Malvinas dispute helps ‘to distract UK public opinion’ from serious domestic problems
The UK is taking advantage of the diplomatic conflict escalade with Argentina over the Falkland Islands sovereignty dispute to distract public opinion from serious domestic problems such as unemployment, said Argentine Vice-president Amado Boudou.
“London is after issues of big media impact to hide the daily sufferings of Britain with its problems of unemployment, shrinking economy, social unrest by appealing to a very distant situation such is the South Atlantic Islands dispute”, said Boudou.
He added that the all “the bullying we are seeing is geared to distract UK public opinion. Really what we are experiencing is a serious lack of leadership in Europe”.
“They have domestic questions that must be solved such as unemployment and Scotland’s independence referendum and the oil in the North Sea. They must have minds concentrated in other issues to compensate for the floundering support of government and keep strengthening the colonialist spirit”, underlined the Vice-President.
Boudou then when on to say that colonialism “is a shame that humanity has been carrying since the 17th century, and the Malvinas Islands are one of its last symbols.” Furthermore, “Great Britain has always been the face of imperialism and colonialism around the world”.
Former Foreign Affairs Minister Jorge Taiana also joined the controversy saying that Prince William’s deployment to the Malvinas is a “provocation.” Likewise Taiana assured that the Argentine Government will continue to push with the sovereignty claim until “the United Kingdom sits down to negotiate” over the Malvinas Islands.
“Argentina has to maintain what it has been bringing forward since 2003 with certainty, which is putting forward their claim across to all forums and pushing for the request made by the United Nations (for talks over sovereignty) to be finally carried out,” sustained the former government member.
Furthermore, Taiana stated that if the request for talks is put through “finally the United Kingdom will hear the international claim and find itself in a political position which will force them to negotiate”.
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Alternatively Argentina feels UK might be distracted and sees an opportunity to repeat their 1982 Military Adventure, Naked Aggression, War Crime. How little these Hispanics understand the British.
Taiana assured that the Argentine Government will continue to push with the sovereignty claim until “the United Kingdom sits down to negotiate” over the Malvinas Islands.
He's in for a long wait.
O'gara, drop the charade mate, its getting tedious, everyone here knows you are a sad Argie blogger masquerading as a bog trotter pretending he knows what he is talking about, when quite clearly a Haggis has better grasp of UK affairs and the Falklands then you could ever manage......
If you really want a parrot, go and buy one at the petshop!
But as for the Malvinas all the serious English newspapers openly admit the time is limited for the planters to come to their senses.
Britain doesn't 'need' any of this and we would all much rather live quietly and peacefully.
Quite apart from the fact that this isn't a big news story in Britain.
Do you have to be a compulsive liar and a hypocrite to get on in Argentine politics?
Its part of argentina's new effort to prove they are just as delusional and retarded as creationists, who patented the use of psychological projection to enable them scrambling to get moral highground
fortunately anyone with a working internet connection or access to UK papers shows differently
This is not distraction.
This is as saying in technically .. controllable covering up strategy ..
also comes from both sides Britain and Argentina.
Boudou mentioned people were against the welfare reforms. Wrong again. The majority of people want to see the system reformed to more fairly distrubute help where it is genuinely needed. It will be debated - as all changes are - because that is what happens in a democracy.
The gaudian - www.guardian.co.uk/ - No mention to any aritcle on the falklands on their home page
Telegrapth - www.telegraph.co.uk/ - Yet again no mention on the falklands dispute/tensions
The observer - observer.guardian.co.uk/ - Again like its parent paper the guadian, there is not a single link to any article on the home page for the falklands dispute/tensions
Daily Mail - www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html - Only a small mention of argentine thugs vowing to attack a british buisness every week, which appears right at the bottom mixed in with a number of other headlines and it of no real worth.
The Mirror - www.mirror.co.uk/news/ - Nothing mentioned about the falklands at all that i could see on the home page or on the news page.
The sun - www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/ - 1 link to article reporting on timmermans “conquerer” jibe at prince william and argentina thugs rioting, but even that was half way down the page and only a minor article. Note it was also in the paper on page 7 where the front page and page 4 and 5 were dedicated to a story or a woman who used to be a man, that claimed to have sleeped with 1000 men since becoming a woman. Page 2 was all about current politics and national issues, which is where things bout debt and unemployment and scottish nationlism is reporting daily as well as in extended articles on later pages. Page 3 was well a very pretty site as always.
So those are the main news papers.
Heres the BBC news hompage - www.bbc.co.uk/news/ - Again nothing at all.
How would any man with a backbone spout this sort of delusionary crap and think that anyone is going to believe it?
Apart from the usual Argie Bloggers of course.
ere Lady Gaga Daygo boy..........nobody's fooled by your pretend Irish charade :) But keep it up, if you were truly Irish you would know exactly that Craughwell is an Irish place name (Welsh? On which drug did you come to that insane lapse of logic hahaha!), your yet another Walter mitty in the long line who hasn't a clue about Ireland and the UK let alone the Falklands (as you are another Malvinist sock puppet account).
P.S You live in Ireland now!.......last week you were living in Buenos Aires hahaha LOL if your going to pretend to be a Bog trotter with a brain, at least be consistent in the lie hahaah.
It is in fact Argentina who is using the British news to distract attention of the argentine public from Argentina chaos, but again it will not work .
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Long Live the Falklands.
He has his snout in the government trough and he will do what ever it takes to keep it there...
RGs don't just steal from gringos.. they steal from each other as well....
It must be mor of a poverty stricken shithole than I originally thought!
About time we put a stop to that!
That's coming to an end as we speak and no doubt by 2020 Europe will return to the Chthonic landscape it has always been. Because if European history tells us anything, it will always snatch war and misery from the jaws of peace and prosperity.
@38 Tobias - I'm not South American or British/European but don't really know what you mean? Are you saying that the South American continent has been peaceful and a great bastion of human rights and justice? Lots of armies, lots of grand parades and lots of silly uniforms is what we have seen in recent history.
I would agree that the Pax Espana is a bit of a European problem as not many of its former colonies have been peaceful or had stable governments in history. Maybe this is what the Falkland Islanders fear: the instability that goes with leaving Pax Britannica? Just a thought.
The military capabilities of most EU countries are laughable. Our own forces were gutted by Labour then had the coup de grace committed by David Cameron, a man I consider to be as fitting to be PM as the average goldfish.
The USA have been relied on to do the heavy lifting in terms of defence, thats why the yanks were rightly complaining about it to us recently.
As to aid to Argentina! That is bizarre, and should be stopped immediately. Only our moronic government would stand up to it's only people and brazenly tell them that providing cash to it's enemies is in our best interest. The usual refraim of “just think of the poor children” is wheeled out, sickening. Meanwhile HMS Dauntless is sent out with most of her designed weapons load..........but that's OK we gave the money to those who would send her to the bottom, along with her crew.
@34, why stop at fingers, I think the idiots responsible for this should be shot.
@40 good point, out comes the GPMG, we will probably need it as theres a lot of people to shoot lol.
Just a couple million more guys, such a grand sum of money in countries who's GDPs run in the hundreds of billions. It will brake Argentina's back.
its only money,
but at least we pay our debts, most of the world is suffering,
perhaps argentina, could teach us a thing or to,
perhaps if we followed argentina and refused to pay our debts, think of where we would be now ??
Do yuo really think we should be giving your country money? A country that is trying to annex the Falklands and evict, or force to live under occupation, thousands of British people? I don't care if it's “only” £7 million pounds, we should'nt be giving you a penny.
Would you give any money to a country that was trying to annex a province of Argentina and using economic threats to do so?
@ teaboy - I can do better than a GPMG - I know where an old Chieftan tank is parked up - believe or not it was used as an advertising gimmick by RBS......
Next stop would have to be CFK's presidential palance, what you think? We can get all the last few years worth of british aid money back from CFK herself before we run her over lol.
But the gun won't have a breech block in it and getting ammunition for it will be difficult. :o)
Given the choice between being diplomacy and child like spats of anger and lies, they choose child like spats of anger and lies.
Argentina has never recovered from being a wannabe be Axis power in the 1930's. Argentina's version of fascism (like that of Spain's) remained undefeated by WW2 Allied powers. It hadn't even had to fight a real civil war to maintain power, just murder 50,000-100,000 of its own unarmed political activists and we all know how easy that was for their brave and heroic military men, like their hero Commander Astiz.
It took the Falklands War to shake the Argentines into some semblance of reality. Remove their military government and see the Americans as something other than a benevolent uncle, rather more like a the uncle you kept your children away from, you know the one in the old mack who always had his hands in his pockets and a grimace on his lips.
But within a few short years a girl came alone, a wannabe Eva Peron and took them all the way back to year zero! And the Argentine people gave up their collective memory and switched back to servile child.
In the West it's very difficult to understand how the average Argentine thinks. We have to imagine how our own per-adolescent children think and we can then get into their mindset. Give them a box of toy soldiers & some flags to play with and they are as happy as pie, tell them that they can't own Tracey Island though and they will cry their eyes out.
At school, the teachers would always tell them “Tracey Island” was their's. Even though the reality was, it wasn't!
It will be getting a slow propellant that will be a problem - civilian propellants for pistols and rifles are far too fast and will result in breech explosions no matter how much you fill them with inert matter (ground walnuts, etc)
Been there, done that, got the tee shirt!
This whole article is utter nonense!
The Falklands issue has only truly made UK news over the past 2-3 weeks - predominently as a result of the need to counteract the Argentinian propoganda. Argentina state William's deployment is an act of aggression and that the UK refuse to negotiate on the Falklands. Did anyone in a position of power as the Falklanders to negotiate thier right to live there in peace? Do the Argentinian government comment on every 6 week military training placement in the Falklands and state they are aggressive acts?
Lots of things are in the media in the UK right now - including rising unemployment and increasing inflation - normal during a WORLDWIDE recession (that incidentally is also affecting Argentinia); the Queens upcoming Jubilee; the London Olympics; the latest indiscressions of celebrities; the phone tapping scandal; the earthquake & tsunami in the Phillipines; the latest football results; the 6 nations. As a % of news the Falklands (aside from the 30th anniversary of the conflict) falls towards the bottom of the list of ALL subjects. If you search on the internet for 'Falkland' and 'UK' over the past 6 months the results you will find will focus on the anniversary of the conflict and the oil - not Argentinia's rediculous attempts to sway world opinion on the right to self determination with the Falklanders.
Argentian needs to accept they are increasing the 'hype' around the Falklands, the UK government are not!
I'm sure the Falkland Islander's would welcome Christina to a meeting to discuss thier rights and desires for the future.....
I would like to say well said but could you please break your comments down into well spaced paragraphs :) as it is much easier for reading.
Yes in Argentina all we hear about is Malvinas, Malvinas, Malvinas, it's a constant and continuous drone from our government. We have heard it all before, the lies and the disinformation. They have nothing useful to do or say, so they keep on Malvinas, Malvinas, Malvains and the same people answer the call. the more they hear, the angrier the nationalists get, their small minds easily confused.
What would they do....?
What would they tell the people...?
How would they move forward from there....?
I think they would be totally buggered........
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