UK Government will not allow Falkland Islanders’ human rights to be ignored
British Prime Minister David Cameron delivers his Christmas message to the people of the Falkland Islands: 2012 has been a memorable year for all of us. It’s been a year of happy celebrations but a year of more sober commemorations too. In London and Stanley, we celebrated the Diamond Jubilee, marking the 60th year of Her Majesty the Queen’s reign. The genuine and deep affection for Her Majesty both here and in the Falklands reminded us of the ties that bind us together.
It was an extraordinary summer in another respect too. The 2012 Olympics exceeded all our expectations. This was without doubt the greatest show on earth.
The world saw what the best of British talent, guts and ingenuity could produce. I was truly, truly proud of our country and I hope it looked as impressive 8,000 miles away as it did from here.
But June was also a time for some sombre reflection. It was a time to remember the conflict 30 years ago when your home was invaded by the Argentinean Junta and for remembering the 255 British servicemen and three Islanders who lost their lives. I know you, like me, will never forget the sacrifices they made. It would be appropriate too to remember those Argentines, mostly young men, pressed into service by their government, who also lost their lives.
Last month we sadly lost Sir Rex Hunt who played such a pivotal role during the invasion and following the Island’s liberation.
Sir Rex was the very best of British: a brave man and a dedicated public servant. He was also a close friend and passionate advocate of the Falkland Islands people. I know he will be much missed by all who knew him.
In June I had the privilege of speaking at the Falkland Islands Government’s Liberation Day reception. I was able to hear firsthand the stories of those directly involved in the conflict and to understand more about its lasting legacy. But, we didn’t just look back, we looked forward too and it’s testament to your efforts that the Falklands have prospered so well since those dark days of April 1982.
The progress you’ve made in shaping a positive future for the next generation of Falkland Islanders has been truly remarkable.
Now this year the Government officially renewed its partnership with the Overseas Territories, restating our commitment to help promote the territories social and economic development at a time of dramatic global challenges.
We want all the peoples of the Overseas Territories to be able to determine their own destiny and realise their aspirations.
But, I’m always conscious that you, the people of the Falkland Islands, continue to face a particular and direct challenge both to your economy and to your identity as Falkland Islanders.
President Kirchner’s Government appears determined to argue that you should have no say in how you are governed. They continue to misrepresent the history of your Islands and the current realities of life there. I’m pleased to see the Falkland Islanders working hard to correct these misrepresentations.
Indeed, it was particularly good to see a delegation of young Islanders travel to the United Nations in June to challenge President Kirchner directly. They were a great credit to you all.
It is a pity that Argentina persists in behaving this way. The UK would like to have a more positive relationship with the Government of Argentina. We are stepping up our engagement with Latin America more generally, and there are so many global issues we could work on together.
But, the British Government will not stand by and allow your human rights to be ignored. There is no justification for any country to try and deny you the right to democracy and self-determination. Nor to make attempts to isolate you, block your trade and undermine your legitimate fisheries, hydrocarbons and tourism industries.
Next year the Falkland Islands Government will hold a referendum on the political status of the Islands. I value deeply the UK’s relationship with the Falklands and hope it will long continue.
But it is not my decision, nor is it Argentina’s, it is yours and yours alone.
This referendum is true democracy in action, an opportunity to show the international community what you want for your future and to show it definitively. I hope all of you seize it.
In the meantime, Samantha and I would like to wish everyone on the Islands a very, very merry Christmas and a happy and prosperous New Year. (PN)
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Democracy is such an inconvenience for some countries and people.
Haven't you got anything to say?
Must still be hungover from the celebrations on getting their flagship back.
Argentina can only look on in envy at what we did in the summer, just like they will look on in jealous envy when Brazil does the same four years from now. And in the meantime all the cruise ships that have been docking in Argentine ports bringing in much needed money will be bypassing Argentina and will be docking in other South American country's making them even richer.
Your going down the crap pan Argentina thats the price your going to pay for taking us on again and being the nasty bastards we all always knew you were.
Enjoy your Christmas with your meager food on the table that has cost you a fortune to buy Argentinians. Meanwhile the rest of us including our friends on those islands that you covet so much will look upon our tables laden with good cheer and toast to a job well done, and we will all look forward to next year where once again we will all laugh at Argentina's demise. Merry Christmas to all
Apparently Mr Julian ASSANGE came on to the balcony of the ECUADORIAN Emabassy last night, to deliver his Christmas Message!
His supporters sang, “Ho Come Let Us Adore him.”
Fuck me, an alternate Pope!
What a bunch of Anoraks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Get everyone you can to sign this petition! It's nearly on the first page of the foreign office section now! Stand together and tell the government we want less words and we want a steel toe capped boot putting up the RGs backsides!
I still cant understand how anyone can still support this guy in any way, or could of in the first place, he and his cohorts at Wiki leaks have put many innocent lives at risk with there “leaks” and now he has been shown to be the lying little weasel of a man he really is. By avoiding going back to Sweden and clearing his name surly that is a sign of guilt!!
Just wish the fire alarms would mysteriously go off in the dead of night and weasel would be on the 545am flight out of Heathrow, Stockholm bound!!
As the song says ,, “ I predict a riot ” .
Watch the police stand by and do nothing when it does occur .
hhmmm.....thats Dr.Ewen Cameron who was former head of the American Psychiatric Association,is one of many highly respected doctors who erased the personalities and manipulate the minds of thousands of unsuspected victims,while many in profession simply turned a blind eye.
Dr.Cameron began conducting unethical ,unscientific and inhuman brainwashing experiments in the 1930's...
Schizophrenic patient were forced to a lie naked in red light for eight hours a day for periods as long as eight months.......but Dr.Cameron technique resulted permanent and complete amnesia.
The project involved brutal ,at times lethal experiments on thousand of unsuspected citizens in direct defiance of law ,all ethical codes and basic human rights.
From January 1957 until September 1960 ..Dr.Cameron project received $ 64,242.44 in CIA funds.
As long as the UK supports the Islanders they will never be colonized by Argentina.
UNLESS the Islanders want that to happen.
The sooner that sinks in to the thick skulls of the hyper-aggressive CFK party apparatchiks the better: everything, literally everything, else is irrelevant and will get you nowhere.
So all these years of being mean spirited and aggressive attitude towards the Islanders has done, and will continue to do, you far, far more harm than good.
And if you had continued in good faith and pleasant, normalized democratic political partnership with the Islanders then you would already be getting a foot in the door.
You fail, and will continue to fail, because of your own attitude and intransigence.
FInally, and perhaps more importantly, the UN is warming up the fat lady and the lip-service you get from other LATAM countries has been shown to be just that: lip service.
Wake up to the reality of today's work where nobody is going to walk all over the rights of Islanders just because you wish it, nor will the wider world re-write history just because you wish it.
Absolutely spot on.
Who'd actually want to be part of a backward looking country that won't even produce accurate growth and inflation statistics and is likely to get thrown out of the G20 and IMF.
While South Amercia pays lip service to Argentina's false claims to the Falkland Islands, the rest of the World laughs.
Our hearts, and thoughts, are with you always.
Have a great ultide, and my very best wishes to all of you.
Agree 100 % with you `Conk.`
@17 All the best! one and all...
Nobody knows for sure what The Falklanders democratic referendum will propose, so any attempt to illegitamize or disrupt this free and fair process is just plain dictatorship towards The Falklands population, their human rights and their destiny,
Any country/poster scared or dismissive of the outcome to this democratic referendum should ask themselves why?, after all if they were a democracy they would actively promote their own assumed freedom and liberty beliefs onto others, instead of oppression and malicious interference, until then such hypocritical countries cannot call themselves or be seen as a true DEMOCRACY :)
SELF-DETERMINATION! UN CHARTER! MINCE PIES!
But hold on a minute... you´re not suggesting the British to “self-determine” their future in Argentina, are you?
He never suggested any such thing.
He is not “pretending” anything. He has correctly stated that the people of the islands, have the right to choose there own future. Not the UK, and certainly not their pesky noisy neighbours 300 miles away.
If you have a problem understanding this simple premis, then i suggest utilising Google Translate, this will enable you to translate the article into your choosen dialect, and hopefully you will then understand.
www.buenosairesherald.com/article/119968/supermarket-lootings-spread-2-killed-in-rosario-100-arrested-in-campana
Ga, ga,......Gagagagagag ..... Ga, ga, ga.
Happy december 21 XD
What have I read from you? “Suck my penis, hang from whats between my legs etc, etc.” You are the very epitomy of why a thousand young men, on both sides, never got to grow old and will not be sitting around their Christmas table with their children and grandchildren this christmas.
I was going to say, if I had a christmas wish, it would be, that one of those men could change places with you. Then I thought, no, why should I dishonour their memory. Every single one of them, Argentinian or Brit, was obviously a better man than you will ever be.
And just to prove that I am not that emotional, why don't you crawl back into your shell, you slimey scum bag.
Fuck, that made me feel good! seem to have lost all my christian charity to my fellow man, well perhaps not all.
There is no such place as the 'Islas Malvinas'.
There is only, 'the Great Malvinas Lie.' And this is pure propaganda.
This is the best translator on the web that I know of:
translate.google.com/
and highly irrelevant......
SELF-DETERMINATION.........base of true democracy!
Malvinero or gustbury can do that for you, both speak fluent gibberish, when think is pissed up, he speaks only in gibberish.
@ 35 Brit Bob
Isn’t it the mythical place they must go to commit mass suicide, for the spaceships to take their spirits to somewhere else.
Probably checking their Mayan calendars for the next end of the world date.
Your ass probably feels at home. Next to your brain!
“But hold on a minute... you´re not suggesting the British to “self-determine” their future in Argentina, are you?”
If you insist-Britain settled in Ushuaia before Argentina did -so if terra del Fuego voted to be British it would turn the place from an unemployment sh1thole to a prosperous small nation that could trade with the Falkland Islands.
And we'd let them keep all their culture and language too, and let them run their own government.
@23
“Argentine Islas Malvinas.”
No such place exists, except in your dreams.....
i have 5 months left on xbox subscription can i get refund?,
does my car insurance cover the end of the world?
what will happen to my pension when the world ends?
who can i sue for the world ending and spoiling my christmas?
how did the mayans see the end of the world and not the end of their civilization?
I think I`ll just stick to my christmas plans either way the turkeys getting incinerated.
“We need to change our ways before it is too late!”
Hang on, scratch all that... I've just spotted I didn't take my medication at lunchtime, my posts could be somewhat off-centre.
Then again they may concern themselfs with an ever greater question.
Why does bird shit fall from the sky?
Some how, I think they will solve that one, before they ever solve the so called Falklands question!
God bless The Falkland Islands and it's people The United Kingdom will always be with you.
Merry Christmas and Happy New year to each and every one of you. That's me signing off until the New Year. To all you chronic bloggers: take a break and go and spend time with your friends and family before you ruin your health. LOL!
Merry Christmas and Happy New year to each and every one of you. That's me signing off until the New Year. To all you chronic bloggers: take a break and go and spend time with your friends and family before you ruin your health. LOL!
Same to you. Have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, be sure to pass on our festive wiushes to the rest of the Islanders. Christmas day, do me a favour, look outside and enjoy all you see. It's where you live and it always will be.
Merry Xmas.
Chris. Julie. Rebecca and Megan.
Are you a “” Manchurian Candidate“” like Conqueror. ?
Chris, a very special thanks. That was quite touching. I wish you and your family a very happy festive season and may your days start to get longer and sunnier as ours start to recede into darkness.
You are squint or talking yourself.
Chris is at @54.
Give it a rest. We were exchanging Christmas Greetings on line.
If you care to accept them. I send the same greetings to you.
no thanks..i am radical atheist.
About time.
27 reality check
Gracias.
I am very atheist but i send my Christmas greeting to you all.
My best wishes to all the reasonable people on this site of whatever nationality.
I hope you and your family are safe Simon68 from the coming riots which seem to be permeating the whole country.
And of course I have a few words for all the Malvanistas: there are STILL no Malvinas you Pratts!
Where have you been you little tinker, All is well I hope?
Su Bienvenida.
@30 Cry for your non-existent future, dogs' breath!
@33 I have a present for you and your ass. A double-length bayonet. Don't care whether you want it or not. But, if you choose, I can shove it down your throat. I have a hammer to make sure it goes all the way!
@39 Try not to use the word “Yank” in respect of faggots. “Yank” and “Limey” are, generally, friendly expressions between cousins. Please think of another word of opprobium for faggots, wherever they try to hide. We do need to work together to locate these scum and transport them halfway to their origins. Only fair. By air or by sea, let's see them “punch” a hole in the air.
@53 Sub-titles for you, twinky-lite. Try to remember that “Conqueror”, particularly HMS Conqueror, is a proud name. With reason. It sank Slutland's waughship with ease. And killed lots of latinos guilty of using air. Not content, that small vessel saw the rest of the lily-livered, gutless, coward “navy” scuttle out of sight. It won't happen again. Next time, cowards' lairs will be missiled until exterminated. “Happy” New Year, gutless.
@57 No reason for your existence or “life” then. You've always been pretty pointless. Being a faggot isn't a reason for existence. May you die soon and suffer in hellfire for the rest of eternity. Or, perhaps just cease. May the breath rattle in your throat and your bowels discharge. The stench will be a proper “marker”. Please let us know about your “end”. I really want to travel and crap in the cesspit of your disposal.
@61 Do you not keep up with the news, faggotface? The “Chaggosian” scroungers have LOST. They are going to have to something they've never done before if they want to survive. WORK!
I genuinely don't think they understand the British/Falklands animal. They attempt to deal with us in the same way they treat their tired and beleagered Iberian neighbours, all shouty and screamy, stamping feet and crying, me me me, mine, mine, mine, everybody feel sorry for us, everybody is against us.
None of that is going to wash with a cool anglo-saxon mentality.
Be interesting to see their next step.
Merry Christmas from our family.
You have my younger kids in hysterics, even the girls!!!
Don't know where they get it from!
l'm such an even tempered person. lol lol.
Must be their Dad!
Merry Christmas love, to you and yours.
From.
Chris, Julie, Rebecca and Megan.
www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/cruises/cruise-news/9760118/Silversea-Cruises-cancels-Falklands-visits.html
'Argentina complains to UK over Queen Elizabeth Land 'imperialism''
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/dec/21/argentina-complains-queen-elizabeth-land
'Send world a message with referendum, David Cameron tells Falklands'
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/falklandislands/9761973/Send-world-a-message-with-referendum-David-Cameron-tells-Falklands.html
Seems intimidation can pay off. sometimes.
Hope you fuckers enjoy your visits.
You're a real atheist?
What's a fake atheist?
An atheist is someone who is not afraid of dying.
A fake athiest says he is not afraid of dying, but really, he his.
Man! we could really have a philosophical debate on the subject!
A fake Malvinista is someone who says Argentines will get the islands but knows, logically, they never will.
Definitely no debate there!
(I am an Atheist/Humanist by the way)
http://epetitions..gov.uk/petitions/42558
See 75 reality check.
Death comes to us all, being a real atheist means you don't have to worry about God putting the 'fear of God' up you, or whether you are going to hell or not. Their is no God and neither is there a hell, just the end of everything, so make the best of what you have.
Being an atheist also means you don't have to listen to the lies of the Pope and all the rest of the deluded Christians, Islamists (same as Christian but with a real killing hang-up) Jewish Church (same as Christians but still waiting for the real Prophet) and every other failed creed that lays claim on you.
Remember that these three religions spang from the same source (originally Abraham) in the same area of the middle east desert albeit at different times due to Muslims not starting their hatred of everyone else until AD 622.
@77 Escoses Doido
As long as you are not a fake atheist, then being a humanist is fogiveable! :o)
BTW what is YOUR definition of a humanist?
Thanks for making that clear!
Chris, what a wonderful preacher you'd make! Why don't you set up an Atheist Pentacostal church in an old cinema? It might be a brilliant second career, and vastly more profitable than your first.
Happy whatever you want to call it, I've enjoyed our little exchanges on these forums (fora?). May your Uruguayan days continue with good health and happiness.
Please sign this vital E-petition…
epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/29664
Created by: Chris Schofield / Number of signatures: 106,507
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Ahhhhhh......... And dont forget to sign these too……:
epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/43288
epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/28615
epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/39383
epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/26284
epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/28094
Chuckle chuckle©
if this child keeps on being very naughty,
then we will have no choice but to spank her,
and the spannish,
..
Thank you for the positive critique and best wishes, I do appreciate them.
I am not sure how I could make money however. American TV 'evangelists' turn themselves into very rich men by taking the poor suckers money ‘In Jesus’ Name’.
Doesn’t quite work ‘In nobody’s name’ does it? I think people are likey to see through that, though given the idiots who believe in the LITTERAL word of the bible perhaps you may be correct after all.
The thing is you see I am the ‘Christians’ worst enemy as far as they are concerned. I used to be the head server (not real heads) at the High Church my parents went to. I know the scriptures as well as most of them.
However once I started studying science and thinking for myself (11 Y/O) I soon realised that there are some real lies in both testaments.
Not only that but the whole regime of ‘beware the wrath of God’ and ‘you are a sinner from the day you were born’ didn’t quite sit with ‘God loves you’.
I think it is a truism that throughout history, monarchs, governments, and politicians of all parties have used religion as a tool for controlling the masses. TMBOA continues to do that even now, though I do not see how her thievery fits in with any faith.
I really find it amusing that people like Bongo still fall for the ‘Old Lies’, but that is their lookout.
BTW, I subscribe to the Oxford Dictionaries: forum plural is forums. Fora is correct if you want to base it on Latin, but as Latin is the language of the RC Church, I’ll give it a miss. :o)
80 Bongo
Given this post I am happy to give you the lead in being dumb, I think you deserve the accolade.
I wondered if any south American would still be alive today,
So the Mayans were wrong,
Mmmmm
Millions of disappointed people in the world,
Still,
At least what’s left can enjoy the festive season,
Cheers.
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One thing can be said for certain about the Falkland Islands, and their aggressive neighbour, they unite the British people, English, Scots, Welsh and the others, with very very few exceptions. I would sincerely advise any aggressively enthusiastic neo-Malvinistas to remember this. We will not be a pushover (as you might remember), and we can hit back very very hard too.
Here's a little tip: Try giving something, and stop complaining and demanding. We'll like you a whole lot more, you'll get more and we'll all be happier. Anyway, let's hope you can avoid any more unpleasantness, a very happy December 22nd (avoidance of the apocalypse day, we really should make this an annual event), a merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all.
Your precious petition didn't get many signatures, Think! ho ho ho.
Thats the sort of sneaky petition that you would make up.
So you can forget about it, you're not getting South Georgia or anything else.
But good marks for trying!
Happy New Year.♥
I am me.
I guess I can be called an atheist, becouse I am not a Theist. I do not believe in a god(s).
Whatever, humanist? Atheist? as far as I can see they can describe the same king of 'free thinkng' mind.
I'm not a fake either. I've been in many life threatening situs in my life, and despite having been raised by a born again Pentecostal Minister (my Mother)
I have never stooped sp low as to have god enter my thoughts at the moment of danger.
Last time this happened was just a couple of months ago, whe I was car-jacked/abducted in Brasil, with a gun pushed in to the back of my head, and the knowlage that these guys normaly kill you regardless, - I could only THINK of how to make the equation of dividing two Brasilian armed robbers, and one Scotsman, - And still having one Scotsman left over.
No thoughts of any god entered my mind, - So, no, I'm deffinately a real Non-Theist.
If you wish for peace ,prepare for war. ....
You say
“...... I was car-jacked/abducted in Brasil, with a gun pushed in to the back of my head, and the knowlage that these guys normaly kill you regardless, - I could only THINK of how to make the equation of dividing two Brasilian armed robbers, and one Scotsman, - And still having one Scotsman left over.”
I say:
Well....
You must be a good “THINKER”...
The Scotsman seems to have survived............. Thank God for that ;-)
How did it go?
Were you “lucky”............ or did you use Mr. ChrisR method?
He is the fastest Super-British Expat Pensioner in Latinamerica you know?
He could...: ”Cut your throat on the fly with his razor sharp flick-knife, that would be back in his pocket before you have finished dying ……”
Don’t you believe me?
Check him out….:
en.mercopress.com/2011/12/13/rockhopper-announces-fantastic-result-with-third-oil-discovery-in-falklands#comment76743
What a psycho.......
Bit of both really. The one behind me was not able to exit quickly due to the doors being in child-lock mode. (my kids were there, saw what happened by the way)
That coupled with their greed, and I presume not wanting to ruin the car's re-sale potential by decorating the interior with my cerebral matter.
Anyhow...... Good that your brain-mass is still in place and working ....
Hope you are not one of those “Persons” that let some traumatic experience on any certain geographical location of the World, taint their opinion about everybody and everything on that certain place…….
We have in here at MercoPress a perfect example of the above in a poster calling himself “Yankeeboy”........
Apparently, he was robbed his gold Rolex in Buenos Aires some years ago and that has marked him so deeply that he hates everything Argentinean…..
(To the point of publicly rejoicing, on these very pages, over the death by carbon monoxide suffocation of some indigent Argentineans during the last cold spell in Buenos Aires….)
Needless to say, as a human and an Argentinean, I somehow disrespect such kind of “persons”…..
Kind Regars
El Think
Chubut, Argentina.
Back on the old laugh a minute at others expense then?
Well I would rue the day if I ever became a 'friend' of yours (if you have any friends).
Bitter and twisted old man, way over pensionable age but won't say just how old he is.
Trusting in God! Ha, ha, ha. Even if there is a God, with your track record it will be Old Diablo himself who will have you. I take it you are an RC, so not even Purgatory for you: straight to the fires of hell with demons, etc gnawing on your knackers for all eternity. Ha, ha, ha, what a pleasant sight.
Well, sorry to disappoint you but I love Uruguay, even my Argentinean next door neighbours who will be here next week until the end of February. I bet your neighbours don’t even speak to you, do they?
And I have all my money invested in Uruguay, but I bet what pittance you are left with stays under the bed, safe from the Policia of Chubuts ‘help-myself programme' eh?
But don’t forget, be careful with those knives! If you want you can have one of mine free of charge as long as you promise to cut both carotid arteries with it, OR, I could even do it for you and fast-track you to Diablo! Now that’s an offer you can’t refuse, at least it would put you out of your misery and cheer the rest of us up.
Well.....
Post (94) corroborates my previous warnings about English “Mr. ChrisR”….................... doesn't it?
What a psycho.....
I mentioned above “Mr. Yankeeboy”, another Anglo, desperate for attention, I wouldn't waste any time discussing with.............
Here, a link of his latest rant against Argentina...:
en.mercopress.com/2012/12/22/preaching-resentment-and-confrontation-led-to-extended-rioting-in-argentina-says-leading-political-analyst#comment200843
Another poster I wouldn’t waste my time with, if I were you, is English “Mr. Conqueror”…….....
He hates Argentineans, all right…..
Well…. He hates all Dagos in general…..
But he seems to hate Scots even more…………….., specially “Crazy Scots”.
Don’t you believe me?
Try him! ;-)))
Please, please take heed of what I Don't Think says or you will end up crazy, you Crazy Scot!
ALL of the Brits are nuts according to The Turnip In Chief and you will see why he says this if you continue to post on here.
It has something to do with all of us seeing through his lies and obfuscation but I am sure you can make your own mind up. :o)
And all British territories,
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And may the new year bring more dictators down.
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I liked the epetition suggesting surrendering the Falklanders to you - 5 people had signed up to it...............
Shows the massive support that there is in the UK for the likes of Galloway and the “Guardianista” gang in real terms does'nt it. You are'nt going to get a collapse, are you, think.
Ho Ho Ho............
Merry Christmass........not.
Meanwhile - happy christmas to everyone on our side.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsGQ8C64WlQ
For all we know, Chief Squatting Turnip(i.e. Think)could have started those petitions himself.
Especially that one which offers to “give” South Georgia to Argentina if they'll drop their ridiculous “claims” for the Falklands.
Not likely guv'nor.
Try again, Think.
l've got a better idea. We'll drop our claims to Sta Cruz province if you give us Chubut.
lt makes as much sense.
Merry Christmas all.
“Peace in the South Atlantic, offer Aregntina South Georgia in return for their dropping their claims to the Falklands”
The briefest of research shows that this proposal, complete with misspelling of Argentina, is the work of a Liberal Democrat party member and elected British politician (OK, local Councillor).
Having outed him as Think, the least you could do is email Councillor Cardy and ask him to deny it.
www.richmond.gov.uk/who_are_my_councillors.htm?mgl=mgUserInfo.aspx&UID=404
Dumb comment.
How come TMBOA tramples over the human rights in Argentina, and thieves their money, and berates those who did not vote for her.
The President is supposed to represent the PEOPLE of AG, not a Nazi mob, headed by her son.
Why don't you let Think speak for himself?
Jumped straight into the breach, didn't we?
Think's representative at large! l won't say in the UK, as there seems to be doubt in some peoples' minds as to where you actually live.
l said, “for all we know”, not it is fact.
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What makes you think that giving SG to Argentina would ensure peace in the South Atlantic?
They would never be satisfied with SG.
And what a handy base for them to mount further attacks against the Falklands & other British possessions.
lt smacks of Danegeld to me & we all know how that turned out.
You, as a supposed Briton are either with us or against us.
Make you position clear & get off the fence.
Otherwise you will be classified as a malvinista.
lt may be a game to you, if indeed you are British, but its a deadly serious situation for us.
Anything(or anyone)who encourages the Argentines in their empire-building, at our expense should be surgically removed(like a malignant tumour).
Read into that what you will.
offer them sod all, give em sod all, and tell em sod all.
if CFK wishes to live in cuckoo land it up to her,
if her indocrinated followers want to follow her, its up to them,
for who then really is the fools,
CFK who says it,
or those who follow her..
”offer Aregntina South Georgia in return for their dropping their claims to the Falklands”
The Argentine claim for South Georgia because it is the next stop from the FI is less valid than if the UK/Falkland Islands were to claim Terra del Fuego as it was settled with British pioneers from UK and born Falkland Islanders before Argentinians reached the area.
It is more valid, as no-one from South America has ever has a population living on South Georgia, apart from the military occupation in 1982, which didn't last long.
The fact is people from Argentina were not for a long time stopped from workingand settling in the Falkland Islands , ie the 150 gauchos who worked for Lafone in the 1850s. The fact is that most preferrred the climate nearer to BA as the South is too cold for their liking.
It is worth remembering that not every emigrant from the UK has always hacked the conditions, hence the relatively low population.
if in the new year, [just for the hell of it]
put in a claim to the UN ,
stating that the falklands wishes to lay claim to,
Terra del Fuego and patagonia ??
surles it would be worth it, if only to see CFK jump up and down pulling her hair out lol.
??
”You, as a supposed Briton are either with us or against us.
Make you position clear & get off the fence.
Otherwise you will be classified as a malvinista.
lt may be a game to you, if indeed you are British, but its a deadly serious situation for us.
Anything(or anyone)who encourages the Argentines in their empire-building, at our expense should be surgically removed(like a malignant tumour).“
Ha ha, Isolde!
”Dame Dover“ has already declared that Christmas is ” all humbug”.
I see him as either a miserable old curmudgeon, or
a miserable old Argentine curmudgeon propagandist.
Either way, it doesn't matter what he is, he won't be happy unless he is unhappy and others are more unhappy than him.
Oddly, that's logical for a malignant sod like him.
If you think CFK really cares about the rights of the Falklanders, then you are a complete plonker.
I'm pretty sure that life under the Argentine jackboot would be very unpleasant to the Falklanders.
Even if the more extreme elements in Argentina did'nt get to ethnically cleanse the place by forced deportation, then they would spend every day having their noses rubbed in Argentinas' triumph and be forced to endure occupation by a hostile power that considers them to be less than second class people.
What a success that would be for you....
The liberals are utter pratts, and weak as P*** so I'm not surprised they advocate giving away land that Argentina really has no claim to. Don't vote for them.
The Falklands remains free despite idiots who want to kowtow to the enemy.
I don't believe in danegeld or apeasement, happy christmas and a happy new year to everyone way down south in the Falklands. May you remain free forever.
BK has said that he makes extreme statements on this forum solely for the enjoyment he gets from positing people off.
He has no interest in a real discussion of issues.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7YnOpOhu3c
your comments are not attractive when you use “ ElaineB” name. !
I must have missed his explantation - I'm not surprised though. I'll just ignore him in future.
@115 - that post just made me laugh. Taken a good look at the internal situation in Argentina recently. No matter how bad the recession has hit us - that country is goung down the pan, fast..............
If it makes you feel better... Schadenfreude is dismal enough as consolation... Schadenfreude based on a myth is tenfold the worse.
I'm not sure why the UK is on some sort of extinction watch list. Are you claiming that the UK will cease to exist if the Kingdom of Scotland regains independence?
Is that just because of the name? UNITED KINGDOM of Great Britain and Northern Ireland? What if they changed their name to just UNITED KINGDOM of Britain and Northern Ireland? Or maybe just Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Or even Kingdom of England. Does a name change denote a cessation of existence?
If Scotland doesn't deny the rest the right as a successor state (think about who the Quen of Scotland is) then nothing changes.
Yadda yadda yadda....
The problem with your country is denying that it has a problem. I've already posted what I think about that.
Occasionally, (and I've actually toned the “Queen Cristina” stuff down now the jubilee is over), but #102 was definately not one of them. Its the heart of my honest case. Take it or leave it, I believe all the evidence supports it...
If you REALLY believe that I suggest that you seek psychiatric help as soon as possible.
Believing in the humanist side of TMBOA is akin to Christians believing in God / Jesus and the life thereafter, without a shred of evidence to support it.
Quite right Carlos, quite right. What would a bunch of card carrying losers from the arse end of history possibly gain from an association with a real country like the United Kingdom?
By the way, verbose, pompous and inaccurate writings do not make lucid, sensible arguments. The mere fact that you consider it necessary to rephrase your writings using simpler English (“in other words”) demonstrates that you do not have much confidence in what you are trying to say. (It also insults those who bother to read your work). So if you have nothing to say – don’t clutter up the comments section with crap! There’s a good chap.
Bloody hell - some good news for blighty! I just went and verified what you posted and it gets better.....
There is a chance we could move up to 5th place - the French are very worried about us leaving them behind and them falling to 9th place in a couple of years.
Not bad for a country about to become extinct......................
Put that in your pipe and smoke it Argies.
LOL
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