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New housing project in Stanley anticipating Falklands’ oil industry development
In anticipation of the business opportunities the oil industry will bring to the Falkland Islands, a leading company has plans to build in the capital Stanley 26 two bedroom apartments in the form of an 80 metre long terrace on land were previously there were temporary housing and offices since removed. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesGood to see that NIMBYism, that most British of attitudes, is alive and well in Stanley courtesy of Mr Lewis.
Jan 17th, 2013 - 09:04 am - Link - Report abuse 0Who is Mr.Lewis ?
Jan 17th, 2013 - 09:06 am - Link - Report abuse 0Clifton, Lewis, Luxton. They're all related to each other. Still, I must try to be more discerning in future. Thank you.
Jan 17th, 2013 - 09:20 am - Link - Report abuse 0that should shut up the argentines!
Jan 17th, 2013 - 09:20 am - Link - Report abuse 0@3
Jan 17th, 2013 - 09:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0In what way are hey related?
Nothing wrong with wanting to keep the character of the place the same,imagine what would happen if Bath decided to allow buildings not made of local stone or Salisbury decided it would be ok to have a building taller than the cathedral spire.
Jan 17th, 2013 - 09:38 am - Link - Report abuse 0I wonder what the Argies will say?
Jan 17th, 2013 - 10:17 am - Link - Report abuse 0“This is a threat to peace and stability as the colonial British are Housing the South Atlantic!”
@Doveoverdover
Jan 17th, 2013 - 10:19 am - Link - Report abuse 0Give up the disguise Marcos its too obvious...
The Planning and Building Committee should not fear keeping the rules and what was the planning officer doing allowing this to come forward ?
Jan 17th, 2013 - 10:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0'Cristina: “we are being subjected to constant provocations by the United Kingdom”'
Jan 17th, 2013 - 10:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.clarin.com/politica/sometidos-provocaciones-constantes-Reino-Unido_0_848915233.html
Modern interpretation? Oh crap, I can see it now. It's gonna be North Boulder (CO, USA) all over again (Fast construction with an “'eclectic mix of materials' to provide a 'neo-rustic' feel to remind the residents of the area's pioneer past.”) Fear the modern architect, Stanley!
Jan 17th, 2013 - 11:29 am - Link - Report abuse 0I've seen old photographs of my town from the 60's. They basically took one of the oldest town in Britian, full of tudor and Georgian architecture and ruined it, turned it into plastic and glass, pure vandalism and all in the cause of so called progress. Change is coming for the Islands, for the better, I sincerely hope they keep a grip on it and retain the Islands uniqueness.
Jan 17th, 2013 - 11:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0According to some of the Malvinista commentators on MP, the FIC is the government of the Falkland Islands! You have to love those derranged fools.
Jan 17th, 2013 - 11:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0Chuck this:
Jan 17th, 2013 - 12:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0www.clarin.com/politica/sometidos-provocaciones-constantes-Reino-Unido_0_848915233.htmlwww.clarin.com/politica/sometidos-provocaciones-constantes-Reino-Unido_0_848915233.html
into http://translate.google.com/ if you want a giggle but can't read Spanish.
Very unclear on what “support” she claims from Indonesia. Allowing her to land was probably a signal to her that “las malvinas son argentinos”
'Falklands cruise row: a lesson in Argentina's English heritage -
Jan 17th, 2013 - 01:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Cristina Fernández de Kirchner is desperate to squeeze political capital out of the Falklands issue, but, says Chris Moss, she needs to do her history homework...'
www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/9808484/Falklands-cruise-row-a-lesson-in-Argentinas-English-heritage.html
'CFK on Malvinas: 'All we ask is that the UK respect the UN resolution'
www.buenosairesherald.com/article/121963/cfk-on-malvinas-all-we-ask-is-that-the-uk-respect-the-un-resolution
@15
Jan 17th, 2013 - 01:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0How to impress a president - give him a football jersey !!!!
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2013/01/17/limited-edition.html
@16, pathetic... Kissing up to a president the jails people like Alex Aan for not sharing the same superstition. Two peas in a pod, I suppose, perhaps she's there to take notes.
Jan 17th, 2013 - 02:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0More lip service to old Botox face. Do you really think Indonesia give a fook?
Jan 17th, 2013 - 02:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@1 I wonder how old Mr Lewis is. Given Dod's apparent familiarity with all the families on the Islands, might he be “Mr Lewis”? Trying to hold back Falklands development to please his arsie mistress?
Jan 17th, 2013 - 03:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@12 I don't agree with holding up progress, but I do agree with you. Nevertheless, if the Islanders want the revenues from an oil industry, they are going to have to compromise. Three storeys is not exactly high.
@14 What it said is hilarious. I say it because the translator says “his”. Is there something CFK hasn't been telling us? Anhybody think the sow reads this? Or perhaps some arsie slug could pass comments along. So the UN passed a NON-BINDING resolution issuing an invitation. So what? The UK's busy and couldn't accept the invitation. Besides, the Islanders didn't get invited. Oh, yes. The “constant provocations”. Like sending an officer for SAR training. Continuing the 30-year old practice of sending a warship to defend the Islands against a bunch of nutters that invaded them. Like continuing to give assistance so that the Islanders can progress. Here's the “rules of play in force”. The Islands are BRITISH. NOTHING will change that. And any “country” that thinks otherwise should be ready to pay the price. In blood!
Tip for arsieland: Shoot her! Then grow up!
Firstly, one minute it's 40 resolutions we're ignoring, then it's 'the resolution' (1?), then it's back to 40, then the guy running the UN says it's none, then it was 40 again at this Atlantic rimming nonsense, and now it's 'UK is ignoring the resolution' again.I've read the resolutions, and I don't understand which one we're apparently ignoring. Can someone ask KFC which one or 40 it is?
Jan 17th, 2013 - 03:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Secondly...
“I want to thank Indonesia and its people for their constant support over the Malvinas,” Fernández de Kirchner said to Yudhoyono in a press conference today. [1]
“We don’t pretend to push any kind of criteria, but simply start to comply with the rules of the game and respect the resolutions of the United Nations,” the Argentine head of state said. [2]
So in [1] she's pushing some kind of diplomatic criteria... and then in [2] she's saying she's not pushing any kind of criteria. Is she actually mentally retarded enough to actually say this?
Poor old Lewis gets blamed for everything. Not only is the great naval commander royal navy retired a fake but a blind fake at that.
Jan 17th, 2013 - 07:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Mrs Bloggs is getting excited. She thinks it's time for our rental rates to go up. I'd rather go for longevity and good tenants myself.
I like the look of FIC's plans though. The place should be in keeping with the surroundings. It'll definitely look better than all those old cabins. I wonder where Mrs Bloggs will get her tattoos now.
Chuckle chuckle.
when all is built and ready,
Jan 17th, 2013 - 08:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0perhaps CFK can be invited to come and cut the ribbon,
just to show her how much the islander never needed her , or wanted her,
and how much better you are without her .
I think she should have an integral role in the first foundations being laid.
Jan 17th, 2013 - 09:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0(21) Joe Bloggs
Jan 17th, 2013 - 10:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You say...:
“Poor old Lewis gets blamed for everything........”
I say...:
Not only blamed........... sentenced too ;-)
Joe
Jan 17th, 2013 - 10:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Urgh, Yukk! “Christina” and “being laid” in the same sentence and me about to go to bed for a pleasant nights sleep! Boogie man bound to come calling now!
24 Think
Jan 17th, 2013 - 10:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You say: Argentina will own the islands one day
I say: LMFAO
Do something useful with your life old man.
(26) Joe Bloggs
Jan 17th, 2013 - 10:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You misunderstand what I'm saying...
What I'm saying is...:
Argentina owns them Islands today......
Argentina will take possession of them Islands one day...
@26bSo speaks das Maedchen von der Mist
Jan 17th, 2013 - 11:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0(28) redpoll
Jan 17th, 2013 - 11:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Das Mädchen von der Mist..............?”
I do reckon that you, as so many other Brits in here, are fascinated by your superior German cousins....
But you Brits should give up trying to speak German....
You all sound like Basil Fawlty when you try ;-)
Whilst you RG's embrace all things German, including their appetite for other peoples land, oh yeah and those other two, what were they? that's it, starting and losing wars.
Jan 18th, 2013 - 02:38 am - Link - Report abuse 08 Steve-33-uk @Doveoverdover
Jan 18th, 2013 - 04:00 am - Link - Report abuse 0“ Give up the disguise Marcos its too obvious...”
Ok I'll do that.
Lewis again? always the same boring crooks.
Think
Jan 18th, 2013 - 07:17 am - Link - Report abuse 0You say:
Argentina owns them Islands today......
Argentina will take possession of them Islands one day...
Yardy, yardy , yardy...
I say:
LMFAO
Do something useful with your life old man.
Think.
Jan 18th, 2013 - 07:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0All other factors aside;
Possession is nine-tenths of the law is an expression meaning that ownership is easier to maintain if one has possession of something, and much more difficult to enforce if one does not. The expression is also stated as “possession is nine points of the law”, which is credited as derived from the Scottish expression “possession is eleven points in the law, and they say there are but twelve”.
This principle can be restated as: ”in a property dispute (whether real or personal), in the absence of clear and compelling testimony or documentation to the contrary, the person in actual possession of the property is presumed to be the rightful owner. The shirt or blouse you are currently wearing is presumed to be yours, unless someone can prove that it is not”.
So, keep a tight hold on your shirt.
l'm pretty sure that most lndonesians would not be remotely interested in the Falklands.
Jan 18th, 2013 - 09:45 am - Link - Report abuse 0And l'm almost positive that they're not interested in a failed rogue state like Argentina.
Most lndonesians, lovely people by the way, have enough problems of their own without getting involved with the aspirations of the would-be Argentine Empire.
@27 Think,
Wishful thinking on your part, alte.
Argentina does NOT own these lslands &
Argentina will NOT take pocession of them.
And its “those” or “these” lslands, NOT “them” lslands
You should give up or improve your English,
You sound like a bogan/yobbo when you try.
the islands don't worth a shit!
Jan 18th, 2013 - 03:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Argentina as we know it,
Jan 18th, 2013 - 07:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Probably wont exist in its present form [one day]
Could even be 3 separate countries,
Or find its self a bit colony of say, Chile or brazil ,
You never know.
.
(34)lsolde
Jan 18th, 2013 - 08:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You say..:
Wishful thinking on your part, alte........
Argentina will NOT take pocession of them......
And its “those” or “these” lslands, NOT “them” lslands.....
You should give up or improve your English, you sound like a bogan/yobbo when you try.....
I say:
I am a humble, uneducated Argie bogan, honey...
Told ya a thousand times!
Ain't you listening?
By the way........:
1) In German, all nouns are given an initial capital...(as for example: “Alte”)
2) You surely ment “possession”.... Surely just a typo ;-)
@37 Think,
Jan 18th, 2013 - 08:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You see, Dear Thinkus, even l make mistakes.
No one is perfect, certainly not you.
But l thought that you weren't worth a capital letter! lol.
OK, Alte. ;-))))))
Even l makes mistakes
Jan 18th, 2013 - 10:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0[All geniuses make at least one ]
No one is perfect
[Near enough ]
Lsolde
You sound ok to me.
.
Back to your warm German Mist Think wee maid (For those who havent got the illusion Mist in German means midden)
Jan 18th, 2013 - 10:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0(40) Redpoll
Jan 18th, 2013 - 11:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Still “insuficiente” in German, my dear Yoruga......
The German word for “Midden” is “Misthaufen”.....
By the way, Isolde, honey.....
The horse “Mist” I use on the veggie patch has been throughtly composted in the “Misthaufen”.........
uuuujajaja “26 apartments”
Jan 21st, 2013 - 05:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0uuuujajaja no money no class keep the islands in british assholes!
Nice to know your winter quarters are in the Misthaufen. Very ecological. All that heat from decomposing ordure sure saves on the heating bills
Jan 21st, 2013 - 08:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You seem to have a Wagnerian fascination for Isolde even though you seem to be doubtful of her gender when writing in French. Is your real name Tristan? Wagners scenario well worth revising and you will find that Isolde (or Yseult) was a pretty tough cookie. (no offence meant Isolde!)
@43 redpoll,
Jan 21st, 2013 - 09:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0No offence taken, red.
Although Think is a lying old misogynistic anti-British malvinista, l actually like him in some ways.
l am not under the illusion though that the silly old reprobate could be “saved”.
He's fallen too far for that! lol!
l think he fancies himself with the ladies, but that is not always a bad thing.
Anyway, its fun beating him in an argument! lol, snigger.
@44 Thinks gone quiet. Obviously looking up Wagners libretto on that opera - in German of course. Well that will keep him occupied for quite a while
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