Are we sure the story about Margaret Thatcher is even true? The guy only met her once, and he's on an opposing party and this incendiary comment is the only comment she ever spoke to him?
Well, if Thatcher was correct, then the guy who claims to have met her was
a liar. But he's the one telling the story. So if he's a liar, how do we know
that Thatcher told him that? How do we know that she told him anything?
Or, is he the guy in the puzzle who tells a lie, then the truth, then a lie, then
the truth, and so on, never two lies in a row, etc.?
I've known several Irish who couldn't tell a lie if their life depended on it.
St. Patrick was Irish. He wasn't a liar, Margaret Thatcher.
Father Fahey was Irish. His truth may have been painful for the English to
hear, but it was still truth.
Maybe to Margaret Thatcher, something she didn't want to believe, to her,
she thought (subjectively!) must be a lie, and
no doubt she heard a lot of
things from the Irish she didn't want to believe.
So there!
We ought to ask +W about this. This is his "cup of tea." No pun intended.