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Falklands after a more proactive immigration policy for controlled population increase

Monday, April 27th 2015 - 07:27 UTC
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Falkland Islands is reviewing its immigration policy and is urging a more proactive attitude with the purpose of increasing the permanent resident population and encouraging controlled growth, but this must be a discussion amongst Islanders and elected lawmakers. The Falklands according to the latest census from 2012 has a population of approximately 3.000. Read full article

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  • Troy Tempest

    Which one of the Trolls was getting all knotted that he could not buy land in, or move to, the Falklands??

    Bah ha ha ha... still not going to happen.

    :-d

    Apr 27th, 2015 - 08:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Skip

    Nation building!

    Have been saying this for a while. That the Falkland Islands need to slowly increase their population to create internal economies and sustainability.

    A target of say 100 permanent residents per year is a good start. That would take 30 years to double the population without taking into account births.

    A slow and steady approach would allow new migrants to settle and eventually adopt a Falkland Islanders identity. Their children would, like most first generation settlers, identify more with the Islands than their parent's home country.

    FIG could also set targets (quite acceptable in such a small population) of say 1/3 from UK, 1/3 from outside the Americas and 1/3 from anywhere within the Americas. That way no one new group of residents becomes too dominant.

    Will be interesting to see what happens.

    Apr 27th, 2015 - 09:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • José Malvinero

    Eye! which may not in the future to speak of the lying and ridiculous “8 or 9 generations of squatters” ....

    Apr 27th, 2015 - 10:32 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Falkland Islands

    @3 Dickhead.

    Apr 27th, 2015 - 10:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Conqueror

    @2. But it would be important to filter out argie infiltrators and latam supporters. Difficult to achieve but a lie detector test whilst roasting the peanuts might work. And a quick session with the nutcrackers!

    Apr 27th, 2015 - 10:57 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Swede

    With such a small native population it is quite necessary to have strong control over the influx of immigrants. It is too easy for a certain foreign power to try to change the the ethnic composition in their favour. The western neighbour could encourage perhaps one thousand “malvinistas” to move in and start claming things. The quotas Skip proposes @2 could be a target. But “1/3 from anywhere within the Americas” must exclude the Argentine Republic until it changes its attitudes towards the F.I. totally.

    Apr 27th, 2015 - 11:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ChrisR

    The islands already have a strong Chilean contingent and they seem to fit in well.

    That's about it really from SA.

    Even the Uruguayos are well known to be slackers and I can agree with this from practical experience with 'builders'. One quoted three weeks for the work I wanted doing which at the time seemed 'ambitious' but he would not move on it when questioned. He and the others he used did a very good job but took 14 weeks to complete.

    He would say 'manana' but come three days later. Manana can mean the day after tomorrow it seems according to my Spanish teacher but even she was surprised by their tardiness.

    AND you have to watch them like a hawk, especially when I learnt, in all seriousness, that 75% was 'perfection'!

    Argies need a permanent ban.

    Apr 27th, 2015 - 12:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • paulcedron

    “Falklands after a more proactive immigration policy for controlled population increase”
    ””We are by nature a country of immigrants,”
    WOT?
    is this a joke?
    immigrants go to live in another country respecting the rules.
    these are squatters.
    GOT IT?

    and about immigration policies, they are just 2000 poor souls exactly like 100 years ago when they started the squatting.
    what immigration policy is this bald dumbasshole talking about?

    now lets do the maths, they are 2000 poor souls, with an average age of 70 and a life expectancy of 72, which means that in 10 years, more or less, we will have no more isleters in the islets.

    now add their poor healthcare system and that term can decrease to 5 years.

    and let me tell you something, you bald dumbasshole, nobody with a bit of a brain would immigrate to those islets crowded with parasites, guano and sheep droppings.

    Apr 27th, 2015 - 12:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • golfcronie

    I take it you do not want to go there, thats fine so why all the fuss about the FALKLANDS being Argentine? Try to get your story straight, why do Argentina want the FALKLANDS? just answer the question will do. Sovereignty and do what precisely? You don't want the stinky islets do you?

    Apr 27th, 2015 - 12:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • gordo1

    @3 John Falkland - I suppose that is your real name. Welcome!

    ¡NABO!

    Apr 27th, 2015 - 12:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • paulcedron

    “ why do Argentina want the FALKLANDS?”

    argentina wants the malvinas - falklands because they are an integral part of its territory.

    it would be as if england renounce to blackpool because it is a stinky place

    my personal opinion is another, completely different, issue.

    Apr 27th, 2015 - 12:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • golfcronie

    @11
    Please do explain why you think that it is an integral part of Argentina? You might as well say Chile is an integral part of Argentina after all it is closer.Or Brazil or Uruguay

    Apr 27th, 2015 - 12:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Ferdinando

    This Paultroll wrong. Argentines dont want Malvinas. What Argentines want is a good life with no corrupt politicians police judges and on. Life in Argentina is bad unless you bribe. Peso is shit, you cannot save, only make $ and store away. Myself I want to go to nice English spoken contry US England Australia because all Spain colonies are shit, all same corupt big mess with many ignorants ruled by theives and crooked peple. I would like to be in Falklans I hear life is good thre.

    Apr 27th, 2015 - 01:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Englander

    12
    Logical conclusion to make in respect of Chile and Uruguay but in reality Argentina would get well and truly thumped if it ever tried it's nonsense on with Brazil.

    Apr 27th, 2015 - 01:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • dab14763

    “argentina wants the malvinas - falklands because they are an integral part of its territory.”

    Paul,

    How does it feel to be part of a group of people which for over 180 years has been utterly incapable of proving this?

    Apr 27th, 2015 - 01:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • reality check

    Integral part of its territory.

    Lol, now the bastards think they can walk on water!

    Apr 27th, 2015 - 01:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • UK101

    @11 How are the Falklands an integral part of Argentina when Argentina has only had de facto control for 2-3 years since 1764?

    Apr 27th, 2015 - 02:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Pugol-H

    @3 José Malvinero
    And what are you Malvy, a second generation Creole, Conquistador, Indian murdering Italian Planter Bastard, eh.

    Your hypocrisy is quite unbelievable.

    @8 paulcedron
    No Paulito, it is time to populate our vast, VAST, VAST British territories of land and sea in the S. Atlantic/Antarctic.

    Nothing for you to concern yourself with however, as few if any of the migrants will be Argy.

    You need to focus on learning Chinese for your future.

    @ 11 paulcedron
    No Paulito, the Falklands are an integral part of the vast, VAST, VAST British territories of land and sea in the S. Atlantic/Antarctic.

    Nothing to do with Argentina, which is a strictly a S. American country.

    Apr 27th, 2015 - 02:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • paulcedron

    13 imbecile
    what the fuck has a sovereignty issue got to do with some shitty argentine politicians, inflation and stuff, you asshole?
    and if you want to talk about ignorant “peple” (6 grammatical errors in just 6 sentences), talk about yourself, you retarded wannabe.

    Apr 27th, 2015 - 03:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • golfcronie

    @19
    Paul you must be very,very young and to tell the truth nothing ever came good after swearing ( 3 swearwords in your diatribe ) naughty boy “ GO TO YOUR CORNER ”

    Apr 27th, 2015 - 03:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Islander1

    Paulie- why do you always live with this fantasy that we are only 2000population?

    Remember people of Argentine,Chilean,USA and othe nations descent who are on our electoral role voted to stay BRITISH in the referendum.
    I am sorry but it is true- add up the numbers of those nationalities on the electoral role and you will find it exceeds those who did not vote, or voted for the alternative

    Apr 27th, 2015 - 04:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Conqueror

    @8. Poor girlie. You just love trying and failing. Immigrants go to a territory to which they are not native for the purpose of settlement. Nothing about 'rules'. Difficult to have 'rules' when the territory has no inhabitants. Of course, after 1690, there were rules. British rules. And, 325 years on, little has changed. Still British rules.

    As of an estimate from 2012, the population is 2,932.

    Did you know that, in the next 5 years, the Falkland Islands Government plans to install a thousand CT scanners across the Islands? It's one issue where the NHS IS going international.

    And how did three subspecies of argie subhumans get on to the Islands?
    @11. And thus you refer to the ideology of integralism. Which is exclusionary and particularistic and (in a South American context) is considered to be a sort of para-fascism. WE fought a war to get rid of fascists. You stood on the sidelines hoping free, democratic countries would lose. WE didn't lose. Who do you chant 'Heil' to these days?
    @13. Bad news for you. Argies are only allowed into the Falklands for settlement once they've handed over enough money to ensure that they can be returned to argieland and had their nuts roasted and crushed. Can't allow reproduction.
    @17. How do you get 2-3 years? Jewett the pirate doesn't count. Nor does Vernet the traitorous pirate. Mestivier lasted 7 weeks before being shot and bayoneted by mutinous members of his 'garrison'. 74 illegal days in 1982. I make it 18 weeks at the most.
    @19. Moron. What does it matter what Ferdinando says. He has no more chance of getting into the Falkland Islands than you would. Although there would be a difference in treatment. His friendly, appreciative attitude suggests that he would be escorted to his means of transport and, regretfully, waved off. You, on the other hand, would probably be hooded, transported to the highest suitable cliff and thrown off into an Atlantic gale headed offshore. Still shackled of course.

    Apr 27th, 2015 - 05:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • paulcedron

    genetic aberration
    .“Immigrants go to a territory to which they are not native for the purpose of settlement.”

    did they put a brain in that useless head you have?
    i guess not.

    immigrants go to another COUNTRY, you asshole, not to a territory.
    it is impossible to define immigration without considering a foreign, established country, where those immigrants have to respect the rules.

    now, what you, brainless being, are talking about is called colonisation, conquest or like in the case of the isleters, squatting.

    Apr 27th, 2015 - 05:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Ferdinando

    Paultrol #1 Pelotudo. You making Argentina into idiot. Ordinary peoples life so bad in our country have you ben there? Why are you using filth words so much. Do you come from Villa 31? Are you drug dealer, or user, thief or crim? Falkland Islands is British since 1765 and even before that. We should love to have Britsish nebors, they dont smell, they dont cheat, word is there bond nand they dont try stealing. Why do you come here, you always look idiot and thris is bad for Arg? They need more peple but not idiot such as you

    Apr 27th, 2015 - 06:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Klingon

    No back to the story.
    What this bald old geriatric is trying to say is:
    We have a problem !! It's not normal to fuck your cousins and aunts.
    Inbreeding is lowering the gene pool. (Who thought that possible with all those Welsh and Irish there).

    Apr 27th, 2015 - 06:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • golfcronie

    @25
    So the Welsh in Chubut are fornicating with their cousins and aunts , is that what you are implying? I thought it odd when I was there.

    Apr 27th, 2015 - 06:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    24 Ferdinando

    Nice post. Thank you.

    Paul Cedron make Argentina look bad when he posts.

    Do not worry,

    We know that most Argentines are good people.

    We know that not all Argentines are like Paul Cedron, only the lazy stupid ones, like the Malvinistas, or the K's.

    Apr 27th, 2015 - 06:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Briton

    23 is so brainwashed you can read the damage every time he replies,

    this is what happens when you follow an ideology without question,

    some say, its a lack of meat , others lack of education, either way he needs help.

    Apr 27th, 2015 - 06:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Moderating influence

    @23

    So can you clarify something for me?

    When European migrants settled in South America and subsequently created Argentina, surely they settled in a foreign country too?

    There might be a question of whether they obeyed the local rules though?
    Not sure the indigenous owners of the country at the time saw these new immigrants as exactly following their rules? but you are quite happy to see yourself as a country as a result of not following those rules.

    So how is Argentina being settled and created any different from the Falkland Islands?

    Answer it isn't

    Immigration creates most countries. Argentina was created by immigration, so was the Falklands. The territorial argument is invalid as that could mean any country could argue any territory nearby belong to them because they fancied a land grab. Self determination is a much better way of doing it.

    Argentina needs to focus on sorting out its own problems and let the Falkland Islanders get on to sorting their country out for themselves too.

    mutual respect rather than bullying and invective is a lot more constructive, and a great deal more adult in taking the Falklands Islands/Argentina issue forward.

    Apr 27th, 2015 - 07:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Viriato1

    The British priorities :

    - is the EU country with biggest military budget.
    - is the country with more warmongers.
    - is the country with more people living in the past as the present is awful.
    - at present the situation is horrendous: the poverty and the misery life conditions that is suffering the British population is outrageous.

    Make the sum…. And you will find why the UK maintain alive this ridiculous colonial situation.....it is the photography of a pathetic decadent country.... what a shame.

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    money.aol.co.uk/2013/11/28/uk-state-pension-is-lowest-in-europe/

    It's official: the British state pension at a maximum £110.15 a week is the most miserable in Europe. Compared to average income, even Hungary and Slovenia better the pension benefits 12.3m British pensioners receive, according to a new OECD report.
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    But,…. But,…. “A man,…. We have an Empire….we won the WAR ... Don´t we?.”

    :))

    Apr 27th, 2015 - 07:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Briton

    You cannot speak to a snake, that continually spits poison at you,

    CFK has done so much damage, that it may never be repaired .

    Apr 27th, 2015 - 07:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Islander1

    Viriato- where did you get your info from- the real world or a fantasy one? I am visiting England at the moment- was in a shopping centre today in a solid left wing Laour part of the country- loads of folks out in the dept stores- smart cars in carparks etc.
    Tell us- what % of the Argetnine population live in shanty Towns without proper sanitation and running water, indoor flush toilets and no good free access to good medical services and a pretty will corruption free Police?

    Apr 27th, 2015 - 07:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Briton

    30 knows nothing abt anything,

    we was in Hemel Hempstead to day, and all was well,
    no beggars , no shanty towns , no ghettoes,

    30 needs his eyes tested...lol

    Apr 27th, 2015 - 07:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Moderating influence

    @30

    @32

    argentina needs to focus on its own problems before its starts moralising about other countries problems

    http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/health/2015/04/20/doctors-error-shows-poor-state-argentina-health-care-system/

    Apr 27th, 2015 - 07:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • CaptainSilver

    @30 Toby, You dont know shit. Practically no-one gets the basic pension. If that is their only income they get £50 more AND free local taxes, subsidised power and heat and other benefits. Go back to fidling with your little todger, I bet you are good at that.

    Apr 27th, 2015 - 07:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Viriato1

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2617938/Revealed-How-parts-Britain-poorer-POLAND-families-Wales-Cornwall-Europes-worst-off.html

    Revealed: How parts of Britain are now poorer than POLAND with families in Wales and Cornwall among Europe's worst off
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    But,…. But,…. “A man,…. We have an Empire….we won the WAR ... Don´t we?.”

    :))

    Apr 27th, 2015 - 07:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Briton

    Britain are now poorer than POLAND

    and yet all these rich polish are swarming to the UK, yet no poor UK citizens are going to Poland,
    vey odd is it not,
    eye think you believe to much in what one reads.

    Apr 27th, 2015 - 07:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • HansNiesund

    @30

    Where exactly is the Empire we're supposed to have? I keep looking for it, but all I can find is about 25% of the G20 that have some past links to the UK, including the world's largest democracy and the world's strongest economy. That and 53 countries in some sort of friendly society called the Commonwealth. Where's the dern Empire?

    Apr 27th, 2015 - 07:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Viriato1

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2617938/Revealed-How-parts-Britain-poorer-POLAND-families-Wales-Cornwall-Europes-worst-off.html

    Revealed: How parts of Britain are now poorer than POLAND with families in Wales and Cornwall among Europe's worst off
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    But,…. But,…. “A man,…. We have an Empire….we won the WAR ... Don´t we?.”

    :))

    Apr 27th, 2015 - 07:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Briton

    Is this the extant of your education,
    the papers are the knees bees,lolol

    Apr 27th, 2015 - 07:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    30 36 39 Viral01

    Please see post @27 for a response to all your assertions

    :-D

    Apr 27th, 2015 - 07:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Viriato1

    Argentina can wait ........ meanwhile the UK is in a quickly decaying.... There is not hurry!!

    Confratulations.... UK is number one in Europe:
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    http://www.fpa.org.uk/factsheets/teenage-pregnancy

    Teenage birth is often associated with poverty and social issues: such as alcohol and drugs abuse.

    The UK has the highest percentage of teenage pregnancies in Western Europe

    The UK has the highest teenage birth and abortion rates in Western Europe(1,2). Rates of teenage births are five times those in the Netherlands, double those in France and more than twice those in Germany
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    Your empire your priorities… right?...... :))

    Apr 27th, 2015 - 07:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Briton

    No comprendy.

    Apr 27th, 2015 - 08:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Viriato1

    ”Cold kills 200 British pensioners a day during winter. Britain has 12 million elderly people.
    “”Nine elderly people died every hour from cold-related illnesses last winter against a background of soaring energy bills.
    Official figures show the number of deaths linked to cold over the four-month period reached 25,400 in England and Wales, plus 2,760 in Scotland.

    Charities and energy company critics claim the UK has the highest winter death rate in northern Europe, even worse than much colder countries such as Finland and Sweden.

    Winter worries: More than 300,000 UK pensioners have died of cold related illnesses since 1997
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    But ....... Come on, leave weeping people out of it for once..... We british love military parades, don't we? .... and to hell with the old people.

    Your empire your priorities… right?...... :))

    Apr 27th, 2015 - 08:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    42 Viral01

    You seem to have a very important message to get out!!

    Admiring your dedication and immersion in your cause!

    Are you a member of LA Campora Juvenil?

    Thank you for your concerns.

    We have some important messages for your welfare, also.

    1)
    Argentina will belong to China within a very few years.

    2)
    Argentina:
    -rising unemployment
    - rising inflation
    - rising crime
    - rising infrastructure deterioration
    - rising electrical blackouts
    - rising cancer in children from soy pesticides
    - rising opposition to Maximo and CFK

    That should keep you too preoccupied with trouble at home, rather than worry on our behalf.

    Have a nice day!

    Apr 27th, 2015 - 08:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Viriato1

    45@ Troy:

    You are spot on ……. UK don´t have any resemblance with Continental Europe, is playing in another división …. After decades of decadence the UK can only be compared, positively, with Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, India, etc

    You are right...... :))

    Apr 27th, 2015 - 08:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • HansNiesund

    @46

    Indeed you're right too. Take Spain, Italy, even Greece and Portugal, for example, the UK certainly is playing in a different division to those guys.

    Aren't those the counties than have contributed the most to make Arjunteena what it is today, by the way?

    Apr 27th, 2015 - 08:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Chicureo

    To my Argentine neighbors: Why would any Falklander want to be associated with your country?

    In the latest Institutional Quality Index published by Argentina’s Freedom and Progress Foundation, reports that between 2003 and 2007 Argentina has fallen the most in the rankings over the last 10 years, dropping 50 places to occupy position 137 out of 193 surveyed nations. In 2014 alone, Argentina fell several places to be rated worse than China, Uganda, and Lebanon.

    http://panampost.com/belen-marty/2015/04/27/latams-socialist-countries-rival-worlds-worst-in-institutional-quality/

    Apr 27th, 2015 - 08:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Viriato1

    Argentina can wait ........ meanwhile the UK is in a quickly decaying.... There is not hurry!!

    Confratulations.... UK is number one in Europe ..... :))
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    Britain 'one of the worst places in Europe to grow up'

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/5189273/Britain-one-of-the-worst-places-in-Europe-to-grow-up.html

    Britain is one of the worst places in Europe to be a child, it is claimed.

    A comparison of health, education and housing standards in 29 states across the continent puts the UK in 24th place – far below smaller and poorer countries such as Slovakia and Hungary.

    The new report echoes a study published two years ago by Unicef that concluded Britain was the worst country in the industrialised world in which to grow up
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    Your empire your priorities… right?...... :))

    Apr 27th, 2015 - 09:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • paulcedron

    24 ferdinando
    are you dyslexic?
    retarded?
    or just another “graduated” of the pork stanley community “school”?

    and do not pretend to be argentinian.
    considering your less than zero iq, you must be a chilote or, even worse, another not-too-bright benny-hillbilly.

    and again, do not mix a sovereignty problem with domestic issues, you genius.

    47 hans
    england or the leftovers of the uk is the only 3rd world country of europe, along with malta, which is another failed former english colony and counting.

    not by chance, the most retrograde countries in the world are former english colonies: tanganyka, swaziland, sierra leone, uganda, namibia, and the list goes on, eh?

    Apr 27th, 2015 - 09:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • HansNiesund

    @50 paullution

    You're obviously not as familiar as you think with who was in the British Empire and who wasn't, are you?

    Apr 27th, 2015 - 09:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • paulcedron

    hans
    why?
    they were not british colonies, you genius?
    lol
    are you another graduated of the pork stanley community school?

    anyway, in which division england “plays” for you?
    they have one of the biggest debts on earth, 13 million people living under the poverty line, food banks, social deprivation due to poverty, and an immense housing problem.

    england is as 3rd world as argentina, chilotelandia, etc.
    the problem is that you deny it.
    in that aspect, and in many others, you are the same thing as the ultra k.

    Apr 27th, 2015 - 09:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • HansNiesund

    @51 paullution

    It's he G7 division, I believe.

    Apr 27th, 2015 - 09:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Ferdinando

    Paultroll, yes I am Argentine now but am saving to leave. Dont worry Argentina is of the G199 but it go down. England is top drawer, Rolls Royce, Burbury, Davis Beckam. Idiota

    Apr 27th, 2015 - 10:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • paulcedron

    54 forro
    y adonde te vas a rajar, salame?
    de la patada en el toor que te van a encajar vas a volver a chile o a malvinas sin escalas gilastro.

    mejor no te pregunto de donde sos, porque sos tan forro que vas a decir de malvinas.

    Apr 27th, 2015 - 10:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Viriato1

    Ferdinando, old chap,..... where have you been the last 50 years?:

    Rolls Royce is Indian owner.... :))

    http://jalopnik.com/373621/tata-now-owns-jaguar-land-rover-rover-daimler-and-lanchester

    Tata Buys Jaguar and Land Rover from Ford.
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    Your empire your priorities… right?...... :))

    Apr 27th, 2015 - 10:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Klingon

    Fernandingo has a bad case of : Grass is greener on the other side.
    I Have been to London and was totally let down with what I seen.
    They opened the flood gates for all the scum from around the world to enter.
    Scotland seemed much better though, but this was 20 years ago.

    Apr 27th, 2015 - 11:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Voice

    56
    ...”Rolls Royce is Indian owner.... :))”

    ermmm....no it isn't....

    Apr 28th, 2015 - 12:34 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Marcos Alejandro

    “This House urges the Immigration Review Group to present policy options aimed at increasing the permanent resident population”

    Suggestions:
    1-Drill Isolde not Isobel.
    2-Learn from your neighbors in Denmark and give your sheep a break.

    'Do It For Denmark' Campaign Urges Danes To Have More Sex

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrO3TfJc9Qw

    Apr 28th, 2015 - 04:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Skip

    3-Stay British

    Apr 28th, 2015 - 04:32 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Marcos Alejandro

    4-Stay British..in Britain.

    Apr 28th, 2015 - 04:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    I'm sure the Islanders will give appropriate population growth their full attention.

    And thanks to the 'wee man o' the loch' for his generous funding.

    Brits are there to stay!!

    Cheers, Malvinista - nabos.. !

    :-D

    :-)

    Apr 28th, 2015 - 04:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Skip

    Hahah Marcos

    You don't have any say. The Falkland Islanders will stay British until......

    ...they become independent.

    They still won't be Argentinean.

    Apr 28th, 2015 - 08:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Klingon

    @63 So you will be stuck with ugly girls and cross eyed kids.

    Apr 28th, 2015 - 09:30 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Skip

    As my country is on track to overtake your country's population this century, we will hardly be stuck with a lack of choice.

    The Falkland Islanders however will happily be anything other than Argentinean. If that means they are “stuck with ugly girls and cross eyed kids” then I would say that they still get the better end of the deal!

    Apr 28th, 2015 - 10:29 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Redrow

    Regarding the rather abusive posts from the Malvinistas - is this all part of your Hearts and Minds approach?

    As for worrying about the UK - we're doing just fine thanks. The economy is growing, crime rates, teenage pregnancy rates and unemployment rates are all falling and we have the highest ever proportion of our kids going to University - and these Universities are amongst the best in the world (5 in the top 40). But thanks for your concern anyway.

    Apr 28th, 2015 - 10:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Viriato1

    58@: It is already the case that ALL the British brands are foreign-owned... so I make a mistake..... sorry you are right.

    - Tata Now Owns Jaguar, Land Rover, Rover, Daimler And Lanchester.
    - Rolls Royce and Bentley, have been respectively owned by BMW and Volkswagen since 1998.
    - MG Rover was sold first to the Phoenix Consortium for a tenner before being rescued from administration by the Chinese Nanjing Automobile Group in 2005.
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    .............. in any case, another foreign hands..... ICI, Rolls-Royce and P&O are among the crown jewels that went into overseas hands. The list goes on and on..... it is the way to finance the EMPIRE, to sell the family jewels.
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    British love the military parades ..... your priorities..... Right?.............:))

    Apr 28th, 2015 - 10:48 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Skip

    “British love the military parades .....”

    They do?

    Guess they have a military that works. So perhaps.

    No ships sinking in port.
    Submarines that work.
    And no conscripts freezing to death or shitting in the post office.

    I do so love pomp.

    Apr 28th, 2015 - 12:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Viriato1

    68@Skip:

    Congratulations....... for your nice military parades .....:))

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    Meanwhile:

    New child mortality figures put UK firmly at bottom of Western European league table:

    http://www.rcpch.ac.uk/news/new-child-mortality-figures-put-uk-firmly-bottom-western-european-league-table

    Deaths per 1,000 live births for under 5’s. : UK =4.9

    The UK has similar under-5 mortality rates to Eastern European states of Poland and Macedonia.
    ...............................................................................................................................

    UNICEF’s latest Report Card compares child well-being in the world’s richest countries. The report is a follow-up to Report Card 7, which in 2007 placed the UK at the bottom of 21 developed countries for overall child well-being.

    http://www.rcpch.ac.uk/news/new-child-mortality-figures-put-uk-firmly-bottom-western-european-league-table
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    But,…. But,…. “A man,…. We have an Empire….we won the WAR ... Didn´t we?.”

    :)))

    Apr 28th, 2015 - 12:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Redrow

    @Vitriol
    I understand that you are just being told to post this stuff, but even you must wonder why you are bothering. As every year passes the UK pulls further ahead of Argentina and in the meantime the Falkland Islanders are developing their economy and their islands exactly as they wish and good luck to them I say.

    As for the empire, the UK has not had an empire for nearly 70-years and it was the Allies who won the war, i.e. British, Commonwealth, American & Russians etc. But yes we did win the Falklands war, but what a terrible and unnecessary conflict that was.

    Can I suggest that your next posts should be about what is good about Argentina and thus why you think the Falkland Islanders would (in your view) be better off joining with you? But suggesting that Britain is doing badly when we have created 2,000,000 new jobs in the last 5-years doesn't quite fit.

    Apr 28th, 2015 - 01:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Andy65

    @19 paulcedron Remind me again which Spanish Squatter x president described you Argentines as LIARS and THIEVES from the first to the last REMIND ME YOU PIECE OF SHIT

    Apr 28th, 2015 - 02:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    Even as the vitriolic Viral01 speaks, Argentina continues its fast descent - to the delight of her neighbours and “hermanos”!

    The UK will still be the UK, and the Falklands will still be British.

    However, Argentina will belong to China within the next few years - it's starting now!

    Thanks CFK !!!

    LOL!!

    Apr 28th, 2015 - 02:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Viriato1

    70@Redrow:
    “I understand that you are just being told to post this stuff, but even you must wonder why you are bothering.....”
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    Your level of understanding is realy poor ..... to be fair, not a surprise there.

    That's the spirit of England.... good .... keep doing the good job...... meanwhile your teenagers, and oldies die and live in misery conditions.

    But,...... who cares?..................... :)))

    Apr 28th, 2015 - 02:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Andy65

    @67 Viriato1 Are 7you f....g stupid NO ONE decent wants to invest in Argentina unfortunately your government as a policy of robbing and stealing their assets

    Apr 28th, 2015 - 03:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    73 Viral01

    Justice for Nisman!!

    Stop the CFK/Timerman coverup of the MURDER of 85 Argentine CITIZENS!

    Chile continues her growth to wealth and influence, whilst Argentina will belong to China, in just a few short years!!!

    Thanks CFK !!

    Apr 28th, 2015 - 03:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Andy65

    @67 Viriato1 Are 7you f....g stupid NO ONE decent wants to invest in Argentina unfortunately your government as a policy of robbing and stealing their assets

    Apr 28th, 2015 - 03:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    76 Andy

    Good post!

    BTW,
    If Vitriol Viral01 is not Paul Cedron, they are drinking the very same loo laid at the Cafeteria Campora!!

    Apr 28th, 2015 - 03:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Viriato1

    Congratulations....... for your nice military parades .....:))

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    Meanwhile:

    Sudden Fall In Female Life Expectancy In The UK - Among Worst In West Europe

    http://www.pigminenews.com/pages/video/u4WDqGbXgjg
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    I encourage you to follow your politics…. You are making a terrible good job.

    Meanwhile the rest of Europe (and the World) is laughing of you.

    A country that cannot afford to give a humanitarian and dignified life, in their last days. to their oldies but instead prefer to play the Rule Britannia game is pathetic at the most. (and the World know it)

    But,..... I encourage you to follow...... Get it?

    It is just good fun ...... :)))

    Apr 28th, 2015 - 03:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Andy65

    WHER IS ARGENTINA'S AID FOR NEPAL???????

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-32492017

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-32492017

    Apr 28th, 2015 - 04:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    @78 Vitriol01

    ”I encourage you to follow your politics…. You are making a terrible good job.

    Meanwhile the rest of Europe (and the World) is laughing of you“

    Look at your own 'politics' Viriol01/Pablo petite-voice.

    Especially interesting is the ”Return of the Peronists“, the civil war between the Montoneros, Juan and Isobel Peron, and every other faction.

    Hundreds assasinated, more ransomed. Bombings, torture, kidnappings, rape, concentration camps, violence and coercion, industry and labour extortions ...

    ”Torture and rape are needed to control the subversives...”

    Not just the junta, either.

    Something for you to be proud of... !

    http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_War

    For everyone else - those from the civilised world, this is an extensive history and account of the Argentine political scene - it's fascinating, as it is so removed from the peaceful, stable, ordered societies that Brits and N Americans are used to, and expect.

    Apr 28th, 2015 - 04:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Viriato1

    How naive people can be? .....It amuse me..... :)))

    The British plebs can be used and abused by their betters.... and never complain..... can be used by sex or in the factories or for to win a battle or a hill..... they only want a copper metal at the most and an smile from the Lords.
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    A Look Back at the Pedophilia Scandals That Swallowed Britain Whole in 2014

    http://www.vice.com/read/a-look-back-at-the-pedophilia-scandals-that-swallowed-britain-whole-in-2014

    In 2014, a series of often seemingly intertwining child sex abuse stories have engulfed the UK in what has become the biggest scandal of modern times. It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that the whole country feels duped, dirtied, and, worse, connected in some way. Culprits and alleged culprits have included celebrities, the social services and police (whose systemic failures resulted in an estimated 1,400 children being sexually exploited in the town of Rotherham between 1997 and 2013), politicians (the evidence of a pedophile ring operating within the corridors of Westminster during the 1980s is now incontrovertible after London´s Metropolitan Police described allegations from an anonymous survivor as “credible and true” this month), and even employees of the Royal Family (British tabloid the Sunday People recently revealed that the House of Windsor was also implicated in abuses centered around accusations from a 16-year-old boy).
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    But,…. But,…. “A man,…. We have an Empire….we won the WAR ... Didn´t we?.”

    :)))

    Apr 28th, 2015 - 05:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Clyde15

    #78
    .buenosairesherald.com/article/158553/child-mortality-argentina-improving-but-still-not-ranking-top-in-latam

    And what is Argentina's figure. Could you enlighten us ?
    141 Argentina 9.96 2014 est.

    Similarly what are the figures for poverty. life expectancy, women dying in childbirth etc

    Apr 28th, 2015 - 06:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    @81 Vitriol01

    Apart from being way off target - your deflection is pitiful and obvious.

    However,
    we know this is all coming from the propaganda La Campora deluded kids.

    How about a dose of reality for you.

    Your society, economy, and status, are in real decline

    Thanks to you - CFK and her corrupt gov. are getting away with it.

    Argentina:

    -Corruption
    -Child cancer skyrocketing
    -CFK covers up AMIA bombing
    -CFK covers up Prosecutor Nisman murder
    -Argentina- annual inflation 35% +

    Corruption:
    http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_in_Argentina

    “Freedom From Corruption ... In the 2015 Index, Argentina has recorded its lowest economic freedom score ever.”

    http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_in_Argentina

    Child cancer on rise in Argentina due to pesticide spraying

    http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_in_Argentina

    CFK in bombing coverup

    http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_in_Argentina

    http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_in_Argentina

    http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_in_Argentina

    Argentina- annual inflation 35%

    http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_in_Argentina

    http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_in_Argentina

    “Argentina economy can't take 40% annual inflation”

    http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_in_Argentina

    Apr 28th, 2015 - 06:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • golfcronie

    Nisman death, it was reported 3 or 4 months ago that Nisman was shot in the right temple then below the right ear, now reported in the BA Herald that he was shot in the left temple, so the question is do they ( Argies ) know the left from right. It would make a difference to deciding if it was murder ( shot in right temple ) he was left handed, or suicide ( shot in right temple ) right handed. Or murder ( shot in left temple ) he was right handed, or suicide ( shot in left temple ) he was left handed. Christ can they not get anything right ( or left )

    Apr 28th, 2015 - 06:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Monty69

    81 Viriato1

    'But,…. But,…. “A man,…. We have an Empire….we won the WAR ... Didn´t we?.”'

    Can I just ask you something? Is this supposed to mean something? Or is it just something that Google translate gave you and you can't tell that it's nonsense?

    Britain doesn't have an empire. It has a handful of Overseas Territories to which it owes a duty of care. The Falklands are British because that's what the inhabitants want.

    And we'll carry on wanting that because however crap you think Britain is (and you are mostly wrong- that's what you get from reading crappy tabloid newspapers), it is infinitely better than Argentina.

    Hope that helps,

    M

    Apr 28th, 2015 - 06:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Andy65

    putting history aside what does Argentina actually contribute to the world today besides winging, complaining telling fairy tales having tantrums oh and thieving??

    Apr 28th, 2015 - 07:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • gordo1

    I hope the monitor will make some effort to rid us of this idiot VIRIATO1 who is posting rubbish on all the current threads. His comments have nothing to do with the matters being discussed and affects our ability to debate properly.

    Apr 28th, 2015 - 07:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • paulcedron

    gordo tirapedos
    stop repeating the same shite over and over and over and over again, you uncontrollable farter.

    Apr 28th, 2015 - 07:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Monty69

    88 paulcedron
    You might be a troll, but you're a hilarious one.
    'Silly boy calls someone a farter for the 200th time and tells him to stop repeating himself.' You only have a repertoire of 3 comments and 10 insults. You never stop repeating yourself.

    Apr 28th, 2015 - 09:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Skip

    Monty69

    I agree!

    'But,…. But,…. “A man,…. We have an Empire….we won the WAR ... Didn´t we?.”'

    Who is “A man”?

    What about 'A woman'?

    Do you think he wanted to write 'Hey man'?

    And don't get me started on the use of commas! But you can at least tell Viriato doesn't type on a keyboard set to English because the apostrophe is an accent.

    But a man what do I know.... I'm not even British!

    Apr 28th, 2015 - 11:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    90 Skip

    Vitriol01 was easily thrashed - he says he is “leaving forever” because he is looking for 'more of a challenge'!!

    He seems to have gone back to being that poor fish, Paul Cedron.

    Apr 28th, 2015 - 11:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Terence Hill

    39 Viriato1
    Meanwhile in the land of milk and honey.
    Eleven million Argentines, 26.9% of the population live in poverty conditions
    http://en.mercopress.com/2013/04/02/eleven-million-argentines-26.9-of-the-population-live-in-poverty-conditions
    Argentina's international reserves at a six year record low, and sliding ….
    http://en.mercopress.com/2013/04/02/eleven-million-argentines-26.9-of-the-population-live-in-poverty-conditions
    38 ccontinued
    Some 60% of Argentine children in urban areas suffer deficit of basic rights
    http://en.mercopress.com/2013/04/02/eleven-million-argentines-26.9-of-the-population-live-in-poverty-conditions
    Over a third of Argentine population in poverty conditions says food and nutrition report
    http://en.mercopress.com/2013/04/02/eleven-million-argentines-26.9-of-the-population-live-in-poverty-conditions
    Argentina’s trade surplus shrank 38% in April as imports soar 32%
    http://en.mercopress.com/2013/04/02/eleven-million-argentines-26.9-of-the-population-live-in-poverty-conditions
    Argentine consumers expect Inflation in the next twelve months to average 31.3%
    http://en.mercopress.com/2013/04/02/eleven-million-argentines-26.9-of-the-population-live-in-poverty-conditions
    Argentina's central bank is currently losing international reserves at an average of 47,5 million dollars per day or 8 million per hour,
    http://en.mercopress.com/2013/04/02/eleven-million-argentines-26.9-of-the-population-live-in-poverty-conditions
    Wheat shortage in Argentina has seen bread prices skyrocket; Buenos Aires ton price is double Chicago's
    http://en.mercopress.com/2013/04/02/eleven-million-argentines-26.9-of-the-population-live-in-poverty-conditions
    Argentine central bank has lost 17% of reserves since the ‘dollar clamp’
    http://en.mercopress.com/2013/04/02/eleven-million-argentines-26.9-of-the-population-live-in-poverty-conditions

    Apr 29th, 2015 - 12:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Skip

    Viriato1 has left.

    Seems there are better fora for repetitive posts that are off topic.

    Oh well a man!

    Apr 29th, 2015 - 01:45 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    I think he called it “...practicing my English... ”

    You'd think he'd try useful things for encounters with tourists, “ A amigo, A amigo, geeve me the backpack... A man... I`ve a knive... A man... !”

    Apr 29th, 2015 - 05:11 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • HansNiesund

    @93

    A fairly typical trajectory. A transparent attempt to thwart discussion by swamping threads with standard issue Argentine anglophobia gets.slapped down, only to end in self-pitying declarations of victimhood and claims of superiority.

    Apr 29th, 2015 - 05:34 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • paulcedron

    monty
    “You only have a repertoire of 3 comments and 10 insults.”
    not that bad, uh?

    you on the other hand do not even have 1/4 of a brain

    Apr 29th, 2015 - 03:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Skip

    Wow Monty even eithkess than 1/4 or a brain your posts are more intelligent than Paul's who uses 100% of his Argentinean educated brain.

    Apr 29th, 2015 - 09:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    I can't tell “wee voice” and “Pablo petite-voice” apart!!

    Apr 30th, 2015 - 12:43 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Pugol-H

    @98 Troy Tempest
    Both are soprano, for sure.

    Apr 30th, 2015 - 04:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    99 Pugol

    “falsettos”?

    Apr 30th, 2015 - 09:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Voice

    98

    Yet there's no mistaking you for English or even British.....
    ...foreigner....
    ...but it's easy to spot a Wannabe....

    Apr 30th, 2015 - 11:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    @100 wee man

    weakkkk... pablo

    btw, not up to you :-)

    May 01st, 2015 - 12:45 am - Link - Report abuse 0

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