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MLA Hansen takes over Falklands’ Minerals portfolio following controversy
Member of Legislative Assembly Ian Hansen will assume responsibility for the Falklands’ government Minerals portfolio after MLA Barry Elsby relinquished the post due to a conflict of interest. The brief release from Gilbert House adds that MLA Hansen has prior experience in the Minerals portfolio adding that MLA Jan Cheek will continue as the second portfolio holder. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesGood man Barry. You've done the right thing and you're doing a good job. I was pleased to read Bill Luxton's letter in the P News today and I support it 100%.
Feb 22nd, 2013 - 06:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Worth £1.43 unless there is a hidden share register for friends of Joe Bloggs
Feb 22nd, 2013 - 07:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0£1.425 for a Rockflopper!
Feb 22nd, 2013 - 07:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0That's a lot more than £0.210 for some BS.
Ps:
I do not doubt, for a second, the honesty and personal integrity of Dr. Elsby..
This episode shows perfecctly how difficult it is for the little British Squatter Population of them Islands to put a democratic show free of conflicting interests....
Hmm.
Feb 22nd, 2013 - 08:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Thank you Hank Paulson and Ben Bernanke.
TWIMC
Feb 22nd, 2013 - 08:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Dr. Elsby replaced by Mr. Hansen......
It's like being backi i Scandinavia with those surnames.....
Viking Power! ;-)
You know, the friends who secretly control the Falkland Island Status passport stamp.
Feb 22nd, 2013 - 08:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0(4) & (6)
Feb 22nd, 2013 - 08:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I'm sorry, but you lost me there.
@7 Sr Think. How unlike you. Let me try to help you out. I have it on good authority (well JB actually) that they have ways of looking after their own interests on the Islands. Not too many Latinos allowed on the register for a start (racist I know but there it is). You may recall the exchange late last year about how it's done. JB's friends have influence beyond the ken of outsiders like you and me. They control the valuable stamp that goes in their British Passports.
Feb 22nd, 2013 - 09:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You and I mentioned shares and prices. In Island terms that makes us experts in finance on a par with Paulson and Bernake. Hence Mr Blogg's comment @4
Hope that helps.
(8) Mr. McDod
Feb 22nd, 2013 - 09:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I get it now..........................
Calling decent people “Hank Paulson” or “Ben Bernanke” is really “below the belt” though.
Even for somebody as Joe Bloggs.......
2,3,5,6,7 and 8
Feb 22nd, 2013 - 09:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Having fun with yourself again?
That's nice.
10
Feb 22nd, 2013 - 09:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You can't be serious. Oh wait, you are.
He likes to talk to himself.
Chuckle chuckle
Wow even a 15 year old Chinese cyber nationalist knows that you don't actually answer your own sock puppets!
Feb 22nd, 2013 - 09:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Not when you pretend to be on opposite sides of the planet and magically keep appearing within 30 minutes of each other.
12 joe
Feb 22nd, 2013 - 10:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What's on for the weekend? What will I do in my home city of Melbourne. Maybe a trip to camp. Perhaps Lafonia. Maybe Lafonia and then Victoria Market. Then I might go on Mercopress and speak to my Benny make Anglotino. Maybe chat to my favourite deadbeat Think and Dover. See if they're less confused than they were today. Then I think I'll jump on a tram and go for a cruise up Ross Walk.
Oops! Too much to drink. Bloody VB is strong stuff!
I'm surprised the trolls aren't onto the latest news yet. They'll have a field day when Maximo tells them. Dear oh dear. Oh well, they can have their fun.
(13) Joe Bloggs
Feb 22nd, 2013 - 10:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0If you mean Malabo; I'm waiting for MercoPress to publish their version first......
Chuckle chuckle
14 Dove
Feb 22nd, 2013 - 10:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Nope! Better than that! You'll fucking love it! It'll make you feel really hopeful for a while until you realise it actually means sweet fuck all.
@13 Anglotino
Feb 22nd, 2013 - 10:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0OMG we have the EXACT same plans.
But I keep forgetting are WE an Aussie pretending to be a Benny?
Or are WE a Benny pretending to be an Aussie?
So hard to keep our sock puppets organised especially considering how many odd socks I actually have in my sock draw.
Well I'm off to Melbourne Uni as it is O-Week next week and I need text books then I'll probably go for a drive to Eynesbury.... ummm I mean camp. I own land and need to offload it and find an estate agent.
You know, I'm going to be a poor student....... I mean I'm a rich Kelper.
Yep too much VB on a Saturday morning.... I mean Friday night.
(15) Joe Bloggs
Feb 22nd, 2013 - 10:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I'm a pacifist so, you may call me “Dove”
Better than the Malabo 58, you say?
You make me hopeful, you do ;-)
16 Joe
Feb 22nd, 2013 - 10:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Sort it out man or we'll get found out.
Anglotino
I just want to say how fantastic you are and I agree 100% with all of your posts. It's uncanny actually.
Joe
Cheers mate. I appreciate it also.
Ah shit, I forgot to change fucking logins. Damn. Ah shit, I hope nobody notices.
Ok. Where was I. Oh yeah...
Feb 22nd, 2013 - 11:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Joe
Cheers mate, I appreciate it also.
Oh well, it happens to everyone. Everyone will forget after a couple of days as long as I..... we don't draw attention to it.
19 Anglotino
Feb 22nd, 2013 - 11:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0This is getting silly now. I've had enough. Let's go to the MLA Sawle steady as she goes thread. I want to ask you some questions about that story.
OK Cobber
Feb 22nd, 2013 - 11:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Leave something to the kelpers “native” English Elsby che insatiable hoarder!
Feb 22nd, 2013 - 11:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Cobber...... well at least we can safely know that DoThink hasn't been to Australia since about 1930.
Feb 23rd, 2013 - 12:05 am - Link - Report abuse 0G'day Skip
Feb 23rd, 2013 - 08:38 am - Link - Report abuse 0“G'day Skip”
Feb 23rd, 2013 - 09:41 am - Link - Report abuse 0Which just goes to prove that my skills are so great that I can indeed.......
Teach an old DoD new tricks!
23 Anglotino
Feb 23rd, 2013 - 09:45 am - Link - Report abuse 0Well he does like to remind us how old he is all the time.
Sorry I crashed out early last night. I was knackered after a very hectic week. There's a lot going on at present at work.
Joe
Feb 23rd, 2013 - 09:50 am - Link - Report abuse 0No problem. Can definitely tell you've been in Australia when you use knackered. When I worked in the US everyone though I was saying NAKED!
I thought I was quite witty above! Was an opportunity that was too good to be true. Funnily enough Think is around here somewhere too.
27 Anglotino
Feb 23rd, 2013 - 10:09 am - Link - Report abuse 0We use knackered in the Falklands as well and I'm pretty sure it's commonly used in the UK also. The US must be the odd ones out. We use smoko in the Falklands also although I think that is pretty old fashioned now in Aus, is it not?
It's amusing watching the deadbeat. I think he came up with those two characters with the intention of commanding respect and credibility. The old wise man from Southern Argentina who knows more about us Kelpers then well, us Kelpers. Who still remembers when we were seen and not heard and relied on Argentina.
Then more recently when he was losing respect as Think he conjured up the man from the MoD. The commander! A British man who knows how the world runs. The pro-Falklands posters would sit up and listen to this fellow, that's for damn sure. No flies on him. And guess what? He didn't support the pro-Falklands cause. Looks like there's no hope of us keeping those islands.
@28 Joe Bloggs,
Feb 23rd, 2013 - 10:55 am - Link - Report abuse 0Think persists in saying THEM lslands.
lt sounds so common.
Oooooh a politician taking responsibility argentina could learn some lessons from Mr Hansen as unfortunatly could the muppets in westminster :(
Feb 23rd, 2013 - 11:11 am - Link - Report abuse 0@28 I have no doubt that the UK has sovereignty and I support that cause. Any British citizen who doesn't is a traitor and, if speaking and acting in any other way, is in rebellion. Deploy the Yeomanry to MPA, that's what I say.
Feb 24th, 2013 - 09:57 am - Link - Report abuse 0Huh?
Feb 24th, 2013 - 12:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@28 I have no doubt that Argentina has sovereignty and I support that cause. Any Argentinean citizen who doesn't is wrong, but I defend its right to think differently. Dismantle MPA and take your Yeomanry and Squatters home, that's what I say.
Feb 24th, 2013 - 12:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@33 So, once again we both have no doubt that neither the electorate of the Falkland Islands nor the Falklands Island Government has sovereignty over the Islands, even if we don't agree who has. As for your view on the right to a different opinion in Argentina you are welcome to it, although I thought a State policy and the Constitution would be above pinko liberal idealism. I, however, have a duty to advocate and adhere to the rule of law (UK statutory and common law that is) on UK territory.
Feb 24th, 2013 - 03:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0And the Yeomanry can't go home because they are there already.
@34 So, once again we both have no doubt that neither the electorate of the Malvinas Isles nor the FIG(leaf) has any sovereignty over them Islands, even if we don't agree who has. As for my view on the right to a different opinion in Argentina I’m more than entitled to it because any State policy and Constitution is superseded by the legally binding Universal Declaration of Human Rights in which ”Freedom of Thought” (Art 18) is enshrined. I, therefore, have no other choice than to advocate and adhere to the rule of International law on planet Earth.
Feb 24th, 2013 - 04:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The British Yeomanry will go home.... Please leave the keys on the locks.
@35 What you're doing there is expressing that your personal belief system is based upon false 'maximo' hopes, fake history and the delusional demands of a despotic failed state.
Feb 24th, 2013 - 04:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Good luck with that. I'm sure you'll be very successful...
@35 Think,
Feb 24th, 2013 - 08:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0ln your wildest dreams, Think.
Rave on.
About time you RGs gave back the land that you stole from Paraguay in 1871.
About time you RGs gave back the land that you stole from the Amerindians in Patagonia in the 1880s.
You are a gross hypocrite sr Think, oh nearly forgot:-
You are NOT getting the Falklands.
@35 Your off on one again I see, where the one you're off on this time is a flight of fancy with its own internal logic apparent only to your good self.
Feb 25th, 2013 - 06:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0After all, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights also affirms that the exercise of a person's rights and freedoms may be subject to certain limitations, which must be determined by law, solely for the purpose of securing due recognition of the rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society.
And just to be clear, the Yeomanry was the volunteer cavalry we used to use to maintain order and quell riots and rebellions before the days of police forces. It still exists as part of the British Army Reserve. No part of it is currently deployed in the Falklands as far as I know.
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@35
Feb 27th, 2013 - 08:56 am - Link - Report abuse 0“The British Yeomanry will go home”
Correct.
In the future replaced by a fully developed tri -servce FIDF, with the Chileans and independent Patagonians dropping in for joint exercises.
@40 Pete Bog,
Feb 27th, 2013 - 09:11 am - Link - Report abuse 0Can we invite the Chinese Laundrymen too?
You know the Chinese Special Forces that were disguised as laundrymen on the Canberra.
Hey, RGs, they were on our side.
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