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Falklands new legislative pledges more transparency and communications with the public
The recently elected Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly, the first to be full-time is breaking ground and has announced several changes to its functioning basically more transparency, televised sessions, showing how decisions are reached on key issues and MLAs views, and for this has decided to name two small working groups. Read full article
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Nov 16th, 2013 - 07:59 am - Link - Report abuse 0New “transparency” times indeed...
I have been informed by Mr. GALlamosa that snitching is now done personally, not through rumours anymore...
http://en.mercopress.com/2013/11/12/falkland-islands-legislators-elect-three-mlas-to-the-executive-council#comment287153
Yet another Kelper tradition that bites the dust...
Chuckle chuckle©
Think, The good thing is at last the demise of General Purposes Committee. 35 years ago before its existance there was real- and radio broadcast- debate betweem MLAs in public in the Chamber.
Nov 16th, 2013 - 09:43 am - Link - Report abuse 0Then post 1982 they invented GPC and successive Assemblies were often told by the public that we never hear what you think and want - but could never get it into their heads that it was because they discussed all Legislation behind closed doors in GPC and then just fact-tracked and passed
major laws and bills in a couple of minutes in public with zero debate and could never understand what the public fuss was about!
Now after 20 years or so the penny has finally dropped with them.
I look forward now to real debate like we used to have in the 1970s again.
Oh - Long Island is still Long Island - and Bleaker Island is still Bleaker Island. Long Island is south side or Berkley Sound opposite Port Louis.
Bleaker Is is off south coast of East Falklands. But I think yes Bleaker may have been called Long Is on some very old maps so maybe you are semi correct?
Oh! dio indoctrination process over little brains have started...
Nov 16th, 2013 - 10:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0You are British...
But I was born in and island full of sheep sir close to Argentina...
You are British...
But I'm is SA sir...
You are British...
But may name is not Mohammed sir...
Doesn't matter.., You are British...
I don't like kebabs and shaira law sir...
You are British... You are British...You are British...You are British...
@3 Humour and wit is obviously not your strong point. Shouldn't you be more worried about transparency in Argentina? Or is a minister of the economy running away from a journalist because the word inflation is mentioned normal behaviour? How many interviews has Cfk given to independent media? This year? Last Year? Ever? Is that ok and normal in your eyes?
Nov 16th, 2013 - 10:44 am - Link - Report abuse 0#1. Snitching ? I think its called conversation old boy.
Nov 16th, 2013 - 11:50 am - Link - Report abuse 0I can't understand what all the fuss is about. I looked into taking a vacation to the Falklands for somewhere different.
Nov 16th, 2013 - 12:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Literally there is nothing to do there. Must be so boring.
Who the f**k wants to stand on some windswept cliff to watch a seagull in the middle of nowhere.
With all the tourist info I could find and still nothing.
@Orbit
Nov 16th, 2013 - 12:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Orbit cadete space pinball trying to be smart and funny...
Good!
Good to see that those people who choose to live in Argentina are still confused by transparent government.
Nov 16th, 2013 - 01:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I was going to say they wouldn't recognise it if they tripped over it until I realise that the chance of tripping over it in Argentina are nil.
@7. Btw am glad you mentioned Sharia Law Dany because I really need your help and support; my faith is being severely tested.
Nov 16th, 2013 - 01:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Let me tell you about the things I've had to put up with this week:
On Monday my wife went out to work. WORK! I said “but your role is to be in the home”. She left (driving would you believe) saying something about being “quite worried about my behaviour”.
Anyway, I thought at least my daughter will wear her Hijab to school today, although she claimed she didn't have one and didn't like it one bit when I tried to improvise with a woolly scarf.
So Tuesday we had a client meeting in London, and when I interrupted proceedings to heed the call to prayer, the client looked at me in anguish. The client obviously didn't have his prayer mat with him and so left hurriedly! I can tell my boss wasn't happy with him either, as he was in a mood all afternoon.
Wednesday I went to my local coffee house, the George and Dragon, and asked for my usual thick sweet coffee. Get this, the man next to me was offered and purchased alcohol. ALCOHOL! The outrage I felt was unquantifiable. You wait till the religious police hear of this I said. On my way from work on Thursday I found the same heinous scandal taking place in the Bakers Arms and the Cricketers. I was delirious by the time I got home.
But the worst was yet to come. On Saturday we went away to the Lake District for the weekend. My wife said the fresh air might do me good. We walked into a sandwich shop and there... BOLD. AS. BRASS. were half a dozen HAM sandwiches, yes HAM (you heard me right!) all out in the open, no hint of shame or even pretence of adherance to the strict Sharia law we live under in Britain. It was just out. rage. ous. Brazen. Barefaced indecency.
So help me Dany, you're the only person that seems to see Britain the way I do.
6 Klingon
Nov 16th, 2013 - 02:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0OK, so you don't like birdwatching. Good for you.
Do you have anything to say about the subject of the article, or is that it?
@10
Nov 16th, 2013 - 03:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I don't like seagulls either, but soon the Argies might be pleased to eat them as they must be running out of food shortly. good luck to thje FALKLANDERS at least they have democratically elected their politicians, unlike Argentina. I suppose mad Max will inherit the country next, best to keep it in the family.
(5) GALlamosa
Nov 16th, 2013 - 03:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I'll be waiting for you ouside school, snitch! :-)))
@10 Yes I do!
Nov 16th, 2013 - 04:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Who do you think would win in a mud wrestling competition, Jan Cheek or Kristina?
2 old grinders going at it !! jajaja
Dopey Bugger
Nov 16th, 2013 - 06:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0No indoctrination process is needed....unlike the one you would need to convince the islanders that they are Argentine...
You are argentine....but I don't steal and lie
You are Argentine....but I don't throw nuns from planes
you are Argentine.....but I pay my debts in full and on time
you are Argentine....but I have never slaughtered Amerindians in their 100,000s
You are Argentine....but I've never taken a shit in the Post Office
You are Argentine....but our warships actually float
You are Argentine...but I haven't mutinied, murdered my captain and raped his wife
You are Argentine...but my parents and 9 generations of ancestors haven't been
You are Argentine...but I am not lazy, corrupt or a hypocrit
You are Argentine....NO THEY ARENT
Thank fft, Dany finally seems to have realised what the rest of us Brits know, thanks to their crazy stunt in 82, the Islanders are most deffinately British! and will of course always be so for as long as they want it to be so.
Nov 16th, 2013 - 06:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@3
Nov 16th, 2013 - 08:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“But I was born in and island full of sheep sir close to Argentina...”
They wouldn't have been close unless you had practised mass genocide on the native Amerindians. Only close, because Argentina have continually practised Imperialism.
If they were that close why did your fighter aircraft have trouble reaching the Islands and returning from them in 1982 without refuelling?
“Oh! dio indoctrination process over little brains have started...”
The Islanders could never be as good, however hard they tried, at producing indoctrinated zombies as the Argentines are. Peron's lessons from Adolf Hitler still live on......
Let's be fair. Their contemporary pilots are as brave as their heroes, they actually get in and and fly the same planes!
Nov 16th, 2013 - 09:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Ferk that takes courage..........or a death wish!
“It is ironic that for so many years the Falkland Islands Government had claimed the moral high-ground over Argentina in terms of political morality and democracy, and now the Falkland Islands Government were about to be exposed in the Supreme Court for high-level corruption and abuse of human rights”
Nov 16th, 2013 - 10:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.falklands.net/FalklandsCorruption.shtml
Love it,the son of an Argentine political refugee, lecturing the the Brits, oops! I suppose he is one of us now, on corruption.
Nov 16th, 2013 - 11:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Bit like a jack the ripper giving a surgeon tips on his operating technique!
18 You still upset about that Mike?
Nov 17th, 2013 - 12:08 am - Link - Report abuse 0Chuckle chuckle
@ 18
Nov 17th, 2013 - 01:26 am - Link - Report abuse 0if this is true it is a disgrace by the Falkland goverment
20 You still upset about that Joe?
Nov 17th, 2013 - 05:00 am - Link - Report abuse 0Chuckle chuckle
@18
Nov 17th, 2013 - 08:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0Oh my gosh. We should hand the islands over to Argentina straight away. That will stop stuff like this happening.
Won't it?
(2) Islander1
Nov 17th, 2013 - 09:45 am - Link - Report abuse 0You say...:
“ But I think yes Bleaker may have been called Long Is on some very old maps so maybe you are semi correct?”
I say...:
I “Think” isla María, or, in English, Bleaker/Breaker island was called Long Is in the old days so I am correct...
But, don't take my word for it...
Do as Mr. GALlamosa does...
Speak to your MLA...
;-)
@21 yes, they should have done it the Argentine government way; shoot witnesses to train crashes in the back at bus stops. Much more efficient and saves the environment from all that paperwork.
Nov 17th, 2013 - 12:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@18
Nov 17th, 2013 - 08:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0There will occasions where the Falkland Islanders have not been fair to British people working in the Falkland Islands. I believe I may have been a victim of unfairness there. Unfortunately I did not have the sense to get a solicitor and do something about it-my bad.
But this only goes to demonstrate strongly that the Islanders are not implanted English people.
I do not believe the fact that I may or may not have been unfairly treated as an Englishman, means that I can deny the rights of the Islanders to self determination, or hold it against those Islanders (the majority) who were absolutely fantastic to me.
And the memories of the great times will far outweigh the 'in my opinion' examples of retards. My Falkland glass is half full, not half empty.
Bingham should grow some balls-move on and get over it-I did.
Because of unfair treatment by FIG , which to be honest is very rare it is totally moronic to wish a capitulation to Argentina whose record of democratic government, is quite frankly substandard to that of the Falkland Islands.
A few cases of unfairness in the past by FIG versus 30,000 Argentine people being murdered by their own government in the past puts this into perspective that you clearly are clueless to.
@26
Nov 18th, 2013 - 01:12 am - Link - Report abuse 0“There will occasions where the Falkland Islanders have not been fair to British people ..”
“But this only goes to demonstrate strongly that the Islanders are not implanted English people”
Where's the Governor From?
Be careful, you don't want to end like Alan.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APNNnCtNZ20
@27 Tell me again why you can't move back to Argentina Marcos? What is it exactly that you are being careful about?
Nov 18th, 2013 - 09:30 am - Link - Report abuse 0@18
Nov 18th, 2013 - 09:37 am - Link - Report abuse 0Well done, one instance of corruption that you wheel whenever you want to make a point. If we wanted an example of corruption in Argentina I don't think we'd have to go back a decade.
@29 Agreed, here is a good case study:
Nov 18th, 2013 - 09:50 am - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/05/03/arge-m03.html
Well at least in Argentina corrupts go to jail and not like in the Dark Kingdom where they are awarded with a “Sir, Lord Title” by the corrupted Queen nanny Smelly II
Nov 18th, 2013 - 12:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0And don't forget about the corruption hidden in the BOTs...
I Just wonder what happened with the drug sized from drug dealers in Faklistan that magically disappeared from police station...
Are you using the Royal Navy to save in freights may be?
DanyBerger “ Well at least in Argentina corrupts go to jail....” Its not even funny what you are saying.
Nov 18th, 2013 - 01:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Bloody hell what a waste of oxygen you are
“Well at least in Argentina corrupts go to jail”
Nov 18th, 2013 - 02:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
Stop it Danny, I had a mouthful of tea when I read that. It's all over my keyboard now.
“I Just wonder what happened with the drug sized from drug dealers in Faklistan that magically disappeared from police station...”
That was incompetence not corruption. It didn't magically disappear half of it was flushed down the prison bog because it was left in a cell with gap at the bottom of the door.
@ 18 mike Bingham is a weirdo, take him with a pinch of argie salt
Nov 18th, 2013 - 03:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I would have thought that the accusations Bingham has made, if there was no basis or were untruthful, would be libellous....and removed from the site...
Nov 18th, 2013 - 04:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Well at least in Argentina corrupts go to jail”.
Nov 18th, 2013 - 07:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Congratulations Dany, you have finally got the hang of being humourous and not taking yourself so seriously. You could have made it funnier by adding ”(you should see the size of our jails!)”, but that's just me trying to push you to the next level. Listen, am not going to take anything away from you. Well done.
Only if they'd been written it in Spanish. This site has very little oversight.
Nov 18th, 2013 - 07:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It's all about advertising revenue.
( 33 ) Benson
Nov 18th, 2013 - 07:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You say...:
“That was incompetence not corruption. It didn't magically disappear half of it was flushed down the prison bog because it was left in a cell with gap at the bottom of the door.”
I say...:
Does anybody in them Islands “really” believe that story?
9 Orbit
Nov 18th, 2013 - 08:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I don't know whether I should tell you this or not, but in some English pubs, it is possible to buy pork scratchings!!! and they are made from bits of pig!!!
I would have started a Jihad against those infidel brewery companies, but David Came -moron got there first and closed them all down.
@37
Nov 19th, 2013 - 04:57 am - Link - Report abuse 0You still upset about that Joe?
Chuckle chuckle
@31 DanyBerger (#) AKA Walking Eagle
Nov 19th, 2013 - 07:09 am - Link - Report abuse 0Never fail to dazzle with your quick cutting wit, another whooper served up by the Burgerboy, pity it's totally slanderous to a head of state. Tut Tut I'm sure Mercopress won't put up with this type of abusive and potentially libellous comment from you.
Fingers crossed
Who's Joe?
Nov 19th, 2013 - 07:59 am - Link - Report abuse 0@27
Nov 20th, 2013 - 06:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Where's the Governor From?”
Sorry Mark, I'm going to call you a dumbass because the Governor is not a Falkland Islander and only serves in the Islands for a limited amount of time, therefore he cannot be transplanted.
Neither are the troops that serve in the Islands transplanted because they do not stay permanently in the Islands.
The governor is not transplanted because he is not a Falkland Island citizen.
If he wishes to become a Falkland Island Citizen he will have to follow the Islanders rules, and cannot be 'transplanted' from the UK , he will have to emigrate as the Falkland Islands are technically a foreign country.
They must be, because DEFRA will not allow the import of Tussac Grass plants from the Islands to the UK.
Drat and Double drat, I'll have to get seeds instead.
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