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Falklands celebrates 30th Anniversary of Mount Pleasant Airport opening
”The Falkland Islands airport emerges from rock and peat-bog” said The Times in its 11 May edition, the day before the official opening of Mount Pleasant Airport in 1985, thirty years ago last week. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesA heroic effort indeed and a portal to the outside world which seems like a bargain now, 30 years later. The terminal building may be pokey, draughty and old-fashioned but it is a welcome sight when arriving back on the island, as well as appreciated by the residents - safe in the knowledge that they can go to Brize, Punta or Santiago. Three cheers!
May 19th, 2015 - 09:04 am - Link - Report abuse 0The Blessed Margaret knew a winner when she saw one.
May 19th, 2015 - 11:32 am - Link - Report abuse 0This of course was a double whammy to The Dark Country who had tried and lost their stupid gamble to seize the Islands, never to be allowed back on them in force.
And, of course, she was re-elected.
Now the stupid argies can only cry and scream the usual nonsense about the mythical Malvinas knowing THEY ARE FOREVER FUCKED!
Oh, happy days.
MPA, one of the greatest aircraft carriers ever.
May 19th, 2015 - 12:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0the key question here is, why the fuck these isleteers wanted an airport in the islets, eh?
May 19th, 2015 - 02:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0the only place where these 3rd class plebs can go is...london.
and the average flight length to london is...44 hours 5 minutes.
that is almost 2 (TWO) DAYS with 3 stops.
you have to be either a masochist or an imbecile to take that kind of flight.
my wise advice to the isleteers is: take some lessons of competitive swimming, you lazy fatsos, and the trip to vaterland will be cheaper and faster and healthier.
@4 LOL once again Pauly the retard must prove how ignorant he is. The MOD flight takes 18 hours, give or take.
May 19th, 2015 - 04:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0When will you be visiting the Falklands Pauly? You said you would be arriving in a couple of months? Did you lie? I hope you will be here for Liberation Day. Go eat shit in your shanty town you uneducated, greasy loser.
5 brainless f.y.
May 19th, 2015 - 05:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0you are not very bright, no?
you are talking of the net flight time, you ass.
as if it were a direct flight at an average speed of 450 knots.
but the sad reality is that you have to have 3 (THREE) stops from that joke of airport of mount pleasant (lol) to london.
so, the total flight length is 2 days more or less.
another sign that you have never left porko stanley and, worse, that you have never taken a plane in your whole life.
the fact is you have to go to punta arenas (lol x 1 million) and then to santiago, and then to buenos aires or rio, or mexico to finally board a direct plane to the uk, no?
benny-hillbillies
@ 4 Polly
May 19th, 2015 - 06:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0”(SIC) the key question here is, why the fuck these isleteers wanted an airport in the islets, eh?”
Come on FFS! It's to provide a landing place for all the aircraft that will reinforce the existing garrison at times when you mad fucks want to invade the Falklands again.
Was that suitable foul language for you to understand?
@6 Listen here you idiotic fuckwit, stop shagging your ugly mother and eating shit for a second and try to understand.
May 19th, 2015 - 06:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Yes, going through Chile to get to UK can take about 2 days, but most people stay in Chile for a few days anyway. Last time I went that way I stayed in Santiago for two days, because why the hell not. There are usually two stops, sometimes three, Punta Arenas, Santiago, occasionally Rio or Miami, but this is the long way round to get to the UK. But that really doesn't bother me, because I'm not a little bitch like you.
Most people going to UK go on the MOD flight, which has ONE stop on Ascension Island then direct to RAF Brize Norton, this flight takes roughly 18 hours. Now can can you count you silly little retard? ONE STOP
Also, when will you be visiting the Falklands? You said you would be here in a couple of months..... a couple of months ago lol.
4&6
May 19th, 2015 - 07:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0boy you are envious isn't you,
and I bet you would give up your argentine passport, just to visit this island and its airport,
come on, don't shy away...lol
6 paulcedron
May 19th, 2015 - 07:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You missed out a stop; every so often we get to stop at Rio Gallegos. And what an unbelievable shit hole that looks like. It's worth stopping there just to remind us what we're missing by not being part of Argentina.
It's hardly worth saying this, or anything, to you; you are the absolute most stupid, foul mouthed and ignorant person ever to frequent this site.
However, you need to understand that our air link and the places it connects us to is no concern at all of yours. Because you don't need to use it. Seriously, we know we live in a remote place, and we're happy with it. We know how long it takes, and we don't care. What do you think you're doing, telling us how long it takes to get to London? Fool. It also takes 18 hours via Ascension with the RAF.
As for 'the only place you can go is London'? WTF? do you actually not know that planes go from Santiago to some other places as well? Or from Madrid to some other places? I think you've never scratched together the air fare to get out of whatever slum you live in, as you clearly don't know how an airport works.
TONIGHT.
May 19th, 2015 - 07:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://forces.tv/
We Were There“ - The Story Of HMS Sheffield
Eyewitness accounts of the moment HMS Sheffield was hit by an Exocet missile during the Falklands war, are at the heart of a new episode of ”We Were There”, tonight only on Forces TV.
It's a brand new series looking at some of the key moments in modern British military history from the perspective of those who witnesssed them first-hand.
Tune in to Forces TV at 9pm - Sky 264, Freesat 652 and Virgin 244 #WeWereThere
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#6 Paul.
May 19th, 2015 - 07:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Please check your facts before posting. It's getting tiresome correcting you when you venture into aeronautical topics.
worldtravelguide.net/falkland-islands/travel-by
@6 Ahhh forgot about the stop in madrid, so 3-4 stop by going through Santiago. But I suppose that's too many for the moaning little bitch Pauly. I reckon if you left the city you would shit yourself you big girl, that's why you will never come here because you are just a pussy. Man up you loser, or just keep running to mummy pissing your pants about being away from a 'CT scanner'.
May 19th, 2015 - 08:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Paulecedron- Why is it you never ever check facts before spluttering and thus always end up as a complete arse on here?
May 19th, 2015 - 08:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Flight Time Mount Pleasant- Ascension -approx. 7.5hrs
Time relaxing in the transit lounge at Ascension having a coffee or cold drink etc whilst aircraft cleaned,revictualled and refuelled 1.5-2hrs
Flight Time Ascension Brize Norton nr Oxford England 8.5 hrs
Thus TOTAL Time from departure to landing is approx. 18hrs.
OK be picky and add in Check in 2.5-3hrs before and collecting your luggage and clearing customs and walking out to the carpark the UK end add another 3. to 3.5hrs.
Where in hells name do you get 44hrs from??
I think the total travel time now via Santiago-SaoPaolo-Heathrow is a few hours longer - and involves plane changes at Santiago and SaoPaol0.
Also the direct flight via Ascension allows us Islanders 54kg luggage - not 23 as per normal economy. Also for your info it is a civilian flight - operated by the
British Airline “Air Tanker” - purely chartered by the MOD to do it. They have brand new Airbus A330,s and lots more legroom and wider seats (well they feel wider)than normal commercial economy.
You do talk a load of trash - every time!
league of losers
May 19th, 2015 - 09:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0let's see:
so you need a stop in our wonderful, magnificent rio gallegos + 4 stops more to get to vaterland...
it seems the imbecile brainless fy was even more wrong then.
the funny thing is that when you search commercial flights (real flights, not military flights, you assholes) to the islets from london, in sites like trip advisor, the result is 0 (ZERO).
it is the same when you try from madrid, rome, paris, and wherever the fuck you want, you retarded bennys.
now lets see what happens with that 20 hour flight via ascension (LOL X 1 MILLION).
how many flights are available per week?
zero?
none?
1 per year?
what kind of aircrafts do they use?
lockheed c130?
lol
so a military aircraft from a military airport to another military airport, doing a stop in another military airport, eh?
it does not seem very attractive, not even for the poor, not too bright tourist that chooses the islets.
15 paulcedron
May 19th, 2015 - 09:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Absolutely. It's all true. So my advice to you is; don't ever visit the Falklands, and tell all your brainless friends not to visit either. That way, we're all happy. Get it?
As for airports, I have never experienced anything in a military airport that comes close to sheer bloody- minded incompetence involved in an 18hr delay at Madrid airport. I'd rather the pen at Ascension Island any day. Oh and it's 2 flights per week. Usually quite nice planes, and often with a whole row to myself. But as I was saying, far too grim for you. I wouldn't bother if I were you.
league of losers
May 19th, 2015 - 09:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0yes, those military flights to the islets seem to be great, no?
lol
especially the catering... YUCK
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@17 Yeh its airline food you insufferable dipshit, better than you get on LAN anyway (although I find all airline food shit). So an 18 hour flight is to much for you? Man up you pussy, you talk big on here but in reality you are just a little bitch, go on, run to your Peronist masters you scared little pussy. If i remember correctly Santiago to Sydney is a good 12-14 hours, but you have never left Argentina, so what would you know.
May 19th, 2015 - 10:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I don't count landing in that cesspit rio gallegos (only lands there once a month anyway), I have not been there since 2000, and don't intend to go again until the scum like you are purged from the country..... painfully.
Of course you won't find flights from London to the Falklands, BECAUSE THERE AREN'T ANY. Jesus stop being so stupid. Also, it's a civilian charted aircraft obviously.
So when are you coming to the Falklands? Did you lie about coming here? Perhaps your Peronist masters can't afford your ticket now LOL
18 brainless f.y.
May 19th, 2015 - 10:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0let's see if your tiny little brain can understand something, you retarded benny.
1. there is not any 18 hour flight from the islets to london, you asshole.
2 you cannot find all airline food shit, because you have never been in an aircraft in your whole fucking life.
3. it is not only the flight length, the important thing is where the fuck you are after flying those 44 hours.
and in this case, you are in...the islets...Y-U-C-K.
you can have a 14 hour flight to go to paris, barcelona, milano, bilbao, amsterdam, ibiza, islas baleares, capri and the list goes on.
but to go to the islets...no way
now i understand why you bennys consider that shithole of punta arenas as if it were paris. lol
@19 Little girl pauly
May 19th, 2015 - 11:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0When will you be coming to the Falklands? You said you were. Did you lie? Probably. Are you to scared to come here because we have no CT scanner? or are you scared of flying? Maybe you are just an outright pussy who is scared of anything rural or rustic? Man up Pauly.
Never really thought much of punta arenas, it's merely a short stop before going onto Santiago. In fact I have never left the airport. I suppose there are 18 hour flights to Buenos Aires, but why go there? YUCK.
Pussy Paul, its time for you to venture out on your Cartonero duties. Gotta pay for that tin shack in that Villa somehow. You seem to specialise in brain dead assertions on subjects you know nothing whatsoever about. Enjoy your nightime duties looser.
May 19th, 2015 - 11:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Paul
May 20th, 2015 - 12:38 am - Link - Report abuse 0Find a hobby. Rugby or something.
Paulie- evidently you cannot read either can you? You mentioned a C130 - silly arse - I told you Air Tanker fly NEW Airbus A330s.
May 20th, 2015 - 12:41 am - Link - Report abuse 0Brize Norton yes is an RAF airfield - just like your civilian airports it also handles CIVILIAN passengers - and has things like a café- soft armchairs- internet stations, live TV etc etc. If you have come a long way to check in you can go and have a free evening meal in the hotel on base - and go to the bar there. And unlike a civilian airport where if for some reason your plane does not go - tough you go home if you can or sit in the departure lounge for a day - but the RAF take all passengers to their Hotel and you have free hotel accommodation and meals.
Ascension - a joint USAF/RAF airbase yes- but so what - the transit lounge area has the normal facilities you would expect - you can even sit outside in the sun if you wish.
Mount Pleasant - sorry - a big sign there says Mount Pleasant INTERNATIONAL Airport - that is what it is - yes the RAF also operate there and they provide some of the airport passenger handling services for their charter flights. Lan is all civilian handled on the ground.
Brize Norton to central London - can be there in 1 hour by train, same time by car to Heathrow.
In Flight Service?
As you board here at Mount Pleasant you are offered a choice of UK newspapers - free of course.
Afternoon tea as it is British - what else than with a Scone with jam and clotted cream. Diet problem? no problems they supply special diet meals as requested and if you forgot they always have a few spare onboard. choice of 3 films to watch plus the usual music channels etc.
And all over in 18 hours you see.
Oh and if you are so fixated with London - well you can always go on the civilian oil company charter flight- Gatwick Airport.
losers
May 20th, 2015 - 01:57 am - Link - Report abuse 0yes, blablabla
as i said before, THIS is what you get in those freaking military flights:
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and this is what you get in air france, business class, from paris to BA
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it is really funny that the cost of the trip from the islets to london in those shitty conditions is of 3000 quid while the cost in business class from Paris to BA is 2740 quid.
and then you ask why you are third class plebs...lol
@24 It costs about £1500 to get to the UK actually. Similar price going through South America as well. We could have better air fares and deals if we weren't bordered by the country equivalent of a schoolyard bully.
May 20th, 2015 - 03:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0But lets face it, you are a fool with delusions of grandeur, like the rest of your country. I doubt you have ever flown First or Business class on any airline before you say you have. I think this because of the way you always seem to fixate on more expensive things, trying make yourself seem better than everyone, like trailer trash that has come into some money. Like when you said you attended an extremely prestigious university, or you go surfing on only the finest quality beaches. The way you BIG up everything and look down your nose at everyone else makes me assume you have serious issues with how you and your country is perceived, so you don't necessarily lie, but massively over-exaggerate . You clearly have some very serious self-esteem issues if you must come to mercopress nearly every day to feel better about yourself.
So when will you be arriving in the Falklands Pauly?
24 paulcedron
May 20th, 2015 - 07:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0'RAF flight not the same as Air France business class', reveals ace Argentine investigative reporter. Paul C broke the sad news to Falkland Islanders, who were amazed to learn that they could have got something better than a Breakfast Pannini had they only decided to spend the extra 3 grand on a flight from BA on France's national carrier.
When asked for comment, Ms M commented 'A flight to BA isn't much use to me as I don't actually live there. Plus you'd actually have to pay me to set foot in Argentina. But I'm sure there will be plenty of people happy to blow their savings in this way, if a better breakfast is on offer.'
paulcedron-windup merchant.
May 20th, 2015 - 08:55 am - Link - Report abuse 0stop replying to the idiot, people.
lt only encourages him……lol!
There's something about the Argies on here that I don't get (and I don't think they get it either)- if they are so sure that everything that happens with, to, by and for the people of the Falklands and they are so sure that everything pertaining to or about the Falklands is so bad, why do they want to take them over so badly?
May 20th, 2015 - 11:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0If I lived next door to a open cess-pit (according to the Argies), I would certainly not want to dive into it and, if I lived in Paradise on earth, which is what some Argies think about their country (and let's be fair, it is a beautiful country spoiled only by a minority of corrupt politicians and extremists), I would be quite happy to stay there and enjoy it for what it is!
@28 They will never understand this logical paradox as they are indoctrinated from an early age.
May 20th, 2015 - 12:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Don't care what any of the RG's have to say about flights to the Islands. It's got sod all to do with them.
May 20th, 2015 - 12:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I say Happy Birthday Mount Pleasant Airport and may you have many happy returns !
isolda
May 20th, 2015 - 12:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0shut up isolda.
28
it is not a question is the islets are a cesspit or not.
the thing is they are an integral part of argentina, like gibraltar is an integral part of spain and northern ireland is an integral part of ireland.
understand now?
@31 When are you travelling to the Falklands Pauly? Or did you lie about that as well?
May 20th, 2015 - 01:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Don't know where the 44 hours is coming from, the round trip on a TriStar took about 56 hours from leaving the UK to returning to the UK and that included an overnight stop at MPA. Actual flight time was about 18 hours including up to 2 hours at ASI for crew change/refuelling.
May 20th, 2015 - 02:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Paulie- Why would one want to pay over £3000 to fly business class Falkland to Uk by the time you have got to Santiago or Buenos Aires?
May 20th, 2015 - 02:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Why would I want to fly from BA to Paris anyway?
If I really wanted the luxury of business class to London simplest and cheapest is to book one ticket and go LanTam all the way - MPA-Santiago-SaoPaulo-Heathrow.
As I don't want to waste money I prefer to fly MPA-BrizeNorton for £1500 return- comfortable-affordable and the food is actually ok.
So we are an integral part of Argentina are we? Please name me the South America States that have publically formally stated this and also carry it out by referring to us as Las Malvinas on official correspondence with us?
Please quote to me the wording of those official public formal Govt statements also that declare they recognize us as an integral part of Argentina.
Not just press releases from Filmus and Timmerman - nor Govt statements calling for “dialogue”
Come on - lets have so FACTS for a change.
the thing is they are an integral part of Argentina
May 20th, 2015 - 06:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0no they are not, they are free, you are not.
Punt Arenas is very happy with the current air connection with the islanders and they are always welcome.
May 20th, 2015 - 07:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Paulcedron, the pitifully IGNORANT bed pan cleaner, never ceases to amaze me with his adolescent tantrums. He just can't get over the fact that the Falklanders will never be agreeable to any kind of Argentine governance.
He actually thinks Islanders would consider risking their precious lives and experience a terrifying, heart in their throat, white knuckles flight on Aerolíneas Argentinas, known for maintenance that is almost non-existent at times. (Also if you're someone who enjoys being degraded and humiliated like a doormat, it's your international airline of choice as well.)
Prior to the Falkland War, there was air service from BA to Port Stanley and the harassment as well as the abuse from Argentine authorities was terrible. (Repeatedly documented by many travelers.)
I have no doubt that if a survey were to be made of the Islanders wanting direct service to BA instead of Punta Arenas, there would be only a very few that might desire it. (Obviously, Montevideo and Sao Palo would be desirable if it were not for political reasons.)
The bottom line is that air access to the Falklands is reasonable on modern well maintained aircraft reliably managed with no antagonistic corrupt customs and immigration officials at clean, safe and modern airports in civilized nations.
@31 Could you please list some reasons why the Falklands are an integral part of Argentina?
May 20th, 2015 - 07:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Also, when are you traveling to the Falklands?
£215 million? What a bargain !!!...more than GBP 120.000 per islander....not to mention the maintenance of the garrison. Islanders are more expensive to the UK than marring a French supermodel....
May 20th, 2015 - 08:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0An excellent business for the UK taxpayers....another proof of the brilliant consequencies of the war.
I don't think that Argentina invested such amount of money in the war.
But “freedom” deserves this and even more.....
@ 38 p german
May 20th, 2015 - 09:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0A piffling amount for UK tax payers to keep the Islanders in contact, developing their businesses, providing a field fire test area for heavy equipment and NEVER forgetting being able to airlift several hundred top notch battle tested UK soldiers each time before the argies can get their boats up from the bottom of the dock.
It wouldn't matter how much MONEY the argies put into a war, you have to have battle trained soldiers and intelligent tactically sound officers all superbly equipped: so that's you lot fucked big time.
PS Aren't you another argie presently hiding in Canada?
38 pgerman
May 20th, 2015 - 09:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0How dare you lecture us on the consequences of war.
It was your war. We didn't ask for it. You are responsible, and we pay the price. That is nothing for you to be proud of.
And freedom is one of those things you really can't put a price on.
@38 pgerman,
May 20th, 2015 - 09:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Please stop your crocodile tears about the “Poor British Taxpayer”.
lts wearing rather thin.
As is your pathetic transparent attempts to drive a wedge between us & the Brits.
@31 paulcedron,
Well, what can one say to such a brilliant riposte from our lowly bedpan cleaner, paulli-dum-dum.
Except, Just shut it, Nabolito. The adults are talking & its rude for niños like you to interrupt.
38 pgerman
May 20th, 2015 - 10:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It costs Argentina more than the UK in their conflict according to Carlos Escudé. He warned: “If Argentina had power, I would not be doing these proposals,” but reasoned that “pursue policies of power without power is counterproductive” because “leads to losing more than you earn systematically”
“La reivindicación argentina de Malvinas solo sirve para comprar el voto de ciudadanos poco educados”
http://www.infobae.com/2014/11/10/1607855-la-reivindicacion-argentina-malvinas-solo-sirve-comprar-el-voto-ciudadanos-poco-educados
Falklands War Cost-Benefit Analysis
The price of war
”Although the Falklands War had a very noticeable short-term impact on defence expenditure, the impact was not long-lasting. Notwithstanding the first few years after the conflict, when South Atlantic expenditure was greatly consumed by the construction of RAF Mount Pleasant (operational from 1986), the amount spent wasn't overly significant. In 1986-7, it was only 2.23% of total defence expenditure, and by 1989-90, a mere 0.33%. At their height (1982-3), the war's effects represented only 6.76% of total defence expenditure.
http://www.infobae.com/2014/11/10/1607855-la-reivindicacion-argentina-malvinas-solo-sirve-comprar-el-voto-ciudadanos-poco-educados
@42
May 21st, 2015 - 01:47 am - Link - Report abuse 0I know Carlos Escude´s comments. TG Argentina is a coutry where people can think differently without suffering any legal issue no matter CFK, and other fascist/peronists, will against that. There are argentine people that think the islands belong to the UK (ie my best friend).
By the way we can add more expenses to the bill the GBP 2,700 millions ”invested in the war. This is almost GBP 1,2 million per islander. Not to mention the almost 1,000 people killed..almost one voer two islanders....QUITE AN EXPENSIVE ISLAND FOR THE UK !!!!
43 pgerman
May 21st, 2015 - 03:22 am - Link - Report abuse 0You post no sources or links in support of your assertions, so your claims are completely unsubstantiated. Moreover, you have failed to refute the fact that “...total defence expenditure, and by 1989-90, a mere 0.33%. ...” Which seems to indicate that the UK spends an absolutely inconsequential amount of money in defending the Islands. While Argentina by comparison, probably spends an inordinate amount of money pursuing her spurious claim.
@43
May 21st, 2015 - 07:51 am - Link - Report abuse 0It was quite expensive fighting the Nazis as well.
#43
May 21st, 2015 - 09:08 am - Link - Report abuse 0There are costs that this country bears because we feel it is right.
The Falklands is one.
I realise that Argentina, being made up of Mafiosa crooks who only think of how they can screw everyone else, cannot understand this principle.
Maybe if you grow up as a country it may finally percolate through in Hepatia's 25 years syndrome.
@44
May 21st, 2015 - 12:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The population of the United Kingdom by 1982 was 56 million of citizens so during the war “only” 0.0005 % was lost. Argentina had, at that time, less than 30 million so during the war “only” 0.002 % was lost. So, based on your reasoning, the lost of human lives was not an issue at all.
@47
May 21st, 2015 - 01:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0On the contrary. Human lives are more important than money. It's the loss of life engendered by Argentina aggression that has ensured the islands will never be Argentine. Cost might have been an issue before people got killed. It's not an issue now, and it will never become one as long as Argentine policy is focussed on telling maximum lies and creating maximum offence.
47 pgerman“
May 21st, 2015 - 05:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Stop moving the goalposts and engaging in fallacies i.e. changing the subject. I simply responded to your post #38 where you raised the issue of cost, to wit: ”£215 million? What a bargain !!!... ...I don't think that Argentina invested such amount of money in the war.“ So any conclusions are based on your attempts to 'wriggle' out of a losing position ”based on your 'peculiar' reasoning”.
How much is a life worth, Freedom , democracy , justice , law and order,
May 21st, 2015 - 06:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0million pounds , billion pounds , you cannot put a price on them,
unless of course you are Argentinian, then 50 quid each, and that would be borrowed...
@47 pgerman
May 24th, 2015 - 10:57 am - Link - Report abuse 0“ So, based on your reasoning, the lost of human lives was not an issue at all.”
Staying on the theme of lost lives, one of the Argentines biggest mistakes was causing British soldiers to die in 1982.
This means that politically, even if some F Wt of a politician ignores the issue of self determination, and the history surrounding the Falkland
Islands (i.e the Argentine butt lickers Galloway and Corbin), it would be political suicide to go against the wishes of the Falkland Islanders because British lives were lost defending the Islander's rights.
@ 51 Pete Bog
May 24th, 2015 - 05:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“it would be political suicide to go against the wishes of the Falkland Islanders because British lives were lost defending the Islander's rights.”
Cretins such as p german, a lapsed argie living in Canada, have no concept of why that would matter, especially to the plebs as they see them!
Until that mind-set is overcome The Dark Country will never advance but just fall further and further away from civilisation.
38 pgerman
May 24th, 2015 - 10:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“An excellent business for the UK taxpayers....another proof of the brilliant consequences of the war.”
another proof of the brilliant consequences of the war?
You mean we got to not only kick your asses AND prove that the British military are the best in the world but we also ensured that your military junta was overthrown ( you still owe us for that by the way )... but we also ensured that you will never ever, ever, ever, EVER get your thieving little mitts on the Falklands ever again.
As I have said on another thread that the “GBP 120.000 per islander” comes out of the defense budget anyway so that is not an additional drain BUT it does mean that by keeping a garrison on the Falklands I can wake up each morning here in the UK and give BA the big F**K YOU!!!!
120.000 per islander??? to watch all those cretins in BA whine and moan and stamp their feet for the last 30 odd years?????
WELL WORTH IT!!!!
Seeing and hearing all the grinding of teeth and the sulks and the tantrums from argentina while the Falkland Islanders go from ( well deserved ) strength to strength???
WELL WORTH IT!!!!
I don't know and therefore can't speak for other UK tax payers but I consider the money used on my behalf to pay for defense to be VERY WELL SPENT!!
Now please f**k off and when you've got there, f**k off some more
Lots of love
from the UK
P.S:- is this the “another proof of the brilliant consequences of the war” that you were talking about?
@52 Chris R
May 25th, 2015 - 08:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Cretins such as p german, a lapsed argie living in Canada, have no concept of why that would matter, especially to the plebs as they see them!
Until that mind-set is overcome The Dark Country will never advance but just fall further and further away from civilisation.”
Hence their version of negotiation being ' we demand this-give it to us' followed by them gaining exactly, Jack squit.
If they had brains they would abandon the all or nothing neurosis, to at least get a compromise, where they ended up with something and an improvement for their people.
What I find extremely amusing is that TDC's self destructive instincts make it more likely that the UK will continue to assist the Falkland Islands to progress, further away from assimilation into Argentina, towards independence or staying linked with the UK-exactly the opposite of what TDC wants!
No appreciation of the basic rules of cause and effect.
@54 Pete Bog,
May 25th, 2015 - 10:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0lts the southern ltalian/Arabic mentality.
Bullying, force,you'd better give it to me-or else………
Property values……whats yours is mine, etc etc.
They've run into a stumbling block & they can't understand why their tactics don't work.
lt worked in the schoolyard, didn't it?
Its an RAF Airbase and regualr military flights the civvy passenegers are an afterthought still better than relying on argentina though
May 26th, 2015 - 01:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@55 Isolde
May 26th, 2015 - 05:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Although it's a bit tiresome hearing the Argentine's scratched record (they haven't worked out the needle needs replacing), I find it amusing that they have no notion of human psychology whatsoever, and the British way that we are a nice people until people kick us-then we kick back hard-even when outnumbered, whereas the Argies like to kick hard (as long as they outnumber who they are kicking)and when someone retaliates, the school bully suddenly runs away-the predictability makes me laugh-honest! Hence the Malvinistas-a blast of self-opinionated drivel, sometimes followed by what they call evidence, followed by counter-evidence from the pro-Falkland team, usually with no further reply. I have seen only a few cases where Malvinistas have put up a spirited debate trying to justify their case, rather than the 'it's ours because we say so.'
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