Margaret Thatcher Bobby Sands
On 9 april 1981 bobby sands won the election with over 30000 votes almost 10000 more than thatcher had won in her home constituency of finchley in the 1979 uk general election.
Margaret thatcher bobby sands. The letter written in 1981 was uploaded to reddit ireland by user uthehowlinreeds who captioned it found this while tearing my hair out over the us elections thought yall. One hunger striker bobby sands was elected as a member of parliament during the strike prompting media interest from around the world. As the self described socialist mayor of the city of burlington vt in the 1980s current democratic presidential candidate bernie sanders wrote a lot of letters.
Prime minister margaret thatcher served notice in the house of commons today that britain would not change its policy on northern ireland despite the death of robert sands on the 66th day of his. One of them as a recent story.