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With oil development in mind, Falklands’ trade delegation visits Aberdeen and Shetlands
A numerous delegation from the Falkland Islands Chamber of Commerce is on its way to Scotland for a five day high-profile meeting with peers from Aberdeen and the Shetland Islands which begins next May 8. Read full article
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May 02nd, 2012 - 11:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0she will grow.
Maybe a very busy heliport like Aberdeen, with well designed facilities, all designed to be world class.
May 02nd, 2012 - 11:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Careful, Falklands. If shyster Salmond gets his way, Aberdeen will no longer be in the UK. Wouldn't want to restrict your choices but Salmond is a knobhead that CFK would like to support as a way of undermining the nation that defends you. Can't really tell about the Shetlands yet, although Salmond thinks the islands and surrounding maritime spaces will be his. Where have you heard the words “islands and surrounding maritime spaces” before? Listen to their advice etc by all means. Just that remember that “independent Scotland” cannot protect you. With no air force and no navy “independent Scotland” would have trouble protecting a floating hamburger. Salmond can't even give the Scottish people detailed plans. Examples? He wants an “independent Scotland” to be part of the EU (because he wants EU money) but thinks he can retain the pound as a currency, even though the EU says he has to adopt the euro. He thinks he can have free movement and free trade with the remainder of the UK, even though his “independent Scotland” will not be an EU member and not “entitled” to either. He is banking on paying nothing for defence and expecting the UK to defend his “independent Scotland”. In his dreams. He's about as brainless as CFK. Just a warning to be careful. Do whatever you want. You are free. You are entitled to determine your own future. (Can you imagine an argie saying that?) Just be careful. We have invested a lot in you for your benefit. Money and lives. Always remember that. If you don't want us anymore, fine! Just say so. In the meantime, you are just as British as we here in Britain. And we will fight for you, whatever it takes.
May 03rd, 2012 - 02:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The Independence from UK is unique option for Islanders ..they are on the true route..
May 03rd, 2012 - 05:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@3 Conqueror
May 03rd, 2012 - 07:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Well said.
Do you think our friends up north realise that the border with Northumbria twists north noth-east and cuts the North Sea oil fields in two?
As a resident of the Shetlands I'd say that our view of the Scottish Government is that they rarely think beyond the central belt of Scotland. Shetland has been a Liberal stronghold for decades, so we don't follow the SNP mantra, hence there's little investment from Edinburgh despite the money that flows in from the isles.
May 03rd, 2012 - 07:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Not sure what the future holds but there's rumblings in the air. Shame the Lib Dems got into bed with the Tories. Serious mistake north of the border, as the SNP are now seen as the most viable alternative. Like many here, I just can't bring myself to vote Tory (I would rather cut off my arm) and Labour aren't much better. Roll on the Shetland Movement!
just because scotland want to fly with the fishes, in no way does this have ant reflection on the shetlands or other group of islands, you are all british, and should / can / and will have the right to remain part of great britain,
May 03rd, 2012 - 09:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0you dont need the scots, if thats what it came to,
allthe islands should demand the right to remain british,
full stop
like all little acons,
May 03rd, 2012 - 09:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0she will grow.
Comming from a“genius”like you is reassuring.
Too bad that uk is shrinking.....
The Scots won’t be that silly,
May 03rd, 2012 - 10:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0But he is a fool,
Taking what is not his, from a freely elected government, and handing it over to a closed none elected secretive government,
Proves beyond doubt he has been got at, by a higher authority .
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May 03rd, 2012 - 10:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 01. Keep the Falklands British -
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A documentary about Nazi Argentina, on a discussion group the Argentine posters were quote “disapointed” that Argentina was still a military dicatorship. However you people are still fanatical nationalists with ambitions to add the entire South Atlantic and Antartica to your territorial aquisitions. next step will be Chile and Uraguay and they know it. Which is why we have so much support from the people of those nations.
May 04th, 2012 - 12:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6pB57lhPlk&feature=youtu.be&skipcontrinter=1
documentary about Nazi Argentina, on a discussion group the Argentine posters were quote “disapointed” that Argentina was still a military dicatorship. However you people are still fanatical nationalists with ambitions to add the entire South Atlantic and Antartica to your territorial aquisitions. next step
May 04th, 2012 - 02:37 am - Link - Report abuse 0Just cut the crap,fascist You are an IMBECILE,from begining to end...
“30-member delegation”
May 04th, 2012 - 06:09 am - Link - Report abuse 0Wow! Is not too much for a pop of 2k?
I guess many are having a free vacation on taxpayer money.
Is not what bananas countries do after all?
@13 Dany,
May 04th, 2012 - 10:41 am - Link - Report abuse 0Since the Falkland Islands are indepentant in everything but Defence and Foreign Policy, and money spent is their money, not the British Taxpayer. So if they want to spend money on this, or buying every islander a porche, then that's their perogative.
The impotent Argentinan government is just that - IMPOTENT. All they can do is cry...
“Don't cry to us Argentina,
The truth is you are ruled by Nazi's
Who steal your money, and are insane
Just keep your distance,
The Falklands are British!
Have we said too much?
There's plenty more that we can say to you,
Just so you know that the Falklands are British
And that's the truth!”
(to the tune of Don't cry for me Argentina by ALW)
Poor Argtards, all gonna be unemployed very soon.
Danny Berger.....A trade delegation consists of private businesses you fecking nonce, thus all travel costs etc, will be paid for by themselves.....and PPS the population is 3,500 and thats excluding the 1,200 strong garrison at Mount Pleasent.....
May 04th, 2012 - 10:54 am - Link - Report abuse 0Malvinarsehole...ambitions to add the netire south Atlantic and antartica to our overseas portfolio?
HAHAH I actually hurt a rib laughing.....Here is your crumbling morally corrupt countries claim to the South Atlantic:
http://www.argentinaindependent.com/currentaffairs/newsfromargentina/argentinas-new-claim-to-falkland-islands-rejected/
Pot calling the kettle black....Your countries just pissed that they missed the boat centuries ago and all you've got to show for your territorial ambitions are some vast windswept plains and some half arsed claim to a few rocky islands and ice whose inhabitants despise your entire nation.....
@12
May 04th, 2012 - 12:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The British were left with the last standing legal claim to the Falkland Islands before Argentina became a nation. Your man Loius Vernet acknowledged this and asked the British government for permission to set up a penal colony/settlement there. As soon as the British government found out that he was working for the new Argentine govenment they sent a ship to eject him and the garrison allowing settlers to remain there.
The Argentine government acknowledged this as true and signed a legally binding agreement in 1850 dropping it's claim to the Islands. It was only in the 1950's that Peron kicked up a stink and started to feed the Argentine population with propaganda and lies.
You would do well to remember this.
the british falklands are british as long as the islanders wish it to be,
May 04th, 2012 - 02:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0and if CFK and her imortles do not like it, then tough .
Shine on you Falkland Islands
May 04th, 2012 - 02:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0the british falklands are british as long as the islanders wish it to be,
May 04th, 2012 - 03:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0and if CFK and her imortles do not like it, then tough .
AHHAAHAH Comming from a country,know for the jusutice,non imperial policy,is reassuring.Not to mention that coming from mother teresa of briton,is a guarantee of goodness and good heart..
AHAHAHAHAH
How stupid are 90% of the brits in this forum
Malv
May 04th, 2012 - 03:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0If you're so clever, are how come the Islands are still British, with no prospect of them ever becoming Argentinian.
Proof prehaps “its better to be lucky than smart”.
Seem you missed out both ways.
@19
May 04th, 2012 - 03:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0As per @12.
Read, think and learn. I know the truth is difficult for you to comprehend.
How about the Beagle Island dispute with Chile?
The Argentine government refused to abide to a binding international award giving the islands to Chile and set up a maritime boundary consistent with their false claims. Even the Pope came down on the side of Chile.
How about the Worldwide corruption index?
The UK is at 16
Argentina is way down in the red at 100.
Can't trust Argentinian's they fail to honour agreements, twist history for political purposes and fill the little minds of their population with PROPAGANDA!
Malvinarsehole.....
May 04th, 2012 - 04:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Your bolsheveik parasite of a country can't even bully what is effectively an autonomous shire council......Argentina is as impotent as a castrated dog.
All 10 years of bluff and bluster from that asylum of lunatics we jokingly refer to as a government in Argentina and you've got nowhere, I thought we were finished?
@Rhaurie-Craughwell
May 04th, 2012 - 04:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“1,200 strong garrison at Mount Pleasent....”
It seem more likely a central police station in Bue. Oh! wait a minute the have more. Ha ha
@23 Dany
May 04th, 2012 - 06:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0All it takes is 1,200 members of our Armed Forces, 4 Fighter aircraft and 1 kick-ass destroyer to keep Argentina's WHOLE military at bay.
Just think how many of our forces you'd have to face if we ever took your pathetic threats seriously?
No the Falkland Islanders are building a strong stable economy for themselves. Pity all the current bunch of muppets in the Argentine government can do is bugger up Argentina's economy.
Never mind, maybe some nice aid agency will give you food parcels.
Please like this page in order to force Argentina to return Misiones and Formosa Provinces to Paraguay, the country they were stolen from in 1870!
May 04th, 2012 - 06:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.facebook.com/pages/Misiones-y-Formosa-son-de-Paraguay/250980491652629
Misiones and Formosa Provinces are provinces of Argentina that were seized and annaxed by Argentina from Paraguay this page is dedicated to address Argentine hyporcacy and ensuring their return to Paraguay.
How stupid are 90% of the brits in this forum
May 04th, 2012 - 06:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0About 90% better than you lot .
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http://www.facebook.com/pages/Misiones-y-Formosa-son-de-Paraguay/250980491652629
May 04th, 2012 - 06:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Please like this page in order to force Argentina to return Misiones and Formosa Provinces to Paraguay, the country they were stolen from in 1870!
Misiones and Formosa Provinces are provinces of Argentina that were seized and annaxed by Argentina from Paraguay this page is dedicated to address Argentine hyporcacy and ensuring their return to Paraguay.
It's only right that Argentina first addresses its own hyocracy by re-examining its own history before talking about taking more land it has never had soverignty over. Not just the Falklands but South Georgia and the South Sandwhich Islands.
@23 Beef Burger
May 04th, 2012 - 07:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0As per 21.
Advice: Emigrate.
Protest Argentina offensive ad campaign insulting our forces and war dead, make sure Argentina is banned from the Olympics or stopped from making any more political capital out the games and causing more hurt to Falklands vetrans and their families. Sport is not about politics ban Argentina from the Olympics now - join the campiagn
May 04th, 2012 - 08:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.facebook.com/pages/We-must-kick-argentina-out-of-the-2012-olympics-over-the-falklands/379501375425310
International Olympic Committee, Château de Vidy
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@LEPRecon
May 05th, 2012 - 06:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0“Just think how many of our forces you'd have to face if we ever took your pathetic threats seriously?”
Come on Lepro UKistan even have a carrier buy one first.
@30 - Dany there you go again with thinly veiled reference to Islam.
May 05th, 2012 - 12:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Are you so scared of the people of this religion? Do the big bad muslims frighten poor Dany? Aww.
If it's in reference to muslims living in the UK, their number is less than 3% of the population (according to the last cenus), not that it actually makes any difference to the majority of people in Britain. But it is gratifying to note that Argtards like you are afraid of muslims. No doubt most muslims in the world would say 'Argentina?' Huh, never heard of it! LOL So don't worry Dany, you'll be safe.
Regarding the aircraft carriers, you are right we have two under construction. However, since Argentina's military is so ineffectual what does it matter whether we have them or not?
4 Typhoons and 1 kick-ass Destroyer is all it really takes to deter the war-mongering (we're giving peace a chance - honest!) government of Argentina. An aircraft carrier would be overkill. :o)
hopefully by the end of this year. picture of a complete carrier [abet yet unfitted]
May 05th, 2012 - 09:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0will be flashed arround the world for all to see,
all the sections are now up north, and it is just a matter of putting them together.
mm
Malv
May 06th, 2012 - 12:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0If you're so clever, are how come the Islands are still British, with no prospect of them ever becoming Argentinian.
pugolin: When the time is ripe,we will move in........
uk is FINISHED! economically,morally,spirtually......
@ LEPRecon
May 06th, 2012 - 05:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0“If it's in reference to muslims living in the UK, their number is less than 3% of the population (according to the last cenus)”
So do you mean that the rest 97% of the pop is well hidden?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fx3hkajQgGk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fx3hkajQgGk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fx3hkajQgGk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fx3hkajQgGk
Argentina is a product of colonialism, conquered by the sword, most of the natives killed and infected by disease, their land taken from them and worked by imported African slaves, oversean by imported European colonials. The African's who made up 50% of the population would themselves completely disapear from Argentina between 1850-1900 in what could have been a chilling fore runner to the disareances of the Dirty War in the 1970's when an estimated 30,000 Argentines were raped, tortured and murdered, many more were held illegally in detention camps and tortured. The true figure for the dead could be as high as 100,000, no one knows because there is little official documentation and most bodies were dumped in the sea.
May 08th, 2012 - 02:37 am - Link - Report abuse 0Argentina took land from its neighbours in numberous wars , civil wars and land grabs - Paraguay, Uraguay, Chile. Today Argentina despite the changed political landscape is still a nation characterised by uber nationalism. The claim to the Falklands was surendered in 1850 but reserected in 1941 by a fascist junta, which inc Peron, they thought their friends the Nazi were going to win the war, the Falklands looked easy picking.
In 1982 Argentina was under the latest succession of a series of fascism military junta's. Their hold on power was looking precarious, in deperation they sort a war, Chile looked like a good victim, they already claimed lots of land and were ignoring the international tribunals that had ruled in Chile's favor. But then they changed their mind and invaded the Falklands. Today the war is romanticized by a nation ruled by a kind of cross between a Neo-Nazi uber nationalist and a Charvesta Revolutionary uber Marxist. The only thing missing is the land reform. Maybe that's for later? But as few natives remain, maybe they'll just ignore their rights... God knows they always have. An entire culture replaced by a European one. Entire languages destroyed.
Timmerman should take time to read about his country's history.
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