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Confidence behind the Falklands
By Klaus Dodds (*) - Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s death does not represent an opportunity to resolve the long-standing sovereignty dispute over the Falkland Islands, or Islas Malvinas. If anything it is a reminder of how entrenched her legacy is to this particular aspect of British foreign and security policy. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesBut the handover of China included a 50 year admin period by HK legislative committee as a buffer to full Chinese administration. Communism will fail in China as it has in Russia. China is very capitalist and that is a contradiction which will undermine it. British sovereignty over the islands will remain until the islanders vote for an alternative. Good luck to them.
Apr 11th, 2013 - 08:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0“ the growing confidence of the Falklands community is increasingly evident”
Apr 11th, 2013 - 08:44 am - Link - Report abuse 0Funnily enough, it is in large part a byproduct of Argentine government policy and actions.
Quite laughable really!
“I bet April 8 will become in the Falkland Islands, at least, a Margaret Thatcher memorial day.”
Apr 11th, 2013 - 10:37 am - Link - Report abuse 0We already have a “Margaret Thatcher day” here - January 10th. It commemorates her visit to the Islands after the war.
“”“Funnily enough, it is in large part a byproduct of Argentine government policy and actions. ”“”
Apr 11th, 2013 - 12:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Indeed, it is yet another by-product of the Kirchner's rabid rule and bizarre foreign policy and the ultimate irony is the more extreme and hardline the Argentine Government becomes, the more the world favours the Islanders position and independence... not the UKs position: the Islanders.
And it could have been all so very different.
Even a child knows that you get a lot further by being nice, than having a paddy and throwing the rattle away..>CFK, nor her government lackeys have reached that maturity yet.
The bottom line though is that so long as the UK stands behind the Falklands the status quo will remain and there is, quite literally, nothing the Argentine Government can do other than make snide remarks.
Can I assume that this is a counter to the other article by the other Professor?
Apr 11th, 2013 - 01:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Guess what Klaus Dud, now Argentina has decided there is nothing to negotiate about freedom of travel, ports, airspace, oil, fishing, or cultural exchange.
Apr 11th, 2013 - 02:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0And you can't do a fly about it. Suck it.
John Troll : Argentina is rapidly becoming China's bitch . In a few years , you'll look back fondly on these little on line chats .The people of Tibet and other Chinese satellite states don't get to play on the internet .
Apr 11th, 2013 - 02:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You worrying about the Malvinas is the equivalent of complaining about the lack of a bath plug when the hotel is on fire .
@7:
Apr 11th, 2013 - 03:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0LMAO - Love the allegory about the bath plug!!
@7
Apr 11th, 2013 - 04:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Would that be a “chinese” tale? What a retard. Nothing to answer back with so he makes up as he goes. Typical. And btw off topic... I thought you lot hated when people went off topic.
As usual with Anglo “morals”, you only get indignant when others break the rules, not you. What a pathetic people.
@6 So you're going to be quiet from now on? Nothing to talk about, is there? Pity about the “cultural exchange” though. You could have learned such a lot. Never mind, isolation is good for the soul. A few years from now and you might get tired of listening to yourself. Then you'll understand how we feel. Always remember; silence is golden.
Apr 11th, 2013 - 04:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Toby the Troll, on topic - that will be a novelty! Usually its just pathetic bleating from her. I think Rgland can expect to become a satellite of China, that's what happens to fourth rate countries in Africa etc. There will be even less freedom than they have now. Meanwhile day by day the Falkland Islands grow richer and richer with about five times the wealth per head of Rgland, and 25 times the wealth per head in just a few years. Shows clearly how some nations do things right with sensible governments whereas basket cases just go backwards
Apr 11th, 2013 - 04:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Nostrils I see you are castigating people for your own norms. Surprised you haven't bought up school shootings in the US yet or am I just too early?
Apr 11th, 2013 - 08:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“now Argentina has decided there is nothing to negotiate about freedom of travel, ports, airspace, oil, fishing, or cultural exchange”
Wow and what has Argentina gotten out of that?
Sweet F all!
“freedom of travel”
To Argentina? Hardly freedom. Most Argentines can't even afford to travel outside Argentina now, so guess who now has less “freedom to travel”? Not the Islanders.
“ports”
Again just Argentine ports, the rest of Latin America is still open for business and the Islander's lives haven't been impinged. Look up the definition of lip service.
“airspace”
Easily flown around.
“oil”
The Islanders don't need any help from Argentina regarding THEIR oil. Your country is a net importer of energy now so hardly something to highlight.
“fishing”
This will impact the Islanders as Argentina attempts economic sabotage by plundering the nearby oceans. A shining example of cutting your nose off to spite your face. Good luck on this spectacular backfire in a decade. About when the desperately poor Argentines are trying tell anything they can to the oil rich Islanders.
“cultural exchange”
PMSL oh you made my Friday, I can go to work with a smile on my dial now.
You are rights that last one! Definitely nothing to negotiate. Hahahahaha
The Professor of Geopolitics takes a complacent look at the islanders' situation from his chair in London. “If anything, the growing self-confidence of the Falklands community is increasingly evident”, he writes. I would suggest that Dodds' gauging of the islanders' mood is incorrect. They have starkly failed to win the support they expected for the referendum and its results. Now Thatcher's passing signals the end of that political orthodoxy of non-negotiation pinpointed by Dodds. The islanders' future is one of increased, not less, uncertainty.
Apr 12th, 2013 - 01:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT
Apr 12th, 2013 - 07:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0Following the death of world class politician St. Margaret of Finchley I have decided to rename Argentina. From today its new name in english is Thatchertina. Please use the correct new name from now on in your postings.
@13
Apr 12th, 2013 - 08:17 am - Link - Report abuse 0Not according to the islanders who post on here, but hell why would you care, they do not exist do they.
Non negotiaiton, News flash!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thatcher has not been in power for over 20 years!!!! explain please how her death would affect or even change the UK governments stance of non negotiation over sovereignty.
Following the referendum it is more certain than it has ever been that Argentina will never gain sovereignty.
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Apr 12th, 2013 - 02:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Then.. why all the bleating and crying about Argentina's actions?
I don't get it... they have irrelevant effect but you anglos still work yourselves up about them?
LOL, must be why Australia is ranked as one of the most sour unfriendly societies on the planet.
@16 Shall we list all the argie bleating, whingeing and whining? There's a lot. Including YOURS. Don't you want to be ISOLATED? Surely you have no interest in what is done, said or thought anywhere else in the world. YOU have everything you want or need. Why do YOU come on here? A desire to stir the world with your piercing insights? The world doesn't share your “desire”. An urge to “make an impact”? Sorry, a damp, scrofulous squid would have more “impact”. An argie urge to create and then stir shit? I think we're getting there. A scrofulous piece of argie shit that wouldn't exist but for its “mother's” irresistable urge to bend over, spread its legs and beg anything male to shaft it.
Apr 12th, 2013 - 08:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@16
Apr 15th, 2013 - 09:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Then.. why all the bleating and crying about Argentina's actions?
I don't get it... they have irrelevant effect but you anglos still work yourselves up about them?”
We don't get worked up-Argentina's inneffectual bleating is amusing.
Just when we were thinking our politicians were dire, we tune into Merco press for a laugh to see how much worse Argentina's counterparts are.
We are entitled to defend our brothers in the Falklands-to do this it is neccesary to point out how farcical Argentina's politicians are, sometimes in disbelief at how incompetent they are sometimes to openly laugh our **** off at them.
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