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Falklands election delivers two new (and most voted) faces to the Legislative Assembly

Friday, November 8th 2013 - 03:07 UTC
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Without banners, rowdiness or the chanting of political slogans, a good number of Falkland Islanders sat patiently in Stanley Town Hall on Thursday night to await the announcement of the 2013 General Election. Read full article

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  • Klingon

    IS it just me or did Edward Snowden move to the Falklands???

    Nov 08th, 2013 - 12:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Britworker

    I love the headline:

    “Without banners, rowdiness or the chanting of political slogans, a good number of Falkland Islanders sat patiently in Stanley Town Hall on Thursday night to await the announcement of the 2013 General Election”.

    You have to admit, everything we do must seem so alien to the rest of latam.

    Nov 08th, 2013 - 01:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Benson

    I think it's just you.

    Nov 08th, 2013 - 01:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Klingon

    @3 Check out the guy on the top left of the pic. That's a balding Edward Snowden!

    Nov 08th, 2013 - 01:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Britworker

    @3
    I think you are right, when a referee gets his head chopped off at football match, there isn't much common ground there for me.

    Nov 08th, 2013 - 02:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Benson

    “Still in his thirties, Michael Poole”
    Or even not quite thirty.

    @4
    When you ignore the hair I can see your point now.

    Nov 08th, 2013 - 02:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Think

    To MercoPress

    Ian's surname is Hans“E”n; not Hans“O”n.
    He ain't no bloody Swede!
    He's Norwegian ;-)

    Nov 08th, 2013 - 05:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Max

    John Fowler !

    but still you are a part of UK
    you can't elect your own Head of the State yet ?

    of course that you have to have a State firstly ..haven't you ?

    Nov 08th, 2013 - 09:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • redp0ll

    @7 Thinko your Skandewegian slip is showing. Aren't all those Norwegian and Chileans that live in the Falklands supposed to be British illegal squatters according to Mr Timmermans comments?

    Nov 08th, 2013 - 09:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Think

    Responding to Turnip “Britworker” saying at (2) & (5)…:
    ”You have to admit, everything we do must seem so alien to the rest of latam.”
    And…:
    “I think you are right, when a referee gets his head chopped off at football match, there isn't much common ground there for me.”

    I say…:
    “I have to admit that some of the thing’s some Britworkers do seem alien to most of us in Latam”………….
    Just finished reading today’s news from Blackpool, Lancashire, England, Great Britain, UK……..
    You know…...., that story about white Britworkers renting out their white teenage Britworker daughters for the sexual gratification of hundreds of other white Britworkers……….
    With the ultimate Britworker “finesse” of selling their white teenage daughters to some not so Brit-Pakiworkers to be minced into Kebabs……..

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2483351/Cherlene-Downes-missing-person-case-reopened-police.html

    ”There isn't much common ground there for me”……….......…… indeed.

    Nov 08th, 2013 - 09:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Klingon

    So do you think the US is Poisoning Edward Snowden with radio active Isotopes?? What else would cause such rapid hair loss??
    What is he doing in the Falklands??
    So many questions..... so little hair...

    Nov 08th, 2013 - 09:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • golfcronie

    @10 I think you are a rascist no hoper

    Nov 08th, 2013 - 10:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Think

    (9) redp0ll
    You say...:
    “Aren't all those Norwegian and Chileans that live in the Falklands supposed to be British illegal squatters....?”

    I say...:
    Exactly....... A little bunch of English illegal squatters the lot of them...
    Or, as Her Majesty's Government likes to call them Islanders...: “ Long-Time Expatriate Employees ”

    Nov 08th, 2013 - 10:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • HansNiesund

    @10

    > ”There isn't much common ground there for me”……….......…… indeed.

    Oh I wouldn't say that. The Daily Mail deploys propaganda and scare-mongering tactics very much like your own. If you actually read the article you will learn that those accused of mincing a body into kebabs were found not guilty and paid compensation for false imprisonment.

    Nov 08th, 2013 - 10:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Think

    Comment removed by the editor.

    Nov 08th, 2013 - 11:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • HansNiesund

    @15

    No, I mean they were found not guilty in a jury trial. As the article you posted said.

    I do appreciate your touching concern for Charlene though. What a sick wretch you are.

    Nov 08th, 2013 - 11:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Think

    Turnip at (15)

    Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...
    Britworker families prostitute their teen daughters...
    Britworker teen daugthers dissapear into thin air...
    Britworker police frames Pakiworkers for it...
    Britworker jury aquits Pakiworkers...
    Sistem works just fine, says Hans...
    Who's a sick wretch, you say...?

    Nov 08th, 2013 - 11:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • HansNiesund

    > Who's a sick wretch, you say...?

    You. First of all, because none of that is established, and second of all because you seem to think it scores you some points.

    Nov 09th, 2013 - 09:41 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • reality check

    Sick racist more like!

    Nov 09th, 2013 - 09:56 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Think

    Turnip Britworker at (2) & (5)..:
    Remember in your next Blackpoolian holiday..., “Think” twice before ordering a Kebab...

    Nov 09th, 2013 - 11:09 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • HansNiesund

    @19

    He tries to give this impression of sophisticated urbanity, but he's clearly got difficulties with women too.

    Nov 09th, 2013 - 11:26 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Think

    Turnip at (21)
    You say... (about Mr. Think):
    “He tries to give this impression of sophisticated urbanity, but he's clearly got difficulties with women too.”

    I say...:
    1) “Sophisticated Urbanity”............................................................ Moi?
    2) Please, show me a Man that hasn't had “Difficulties with Women” ;-)
    Beautiful creatures, them Women...
    You can't live without them...
    You can't live with them...

    Nov 09th, 2013 - 11:40 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Klingon

    ^^^ Thats why Think lives with another guy.
    Kinda like Bert and Ernie!

    Nov 09th, 2013 - 01:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Think

    (23) Mr. Klingon
    Respect your elders & betters...
    Think has SPOCKen...

    Nov 09th, 2013 - 03:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • redp0ll

    Think
    I think you meant Blackpuddlian or it certainly will be if they start fracking up there?

    Nov 09th, 2013 - 07:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Pete Bog

    @13
    I say...:
    Exactly....... A little bunch of English illegal squatters the lot of them...
    Or, as Her Majesty's Government likes to call them Islanders...: “ Long-Time Expatriate Employees ”

    As some of them are Argentinian, that means Argentinians are now English?

    Nov 10th, 2013 - 12:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0

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