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Falkland Islands: Rockhopper Exploration plc PR
Rockhopper Exploration, the North Falkland Basin oil and gas exploration company, is pleased to announce results for the twelve months ended 31 March 2011. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesFurther, on the same announcement:
Jul 01st, 2011 - 08:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0“COMPETENT PERSON'S REPORT (”CPR”)
We had begun the year intending to produce an updated CPR. However, during the course of discussions it became apparent that both additional wells and seismic data would materially assist the accuracy of this updated report.
This work is ongoing and the group is not currently planning to produce another CPR this calendar year.”
In plain English:
Nobody from outside the Company will be allowed this year to control, verify or (in)validate what Rockhopper Exploration PLC says.
Chuckle chuckle………………..
Think - again you appear unable to analyze the information. A CPR will be issued but not in 2011. Why is that a problem? Does the world end on 31st Dec 2011?
Jul 01st, 2011 - 08:45 am - Link - Report abuse 0RKH have explained to the market that A CPR will be issued when all the available data will have been gathered and studied. That includes seismic and a lot more drilling which will not have been fully completed in time for a CPR to be issued in 2011. I for one don't want my money being wasted on a pointless CPR.
What is more interesting is they have already started talking to banks on ways to finance the set up for production. They have hired a production engineer with FPSO history and they have already hinted at farm in.
This is a statement for going into production and I for one and very happy with the work the BoD have put in. I have also downloaded the conference call mp3 which gave me even more reason to grin.
Think, I expected more of you. Have you relegated yourself to the Marcos level of intellect are are you so blinded by ideology that have lost all objectivity?
Beef, yep, he is that blinded by ideology as to have lost all objectivity. This shouldn't be a surprise.
Jul 01st, 2011 - 11:40 am - Link - Report abuse 0@2 @ 3 blinded by Ideology from Think ? No way !! ;-))
Jul 01st, 2011 - 03:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You are both wrong !! ....
Sorry, I forgot something ... Chuckle chuckle
Jul 01st, 2011 - 03:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Artillero, What's your opinion about British oil exploration around Malvinas?
Jul 01st, 2011 - 03:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Good question
Jul 01st, 2011 - 03:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Marcos - opinions are like arse holes, everyone has got one. We have you, point proven!
Jul 01st, 2011 - 04:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Hear, Hear !!
Jul 01st, 2011 - 04:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0”Think, I expected more of you. Have you relegated yourself to the Marcos level of intellect are are you so blinded by ideology that have lost all objectivity? ......Ouch !!
Jul 01st, 2011 - 04:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0This is Argentine territorial waters and therefore Argentine oil by right. How would you colonial English like, Argentina to start drilling for oil in English Channel, Irish Sea or North Sea? You would not allow this and we should not allow this. You must be removed from imperial occupation of Las Malvinas and returned home, like your other colonial populations in Kenya, India and Zimbabwe. We wish return for our land, as the people of Zimbabwe have asked for return of their land!
Jul 01st, 2011 - 05:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0England is not interested in colonial population of Zimbabwe, because no oil is here. But in Las Malvinas, England is acting like imperial dog that it is. This will only be resolved when the colonial population is repatriated by what ever method they wish to choose and their farms and homes are returned to their right owner.
“This will only be resolved when the colonial population is repatriated by what ever method ” .... which it raises the question, what happened to the Mexicans after the Alamo??
Jul 01st, 2011 - 05:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Hey flipflop is here.
Jul 01st, 2011 - 05:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Filipflop - I hear Argentina has decided to invest more in its arsenal to get the Brits out of the FI. From now on you will use two elastic bands in your catapults.
Like I said, most people have one arse hole. We are spoilt for choice on here tonight. Reminds me of that sketch from space balls:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3YElLVMjEs
@13 “From now on you will use two elastic bands in your catapults......”
Jul 01st, 2011 - 06:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Scorpion or Ballista? please be more specific ..... :-))
Which ever is the cheapest? Can go spending too much money when there is still interest to pay on those defaulted bonds.
Jul 01st, 2011 - 06:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Artillero, I am glad that you like the question, but the answer?
Jul 01st, 2011 - 06:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Don't be afraid of Beef, he is an englishman desperate to find large amounts of oil in Malvinas to save his falling apart little empire...and his pocket.
Interesting comment
“I have had time to digest fully this mornings news release. It is rubbish, boring. We need some outside interest in the basin to get prices moving. Only a farm-in will have any significant impact on price because it could accelerate development. The route to production right now looks painfully slow and is completely unfunded.
People have to have a reason to buy the stock now. I can't see it and there are plenty of banana skins ahead starting with 14/10-6.”
Both don't use rubber bands, torsion is the principle applied to them and rope is used instead.....
Jul 01st, 2011 - 06:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@16 Afraid of who Marquitos? I don't need the lecture nor I want to listen to the “Kirchenista” agenda o modelo ..... If I have an opinion , for sure , I will not disclose it to you ...... (a papa mono con banana verde) ;-)))
Jul 01st, 2011 - 07:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Marcos - my pockets are just fine. Especially the ones in this new suit from Sam's Taylors in Hong Kong.
Jul 01st, 2011 - 07:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The only desperate people are the inse who shout “viva la patria” because the can't get their hands on some islands 300 miles if their coast.
Obviously Rockhopper have found more oil than they want to make public. Its bye bye bye Argentina and a buy buy buy for the rest of us. Heheheheh.
Jul 01st, 2011 - 07:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Clear enough Artillerito '''
Jul 01st, 2011 - 07:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0[ ' >
jajaja!! que hincha pelotas que sos Marcos !!
Jul 01st, 2011 - 07:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0:-))
Jul 01st, 2011 - 08:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“How would you colonial English like, Argentina to start drilling for oil in English Channel, Irish Sea or North Sea? ”
Jul 01st, 2011 - 09:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Try it Filippo, see what happens. Not everyone is as weak as Argentina....
:-))
I have no problem if an Argentine company wishes to drill for oil in UK waters. If they pay their royalties at contract rates and contribute to the UK economy by paying their corporation tax then any company is willing to drill on unallocated blocks. We have companies from Korea, Norway and the USA drilling in the north sea.
Jul 01st, 2011 - 10:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0However, i doubt Argentina has the capacity to even consider such a project. It involves professionalism, which is lacking in Argentine business.
@Filippo
Jul 01st, 2011 - 10:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0To answer your question if Argentina started drilling of the UK coast line it would most likely look a little something like this.
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/money/2010/06/30/news/companies/blowout_preventer_bop/oil_rig.gi.top.jpg
Well minus the boats putting it out, but what does that have to do with the falklands, they don't belong to Argentina and never have done.
lotta mad mohammeds in here
Jul 01st, 2011 - 11:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0If the Mexicans had cleared Texas of all colonials, there would have been no Alamo. After the Alamo, the Mexican Army outnumber the colonials 6 to 1, it could have killed them all, same as it killed all occupiers of the Alamo. Soon after the defeat, thousands of Anglos joined the Texan Army and in short time the Mexicans were defeated. Mexicans are now considered illegal immigrants in occupied Mexico, similar to Argentines in Las Malvinas. Mexico is retaking her land by stealth, the Mexicans return and the Anglos run. But I never did much like Mexico as it is full of criminals and Mestizos.
Jul 02nd, 2011 - 01:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0lotta mad mohammeds in here
Jul 02nd, 2011 - 07:29 am - Link - Report abuse 0And just back from his sellout Las Vegas comedy one man show, Masterwank Queen of the one liners
(2) Beef
Jul 02nd, 2011 - 07:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0Blinded by ideology?
I dont “Think”so…...................
News today is that Rockhopper is in dear need of financing, already in 2011, and is going to the Banks:
http://www.express.co.uk/money/view/256338/Rockhopper-oil-hope
http://www.express.co.uk/money/view/256338/Rockhopper-oil-hope
Usually, when one goes to the bank, it ”helps” to have a collateral.
An independent evaluation in the form of a CPR (Competent Persons Rapport) would be the best form of collateral any Bank would wish to see before committing any funds.
But Rockhopper is not producing one. No… no… no…; “waste of money” they say :-)))
The truth about the feebleness of Rochhopper’s claims and asseverations is “written on the wall”.
You just must have the will to read it………………...................................
PS:
Do I need to remember you who “called it right” about Desire Petroleum?
Think,
Jul 02nd, 2011 - 11:12 am - Link - Report abuse 0Stop wishing for something that you cannot have(malvinas, no oil etc etc).
Just buy some shares and become a capitalist like us.
You can do it, its not too hard.
“Think”of the returns! you could get a couple more dogs & horses then!
Interesting case of paralell British thinking………….
Jul 02nd, 2011 - 01:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Mr.British Beef ”tempted” me, some time ago, with a similar offer:
2 Beef Dec 20th, 2010
You know what the first rule of private investing is Think - DYOR!
Have you had a look at the RKH RNS also released at 7am? Interesting 2011 ahead.
DES and RKH drilling throughout year. ARG and BOR (potentially FOGL depending on rig share with BOR) for drilling by Q4 as well.
Why not jump on board Think?
Try it, you might like it!!!!
http://en.mercopress.com/2010/12/20/falkland-islands-desire-petroleum-plc-operation-update”
My answer to you, Cher British Isolde is the same he got:
4 Think Dec 20th, 2010
(2) Beef
Your offer is as tempting as a burqa clad hooker from Luton with some heavy metallic cylinders taped around her waist….”
Hmmm .... burqu :-)
Jul 02nd, 2011 - 01:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Alex Salmond tells Queen his vision for break-up of Britain and I tell the Queen prepare yourself for the return of Malvinas to Argentina as well.
Jul 02nd, 2011 - 03:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/scotland/8611375/Alex-Salmond-tells-Queen-his-vision-for-break-up-of-Britain.html
The Scottish National Party leader intends to hold an independence referendum in the second half of his five-year term, but yesterday attempted to reassure the monarch she will remain head of state in Scotland regardless of the result.
Jul 02nd, 2011 - 04:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Like the Falklands then:-)
34 Marcos Alejandro-------Alex Salmond tells Queen his vision for break-up of Britain. Cant wait for that to happen, as much as I like my fellow UK citizens I cant but help think that once they have gone independent the rest of Britain will be better off. Just think the rest of us will not have to pay for the Scots to use the NHS, they will have to start their own health service, no more paying welfare to them, again they will have to start their own, no more having to tax them, again they will have start their own tax collecting service, Money wise they already have their own currency that not many shopkeepers in England will accept anyway. They will have to pay for the upkeep of their own roads without any help from London. We will bring back the subs that are stationed up in Scotland, it will do Portsmouth and Plymouth good to have them serviced and built in their area, they will have to have their own armed forces that they will have to pay for. Oh yes I cant wait for it to happen, but a part of me says that it wont happen for quite some time. You see dear boy the Scots might want independence and the rest of the UK might want it to happen but they are not a stupid race of people, they actually know where their bread is buttered.
Jul 02nd, 2011 - 04:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Oh and I don't think our Queen will give you the time of the day, in fact I can safely assume that she doesn't even know who you are. You could always write to her and give her a good laugh like you do to all of us, I am told she like a good joke, and lets face it dear boy you dont half tell a few good jokes. I like the best one that you tell, you know the one, the one that says that the Falklands belong to Argentina, it always gets a good giggle out of me
36-Didn't you say that you were moving to Scotland because you dislike your government? So I guess you are going to be an “englishbulldog” in a foreign country then.
Jul 02nd, 2011 - 06:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0No you knob head, it was me that wanted to emigrate to Scotland if they get Independence, do try to keep up numb nut.
Jul 02nd, 2011 - 09:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The problem is not the UK, it is the British monarchy, they are the real rule of the world. Obama bows to them. When I was living in Canada, the French Canadians hated the British Royal family but the English Canadian's would ensure the news was full of them. Canada is still ruled by British and they control USA by proxy, all American Presidents including Obama are related to the Queen and this can not be co-incidence! This my friends is the problem, not UK, but their Royal family. They are like a crime family and they keep all the anglosajon together in their gang.
Jul 02nd, 2011 - 11:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0But they will be broken up when their New World Order crashes and America becomes latino :)
I've never met a happy Scot !
Jul 02nd, 2011 - 11:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 038 Witless,
Jul 03rd, 2011 - 02:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0I know you consider yourself an important sassenach however before you several English expressed their intention to move to Scotland the very same day Scotland splits for the Union, so get in the back of the line and be quiet.
I've just asked my neighbour, who is a Scot .... he tells me that's he's never met a happy Scot either :-)
Jul 03rd, 2011 - 02:09 am - Link - Report abuse 0Something more pertinent maybe?
“ ... It’s all still cloak and dagger out there but I can tell you there is oil and no matter how the companies or the Falklands government tries to play it down it will hit big and it will change the face of the Falklands. ‘Everyone is trying to keep it quiet but we’ve but we’ve already hit it. There is oil, there’s lots of it and it’s viable.’ ...”
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2010622/The-squidionaires-Baa-rain--seafood-oil-tourism-penguins-Falklands-rich.html#ixzz1R0JbTH5r
Interesting times :-)
(42) Hoyt
Jul 03rd, 2011 - 06:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0Your Scottish Neighbor........?
That must be “Deep-Sea-Diver” that rage prone, heavy drinking, old goat.
How’s the jolly good fella doing?
To something more pertinent, the DailyMail article:
***”Kevin Green, a foreman on the rig, tells: Everyone is trying to keep it quiet but we’ve already hit it. There is oil, there’s lots of it and it’s viable…...”***
Wait a second, thinks Think............ What about rig foreman Kevin Green’s strict contractual secrecy clause? This article will surely cost him his job.
***“Kevin Green then reveals that radar operators on the rig have detected a submarine patrolling the waters around the islands in recent weeks…..”***
Ooooops;….. Stop the press, thinks Think......... Please tell the MoD that their billion dollars stealth submarines can, from now on, be detected by civilian radars.
Chuckle chuckle.
Somehow, I find it difficult to believe in “Kevin Green” statements …………
Don't you?
Must have been the same HMS not that Astute that gets stuck all over the place.
Jul 03rd, 2011 - 06:30 am - Link - Report abuse 0Welcome to Canada
“Parasites go home,” and “Your fortune came from the blood of our ancestors.”
“Monarchy? is this Middle age?”
http://www.christianpost.com/news/royal-couple-prince-william-kate-middleton-met-by-quebec-protesters-51801/
Think - Deep Sea is a Yorkshireman, not renowned for being overly cheerful either. And he's well. Wrking on a rig somewhere :-)
Jul 03rd, 2011 - 06:57 am - Link - Report abuse 0I have no idea about Kevin Green .... but I'm sure the Daily Mail wouldn't resort to sensationalism :-/
@ 44
Jul 03rd, 2011 - 07:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0No shit sherlock,they dont want to be part of Canada,so the Royals aint going to get a look in
@Think
I love the sound of a slamming till draw in the evening ,the sound of victory
Tonight, like every other night, the air is thick with accents – from Russia, Poland and Scotland – the steady thrum of conversation broken only by bursts of laughter, the beeping of the cash register and the sharp slam of the till drawer.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2010622/The-squidionaires-Baa-rain--seafood-oil-tourism-penguins-Falklands-rich.html#ixzz1R1ZpnTY8
@46suj,
Jul 03rd, 2011 - 08:45 am - Link - Report abuse 0l love the way the early morning sunlight gleams on my gold bars!
(47) Isolde
Jul 03rd, 2011 - 09:26 am - Link - Report abuse 0Early morning sunlight in Malvinas?
That's rarer and more valuable than gold.................
Bloody hell Marcos, I can now see why your people are so confused over the Falklands, someone mentions something like Wireless did and you think it was someone else.
Jul 03rd, 2011 - 01:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 044 Marcos, of course the French Canadians from Quebec don't like us we kicked the French out of that city in 1759 4,500 men and 1 gun on the British side and 5,000 men and 3 guns on the French side. Just two musket volleys from the British side and the French ran and then they surrendered. I would be a bit hate filled as well if I was of French descent after a thrashing like that as it lost them the second largest country in the world, just 4,500 men and we took over the second largest country in the world. Oh by the way did you see the rest of the Canadians they were lapping up the Royals
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13979606
www.thehindu.com/news/international/article2152873.ece
http://shows.ctv.ca/RoyalWedding/article/Foreign-press-gush-over-Canadian-warmth-Kate-mania-as-royal-tour-kicks-off#c_0
www.vancouversun.com/news/royal-visit/Canada+crush+Will+Kate+poll+shows/5019330/story.html
Nice try though old bean to try and once again to put Britain in a bad light, pity for you it did not work. Now repeat after me, must try harder.
You missed this one.
Jul 03rd, 2011 - 04:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Royal newlyweds called 'parasites' by Que. MNA
“What a waste of public money. All this to welcome those parasites,”
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/story/2011/05/31/quebec-protests-royals-khadir.html
You Argies cant get enough of them
Jul 03rd, 2011 - 05:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://en.mercopress.com/2011/05/06/malvinas-events-
Argentine Defence Secretary Arturo Puricelli said he was disappointed
overshadowed-by-royal-wedding-complains-argentine-minister
with the “excessive coverage” granted by the Argentine media to the Royal Wedding and regretted so little attention was given to the commemoration of Malvinas conflict events.
@34 'Alex Salmond tells Queen his vision for break-up of Britain and I tell the Queen prepare yourself for the return of Malvinas to Argentina as well.'
Jul 03rd, 2011 - 06:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0In your dreams, tosspot. Last time you lost 649 killed, 1068 wounded, 11,313 captured. What do you want to lose next time? 64,900 killed, 106,800 wounded, 1,131,300 captured?
Next time, war will come to Argentina. Britain had no cruise missiles in 1982. Now we have lots. Submarine-launched, warship-launched, air-launched. Could you list your most important cities, please? Obviously, Buenos Aires goes first. But in what order should we destroy your shanty towns after that?
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52 Typhoon. Now now Typhoon young dimmer and dimmer will get on his soapbox if you mention those shite shanty towns in Argentina that they have, you know its a sore point with them when we show how poor they are and how rich even our poor are compared with their middle class. Mind you a few cruise misiles might make the place a bit better though.
Jul 03rd, 2011 - 09:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Marcos thinks he's so popular that a queue has formed to impart wisdom towards him...
Jul 03rd, 2011 - 09:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You couldn't make this shit up.
50 Marcos Alejandro:
Jul 03rd, 2011 - 10:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“When Prince Charles visited Montreal in 2009, it cost Quebec taxpayers $25,000”
Just....lmao.
Mind you a few cruise misiles might make the place a bit better though.
Jul 04th, 2011 - 06:00 am - Link - Report abuse 0Yes, do about 10 quids worth of damage to the shithole
TWIMC
Jul 04th, 2011 - 03:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Ooooops...................
ROCKHOPPER EXPLORATION PLC Down 2.59% today to 262.75……………..
Seems that the market didn’t believe rig foreman Kevin Green’s assertion in last Sunday’s Daily Mail about having found “lots of oil” in Malvinas……..
How strange……………
Kevin Green must be Beef's cousin.
Jul 04th, 2011 - 04:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0:-)
Jul 04th, 2011 - 04:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I think that Marcos is Think's live in lover, but thats neither here or there is it?
Jul 04th, 2011 - 07:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Think, hopefully nobody with more than half a brain cell believed the twaddle in the Sunday Mail! Talk about a gullible lady!- She fell for every wind-up and legpull in the book - and is so dim she took a photo of mostly Japanese 4x4s to go with her story about Landrovers! As for the bit about the Oil Rig watching a submarine on their radar!!!!!
Jul 04th, 2011 - 09:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Marcos - you are an arse arnt ypou- The Free French Quebec folks do NOT want to be part of CANADA!!! Its not really anything much to do with royals or not - they hate being Canadians!
As I have said before -if you are going to comment on non Arg events - then learn some background first to avoid falling in it as you so often do.
Really Islander? thank you for the information :-)))
Jul 04th, 2011 - 11:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Many Canadians from BC to Quebec and all Argentineans we have something in common, we want those English parasites out of the Americas.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/03/royals-heckled-in-montreal
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/03/royals-heckled-in-montreal
Wind up! Well I'd never have guessed :-)
Jul 04th, 2011 - 11:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0(61) Islander1
Jul 05th, 2011 - 12:00 am - Link - Report abuse 0Nice picture of the girls though.................................
Think, Yes I,ll give it that! and a good plug for the hotel menu- we are waithing for the local Landrover dealer to hike prices 100%- a top range Landrover 110 station wagon County is about £24-25K!- or was!
Jul 05th, 2011 - 12:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0It was a good laugh - but a few thousand folks in UK will now have the idea we are all rolling in it here! That,s the power of the press in both our Countries- they tell porkies- and then they become gospel truth!
Marcos- get it into perspective, outside Quebec there were just a very small number of demonstrators - called democracy you know!
MoreCrap is an Argentine - what would he know about 'democracy'?
Jul 05th, 2011 - 12:57 am - Link - Report abuse 0The only true democracy in South America is Uruguay.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index
62 Marcos Alejandro------ In one photo there is 13 people demonstrating and in another I can count 9 and a little child that actually looks bemused by it it all. Yep old son that's a great demonstration from BC to Quebec saying get go home English bastards :))) now repeat after me, I must try harder to make the English oops British look foolish like the Argentines. Nar don't bother just keep us all in fits of laughter.
Jul 05th, 2011 - 01:44 am - Link - Report abuse 0(65) Islander1
Jul 05th, 2011 - 03:59 am - Link - Report abuse 0You say:
“.........a few thousand folks in UK will now have the idea we are all rolling in it here! That’s the power of the press in both our Countries -they tell porkies- and then they become gospel truth!”
I say:
As you can infer by the comments of the normal readers (not the Falklandistas), such articles have the potential of becoming a PR embarrassment for a place like Malvinas.
For a ”Special Case” like yours, ”good news” can be much worse than ”no news”.
Young Teslyn, Lisa and Saron better remember this…………….
Can be ! Maybe! Perhaps! ... Unlikely ... particularly when a cauliflower costs 14 quid!
Jul 05th, 2011 - 05:12 am - Link - Report abuse 0What is important, really important, is the reminder that the Falkland islanders are British, one/some of us. And nothing like the beligerent Argies across the water. Known as 'them'.
This works :-)
I thought 'Them' was a sci-fi story about giant ants, but apparently the 'ants' are argies.
Jul 05th, 2011 - 11:06 am - Link - Report abuse 0(69) Redhoyt
Jul 05th, 2011 - 03:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You say:
”What is important, really important, is the reminder that the Falkland islanders are British, one/some of us. And nothing like the beligerent Argies across the water. Known as 'them'.”
Other Brits say:
”Can Jersey have its 5 million pounds back now it gave to you, Falklanders, we're all a bit poor now with higher taxes and 25% vat/gst, it would come in handy for the elderly to heat their homes which many couldn't afford last winter…”
Annie, Jersey
…Ultimately the Falkland Islanders would rather be independent but they need Britain for defence. Also why are they hiring help from Chili and Peru? Why not hire some of the jobless from the UK? I think the Falklander couldn't care less about being British and are using us simply for defence.
Steve, London
Did you know you need a visa to live in this British Overseas Territory and they automatically get given British passports, free education etc to come to Britain. The only reason they don't go independent is because WE pay to defend their lavish living standards. It is long overdue that there should be a review of what these places contribute to Britiain. If they are of no use let's have a referendum to force these places to go independent or we could sell them to pay for the bankruptcy our bankers put us in. Make no mistake, these places are British out of convenience, they do not like us and they certainly do not want us Brits living there.
Martinihenry, Knackered UK
Britain subsidises the islands to the tune of hundreds of millions of pounds a year AND threw the lives of hundreds of young men away to defend it. Now everyone is entitled for their view about that war but it makes me FURIOUS to see these people lording it over us now. Why is it fair that they only pay 21% tax? Why are they so much wealthier than people in Britain? What contribution are they making to the defence of the Falklands or the UK? Why aren't we billing them?
No, thanks
Us and them?
Chuckle chuckle
Yup, and you are the them! The Daily Mail loves a little sensatuion, the powers that be are far more 'long sighted'.
Jul 05th, 2011 - 11:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0As for oil ... difficult business isn't it - http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20110705-712085.html
(72) Hoyt
Jul 06th, 2011 - 04:06 am - Link - Report abuse 0Yup......., todays news:
“Argentina's YPF Offshore Well In Cuenca Malvinas Area Turns Out Dry”
Best possible news for Argentina in respect of the “Malvinas Issue”.
It will be interesting to follow FOGL and BOR shareprice in the next couple of days..........................
I don't much about the oil business Think, but I suspect the real news will follow the 'financing' issue .... ! It'll depend on the deal.
Jul 06th, 2011 - 05:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0@73
Jul 06th, 2011 - 01:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I don't know “crap” about the subject so therefore I will not make a comment on the issue but the “question of the day is the following” .... Can we make peace with the “ Red Coat” or the fighting will continue?
Only Argentina would rather see their own oil ventures fail, if it had a negative impact on the Falkland Islands.
Jul 07th, 2011 - 11:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0Sad ain't it.
@75Artillero601,
Jul 08th, 2011 - 08:50 am - Link - Report abuse 0By Redcoats, l presume you mean us, yes?
l would love to see peace between us.
The biggest, nearly the only impediment is Argentina's ridiculous claims.
Drop them & stop indoctrinating your children about said ridiculous claims & we could have a great relationship.
Do you think that will happen?
75 Artillero601-------- Redcoat we haven't worn that uniform for quite sometime, but we can live in peace its up to Argentina, we were living in peace between us 30 years ago and then your country invaded the Falklands, all we did was to repel and throw an invading force of a few Islands that is part of Britain and who's people want to remain part of Britain. That's what any country would do isn't it? I am sure that Argentina would try and do the same if any country invaded their land.
Jul 08th, 2011 - 12:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0And before you say that's all we were doing when we invaded the Falklands, as you well know or should know the Falkland's were never part of Argentina.
So yes we can live in peace and live in harmony with one another, but only if Argentina stops its ridiculous claim to those islands that want to remain part of the UK. And once that happens I am sure all of us would benefit from each other. But some how I think that as long as you have leaders like the Wicked Witch of the South that can only get elected because of the rhetoric that they spew about us bad Pirates that actually have done nothing wrong past or present on the issue of the Falklands we will never see that goal of peace.
Peace brother :))
@77 I hope so !!
Jul 08th, 2011 - 03:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@78 Peace !!
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