Falklands’ lawmaker Jan Cheek meets PM Cameron at 10 Downing Street
Leaders of British Overseas Territories, including Falkland Islands Member of Legislative Assembly Jan Cheek met with the British Prime Minister at Number 10 Downing Street on Wednesday afternoon.
MLA Cheek and MLA Sharon Halford are in London attending the Overseas Territories Joint Ministerial Council. It meets for the first time to drive forward implementation of the White Paper: The Overseas Territories: Security, Success and Sustainability.
Speaking to Penguin News from London MLA Cheek said: “I felt the meetings went well and we participated in all sessions. The visit to No 10 was very pleasant and began with the walk up the staircase lined with photographs of past Prime Ministers.”
They were then joined by the Prime Minister for tea and, “he made a point of speaking to everyone and is clearly well briefed on the issues affecting each territory”, said MLA Cheek.
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Very capable lady and nobody's fool is our MLA Cheek. God bless you.
“Nice pic of the emperial family.”
We might say the same of that picture of the Mercosur Mafia Dons
www.flickr.com/photos/talklikeapirateday/2872459853/
Yaaaay pirates :) thanks for the link!. Anyone else think pirates are awesome lol
malvinistas-bellyachers
Nice photograph of the Falklands Fishery Protection Fleet!
Arrrr, where be them them argie seadogs!! heave too our we'll slit yer gizzards!!!! Fiften men on a dead RG's chest, yo hoo hoo and a bottle of rum, Arrr!!!!
Keep yer powder dry me hearties ARRR!!!!!!!
- Pirates are not cool stuff
- Pirates are not awesome
- Pirates is no funny
- Nobody mentally healthy envy or jeulosy nothing to be Pirate
Rather...
- be a Pirate in the eyes of civilized comunity is be a thef.....a regular criminal.
Thats the very real history of your country and just looking cameron,s photo and the representatives of the colonies....you could see all the places stolen.
@ 15 Exactly... Where do you think resources to sustain the high standard of living in the UK came from? From elswhere... maybe?
♪♫ British things, British things ♪♫ Afraid there´s hardly any ♪♫
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWedTbuAtR4
hastingspirateday.org.uk
It is something they will never understand, so the comments are predictable.
Last time I looked, Scotland was still part of the union.
Do something about then you cowards. All the rhetoric just makes you a collection of armchair warriors. Unless you are prepared to back up your verbal diarhoea with action, it's invalid for reasons explained on multiple occasions.
Falkland Islands are and will always be a part of the UK.
What, other than recent terrorism, the only realistic thing you have achieved is getting a number of countries to say we should talk and our response to that is 'shove-it'! What else have you achieved apart from making yourselves look perpetually stupid?
You're at least partially right. Examples of un-cool, un-awesome, un-funny pirates : David Jewett, Luis Vernet.
@18 Islas
Your question suggests that certain Spanish colonials such as yourself still haven't figured out the difference between plunder and commerce.
@28 Islas
And that little episode in 1982? That was what, exactly?
What the UK has achieved and maintained does not make you smarter. We hope to eventualy breake the status quo and put an end to the British perpetually occupation and exploitation of other countries resources at gunpoint.
@3 No. Imperial family. What do they try to teach you at school these days? Never mind. They failed!
@5 The photograph depicts representatives of BRITISH OVERSEAS TERRITORIES, you numbskull. People quite capable of kicking your sorry little asses. Oh, we already did that, didn't we? Would you like to feel what it's like to have a British bayonet up your jacksie again?
@15 Aaaaah... 65 WTO disputes, 49 ICSID claims. Defending court cases on 3 continents. Some of your boats are “missing”. ...... diddums!
@16 There are no “natives” left in argieland. They have been “assimilated”. That's argie for “eliminated”.
@18 Have you tried whistlind? Or is that just the noise your “president” makes when she opens her legs?
@19 What pirates? Pirates usually make their “victims” walk the plank. But most of you are planks anyway!
@21 Unimportant hangers-on!
@25 And we've told you why you are stupid, ignorant thieving criminals on multiple occasions. But here's a promise for you. On the day that you die, the Falkland Islands will STILL be in the relationship that the Islanders wish with the UK!
I'm sure the native amer-Indians in the country YOU colonised at gun point share your sentiments. Bloody hypocrite !
@32 Look yourself at the mirror before calling other peoples “thieving criminals”.
That's funny because what you said in @28 was “ To do something in latinamerica does not equal making wars, like in British culture.”
So an invasion by military force doesn't count as “war” in latin america?
Is this another one of those occasions where a word no longer maintains its original meaning in Latin America?
And if you have a look at latinamerican international relations and compare it with those in Europe, you´ll see latinamerican States ar far more peaceful than Europeans.
Argentine Executive and Judiciary clash over Media Bill and intimidation of Judges
President Cristina Fernandez and the Argentine Judiciary branch are on a collision course after a federal court, despite all kinds of pressure and threats, decided on Thursday to extend an injunction referred to a controversial media bill which seems targeted to dismember the powerful Clarin Media Group, which has become to the eyes of the regime enemy number one
NOTE THE WORDS PRESSURE AND THREATS thats Hitler Kirchner all over
“Dealing with Argentina “one of the most painful problems” admits President Mujica”
GOD BLESS THE FALKLAND ISLANDS
So we're supposed to believe now that a military junta composed of the heads of the Army, Navy and Air Force sends an invasion force onto somebody else's islands and doesn't realise it's an act of war? What do they teach them at the Colegio Militar de la Nación?
In fact, this was just a smoke screen put up in an attempt to stop the US from intervening. This is quite clear in the accounts of Haig and Rentschler of the NSC in their attempts to negotiate a solution with Galtieri :
“From the outset, I understood your aim to be a change in the status quo sufficient to justify your decision to use force. But I must now conclude that your aim is to guarantee unchallenged Argentine sovereignty, nothing less.”
www.margaretthatcher.org/document/114344
(Well worth a read. Interesting disquisition in there too on the state of the toilets in the Casa Rosada as a metaphor for the Argentine government).
As if that wasn't enough, this absolution fantasy (the other side of the coin from a conspiracy theory) is a violation of basic common sense. You had ample warning of the British response, ample time to get your forces off the islands before the Task Force got there, and a binding UN resolution to give you the encouragement as well as the domestic political cover necessary to do so.
You freely chose not to, but apparently lack the courage to recognise and accept the consequences.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiMOKmp0uZc
When did I say he was lying? You really should try to get away from this assumption that because somebody expresses an opinion contrary to your own, they must be lying. You'll never understand anything with that kind of attitude, heck, you might even end up irrationally clinging to a hopeless cause long after it's been thoroughly discredited everywhere else.
In this case, while it has indeed been claimed by various apologists that the junta intended a quick withdrawal of the bulk of its forces after installation of an Argentine governor, this was only because they didn't expect the Brits to fight back and didn't think they'd need 11,000 troops to pacify 2,000 islanders.
The idea that the junta planned to invade and then withdraw in order to negotiate is not only laughable from a military or political point of view, it is flatly contradicted by
a) what the junta actually did,
b) the accounts of actual participants, and notably the American delegation who called bullshit when they saw it
c) members of the junta itself (Amaya)
But of course, and as we all know, trivialities like actual events or evidence are not necessary to sustain the Malvinista cult of victimhood.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiMOKmp0uZc
“Nice pic of the emperial family.”
No, there is no one there from the colonialist Empire of Argentina.
l like it,
Oh how quick!
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