MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Falkland Islands’ delegation expected in Mexico to talk about referendum results
Falkland Islands lawmaker Dr. Barry Elsby and young Islander Krysteen Ormond are expected this week in Mexico with a full agenda of political contacts and media interviews referred to the March referendum when Islanders by an overwhelming turnout and support, 92% and 99.8%, decided to continue as a British Overseas Territory. Read full article
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Apr 09th, 2013 - 02:37 am - Link - Report abuse 0It means: Englishman Dr. Barry Elsby expected in Mexico to talk about referendum failure.
“The Falklands have their own elected government that runs all internal affairs with the exception of defence and foreign affairs which rest in the United Kingdom”
Apr 09th, 2013 - 03:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0Nonsense of those issues, delegating the islanders in the “empire”. Precisely these are the requirements to have any independent nation .. Defence and foreign affairs are the things that no colony owns and you never will.
I am Marcos and I am a sour crying baby in the corner who has lost his titsucker - meiowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!
Apr 09th, 2013 - 03:26 am - Link - Report abuse 0Xav- have no idea about what a Colony has and has not these days - we left that era behid a decade or so ago - just Argentina that is hell bent on reversing freedom and foring us into becoming her Colony.
3 Islander1
Apr 09th, 2013 - 03:45 am - Link - Report abuse 0Are you feeling frustrated about failure to promote colony referendum ?
You should.
more bollocks from Xavier....
Apr 09th, 2013 - 04:20 am - Link - Report abuse 0look down the list of other small population UN recognised sovereign states:
Niue, cook islands, micronesia, monaco, san marino...etc
all are reliant on someone else for defence, and some are reliant on others for foreign affairs...all are independent states.
@ marcos. The only frustration and whinging seems to be only coming from the clowns in buenos aires. Argentina will never get the islands, get over it. See one of your many psycho analysts for help.
Apr 09th, 2013 - 04:54 am - Link - Report abuse 0Marcos is Spanish.
Apr 09th, 2013 - 05:54 am - Link - Report abuse 0Don't worry about him.
It seems the referendum continues to have the desired effect given the fear of the Argentine government and posters towards it hence the nonsense they are spewing out, desperately wishing someone would believe them but nobody does......
Apr 09th, 2013 - 07:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0Keep up the good work team!
Xect.
Argentina's attempts to bully the region will fail and they rampant inflation will kill the country for the inside. Argentina, Syria Iran and North Korea rogue states of the world few would miss. why would any sane democratic island nation want to be part of that?
Apr 09th, 2013 - 07:15 am - Link - Report abuse 0If the referendum was such a failure. why are you spending so much time talking about it ? Why would the Mexican press be interested ?
Apr 09th, 2013 - 09:14 am - Link - Report abuse 0Could it be that they want to hear the other side of the story ?
They can then make up their own minds instead of the one-sided bullshit that emanates from Argentina - and the likes of trolls such as you.
@10 What was said @4 was that the PR campaign to promote the Referendum as an expression of self determination is failing. If the campaign fails then the Referendum itself will have been a failure, not matter how well run, technically. The Economist had a take on this.
Apr 09th, 2013 - 11:55 am - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.economist.com/blogs/blighty/2013/03/falklands-referendum
It seems to me fair game for those who support Argentina's claim to the Falkland Islands to try to counter the Islander's PR campaign by whatever means they think necessary or may consider effective. This Mercopress unattributed article, withseveral errors of fact, deserves to be challenged on the grounds of sloppy journalism anyway.
Argentina is failing, if the referendum means nothing for Argentina why are they so worried about the world knowing about it. hence all your stupid comments on how it means nothing. Argentina like easy targets all i can think. let Argentina get it though there minds the Falklands are protected. they are defended, and there is nothing in the world you can do about it other them moan and whine like the brain washed children they are.
Apr 09th, 2013 - 12:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@2 Funny girl. Howzabout reality? Argieland won't talk to the Falkland Islands. Because it's scared of them. Must be horrifying for argies and people like CFK and Tinman. A real life working democracy with a buoyant economy right on their doorstep. Proving that the whole world doesn't have to be like argieland. But argieland will talk to the UK. So the UK uses its experience and its clout, listens to the Islanders and says what they want it to say. Seems very reasonable. Much more so than the childish argie attitude.
Apr 09th, 2013 - 12:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@4 The promotion of the results of the Falkland Islands referendum seems to be going very well, thank you. What is especially good is the argie attitude and comments. These reinforce the perception of a relatively small Island community facing up to and defeating the local, and much larger, bully.
@13 As I told you in the other article (the one about the Pope). You have only a few “brain washed” argies bullying here. The referendum was good for the islanders, they show their wishes, they freedom and their democratic government.
Apr 09th, 2013 - 01:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0why oh why is argentina and their trolls detest so much The Falklands population promoting their democratic right to freedom and self-determination?????
Apr 09th, 2013 - 02:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0are you a DICTATORSHIP?? are you against freedom and liberty????
Good article, not all Brits are like the participants in this blog, it seems.
Apr 09th, 2013 - 03:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I dedicate it to “roving ambassador” BRITISH Elsby.
www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/mar/12/falklands-vote-ruritanian-colonial-relic
@16 we all have em :-)
Apr 09th, 2013 - 05:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Argentine intellectuals brand president Kirchner's Falklands policy absurd... and say islanders should be allowed to decide their own future
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2104881/Argentine-intellectuals-brand-president-Cristina-Kirchners-Falkland-Islands-policy-absurd.html
Seumas Milne
Apr 09th, 2013 - 06:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The Guardian
is nothing short of an idiot,
he can argue me anytime
he is a fool full stop.
Marcos- Referendum was a damn fine result and is starting slowly to have an effect where it counts - so I am very happy! So sorry thast you are wailing - after all - since it was “ellegal and irrelevant etc etc” - WHY are you even mentioning it?
Apr 09th, 2013 - 06:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Please answer this one.
Dover - nobody expects 3rd party nations to fall over backwards immediatley over the referendum results - some I agree will never budge anyway. some are showing a few little signs and I would not be surprised if in say 12-18months time we see a bit of a change in voting pattern at various Int meetings of a bit less open support for Arg and a bit more neutral - implying that there is more than just what Arg says to the question and it really is up to the parties with the dispute to resolve and not for us to take sides. Am not expecting a sudden or even later a massive pro Brit/FI vote! We all know the various issues that affect how a country votes and suports on whatever issue.
It will take a bit of time - and time we have on our side- and financial reserves of our own.
@19 Time is indeed on our side. As I understand it, those financial reserves are ring fenced for expenditure on hydrocarbon industry enablers for a start. After that, who yet knows? From my perspective what is interesting now that the Referendum is behind us is the developing immigration policy. I expect this and a discussion on the extent to which oil funds ought to be used for social welfare purposes to feature in the manifestos of candidates in the Assembly Election.
Apr 09th, 2013 - 09:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Islanders, beware, Montezuma's revenge!
Apr 10th, 2013 - 01:48 am - Link - Report abuse 0So now you are going to infect them with a tummy bug? You swines!!!!!!
Apr 10th, 2013 - 07:00 am - Link - Report abuse 0@1
Apr 10th, 2013 - 12:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“It means: Englishman Dr. Barry Elsby expected in Mexico to talk about referendum failure.”
It means: Democratically elected (place of birth is irrelevant unless you are a racist) Dr. Barry Elsby expected in Mexico to talk about referendum.
Failure, I think not. At the very least the international publicity has already made it worthwhile.
@21 Devolverislas:
Apr 11th, 2013 - 12:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0I think Montezuma's revenge would be against the against the descendants of conquistadors.
When a stick is pushed down a wasp's nest enough times the wasps emerge to sting.
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