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Falklands people's “democratic rights” will be upheld, pledges Tories' manifesto
With less than a month to UK's election the Conservative party released its manifesto which explicitly declares that a Tory government “will uphold the democratic rights of the people of Gibraltar and the Falkland Islands to remain British, for as long as that is their wish, and protect our Overseas Territories”. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesI wonder if the Torie Manifesto is enough to counter the Argentine Constitution?
Apr 16th, 2015 - 04:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0@1 What's a “Torie”?
Apr 16th, 2015 - 05:55 am - Link - Report abuse 0Upholding democratic rights requires more planes, ships, tanks and troops.
Apr 16th, 2015 - 06:04 am - Link - Report abuse 0Scrap foreign aid and divert cash to MOD.
2 oops!
Apr 16th, 2015 - 06:48 am - Link - Report abuse 0#3 Englander
Apr 16th, 2015 - 07:21 am - Link - Report abuse 0Spot on!
1... Stupid Puppet
Apr 16th, 2015 - 08:29 am - Link - Report abuse 0Only a Brit wannabe could make a mistake like that...
Wonder?...yeah you wonder alrighty...
...wonder what it would like to be a Brit....
....you wonder what it would be like to have a family....
....you wonder what it would be like to have mates...
...you wonder per se ...because you are as thick as fcuk and too stupid to have any ideas of your own...
I really don't think this election will be won or lost on the protection of the overseas territories. Mercopress likes to kid its readers into thinking that.
Apr 16th, 2015 - 09:09 am - Link - Report abuse 0300,000 unskilled migrants a year with no criminal checks walking our streets and going straight on benefits is a little more of concern to me. All this from our wonderful Conservative government that promised to reduce it to tens of thousands NO IFS NO BUTS!
@6 Very classy response...an angry man is a worried man....so they say.
Apr 16th, 2015 - 09:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0Talking of wondering, I have often wondered if Voice will ever contribute anything meaningful to these threads. His 'modus operandi' seems to be picking apart other people's grammar and spelling and insulting people, still little things eh, Voice. Over to you....
The right to self-determination (that Argentina tries to deny the islanders).
Apr 16th, 2015 - 09:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0https://www.academia.edu/11325329/Falklands_-_Self-Determination_single_page_
Whats the matter, Voice?
Apr 16th, 2015 - 10:51 am - Link - Report abuse 0Don't you like Troy?
He seems a level headed, likeable chap to me.
@7. Are you playing the blame game? I am not what anyone would call a Conservative supporter BUT who opened the doors, who introduced the 'Human Rights' Act, who reckons that immigration is 'good for Britain'? Labour and the LibDems. That dimwit Cable even used an official trip to India to deliberately oppose the Prime Minister. And what happened next? A 'forced' deal with India to let even more in. Leaving aside UKIP, that frankly stand little or no chance of being a 'power' in the next Parliament which party is at least offering the possibility of a referendum on EU membership. Who are the blind people that want to stay in the EU despite the floods of migrants crossing the Mediterranean and coming over other routes. And what does wonderful EU partner Italy do? Instead of turning these people back to North Africa, it ships 'em in, gives 'em 'temporary' documents and lets them wander off. Where do they go? The UK. Can you see a route between Italy and the UK that doesn't involve going through another EU member? I can't. And every time the Conservatives come up with a plan to reduce the flow, Labour, the LibDems or something 'European' gets in the way.
Apr 16th, 2015 - 11:10 am - Link - Report abuse 0Who says that the UK MUST provide for all immigrants in the same way that it does for its own citizens, and threatens international legal action? Who constantly appeals to British morals and principles? Who comes up with the most fatuous reasons why illegals and criminals can't be deported? Of course, if you're deliberately anti-Conservative, I won't convince you. But here's some clues. Who left a message saying 'Sorry, there's no money'. Who uses every opportunity to screw more money out of Britain? When one single nation decides to resist 27 grasping others, things take time. It took Labour 13 years to ruin Britain. Shouldn't the Conservatives be given at least the same amount of time to try to put things right?
8
Apr 16th, 2015 - 11:29 am - Link - Report abuse 0....buzz off....
10
If the Brit Wannabe wants to pretend he knows anything about Britain and British politics he surely ought to get the lingo right....
...besides, I've decided to adopt his M.O. of contributing nothing in the case of argument and everything in the case of butting into other folks sensible debates with snide remarks....welcome to the brave new world of Troy Modus Operandi....
Voice is angry, for reasons of his own, and this Man from La Mancha is tilting at windmills, as they say.
Apr 16th, 2015 - 01:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It's nothing more than the 'curse of autocorrect'.
I appreciate gordo1 pointing it out, and Buzzsaw and Isolde for lending true perspective.
We currently have a Tory government in Canada, just like the UK, and the term is commonly used.
The Liberal Party, or “Grits”, is now in Opposition.
13
Apr 16th, 2015 - 02:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0.....did you just Google that imbecile....?
...as for the autocorrect what nationality is it set to....whatever it is, it wouldn't autocorrect to Torie....fool....
14 Voice
Apr 16th, 2015 - 03:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“It would not autocorrect to that ... blah blah blah...”
How would you know?
At best, you're guessing, for the sake of your rant.
I am certainly not afraid to say that I would not consciously have written it that way, but I may have overlooked it - who knows, it's only important to you, it seems.
As to Tories, Whigs, Disraeli, etc. - yes, learned all about them in school - as would be expected in a good school.
We learned decorum and humility, also.
That doesn't seem to have been in your own curriculum.
15
Apr 16th, 2015 - 03:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0How would it autocorrect to Torie....it's not even a fcuking word....
You do know how autocorrect works I take it.....
Course you don't...
The only thing you learned at school...is how to suck up to people...
Which you have developed into an art...
Where's your mate Derke Blake....go to the sock drawer and bring him back....I didn't quite finish with that puppet....
Sh!t for brains...
16 just a_voice
Apr 16th, 2015 - 03:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Oh, dear, the Voice is getting a bit shrill.
No matter, that's really your problem. You sound jealous, to me.
If you must bring up DerkeBlake, and I don't know why you would, as he doesn't post anymore, he is currently in China for the F1.
Derke, his real name, and I have met for a couple of pints and a chat.
He has been to the Falklands, recently. That's what brought him to MP.
Saw some great pictures from inside the Rose.
Lisa Watson was there, I recognised her from MP photos.
He also gave me a Falklands cap, and some aluminium scraps from a downed Chinook on East Falkland. I have them on my keychain.
Nice fellow. He lives in West Vancouver, and has a Terrier.
You might ask Enrique Massot, what he thought of Derke, when they met in Alberta.
Derke is quite interested in meeting Think in Chubut, as he is going to Patagonia soon.
He even said he'd like to meet you, if ever you get to Vancouver.
Bring Marcos and Vestige along - it shouldn't cost you any extra.
*winks knowingly*
@13
Apr 16th, 2015 - 03:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“...this Man from La Mancha...”
Not Don Quixote, he is more like Ginés de Pasamonte from the same book. ;)
You really have an elaborate and vivid imagination...what happened to the bumper sticker.....
Apr 16th, 2015 - 03:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What kind of a sick wannabe would want to have aluminium scraps on a keyring....and who would even think to give someone something like that....
You really are one sick sad individual....the Falklands have got absolutely fcuk all to do with you...you are just a Brit Wannabe not a Brit....
For Christ sake get a life...
..or bring on another puppet...
@18 imoyaro
Apr 16th, 2015 - 04:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0ha ha - very appropo!!
“Ginés first appears as a criminal freed by Don Quixote in the 22nd chapter of the first part of the novel. After his release, he escapes Don Quixote and the guards. He later reappears as Maese Pedro, a puppet-showman who claims that he can talk to his monkey, on the 26th chapter of the second part.”
@19 a_voice
so, no meeting, then? :-(
What do the Falklands have to do with you... and Marcos... and Vestige, Puppet master?
oh dear oh dear...like he didn't just Google that....
Apr 16th, 2015 - 04:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0..like Sh!t for Brains would know anything about anything..well maybe the song impossible dream and that's it....
Falklands...they exist on my Tax money ergo...I have a vested interest....
What's your excuse....
Hell would freeze over before I could be arsed going to Vancouver....What for...a bunch of plastic Yanks...pretending to be Yanks, but in the frozen wastes....yeah I wish...
21 just a_voice
Apr 16th, 2015 - 05:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0of course I just googled it - that's why there are quotation marks around that quote.
I haven't read Don Quixote- but I wanted to know more about it, before commenting.
As it turns out, it was quite right for imoyaro to point out to me that I should have been characterising you as a malicious deceiver, rather than an addled old fool.
As to the Falklands, they are of historical, political, and human rights, interest.
Sorry, buddy - they're part of my heritage too, if you even ARE British, but hint you're not, LOL!!
Your tax contribution doesn't give you the right to say who comments about them, or who becomes friends with them - only at Election time, and if you hadn't backed out of your SNP support at the last minute, you wouldn't have a say at all.
I'll tell you what, I'll comment, and we'll see if the Islanders, the FIG, Penguin News, or HM Government objects, shall we??
As to Vancouver = “frozen north”, ha ha, you really DON'T travel do you??
But then, we all knew that from your laughably ignorant put-ons.
Enjoy Mall Cop 2, it's the only insight you'll ever get of life in America.
...pity you didn't Google the word Torie...
Apr 16th, 2015 - 05:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0...pity you didn't Google autocorrect...
..you really are just a stupid fcuk wannabe that wants to belong....
...get some real mates instead of trying to suck up to the Brits on the internet....
sh!t I've even seen you suck up to CD...what a saddo....
Torie no mates...
23 voice
Apr 16th, 2015 - 05:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0back to the insults and attempts at personal attacks.
You seem to have a lot of personal issues, jealousies, and inadequacies. Too bad, they're yours alone.
You know I'm right, and you have failed to counter any of what I've said.
Come back again, when you want to talk about your feelings some more.
You are confusing Wannabe with Brit...I know in your mind you see yourself as a Brit...but in reality your are just a lonely sycophant that needs “internet” friends to be able to face the sad, lonely, harsh realities of being a no mate foreigner....
Apr 16th, 2015 - 06:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I bet you collect email addresses and such....we all know you do...;-)
Get a life....
You know I'm right....
25
Apr 16th, 2015 - 06:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0drop the bone, boy... drop it!
Good dog, here's a treat...
“arf!”
Your problem is that you are an open book and easily read and predicted and have no defence against a prolonged and personal attack....you are trying to laugh it off, but I know you are suffering....the truth hurts..
Apr 16th, 2015 - 06:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You will probably disappear to sulk again if I keep this up....
You just can't take what you give....
I haven't even begun yet....
27 just a_voice
Apr 16th, 2015 - 06:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0”...(you) have no defence against a prolonged and personal attack”
that's your specialty- and coming from a self-proclaimed racist, too - yes, I'm laughing at you!!
Gonna send Titan or The Hood after me??
*smirks at the powerless 'Troll of the Loch' *
Ah I'm glad you brought up the racist chestnut again...how long have I been waiting for you to show one post where I have been racist...
Apr 16th, 2015 - 06:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Are you a liar as well as a wannabe dreamer....
I know you are not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but do you purposely make comments you can't substantiate...to make yourself look even more foolish than you are...?
@29
Apr 16th, 2015 - 06:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Voice, your nothing more than an uneducated ignoramus!
29
Apr 16th, 2015 - 06:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Your”...and you call me uneducated....Oh dear, Oh dear.....Ouch!
That was a good one....;-))))
You stupid fcuk....
ROFLMAO....Ooooh deary me Voice, I can't believe you've been reeled in again!!!!
Apr 16th, 2015 - 06:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Muppet.
Ah right I get it...you meant to write Your instead of You're...silly me....
Apr 16th, 2015 - 07:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Why didn't I think of that....
Rights of the people of Gibraltar and the Falkland Islands to remain British
Apr 16th, 2015 - 07:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Says David An avid euro supporter,
Ed the labour man want a Euro police force, so they say,
The libdems who support a euro military alliance will do nothing,
The Greens have stated that they will ABOLISH the British military,
The four parties of the apocalypse-
Thus UKIP- small very few MPs , are the only party so far to not only put Defence at the top, but promises to increase defence,
Perhaps it matters not who you lot support,
Rather, who do our enemies support,
Still, may 7th D-DAY.
just saying like.
>“Why didn't I think of that....”
Apr 16th, 2015 - 07:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Supercilious keyboard warrior perhaps? Just sayin'.....
Briton...you are going to have to think seriously about your vote....do you really think that UKIP are going to hold the balance of power....that's a lot of seats they would have to win...
Apr 16th, 2015 - 07:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It's going to be the Lib-Dems or the SNP...now which do you want....
Vote accordingly.....because if you vote wrong you could end up with Labour and the SNP.....
just saying like...
As stated above, UKIP very small very few MPs,
Apr 16th, 2015 - 07:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0it seems that the cons will almost certainly win it, but not outright,
labour will be 2nd,
and yes they may well fight over themselves for a coalition,
but, we wont know until may 7th how many seats the little parties will get,
and how desperate the big two are to get into number ten,
seems a fair conclusion is it not.
I take it you have previously voted for the Cons...
Apr 16th, 2015 - 08:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Ukip are going to gain from other voters like yourself and this will give Labour a chance and who do you think Labour would have a coalition with...yep ..the SNP...
That's my guess anyway...and both are pro Europe...
True,
Apr 16th, 2015 - 08:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0and both are pro Europe
@19 Voice
Apr 17th, 2015 - 12:48 am - Link - Report abuse 0Well, I guess I’ll have to me out of retirement for one post (in Macau at the moment).
You say I don’t exist?
I have personally had pint(s) with TWO other regulars on here, and shown them my Passport and driver’s licence. Have you?
Troy is a successful company owner and heads a rather prestigious private organization, but of course is humble and decent enough not to brag about it on MP, or parade it in front of others that may not have acquired quite so fortunate a station in life. As a result, he has to be careful about releasing any personal information due to the presence of certain dangerous, vindictive, jealous internet trolls (yes, I’m looking at you).
As for Enrique, although we disagree on almost all political and economic issues, I can say without reservation that he is one of the most decent human beings that I have met in my life; and after learning his story, I suspect he is more of a MAN than ANYONE else on these boards (I know certainly more than me). He acquired his (sometimes) slanted views honestly, which is more than I can say for many. My wife and I are looking forward to an Argentinian BBQ at this house this summer.
Both Enrique and I post under our REAL, legal names; so the ambiguity is rather limited on this side of the pond (although here’s a tidbit to keep your stalking-gene up at night; did you ever consider that not everyone employs their FIRST given name socially? Spend the $400.00 and do a land registry or MOT search, then you can really have the perverted satisfaction of hunting me down; you’re not getting it for free. Very creepy).
I have a standing offer to meet anyone in Vancouver; anytime.
I will likely be at Dow Chemical Bahia Blanca sometime this fall installing a piece of my equipment (heat-exchanger/extruder), and might do a drive south if the work goes smoothly; and if El Think would kindly accommodate me for a pint or a glass.
I won't hold my breath waiting for the apology.
Bravely anonymous, aren't you.
D
Troy, just ignore 'voicey'. He only comes here to provoke and start arguments. He contributes nothing.
Apr 17th, 2015 - 01:09 am - Link - Report abuse 0He once 'decided' that I am 'ginger' and then used it to try and insult me in a highly misogynistic way.
If I was a 'red-head', I would be proud of it anyway! Some of the most beautiful people are. I bet he wouldn't throw Nicole Kidman out of bed for eating toast! lol.
I have no repect for him, and you shouldn't lower yourself by gettting embroiled by his deliberate taunts.
Many here, Isolde, Skip, myself, a plenty of others welcome your posts.
Please don't waste your time responding to 'voice-alone'. To do so is to give him the attention he craves, and distracts from the topics at hand, which is what he wants, of course.
All the Best,
-ilsen
@40, 41
Apr 17th, 2015 - 01:47 am - Link - Report abuse 0Derke & ilsen
those are truly magnificent accolades - I thank you most humbly.
I have truly enjoyed our exchanges, on and off the board - accomplished and gracious human-beings, both of you.
You are right, Voice contributes nothing, but he excels in his very personal message of hate - not worth the time.
Cheers,
TT
@42 Troy T.
Apr 17th, 2015 - 03:47 am - Link - Report abuse 0I hope you keep posting, and ignore the fool.
Your comments are always more interesting than his. Don't give him the satisfaction of 'side-tracking' you into pointless debates. He only does this to distract from serious issues, or even light-hearted banter.
Ignore the posionous old derelict. I do.
Too much Buckfast, I expect. Utterly raddled, the sad git.
Anyway...
All the best to you, and your lovely wife. I hope you are keeping up your interest in the Vintage Car Club, the photos were really cool!
You are a handsome devil in your Tux.
Very 007 !
She must be hugely proud! Lucky lady!
Thanks for those.
Talk soon.
-ilsen x
43
Apr 17th, 2015 - 04:11 am - Link - Report abuse 0LOL...
Ok... now you're laying it on a bit thick... but keep it up!
emailed Her Ladyship @ “laloca”.
Cheers
TT
Puppets on request Wow...all I have to do is ask....
Apr 17th, 2015 - 07:26 am - Link - Report abuse 0Oh it's the real name...but not the name on any public information...
...good one...that's probably why this puppet doesn't exist on the web....
How long did it take to think of that excuse......
what a pathetic...larff.....
Reads posts in Macau, but doesn't write them until requested....
...yeah we all believe that one....so...where did you stay in the Falklands that you visited recently....this is going to be good....
hey Ginge you post at some very strange times for someone supposed to be in the UK....there's “staying up late” and then there's your posts...2.09 am - 4.47 am....I thought you worked....
What is this so-called 'Voice'?
Apr 17th, 2015 - 07:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0Bonobo monkey or human? DNA evidence wanted.
One Tory, several Tories.
46
Apr 17th, 2015 - 08:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0If you don't know what a voice is....
you don't know much....
...next...
46 Don Alberto
Apr 17th, 2015 - 03:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“What is this so-called 'Voice'?”
It's a Troll interested in nothing but personal attacks
voice @27
””...(you) have no defence against a prolonged and personal attack”
“...I have only just begun...” ( to insult and troll)
He knows no moral or ethical boundaries, to insult, or in his attempts to childishly provoke others to respond,
ilsen @41
“He once 'decided' that I am 'ginger' and then used it to try and insult me in a highly misogynistic way.”
He recently challenged Terence Hill, 'intellectually', culminating in nothing conclusive from “voice”, but a torrent of insults and taunts.
He's a disembodied “voice” crying out for attention, just like a neglected child, 'acting out'.
Best ignored.
48
Apr 17th, 2015 - 04:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0How many emails have you sent today to your “internet friends”...
You sad fcuk....
49 voice
Apr 17th, 2015 - 04:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Sorry, you're being ignored.
Take up a new hobby.
“Sorry, you're being ignored.”
Apr 17th, 2015 - 04:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0???....I'm not sure if you've noticed a slight discrepancy in that statement....
...don't worry you'll work it out...eventually..
...maybe not...
probably not...
Argentina Starts Legal Action against UK Oil Companies
Apr 17th, 2015 - 06:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0They will do anything, anytime to destroy democracy by peaceful means
Mr Filmus said the area being explored was “as much ours as the centre of Buenos Aires.
It’s ours, all ours and we aren’t sharing with a bunch of pirates,
We will fight you in the courts, in the arena , and in the streets, in the name of peace.
Adding that the firms were ”performing illegal acts by entering Argentine territory
Tensions between London and Buenos Aires have again been raised after Argentina initiated legal proceedings against three British and two American companies drilling for oil and gas off the Falkland
We are determined to cause maximum chaos and misery
British reply,
The Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond has slammed the move as “an outrageous piece of bullying”.
“It's an outrageous abuse of international procedure and we will take any action we can to resist it”
Mr Hammond went on to say that the Foreign Office was talking to the United States about what possible action to take
http://forces.tv/
@ 48 Troy Tempest
Apr 18th, 2015 - 01:11 am - Link - Report abuse 0in which case it (the Voice Hatter's tea party) is my fourth unperson on Mercopress.
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