Abandon Liverpool

[Hillian1]

Thatcher was advised to Abandon Liverpool following the Toxteth riots.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-16355281

 

[Vegas Seagull]

If we want to read the BBC...

 

[tubaman]

Croyden next in the list then

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

If Liverpool had been chucked out of the UK would our clubs have been banned from European football after the Heysel match?!

 

[Danny-Boy]

If Liverpool had been chucked out of the UK would our clubs have been banned from European football after the Heysel match?!

Palace would have played Euro football in 1991 if Liverpool hadnt been allowed back...

 

[ROSM]

Palace would have played Euro football in 1991 if Liverpool hadnt been allowed back...

That's why Lenhardt Johansson was so keen to let Liverpool back in. It would have devalued the competition forever.

This ia fab thread. It will bring out the Thatcher haters and the Liverpool haters into one huge binfest

 

[DarrenFreemansPerm]

Palace would have played Euro football in 1991 if Liverpool hadnt been allowed back...

That just made throw up a little bit

 

[vegster]

This just goes to show the Tory mindset, and this was from Geoffrey Howe, who was not even a right wing Tory..... sometimes I think that even Oswald Mosely at least cared for the country compared to the likes of Thatch, Tebbitt, Cameron and Osborne

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

That just made throw up a little bit

On the other hand, Manchester United would have won the League in 1983*, allowing Brighton to take their place in the Cup winners' Cup.

* if you delete Watford and Man Utd's League results against Liverpool that season.

 

[Westdene Seagull]

This just goes to show the Tory mindset, and this was from Geoffrey Howe, who was not even a right wing Tory..... sometimes I think that even Oswald Mosely at least cared for the country compared to the likes of Thatch, Tebbitt, Cameron and Osborne

A somewhat ironic post considering Thatcher and Heseltine both rejected the daft idea - both very strong right wingers.

 

[Westdene Seagull]

* if you delete Watford and Man Utd's League results against Liverpool that season.

Slow day by chance ? Can't even believe you could be bothered to work that out !

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

Slow day by chance ? Can't even believe you could be bothered to work that out !

Too bloody right. I'm working in a nursery and all the children have gone. Still gotta be here for the next 40 minutes!

 

[vegster]

A somewhat ironic post considering Thatcher and Heseltine both rejected the daft idea - both very strong right wingers.

Oh dear, schoolboy error ! Heseltine was very much to the left of the Tory party and was famous for trying to make the Tories more centralist and pro European. He was also was the person who triggered Thatch's resignation and stormed out of the cabinet over the Westland affair.

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

True to being a One Nation Tory, Heseltine seems to have had moral reasons for rejecting the 'abandon Liverpool' approach. It would be interesting to find out whether it was this or political expediency that led Thatcher to reject it.

 

[aolstudios]

Oh dear, schoolboy error ! Heseltine was very much to the left of the Tory party and was famous for trying to make the Tories more centralist and pro European. He was also was the person who triggered Thatch's resignation and stormed out of the cabinet over the Westland affair.

tbh the old bastard was probably to the left of tony blair, as was john major, probably. Everythings gone mad I tell ya still, at least we've got footie

 

[Beach Hut]

I thought is had been abandoned and was now independent as they have a Liverpool Embassy in London

 

[ROSM]

True to being a One Nation Tory, Heseltine seems to have had moral reasons for rejecting the 'abandon Liverpool' approach. It would be interesting to find out whether it was this or political expediency that led Thatcher to reject it.

His comments on the behaviour of the police in L8 certainly were eye opening. To hear a Conservative minister making those observations would have sent Willie Whitelaw into a flat spin.

 

[Beach Hut]

Heseltine was perfectly decent over this Liverpool debacle including the setting up of re-generation schemes.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Outrageous.

Will their players be wearing t-shirts in protest at their next game?

 

[Sussex Nomad]

If we want to read the BBC...

Ever heard of National Archives?