Sir Nicholas re-elected chairman of UK/Falklands All Party Parliamentary Group

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Sir Nicholas Winterton DL has been re-elected unanimously and unopposed as Chairman of the United Kingdom-Falkland Islands All-Party Parliamentary Group – for the twelfth consecutive year – at the Group’s Annual General Meeting at the House of Commons on 13th July. Read full article

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John Cass
Mr Winterton has certainly not done anything of importance for the Falklands during his considerable tenure. There has been no government pressure to develop an oil province around the islands and worse still there was no pressure put on the last oil major who walked away following exploratory drilling to concentrate on more profitable ventures elsewhere. Quite shameful! Could one imagine, say, the Chinese government taking this kind of approach?
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Nitrojuan
John, maybe if you have a representant in the Argentine Parlament yours demands will be considered, for example in Tierra del Fuego Province we have royalties for oil production and taxes free that permits the province grow and keep the population in better conditions.
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Justin Kuntz
How very white of you. I'm sure they'd be delighted to swop electing their own Government, in return for domination and subjugation by an alien culture that has no respect for their way of life. NOT.
Aug 07th, 2009 - 04:56 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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nitrojuan
Justin, only if they want to be integral part of this world or keep being the parasite of South America.
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Justin Kuntz
And so you resort to type with the usual appalling racist language. Their isolation in South America is entirely down to the big bully on the mainland throwing its toys out of the pram when at any and every opportunity. The Falkland Islands cricket team had to call off their tour of Chile thanks to Argentine interference
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JJ
There is an old saying, if you sleep with dogs, you will get fleas. I guess the parasites were a, “left over” from the 1982 war!
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J.A. Roberts
@JJ

No-one forced Argentina to “sleep with dogs”, they chose to do that all on their own...
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