MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Violent riots in Argentine port on rumours two vessels were involved in Falklands oil exploration
Two Norwegian flagged vessels contracted in support of Argentina’s YPF oil rigs in the South Atlantic but which rumours had them working for the Falkland Islands, triggered major rioting and protests Friday and early Saturday in the city of La Plata. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesHa ha ha ha .... once again Argentines show that facts are irrelevant :-))
May 23rd, 2011 - 01:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0Well done chaps..... keep up the good work..... too funny for words.....
May 23rd, 2011 - 01:50 am - Link - Report abuse 0Never let the truth get in the way of a good riot !!!
May 23rd, 2011 - 02:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0I suppose us wicked pirates could always sell them fuel if the country that hired them wont :-)
“the extremist group Quebracho”
May 23rd, 2011 - 02:51 am - Link - Report abuse 0lol... extremist group??
Come MercoBritish... don't make me laugh
Here is the real story......
Congress against the presence of British vessels
http://www.shelknamsur.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6799%3Anacionales-rechazan-desde-el-congreso-la-presencia-de-buques-ingleses&catid=41%3Aultimo-momento
Both Normand Baltic and Stena Drillmax are British
http://www.shelknamsur.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6799%3Anacionales-rechazan-desde-el-congreso-la-presencia-de-buques-ingleses&catid=41%3Aultimo-momento
I don't think this is funny, this is sad. But, the faster the ignorance, brutality and depravity conquer this country, the bigger the mess and the better for us, because the weeping widow will have to go and the people who vote for her will ask her to leave, I hope she wins this October, I want to see her hummiliated.
May 23rd, 2011 - 02:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0Thanks Marian, I always enjoy reading El Malvinense ... another example of an organisation which doesn't let facts get in the way. Didn't I read something there recently which stated that the UK started the 1982 conflict !
May 23rd, 2011 - 03:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0Always good for a laugh :-)
“Ensenada mayor Mario Secco ......... organized a big rally and protest ”
May 23rd, 2011 - 03:53 am - Link - Report abuse 0“The furious protestors begun by burning a Union Jack and later attacked Ensenada port and YPF offices ...... and later marched to the refinery headquarters with similar violence.”
I'm rather disappointed they didn't burn down the town hall....
Oh, the loss of education in Argentina! It appears to me that the K supporters cannot tell the difference between the Norway flag and that of England. Just because they both have crosses does not make them the same.
May 23rd, 2011 - 04:36 am - Link - Report abuse 06,
May 23rd, 2011 - 04:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0The UK didn't start the war, the events in Georgias Del Sur accelerated the war... particularly the Brits bitching about the Argentines raising the flag.
Don't tell me you don't know this.
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http://www.malvinense.com.ar/smalvi/11/1879.htm
Argie mob at work :-)))))
May 23rd, 2011 - 05:48 am - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrzMhU_4m-g
State sponsored violence! What a nice politically mature nation Argentina is?
May 23rd, 2011 - 05:57 am - Link - Report abuse 0Martin - you are right, the UK didn't start the war; the UK ended it.
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May 23rd, 2011 - 07:08 am - Link - Report abuse 0ha ha... if you think the war ended clearly you haven't been paying attention.
It just changed......... ;-)
Martin - there is a nice document in the Imperial War Museam with the word 'surrender' on the top of it. Signed by an Argentine by the name of Menendez.
May 23rd, 2011 - 08:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0So the war tactic is now a Mayor sanctioning violence against a couple of Norwegian owned ships in an Argentine port.
My lord you guys are stupid or just mentally ill. No wonder you are not taken seriously.
The drilling continues and there is nothing you can do about it. Now that is worth laughing about!
You mean... pissing your money away continues - laugh -
May 23rd, 2011 - 08:55 am - Link - Report abuse 0The pirates in Malvinas will never know peace, a life without an economic blockade.
Wars are not fought with just bombs and artillery... Brit.
I see that impotent rage is not just the realm of our feckless friend Martin XD
May 23rd, 2011 - 09:15 am - Link - Report abuse 0Nice one boys! Thanks for guaranteeing British sovereignty indefinitely :)
-“Wars are not fought with just bombs and artillery”
-Well I'm not very well acquainted with Argentine economic and political warafre, but i'm quite sure angry lunatics preventing Argentina from starting a rival hydrocarbon industry in the Malvinas Basin and trashing an entire Argentine town.......isn't exactly a very productive means of preventing economic activity in a country across the sea 400 miles to the East.
Uh, trashing what?
May 23rd, 2011 - 09:22 am - Link - Report abuse 0You're just a dumb bitch aren't you?
lol
Sorry not a town...a city.
May 23rd, 2011 - 09:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0An interesting way to conduct warfare ... trashing your own infrastructure ... way to go! Still I understand something of Argentina's martial approach, it goes something like - “ Oh look, there's the enemy .... now were's my gun and my foot” !
May 23rd, 2011 - 09:34 am - Link - Report abuse 0As for the South Georgia incident at #9 above - well of course we complained. What would you do if a bunch of losers decided to raise their flag on your land?
And before you shoot back the obvious retort Marian, remember .... we were the winners :-)
Good heavens will they be staking out the Argy army again?
May 23rd, 2011 - 09:43 am - Link - Report abuse 0!st Sea Viking Gunnar Gunnarson
“camouflaged as a Norwegian”
No one trashed anything you dumb clowns.... they just burned your stupid Union Jack.
May 23rd, 2011 - 10:30 am - Link - Report abuse 0“ ... and later attacked Ensenada port and YPF offices with stones paint bombs breaking doors and windows and later marched to the refinery headquarters with similar violence. ...”
May 23rd, 2011 - 10:54 am - Link - Report abuse 0Well done Marian, right again ... how do you do it ? :-)
Well... facts Redhot, did they trash the “town” or “city”?
May 23rd, 2011 - 11:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0NOPE
The port and YPF had it coming... keep acting stupid and that's what you'll get.
NO FUEL FOR PIRATES
'Burned the Union Jack !!!!!!!'.... ( actually thats the 'Union Flag'.... its only a jack when flown on the jack staff off a ship... simple mistake.... the english make the same mistake all the time...)
May 23rd, 2011 - 11:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0golly..... that will hurt....
The port and YPF had it coming
May 23rd, 2011 - 12:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The Trains also had it coming
Train passengers in Argentina furious about delays to their journeys have set fire to three commuter trains.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-13262090
What a hilarious laughing stock Argentines are! Fantastic! Do keep it up, wet and windy Monday morning here - but its just improved no end and its all smiles and laughs this end!
May 23rd, 2011 - 12:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Acting stupid Marian, appears to be what you do best !
May 23rd, 2011 - 12:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Don't we just love it when the stupid Argentine numpties give the world a good laugh. This has made my Monday, thanks for the good giggle boys and girls keep up the good work. Have another laugh at Argentines expense with this little joke folks.
May 23rd, 2011 - 01:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Three guys, one Irish, one English, and one Argentinian, are out
walking along the beach together one day. They come across a lantern
and a genie pops out of it.
“I'll give you each one wish,” says the genie, “that's three wishes in
total.”
The Irish guy says, “I am a fisherman, my dad's a fisherman, his dad
was a fisherman and my son will be one too. I want all the oceans full
of fish for all eternity.” So, in the blink of an eye - FOOM! - the
oceans are teaming with fish.
The Argentinian is amazed so he says, “I want a wall around Argentina,
protecting her, so that no one will get in for all eternity. Again, in
the blink of an eye - POOF! - there's a huge wall around Argentina.
The Englishman asks, ”I'm very curious. Please tell me more about this
wall.“
”Well, it's about 150 feet high, 50 feet thick, protecting Argentina
so that nothing can get in or out,“ the genie explains.
”Fill it up with water says the Englishman.
What a truly wonderful example of the irrational, insane, misinformed, ignorant and naive world that the Argentines live in. You could not make this up. And as their riots and protests were proved to be illogical and unwarrented, the Argentine MP commentator still believes they were justified! Fantastic. I wonder what other senseless and unjustified acts of vandalism, destruction and general lunacy will Argentines do in the name of “Malvinas”? Remember the Black Pig anyone?
May 23rd, 2011 - 01:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“The port and YPF had it coming”
May 23rd, 2011 - 01:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Yes I'm quite sure Argentinas national and largest supplier of petroleum products which employs 30,000 people alone in Argentina and is at the forefront of hydrocarbon exploration within Argentina.....had it coming..those bastards!
Dam that Port...its just sitting their looking all Porty...it had it coming!
Speaking of small penises?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBCnEp57YK8
When are the men in white coats coming for them?
May 23rd, 2011 - 01:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You will need men in radiation suites as well as white coats.....he's gone into meltdown :)
May 23rd, 2011 - 01:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Personally we should leave him to melt his way into the Earths core, he will be quite at home there....after all the Earths core is equally as dense as he is....
technically speaking, isn't Argentina tehn fooling its own anti-Falkland-Vessel policy signed with many other regional countries? If you admit british Vessels in your ports(like shown by Martin Fierro), why are you crying about other regional countries to do same?
May 23rd, 2011 - 02:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0This is what happens when you stoke the fires of nationalism. The problem seems to be that many Argentines seem to think this is normal rational behaviour.
May 23rd, 2011 - 02:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0errr Martin; what economic blockade???
May 23rd, 2011 - 03:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I am not aware of any economic blockade. Who is enforcing the blockade around the islands?
Is Argentina (and its really big and strong patrol boats) stopping ships entering and leave Falkland Island territorial waters?
Has Argentina frozen financial assets related to economic activity in the Falkland Islands?
Martin - you are as nuts as CFK. You have no idea what an economic blockade is. Your war (note there is no state of war by international definitions) involves a gang of unemployed and uneducated Argie youth trashing an Argentine port that is harboring two Norwegian ships that are involved in Argentine oil exploration. Sound like an act aligned with sound economic theories.
I like the sound of your economic blockade. Really effective at threatening the Falkland Islands.
We will drill if we want to. We can afford it and choose what to do with our money and the Argentine sideshow is good entertainment. Ha ha!
32 ManRod
May 23rd, 2011 - 03:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The mayor of the small city of Ensenada, Mario Secco, where the British invasions of 1806/1807 started, folowed wrong information. These ships had permission and they were not going to British occupied Malvinas Argentinas.
In a few words he screwed up and a A handful of troublemakers caused some destruction. MercoPress and few British makes a big deal out of this but they don't like to talk about when hundreds of thousands riot in the streets of London a few weeks ago.
However make not mistake neighbor trasandino, British are not welcomed in South American soil.
Saludos.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/mar/26/anti-cuts-march-police-rioters
I hope for their own sake argentina don't try and do anything illegal against the Norwegian ships. Norway might be a quiet country but when they act they are not as tolerant as the UK is. It was norwegian jets that recently bombed the residential compound of Colonel Gadaffi.
May 23rd, 2011 - 03:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Marcos - please indicate when I or any other Brits on here indicated we were not happy to discuss the protests in London. I am happy to discuss any matter of current affairs. Somehow I don't think the protests in London have any relevance to this story.
May 23rd, 2011 - 04:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Why are you trying to change the subject (again) as well as make things up?
“An interesting way to conduct warfare ... trashing your own infrastructure ... way to go!”
May 23rd, 2011 - 04:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Lol! i agree! It's the equivalent of getting into an argument and then punching yourself in the face repeatedly.
Yes lets talk about Riots
May 23rd, 2011 - 05:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Tango and Riots
Soccer-Argentine match abandoned by riot, fan reported killed
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/03/20/soccer-latam-argentina-violence-idUKLDE72J0QT20110320
President resigns after riots leave 22 dead in Argentina
Read more: http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/03/20/soccer-latam-argentina-violence-idUKLDE72J0QT20110320
Rulers fear “anarchy” in Argentina squatter riots
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/03/20/soccer-latam-argentina-violence-idUKLDE72J0QT20110320
Epic fail, ROTFLMAO
May 23rd, 2011 - 06:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0But reporting it is a conspiracy, I pray that intelligent aliens never land in Argentina....
I pray that intelligent aliens never land in UK....
May 23rd, 2011 - 08:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 023 May 2011
“Officers were deployed and a helicopter was scrambled to a field close to junction seven of the M27, near Hedge End, Hampshire, on Saturday.
The scare even stopped play at the Rose Bowl cricket ground and golfers were escorted from County Golf Club”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-13501521
Lol look at all the pommy britt whingers you guys are hilarious,
May 23rd, 2011 - 08:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Yes we have our hooligans just as much as you Brits have punks
and hooligans roaming around England getting drunk like a bunch
of sad drunken lads unable to control your drinks. Recently there where riots in England over expensive University fees for students, Brit students where trashing London streets and acting like monkeys so riots happen all over the world lads, At least University Education in Argentina is free for its citizens since Argentines believe its society are entitled to a free University Education where all can benefit unlike England where some sectors of the Britt society miss out because they are unable to pay the excessive university fees. Punks originated in England due to social classes and mass ignorance.
They burnt a Union flag because Enseneda was invaded by the British Empire 200 years ago... You have to hand it to the Argies. Its no surprise they have the highest number of shrinks per capita in the world.
May 23rd, 2011 - 08:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Education in Argentina is free for its citizens
May 23rd, 2011 - 08:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0And it shows,they cant tell a British ship from a Norwegian,and after being told
The logistic support vessels ‘Normand Baltic’ and ‘Normand Skarven’ are Norwegian flagged and have been authorized to operate in Rio Gallegos, Punta Loyolas, Punta Killa, Ushuaia, Rio Grande, Comodoro Rivadavia, Puerto Deseado, Caleto Oliva, Bahía Blanca, Buenos Aires and areas of Argentine continental platform”, said the Argentine government, “never in the Malvinas area under British control”
state sponsored violence, there were a bunch in the late 1930's that were partial to that I seem to remember, funnily enough quite a few of them had to leave their country of origin and ended up in Argentina!!
May 23rd, 2011 - 09:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Of course Universities in Argentina are free. Why would anyone pay to go to an Argentine university? Believe me there are plenty of Argentinians paying the overseas rate to study in British Universities because of the much higher quality and recognition of the UK HE sector.
May 23rd, 2011 - 09:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Pretty soon we will welcome a large number of Brazilians on those 75000 government scholarships. Where there is education, there is wealth.
Plenty of foreigner's study at various Argentine universities but they have to pay, however Argentine citizens don't have too, making University education free for all of its social classes unlike England where only the one's that can afford are able too that's why young Brits are rebeling against the Education system where the lower classes of English society struggle to get a University education due to high Uni fees.
May 23rd, 2011 - 10:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@ 35 Marcos Alejandro.
May 23rd, 2011 - 10:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I quite can't follow your statement about the british invasion to spanish contintental colony in 1806/07. What relation does it have to the current situation, whereas these ships have received permission to dock in argentine harbours? What relevance does it have, that there exists riots in London (about whatever theme), don't we all have them spread over the world. I can't follow you on that one, as I was not even mentioning the riot, but only addressing the “go” from argentine authorities for the ships to enter their harbours.
Why are you talking in the representation of the whole Americas, that British are supposedly not welcome on this continent? I think they are welcome, as long as they keep up with the local law.
@ 46 He knows that, but he won't admit it. Cristina's daughter was studying in New York haha, and Cristina's government will offer scholarships to study in the USA, OMG, to study in the land of the EMPIRE! They are so anti-imperialists studying in the USA and accepting the US Dollar! I guess those Argentines will go to study in the USA and the UK because in Argentina we have the highest level of education, it's so high that Cristina's own daughter wants to study in the USA haha
May 23rd, 2011 - 10:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Martín Fierro sos el tipo más imbécil que existe, dejá de agrandarte que nos hacés quedar mal a todos los argentinos, quedate en Estados Unidos y no vuelvas nunca más.
So once again, Argentina makes the world laugh, and its stupid bloogers with egg on there faces, gopsmacked, and humiliated, can do no more than try [but failed] to throw mud at the british, who were to busy laughing to even notice, even XBOX now understands how stupid the likes of the martin marcios brothers are, and how this silly woman is shaming argentina,, she will bring ruin, and the bloggers who follow her, will walk blindly to their demise, [carry on argentina]
May 23rd, 2011 - 10:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0starring, martin and marcos, as the silly birds,,Tigre2000 as the odd looking one eyed barry.
lololololololololololololololololololoofunny
Tigre - you clearly know nothing about the scholarship requirement for UK universities. Do your research first. How many international fee payers are at Argentine universities? Last time I was at a British Council meeting our main competitors were the US and Australia.
May 23rd, 2011 - 11:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Perhaps some of the Argentine bloggers here would like to improve themselves by studying in one of the many world renowned universities in the UK. You can find the info at your local British Council office:
http://www.britishcouncil.org/argentina.htm
Worth every penny.
What a shame how could the Argies get it so wrong AGAIN hope that the Norwegians receive an apology...............hope the Argies carry on insulting half the world so they all can see what they are really like :-)
May 24th, 2011 - 12:30 am - Link - Report abuse 0I wouldn't go to an Argie “University” even in they paid me to go. Only a single Argie university out of the world's top 500 is worth considering apparently. I'd gladly pay to go to a top UK university however. Much better prospect of a job afterwards.
May 24th, 2011 - 06:05 am - Link - Report abuse 0The QS World University Ranking top 100 for 2010
Number of UK universities: 19
Number of ARG universities: zero
The HEEACT ranking top 50 for 2010
Number of UK universities: 4
Number of ARG universities: zero
The Webometrics top 500 for 2010
Number of UK universities: 36
Number of ARG universities: 1
The Jiao Tong Academic rankings top 500 for 2010
Number of UK universities: 38
Number of ARG universities: 1
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May 24th, 2011 - 08:15 am - Link - Report abuse 0Hm... you really don't have many excuses to be totally broke, do you?
;-)
Hm... you really don't have many excuses to be totally broke, do you?
May 24th, 2011 - 09:10 am - Link - Report abuse 0mind you we could default like the Argies
Nice one Tigre, More-crap etc etc.
May 24th, 2011 - 09:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0A bunch of Argentine lunatics trash a city because the UK landed at that location 200 years ago and because some numbnutts couldn't even put his limited cranial capacity to good use to actually see that those two ships were Norwegian with Argie govt authorisation to drill in Argie waters to find Argie oil for the benefit of Argentine land.
And then immediately the inevitable idiocy begins.....
Tigre: AIIIIIIE! BUT YOU EEEENGLISH PIRATE STUDENTS TRASHED LONDON! DIABLO!!!!! YOU IS DRUNK EEENGLISH PIRATES JAJAJAH!
Morecrap: AAAAAIEEEEE YOU EENGLISH ANTI-CUTS BASTARDOS PIRATES JAJAJAAJ YOU TRASH LONDON EEENGLISH VERY BAD PEOPLE. LOOOK I POST PICTURE OF MENS BOTTOMS YOU ARE THREE STOOGES PIRATES JAJAJAJ ENGLUND IS FINSISHED JAJAAJ.
Martin: ROOOOOAR HERE ME ROAR IN IMPOTENT RAGE AND ANGER FROM MY COMPUTER KNEEL BEFORE ME PITIFUL PIRATES AS I TYPE ANGRY STRONG WORDS FROM THE SAFETY OF COLLEGE IN UTAH, FRANK YOU RACIST, I AM AN ARGENTINE, MY FATHERS DOG WAS BORN THERE I AM MORE ARGENTINE THAN THE ARGENTINES.....ROAAAAAR ANTARCTICA KC_130 AIRPLANES, BRITISH SOLDIERS ARE GAY, I WANKED TO THAT VIDEO THOUNSANDS OF TIMES....IT MUST BE TRUE.
I think that sums the range of incredible logical reasoning that our Argentine comrades (accept Martin...hes a Yank) have contributed :)
“Hm... you really don't have many excuses to be totally broke, do you?”
May 24th, 2011 - 10:33 am - Link - Report abuse 0Like the US is looking solvent - and you CHOOSE to live there? Go figure. Why don't you go back to Argentina where everything is so wonderful??
@ RC *ROFL*. Superb description... hahahahaha
May 24th, 2011 - 02:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Good job Rhaurie Se Cagawell, you find yourself a boyfriend(“Man”Rod) at the Horse Meat Disco. :-)))
May 24th, 2011 - 02:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 057,
May 24th, 2011 - 03:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Actually J.A., I'm going back to Argentina next month and I'll stay there till the end of the year, I'll send you a post card.
Rhaurie-cunt will be so sad...
And you ARE broke... despite your “superior” level of education.
I wish you guys were smart enough to be bilingual, oh well...
59,
Enjoy Marcos! This is only for us “inferior” bilingual people. ;-)
The European Debt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDzYrzmp01w
This one is about the British invasion of 1845, yes... more British invasion repelled by Argentina. Vuelta De Obligado.... google it Brutons.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDzYrzmp01w
VIVA LA PATRIA!! .................carajo
Argies are so funny. They have a riot to protest about two Norwegian-flagged vessels working for their OWN oil company. Next time you do it, girls, get it right and sink them..
May 24th, 2011 - 03:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0By the way, I see you burned a version of the Union flag. No doubt bought with millions of Argentine peasants.....sorry, pesos. Does it ever occur that you just burned YOUR OWN flag? You paid for it.
Keep up the flag-burning. I wonder if they're made in Argentina or Britain. If they're made in Argentina, you're going to be spending a lot of money on things to burn. If they're made in Britain, we're going to have an export surge.
Go for it, girls. You don't need that food with the inflated prices. Much better to spend your “money” on bits of cloth to burn. Or send your “money” to Britain.
Intelligence not your strong point is it, girls? That's why we'll always win and you'll always lose.
http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/shipdetails.aspx?MMSI=235077315
May 24th, 2011 - 03:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/shipdetails.aspx?MMSI=235077315
It's not who builds the vessels or who owns the vessels, it's who RUNS the vessels.
Think Bruton.... think.
Martin - to be broke requires one to default on debt. Please indicate when the UK did this. When did Argentina last default on it's borrowings and when did it become the land of financial prudence?
May 24th, 2011 - 04:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Having been among the economic engines of Europe for much of the past decade, it appears as if the British economy has run out of steam. Inflation is rising while bankruptcies and unemployment continue to swell.”
May 24th, 2011 - 04:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.dailymarkets.com/economy/2010/01/22/the-uk-is-broke-and-this-time-the-us-is-hardly-far-behind/
I take it inflation is no longer rising and bankruptcies and unemployment are a thing of the past?
[sighs] No... so sorry.
“UK unemployment rises to 2.53 million”
http://www.dailymarkets.com/economy/2010/01/22/the-uk-is-broke-and-this-time-the-us-is-hardly-far-behind/
“UK pensioners are six times more likely to go bankrupt than ten years ago, says data released by the Insolvency Service.”
http://www.dailymarkets.com/economy/2010/01/22/the-uk-is-broke-and-this-time-the-us-is-hardly-far-behind/
“Scottish bankruptcy levels set to rise, according to PFK study”
http://www.dailymarkets.com/economy/2010/01/22/the-uk-is-broke-and-this-time-the-us-is-hardly-far-behind/
But wait!! There is hope!! ...............for them.
“Scotland independence vote could contain 'financial autonomy' option”
http://www.dailymarkets.com/economy/2010/01/22/the-uk-is-broke-and-this-time-the-us-is-hardly-far-behind/
Good for you Scotland!!! = )
And speaking of a true right to self-determination... meaning INDEPENDENCE.
“No one cares more about Scotland's success than the people who live there and that, ultimately, is why independence is the best choice for our future”
http://www.dailymarkets.com/economy/2010/01/22/the-uk-is-broke-and-this-time-the-us-is-hardly-far-behind/
Get out of that mess Scotland, the UK is DOOMED.
And what is the rate of inflation in the great surrendering nation of Argentina?
May 24th, 2011 - 04:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I must be bucking the trend then. Just bought my third house by the time I am 32.
Why don't you stay there forever Martin? Is it not good enough for you?
May 24th, 2011 - 04:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Interesting title that: ”The UK is broke (well almost, but not quite) and this time the US is hardly far behind”
Is that the same US where you live Martin? I wonder why you prefer living in an almost broke country rather than your own South American utopia?
By the way, the UK debt has an average maturity more than double most other countries, plus we can devalue, unlike most of the rest of Europe. We're not dead yet. We've never defaulted before (except for a technical default in the 1930s). Argentina on the other hand has made an art of defaulting on its debt. Fleecing investors the world over.
Oh, how strange. Now you're falling over yourself to support Scottish self determination (which by the way, the British government also supports), but you can't bring your two-think brain to support that universal right for the Falkland Islanders.
You are one very confused person.
Sure I can support the “Falkland Islanders”... I support their right to shut the hell up. They're not claiming independence, they're claiming sovereignty on behalf of the UK...........stupid.
May 24th, 2011 - 05:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0And this year I will spend more time in Argentina than in the US, so... you too can shut the hell up. ;-)
Cheers...
Martin is not confused. He is just thick!
May 24th, 2011 - 05:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 05 xbarilox (#) You're not the only one saying this!!!! If this bloody woman wins she will be left holding a very but very hot potato in her hands and it will serve her right when it all blows up in her face.
May 24th, 2011 - 05:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 023 Frank (#) I was just waiting to see if anyone picked up on that. Well done!!! No one in the British Armed Forces will call it the Union Jack, that is reserved for the ignoramuses; it is the Union Flag.
@67
May 24th, 2011 - 05:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“They're not claiming independence, they're claiming sovereignty on behalf of the UK...........stupid.”
Oh yeah, that's the stupid choice....unlike the alternative of having Argentina jump on us at the first opportunity, taking the Falklands is written into your constitution you dumb prick, it's only the fact that you're shit scared of the British that stops you.
@R-C You are a gentleman and a scholar sir.
May 24th, 2011 - 06:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You could never make this crap up could you, and the idiots trying to justify it, well they have me ROTFLMAO. I know you shouldn't mock the afflicted but the temptation is just too great.
@ 69, Thanks Tim, that's the sort of stuff they teach us in primary school up here in the Ozarks or wherever Martina reckons I come from.......
May 24th, 2011 - 08:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@60 Martin, Thank you, the Brutish not only aren't capable to speak more than one language but also they “forget” that they failed miserably in THREE different occasions to invade our mainland, so the cowards took only a small group of light defended islands and never came back to the mainland again.
May 24th, 2011 - 08:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Now their small island in Europe is falling apart, not even Scotland wants to be part of this joke called United Kingdom.
Keep bashing that keyboard, lmao.
May 24th, 2011 - 09:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Marcos - How may languages are spoken in the UK Marcos? You will find that just within London the diversity of languages dwarfs most other world capitals.
May 24th, 2011 - 09:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Funny, you hate us so much but still feel it is necessary to learn English. I didn't bother with Spanish at school. There were far more useful and profitable subjects to study.
Any time I want to have a laugh, I just come on here and look for articles related to those bloody islands, as all comments invariably have the subtext of 'MY COUNTRY HAS A BIGGER PENIS THAN YOURS!'
May 24th, 2011 - 09:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Both sides, keep it up please. With perhaps one exception per article, you're all idiots.
Michael - Britannia is a lady. No penis last time I checked!
May 24th, 2011 - 10:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Michael, Is not only about the peanut that the Brits carry under their pants they don't know what to do with it :-)))
May 25th, 2011 - 02:37 am - Link - Report abuse 0“German men are 'world's worst lovers' with English men in second place”
2. England (too lazy)
7. Wales (too selfish)
8. Scotland (too loud)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/6241440/German-men-are-worlds-worst-lovers-with-English-men-in-second-place.html
Marcos - where are the Italians and the Irish?
May 25th, 2011 - 06:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0Where are the argentinians.... too busy massaging their egos to pay attention to the wimmin?????
May 25th, 2011 - 08:00 am - Link - Report abuse 0too busy massaging their egos to pay attention to the wimmin?????
May 25th, 2011 - 09:08 am - Link - Report abuse 0Too busy bashing them
Domestic violence in Argentina is a serious problem. In Buenos Aires Province, the special Women's Police Stations and Family's police stations received a daily average of 53 complaints of violence
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_violence_in_Argentina
A classic case of leadership from the top..... anybody seen Nestor lately??
May 25th, 2011 - 09:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0I see this debate has descended (as usual) in an anti-British rant from the Argentine posters. It is very comical that Argentines mock Britiain's current economic state, even though Argentina are known the world over for their consistent and constant economic incompetence, and even if Britain are in a difficult economic situation, they are still far better off than Argentina. Argentina are so arrogant they cannot pay its debts and then launch verbal attacks on the competency of the very people who lent them the money (IMF)!
May 25th, 2011 - 11:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0It is just part of the fantasy world that Argentina and its people are superior. Every country has it, but none are so delusional.
Keep it up Martin and Marco, this is comedy gold!
And being bilingual does not make you intelligent, Martin and Marco are proof of that.
Frank - I think Argentinians comes under a sub group of Spanish. These implanted populations can be hard to classify.
May 25th, 2011 - 12:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 079 Beef , Doesn't matter, you are English :-)
May 25th, 2011 - 06:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Considering that most of Argentina has no interest in the British Falkland’s,
May 25th, 2011 - 07:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Or the British in general, being that they have enough problems of their own,
One has to be surprised at the level of anti-British comments on this site,
But then when you consider that the degenerate, down trodden fools, are disowned by their own people, you tend to understand,
We would then wonder just who is the fool.
She who speaks [Christina]
Or
Those who follow her,
For it is said that these anti brit bloggers are their own worst enemies.
To condemn and loath, all that they don’t understand.
To insult the British, shows, their immaturity..
Marcos - yep I am. It is good being a Brit; we can validly look down our noses at a bunch of poorly educated, surrender monkies like you.
May 25th, 2011 - 07:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
May 25th, 2011 - 09:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.ugoto.com/blog_69371.html
Zzzzzzzzz, Marcos, that is the most intelligent thing you have ever come out with. You have finally learnt the last letter in the alphabet. Congratulations, may even have to give you a gold star.
May 25th, 2011 - 09:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
May 25th, 2011 - 09:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0That's precisely our reaction to your really scary riot Marcos.....once we'd stopped laughing that is.
May 26th, 2011 - 01:45 am - Link - Report abuse 0@88Marcos, quite funny Marcos. Every nationality has their idiosyncrasys,even, gasp,yours.
May 26th, 2011 - 09:07 am - Link - Report abuse 0Wonder how long before Martin_Fierro posts the same list?
Actually Isolde I believe Think posted that article before me, Martin will be the third :-)
May 26th, 2011 - 02:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@Beef
May 28th, 2011 - 02:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“I didn't bother with Spanish at school... There were far more useful and profitable subjects to study”
Like economy? Dr. Beef
How did you get your PhD in economy? I just wonder because you seem to know very little about the subject.
“Please indicate when the UK did this”
Many times Dr. Beef allow me to show you below, please.
UK had technically defaulted more than 3 times in history over her debts, just some examples.
1- 1672 Known as the “The Great Stop of the Exchequer”
Letter from Richard Langhorne to Lord Hatton on the stop of the Exchequer in 1672
”I could almost wish your Lordship here for one day to see the strange amazement and consternation which is amongst our moneyed men upon this occasion, viz, it
being resolved that we must immediately set forth a fleet of 22 sail of good ships (to fetch something from France), and prepare for 60 sail of our best ships to be ready early in the spring. His Majesty sent to the bankers in Lombard Street to advance a considerable sum of present moneys. This they refused. Upon this refusal his Majesty by advice of his Council (where it suffered a long debate) resolved to shut up his Exchequer and make stop of all private moneys, by with means all the moneys....”
2- On Gilts issued on 1917 war loans by making a hair cut and a Debt restructuring.
3- 1932 defaulted on WWI debt mostly to the USA (the so-called inter allied debt).
And Britain also was rescued by the IMF in 1976.
Not a good track record I guess.
Not a good track record I guess
May 28th, 2011 - 03:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Credit where its due (excuse the pun)you Argies are much better at it than us brits
ARGENTINA inaugurated its third president in four days yesterday and he immediately declared the biggest debt default in history, halting payments on the £94 billion the country owes.
Nico - yes my PhD is in economics, specifically Health Economics. I have been involved in helping to determine sucessful ways of implementing vaccination programes in East Africa for maximum clinical effect. I also spent a short while working with colleagues in Nigeria regarding balancing the health economy to provide as a comprehensive serivce as possible. I ended up co-supervising the DBA of one of the team, on the understanding that my end was done in the UK as I can't wait to leave Nigeria whenever I go.
May 28th, 2011 - 10:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0None of the various macro economic problems you have highlighted even occurred in my lifetime. So as far as I am concerned these have no relevance to me. Notably two of the event were post a World War! I suppose such globally significant events go unnoticed in Argentina as the nearest you got was by sheltering some Nazis after WW2.
@Beef
May 29th, 2011 - 04:54 am - Link - Report abuse 0But you said and asked: “
to be broke requires one to default on debt. Please indicate when the UK did this. When did Argentina last default on it's borrowings and when did it become the land of financial prudence?
Marcos - yep I am. It is good being a Brit; we can validly look down our noses at a bunch of poorly educated, surrender monkies like you”
“None of the various macro economic problems you have highlighted even occurred in my lifetime. So as far as I am concerned these have no relevance to me”
And what do you think that we were buying UK’s debt in 1672/1917 or in 1932?
I understand that none of these facts 1672/1917/1932 has any relevance to anyone here because most of the people involved in these events are dead.
Well I’m answering your questions and the default of Argentina was 10 years ago and it is history now as almost all of the topics that are debated here.
So can I validly look down my nose at you as you suggested above?
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