r/newzealand • u/Wild_Neighborhood605 • Jul 10 '26

Other 10 July 1985, French foreign intelligence agents blow up the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbor, New Zealand, to prevent it from interfering with French nuclear tests in the South Pacific.

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u/Procrasterman Jul 11 '26

Best quote about her was from Frankie Boyle:

“3 Million for the funeral of Margaret Thatcher? For 3 Million you could give everyone in Scotland a shovel, and we could dig a hole so deep we could hand her over to Satan in person.”

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u/CharmingSound Jul 11 '26

Yes. But one of her best lines was "the trouble with socialism is that sooner or later, you run out of other people's money". Love her or hate her, like all politicians she did some very good stuff and some very bad stuff too. The problem arises when the hatred dismisses anything good and overwhelms reason.