Falklands’ lawmakers at party conference meet Argentine ambassador Castro
The Falkland Islands Government stand at the Liberal Democrat Party Conference in Brighton welcomed a number of senior party members including the leader Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and the Argentine ambassador in London, Alicia Castro who was also attending the event.
Members of Legislative Assembly Jan Cheek and Ian Hansen attended the first of the British party conferences, which ran from Saturday until Wednesday afternoon.
“While not as busy as the other two conferences that I have attended several times in the past, we had a good number of interesting visitors to the new stand which was much admired with its huge Falklands map”, said MLA Cheek.
As well as the Deputy Prime Minister they welcomed Deputy Liberal Democrat Leader Simon Hughes, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Ed Davey and Sir Bob Smith Member for Aberdeen.
She added: “We had several visits from Jeremy Browne who repeated his thanks to everyone who welcomed him on his visit in June”.
“I spotted the Argentine ambassador who made several passes by the stand before coming over with her companion. We had a brief conversation and gave her copies of all our literature which I said I hoped she would enjoy reading” said MLA Cheek.
Along with the Falkland Islands Representative in London Sukey Cameron the Falklands delegation was joined for a day by Michael Poole, “who managed to get to one of the medical related fringe activities and helped on the stand.”
She said the general ethos of the conference, “is intelligent and very much in support of human rights including that to self determination,” and although they encountered the occasional odd comment had, “interesting debates with passing party members, but were made very welcome”. (PN)
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Who knows, maybe once she'd read the truth, Ambassador Castro will realise just how much of a prat she has made out of herself over this issue.
Either that or she's rang her beloved leader, “Cristina, it's all over! They actually have evidence that we are lying scumbags! They are showing it to everyone! What are we going to do?”
Cristina to Castro. “Errr. I know, let's tell even bigger lies! That'll work!”
FIG *is* talking to Argentina
Well done
You have done Falklands proud,
Just one thing,
Watch the sausage roll don’t go missing..lol.
Good luck.
So now maybe Castro realises that the Rover needs to get into 4WD , and low gear after planks and bumperjack have been deployed.
And hey, here's a radical idea, let's (Argentina) actually take our heads out of the sand (wet peat bog?) and talk to the people, we are getting nowhere by ignoring.
And even if we know the game is up on our erratic claim at least we can make money for our country and gain something from the Falklands( ie £millions ) using peaceful methods by trading and offering port facilities.
Then folks, I awoke from my dream and realised that Argentina will contine to deploy 4th gear, no 4WD, and keep spinning in the bog until their Rover runs out of fuel.
English translation for my obvious metaphor=Argentina will continue not to address the problem that have created for themselves, which will multiply after the 2013 referendum.
Ahh well, the thought was nice.
I like it. Top gear flat out in 2wd describes it well. 4wd, low range, bumper jack and boards definitely required at a minimum. Maybe even an attempt at a bridge might work in the future. Otherwise, if you can't handle the bogs maybe consider going with a guide who knows the camp and knows how to drive across it. ..and bring back some gates to have one at!
so they say ???
Thanks for the warning but don't worry. MLA Jan Cheek is one cool operator. I've not heard anything on the grape vine about the approach and I wasn't there but I wouldn't be so sure Alicia Castro was being all sucky sucky. Jan doesn't show her hand easily and she sure wasn't born yesterday (and I don't just mean literally).
As for invading your country to save you all. Well don't hold your breath. You sound like the Argentines I know and work with. They all hate CFK. It is well known in the Falklands that a group of Argentines who come over from time to time all refer to a place just East of Stanley called Hookers Point as “Cristina's Point”.
An Imports?
With Scandinavian ancestors?
And MLA Hansen's ancestors who first arrived on the Falklands were Danish I believe.
You need to buy a map and study geography.
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