbyn being prime minister then but i remember this as if it was yesterday i was 16 at the time and as soon as i was 18 joined the british army and here we are 38 years later and falklands are still british. 7
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@Ingens_Scherz4 years ago Pretty extraordinary how utterly, utterly out of touch these talking heads were (kershaw less so, perhaps) i was too young to follow the political class all i remember is that everyone - everyone - young and old - were totally outraged by the argentinian criminals and absolutely overjoyed when our troops quite rightly kicked their arses all the way back to buenos aires. ...Expand 20
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@sheeplebarn3335 years ago Once argentina invaded the islands they made the decision the matter would be settled by war. They lost so there is and was nothing left to discuss period. The falklands are british. 16
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@markmeade29373 years ago Our government had a moral obligation to protect the falkland islanders, they did and its done.
these politicians are in a parallel universe, so out of touch. 2
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@therealbettyswollocks5 years ago Two of the three are typical of british leaders in the 60s and 70s, weak, post-imperial and compliant. Thankfully we had a female leader with some id="hidden18" backbone.
3 old men: we should negotiate with the argies
thatcher: hold my tea. ...Expand 53
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@erniemccracken24293 years ago Thatcher had more balls than any bloke in the house of commons - especially those on the opposition benches.
had there been a labour government . ...Expand 3
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@jameseadie71453 years ago Ah the peruvian peace deal, what a load of bollocks. 3
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@stephenpotts11586 years ago Peron created the Malvinas myth and by '82 Argentina was ready for war..
Falklands - Argentina's Imaginary Territory (1 pg):- ..
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@andrewhay22414 years ago God that david owen' s a slimeball isn' t he? 3
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@starchild80364 years ago When you take a look to the map it is pretty easy to know that they arethey were not an strategic place, full of oil and the proyection on antartida, uk would be not giving a sh*t about the kelpers. 1
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@polkban3 years ago Do you know why argentina had a military goberment? While you british were playing games with ussr, in argentina the ussr en cuba where supporting id="hidden22" a comunist guerrilla warfare. The military junta were fighting them for years! And the 30. 0 are not the right number but 8. 500. Most of them had been killed on a batterfield or while they attemp to take a military base 1974/1977. Was a mistake too invade the islands? Of course it was! But in argentina there was not a dictatorship as nazi germany or uganda or n korea. Saludos from buenos aires. ...Expand
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@markbailey19703 years ago We provoked the war - appalling really. 1
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@WTFiamabanana11 months ago Why are they all ignoring the will of the falkand islanders themselves, arguably the most important element of all this? They did not want to be ruled a foreign and hostile military dictatorship invades a democratic state, and that state is chastised for defending itself? For defending their own citizens?
nah b these mans are stupid. ...Expand 2