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Falkland Islands Government Chief Executive resigns effective next February
The Falkland Islands Government Chief Executive Dr Tim Thorogood has tendered his resignation to the Governor, reported on Wednesday Government House. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesAnother one that didn't 'toe the line'...hehe
Oct 06th, 2011 - 11:24 am - Link - Report abuse 0If you know that this is the case - give us the meat
Oct 06th, 2011 - 01:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0hmm...another one left the Titanic.....come one bennies, wake up
Oct 06th, 2011 - 01:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0typicle argentine response
Oct 06th, 2011 - 02:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0every time someone goes, its another nail.
tut tut
We all wish Tim(nice-but-dim) all the best with his future planning applications in the Gower penninsular and I wonder if there is a home grown Falkland Islander with enough intelligence to take on the job or do the Falklands have to spend another 1/2 million on an ex-pat chancer ?
Oct 06th, 2011 - 02:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0This has been on the cards for a while. He already had his contract extended beyond the usual four years. I don't think there is much of a story behind this.
Oct 06th, 2011 - 02:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0#5 hey Vis i have a good candidate....
Oct 06th, 2011 - 03:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 01- Born in Malvinas ? yes, he born in Stanley
2- Grown in Malvinas ? yes, he spend almost his life there
3- Enough intelligence ? yes of course, he made an smart decision, without doubt a clever man
4- What about the job ? well, he´s really good at his job and plus he in the past were insterested in policital and management charges
take a look dear squatter, he could be a really good candidate :)
James Peck, Argentinean citizen born in Malvinas and Father decorated during 1982 war
http://www.blogger.com/profile/04887940435484173301
When he is replaced ....how much will the recruitment cost,the flights cost,the holidays cost ,the pensions and all the other benefits cost. ? Probably about £350,000 more than a home grown candidate who actually knows what he is talking about from day one.Then future generations would have something to aspire to......Go on Legislative Assembly...trust yourselves.
Oct 06th, 2011 - 03:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0He's resigned for family reasons and he doesn't leave for another six months.
Oct 06th, 2011 - 04:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Good move Tim, warm Barbados and Rihanna says welcome back bajan!
Oct 06th, 2011 - 04:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“The Hon” Emma Edwards, recently forced out of the tourism portfolio by “the Hon” Mike Summers, ready to follow Tim.
#7 So_Far......
Oct 06th, 2011 - 04:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Mr James Peck's life, is a perfect example of what happens when you get into bed with an Argentine ! Anyway, apparently he is making a small fortune by buying Argentinians for what they are worth and selling them for what they think they are worth.
emma edwards? but #10 once said that she would be sent to planet x. are you trying to tell me that #10 is a liar?
Oct 06th, 2011 - 05:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0https://twitter.com/#!/mmlagoscc/statuses/26140227398
Oct 06th, 2011 - 05:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0FI government chief decided to resign...
Oct 06th, 2011 - 06:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0can we say that no oil ..no future at Falkland Islands !! ??
@ 10 Marcos Alejandro (#
Oct 06th, 2011 - 06:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Honourable Mike Summers?......LOL ...in 1998 when the islanders thought they were about become Oilygarchs he suggested the Islanders tell the Brits to get stuffed.
** 11 ViscontIsland
Oct 06th, 2011 - 06:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0his last name Peck is shortened written ??
Hmmmmmmm…………..
Oct 06th, 2011 - 06:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What’s happening in Malvinas?
First, Chief Medical Officer, Roger Diggle leaves the Islands in favour of the buzzing, vibrant and sparkling social life of the Shetlands.
And now, the Malvinas Islands Government Chief Executive Dr. Tim Thorogood leaves “for personal reasons”.
Any insider information, gossip or juicy tittle-tattle will be appreciated………
El Think
15 fantazum2011 “Honourable Mike Summers?”
Oct 06th, 2011 - 08:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Well, he thinks he is :-)
this reminds me marcos - did Terry Bett's brother ever ge forgiven by the Islanders for changing sides in the war? - or did he sta in Argentina and decide to run for president de la Patria?
Oct 06th, 2011 - 08:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0hahahaha
They seize onto every little event & make a mountain of it. The Argentines must live uninteresting lives to be entertained so.
Oct 06th, 2011 - 10:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Hey, lads, l'll be working in my rose garden in the morning. Can you make something out of that?
#11 Visquaterland, you seem like jokes ......
Oct 07th, 2011 - 12:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0Tells the story that there was a person who was able to predict, in the middle of a flight, where exactly they were flying just getting his arm out the window of the plane.
On a flight that was full of passengers, the story goes that this man drew his arm out the window as usual, and after a few moments thinking he said......hmmm we are going through Paris .....and How you know that ?? asked the other passengers. Easy, he said ..... i just touched the tip of the Eiffel tower.
After a while and still in the middle of flying, again the man pulls his arm out the plane and after few moments thinking he said......hmm we are going through Egypt right now .....and How you know that ?? asked the other passengers. Easy, he said ..... i just touched the tip of the Cheops pyramid.
After a while ..... this man decides to take his arm again out the window's plane and after a moment thinking he said..... hmm ..... we are going through the United Kingdom and exactly in London, England.
Of course !!! said all Passengers together...... surely you touch the tip of the Big Ben tower ???
No, says the man ..... someone just steal my watch.
:-)))
Oct 07th, 2011 - 01:25 am - Link - Report abuse 07 so_far
Oct 07th, 2011 - 01:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0LET US USE THIS BOY FOR OUR PROPAGANDA!
HIS FATHER A TRAITOR OF THE MALVINAS WAR FIGHTING FOR BRITISH. IF HE WAS NOT DEAD HE WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO LIVE WITH WHAT HE HAD DONE, BETRAYING HIS COUNTRY. BUT JAMES PECK IS A REAL HERO UNLIKE HIS TRAITOR FATHER.
JAMES PECK IS A GREAT PATRIOT.
I JUST HOPE HE DOES NOT CHANGE HIS MIND BECAUSE HE IS NOW A CENTRAL TOOL OF OUR PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGN.
WHO CARES FOR HIS LIFE@? WE DO NOT. WE WILL USE THIS PIRATE TO OUR CAUSE NOW. LAS MAVLINAS PIRATES GO TO HELL.
WE LAUGHT AT YOU. I WANT TO LAUGH AT YOU ALL AS YOU ARE FORCED OFF YOUR LANDS.
I GO TO ZIMBABWE TO LAUGH AT YOUR COLONIAL COUSINS BEING BEATEN OFF THEIR FARMS. THESE FARMS GO TO ZIMBABWE MILITARY AND POLITICAL ELITES, JUST AS YOUR LAND WILL GO TO OUR ELITES!
WE HAVE A LONG HISTORY OF FASCISM!
WE ARE VERY PATRIOTIC!
“PATRIOTISM IS THE LAST REFUGE OF SCOUNDRELS” - SAMUAL JOHNSON BUT HE WAS AN EDUCATED MAN. WE DON'T CARE FOR THAT WE WILL FOLLOW OUR EILTES CALL TO HAMMER YOU NIGHT AND DAY. WE WILL DREAM NIGHT AND DAY ABOUT OUR ISLANDS YOU OCCUPY. WE KNOW NONE OF THIS MAKES SENSE IN OUR HEART OF HEARTS BUT WE HAVE BEEN CONDITIONED FROM BIRTH THAT THIS IS RIGHT.
WHO CARE THAT WE ARE WRONG? HITLER WAS WRONG TO INVADE POLAND, CZECHOSLOVAKIA, AUSTRIA, HUNGRY, NORTH AFRICA, FRANCE, NORWAY, HUNGRY, ROMANIA, RUSSIA, LITHUANIA, ESTONIA, UKRAIN, LATVIA, BULGARIA, YUGOSLAVIA, GREECE AND ITALY?
HITLER IS OUR HERO!
You're the worst troll i've ever seen. Really that bad, not convincible at all.
Oct 07th, 2011 - 02:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Chief Executive isn't sticking around? Why?
Oct 07th, 2011 - 03:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The islanders are so quiet about this.
#1 No meat yet, Fantasmagoria?
Oct 07th, 2011 - 06:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 025 Marcos Alejandro
Oct 07th, 2011 - 06:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Because we aren't surprised.
Because Chief Executives come and go on fairly short term contracts.
Because we aren't that bothered.
Because he's given plenty of notice and another one will be appointed.
It's still not much of a story, is it?
man decides to take his arm again out the window's plane
Oct 07th, 2011 - 07:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0[how many planes in a window then ??]
He put his arms out of the planes windows,
[how old was this plane, would not his arms be ripped off]
and how come he is over London after Egypt,
and you missed the end bit,
he put his arms out of the planes window for the last time and said, [shit]
how do you know that, said the other passengers,
[we just crashed in a pile of cow pat ]
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27 Monty69
Oct 07th, 2011 - 08:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0”Because Chief Executives come and go on fairly short term contracts'
Do you mean he is not elected by the people and selected by an English colonial Governor?
Even if that is true Marcos, what's it got to do with you or your country? l'll tell you, nothing. You leave our business to us, thank you.
Oct 07th, 2011 - 11:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 029 Marcos Alejandro
Oct 08th, 2011 - 12:54 am - Link - Report abuse 0No, he's a civil servant, appointed by FIG. You don't have elections for civil servants. They are government employees.
And it's none of your business.
Marcos, elected members sit on the interview board for his job as well.We are one of those unArgentine things called a democracy.
Oct 08th, 2011 - 04:47 am - Link - Report abuse 029 Marcos Facistico
Oct 08th, 2011 - 10:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0He is a Chief Exec, that is head of the civil service. Civil Servants don't get elected!
You live in a “country” that has had more military rulers and General as Presidents than civilians, a land where democracy developed late and failed to catch on. Now you just have dynasties and Presidents than seem to go on until death, arrest or military coup!
Have another cigar, dream about the war you lost, think about the war crimes you committed and die. That's the best thing you can do for the world Marcos. Do it a favor.
Governors do not get elected either in this interesting “democracy”
Oct 08th, 2011 - 09:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Marcos - just how many times does it have to be explained to your tiny brain that the Governor is the Queen,s representative in the Islands. He has NO VOTING POWER. That all lies with the Elected members .
Oct 08th, 2011 - 10:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Just the same as the Queen in UK and Parliament - hell next you will be saying that UK is not a democracy!!!!
Yes HE signs the Acts or Bills to make them law after they have been checked out for correct legal wording and to comply with UK laws where relevant etc.
That is actually done also because under UN LAW - UK is responsible for the oversight of “Good Governance” in the Islands and has to report on such back to the UN. You see the UN actually RECOGNIZES UK as the effective “owner” of the disputed Islands.
All UK does through the Governor - is check that what our elected member approve is democratically legal and fair and nothing corrupt is going on .
I accept though that avoiding corruption is pretty alien to Argentine Governments!
“Governors do not get elected either”
Oct 09th, 2011 - 08:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0They don't in Australia or Canada either...They are also interesting “democracies”.
35 Islander1 Sorry, Britain is not the best example of a democracy.
Oct 10th, 2011 - 02:10 am - Link - Report abuse 0You say “I accept though that avoiding corruption is pretty alien to Argentine Governments!”
Where's Lewis Clifton from? Just to name one.
Marcos, #37,
Oct 10th, 2011 - 10:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0looking into this, I find corruption absolutely miniscule compared to eg Maluf, and the Brasilian grandees - and I make no comparison with other South American nations much higher up the Corruption league table, where immunity, impunity and massive theft from the people is documented as being even higher again.
Please get some sense of perspective.
Marcos #37 , Lewis Clifton paid a high price for his 'naive mistake' but in Argentina.....they have even stolen millions from the charity money for the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo.There is no bottom to the depths that Argentinians will go to steal !!
Oct 10th, 2011 - 12:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 039 Viscount Falkland, Is C&W ripping the Islands off or just another islanders 'naive mistake'?
Oct 10th, 2011 - 09:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0they are getting jittery, they have nothing new to say,
Oct 11th, 2011 - 01:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0so pick on any little item, and try to enlarge it,
they are desparate, they dont know what else to do or say,
allow me to help them,
just talk my friends,, just talk,
because thats all argentina can do now, talk just talk,, laugh laugh .
Agree with Briton, seems Arg is getting desperate & making much a do about nothing.
Oct 11th, 2011 - 05:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The guy resigned, end of his contract, finito.
I see many Argies refering to democratically elected & appointed, the chief exec is a civil servant & would be interviewed like any other Gov employee.
Now my Argie friends, I wonder how many millions of votes CFK has bought? Argie democracy my arse!!!
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