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Falklands names new Director of Health and Social Services
The Falkland Islands Government announced the appointment of David Jenkins to the post of Director of Health and Social Services. David, the current Director of Health and Education, will take up his new role with effect from January 2013 following a restructure which will see Education form a separate Directorate. Read full article
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Oct 03rd, 2012 - 02:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0UK
Oct 03rd, 2012 - 08:53 am - Link - Report abuse 0#1
Oct 03rd, 2012 - 09:15 am - Link - Report abuse 0What relevance has this.? When I was in the Civil Service, many Commonwealth countries requested assistance for setting up tax regimes and training staff. The UK has many “foreign ” CEO's in charge of British companies. Expertise can be brought in from anywhere to fill vacancies.
What has prompted your “love affair” with Argentina and seeming hatred of the Falkland islanders and your apparent criticism of the UK in every turn. You purport to be from Scotland but when asked for any information to confirm this,you studiously ignore it
Give us a clue, you do not rate any of the current leaders in the UK, so who do you favour to lead the UK government - apart from CFK.
No one is going to come and “stick the head on you” - to quote the vernacular.
UKIP
Oct 03rd, 2012 - 10:05 am - Link - Report abuse 0perhaps
And your point is BritishCFK? Can't the Falkland Islands Government employ someone from overseas to do a job? Is this not allowed or do you believe that appointment proves something? Clutching at straws is the phrase that springs to my mind. The clutching must sooth your battered Malvanista pride.
Oct 03rd, 2012 - 11:34 am - Link - Report abuse 0Burger King and his ilk have no point, nor is he British.
Oct 03rd, 2012 - 11:51 am - Link - Report abuse 0I suppose he objects similarly to the Argentines employed by FIG.
Never known a Brit call the UK the motherland :)
Oct 03rd, 2012 - 12:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0BK is an Argentine troll, his IP puts him in Buenos Aires!!!!!!
Oct 03rd, 2012 - 12:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@7
Oct 03rd, 2012 - 03:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Me neither, an I is one.
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Oct 03rd, 2012 - 04:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Caught out here. I have NEVER heard anyone in the UK refer to the motherland. It is not a thing any Brit. would say.
@9 I be one to thats why I pointed it out :)
Oct 03rd, 2012 - 05:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0TWIMC
Oct 03rd, 2012 - 05:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I know Germans used to refer tro Germany as the Fatherland….
And Russian used to refer to Russia as the Motherland…
I don’t know so much about Briton, but a quick “Googleing” seems to indicate that the use of the term “Motherland” is not so uncommon in the United Kingdom.
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British- Kirchnerist is as Scot as Haggis
Get used to it :-)
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Oct 03rd, 2012 - 06:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“BK is as Scot as haggis.” How do you know this unless he is living near you which I presume is in Arg.
I will reiterate. I have NEVER heard anyone in Scotland use the expression “motherland” for Scotland or the UK and I do live here.
See #3 again. As you appear to be his great mate ask him to give us a wee bit of info. about his Scottish heritage. He need not give away anything that would give away his address, name or telephone number.
How about town and school ?
Apart from my name, address tel. no. or email, I have provided details of where I live and my previous employment. What is he afraid of.
He hardly shows any of our national characteristics.
We are not known for our reticence.
Nobody, but nobody calls the UK the motherland, but hell what the f..ck would I know I have only lived here all my life.
Oct 03rd, 2012 - 08:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@1
Oct 03rd, 2012 - 09:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Is he from the FI or the motherland?”
If he has been bought in from the UK to do a job so what?
Until the Falkland Islands vastly increases its' population, it will continue to employ people from overseas as there is no law preventing Argentines from working in the UK . Mr Tevez makes more money in the UK than he would in Argentina.
refered to as, [old blighty]
Oct 03rd, 2012 - 09:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0.
#3 “What has prompted your “love affair” with Argentina and seeming hatred of the Falkland islanders and your apparent criticism of the UK in every turn”
Oct 04th, 2012 - 02:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I love Argentina's move to the left, and its beautiful personification in Cristina. I have no problem with the Falklands or its people, I just don't like the way their being used by imperialism, specifically to get oil. I don't criticise everything about Britain, in fact I love my country, but I do see it as my patriotic duty to be critical of a government of millionaires thats wrecking the economy.
“you do not rate any of the current leaders in the UK, so who do you favour to lead the UK government - apart from CFK”
I've said it before on here, I think my countryman George Galloway would be an excellent Prime Minsiter. Tommy Sheridan would also be great though I don't agree with him about Scottish independence
As I said before.........
Oct 04th, 2012 - 04:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Mr. British_Kirchnerist.
As Scottish as Haggis............
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Oct 04th, 2012 - 05:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Thank you for your reply.
Thank God that my countrymen have the sense to see through those pair of numpties.
For left wing Socialists, they seem to be rather well-heeled.
Georgeous George would drink piss through a shitty clout if he thought it would give him an advantage.
Mr. Sheridan could not run a menage let alone a country.
Maybe he learned some useful skills in the Bar-L - modesty would help.
I cannot equate acquiring wealth with socialism. In order to become wealthy, you must be using the capitalist system. You either overcharge
things you sell, including services, or exploit workers - No?
Just one thing more , what school did you go to.?
Are you an intellectual lefty or did you come up through the hard school.
I went to Whiteinch Primary in Glasgow - in the shipbuilding district and then to Victoria Drive Senior Secondary in Scotstoun where I got Highers in English ,French, Physics, Chemistry and Maths with lower Geography and Arithmetic.
I came from a real socialist household and still have left wing leanings.
In the early 60's I used to go to the Folk song club in Glasgow where Norman Buchan used to attend and occasionally sing songs from the Spanish Civil War - from the International Brigade !
He moderated from Marxism to Socialism when he got into Parliament.
As a Civil Servant, I was forbidden to take part or be a member of any political party. Such was life in those days. I was then told that the special branch were taking note of the Folk Song Club so I had to put my family ahead of political leanings, although I did attend anti -apartheid meetings and concerts. The only thing I have learned in all those years is that once a politician gets in, only dynamite will remove him
They all renege on their promises. Here endeth the lesson.
APOLOGIES FOR GOING OFF TOPIC AGAIN !
(10) & (19) Clyde15
Oct 04th, 2012 - 06:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Caught out here! I have NEVER heard anyone in Scotland getting highers in French. It is not a thing any Scot. would ever do.
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Oct 04th, 2012 - 06:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Pourquoi non ? I'm sorry, but your pun passed me by.
Historically, the Scots and French were allies until the Union.
The “Auld Alliance” is still remembered. Claret was the preferred drink in Scotland during the French wars with England. The English had to turn to Port wine - even this was dominated by Scots in later years.
I even took German for two years , but could not hack the jaggy Gothic script. All our text books were pre. WW2. The Grammar was a pain to learn. List the prepositions that take the accusative and dative cases, we used to chant this as a poem , fur, durch, gegen, ohne, um - umlaut omitted. The first German I met spoke excellent English so why bother.
As English became the new lingua franca, as a people we lazily assumed that everyone would understand English. If they did not, we just shouted louder , appalled at their ignorance !
(21) Clyde15
Oct 04th, 2012 - 07:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Evidently, my pun passed you by........
It is as stupid for me to imply that you are not a Scot because you... etc. etc etc....
As for you to imply that British-Kirchnerist is not a Scot because he... etc. etc. etc....
Comprende, Manuel?
Ps:
Umlaut is a substantive...
As such it must always be written with a capital U !
Sie, großer Dummkopf ;-)
#22
Oct 05th, 2012 - 09:25 am - Link - Report abuse 0Thank you for your considered reply.
I think I did rather well considering I did not continue with the language and that was 55 years ago. If you live that you may realise that you are not quite as clever as you think. It comes to us all, in time long.
I apologise for forgetting to hit the Caps. lock when I typed it. I will get on my knees - with some help - and ask forgiveness to the blessed Kristina and her acolyte BK and ask them to bestow some of your wisdom on my poor unworthy person.
Keep up the supercilious crap, it enlivens my day - or is it TTT I mean -
is he getting to you.
Oct 05th, 2012 - 01:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0(23) Clyde15
Oct 05th, 2012 - 01:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Evidently, not only my pun but also my blinking smiley passed you by......
Cheer up Clyde15...., what are you....? About 70ish?
That's no age, in this age, Lad!
#24
Oct 05th, 2012 - 04:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0No. I have been dumped on by experts in my long and illustrious career.
This is not a serious debating forum. It is a place to air one's prejudices and propagate half truths. Occasionally you hear some sense from both sides but not often..
The bottom line is whatever we say on here will have no affect on any political decisions made by our respective governments.
Sarcasm, innuendo and schadenfreude rule, - OK.
#25
I don't do smileys and have never sent a text in my life.
I am serene in my dotage having reached an age where there is no use worrying about things over which you have no control.
However, I do get irritated by minor things such as my computer having a mind of its own and refusing to obey my instructions - or maybe it is me hitting the wrong key. I understand mechanical devices but digital electronics are a dark art.
(26) Clyde15
Oct 05th, 2012 - 05:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I fully understand what you are saying…
But we must keep up, old geezer….
It is us hitting the wrong keys….
On my part, I try, as much as possible, to stick to our Patagonian unsophisticatedness........
E.g., if a car can’t be repaired with a couple of yards of fence wire and some chewing gum…., it’s not worth having……
as you say,
Oct 05th, 2012 - 05:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0tis but a blog and we are but coggs.
still,
british coggs, are the best, are they not.lol.
(26) Clyde15
Oct 06th, 2012 - 01:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Remember; “Schadenfreude” is a substantive.......
Substantives in German.......
:-)
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