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Falklands' welcome message to Macri: “be smart, work with us, not against”
Falkland Islanders also participated in Sunday's elections in Argentina by sending congratulation messages to president-elect Mauricio Macri while celebrating the fact that president Cristina Fernandez time comes to an end. Read full article
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Nov 23rd, 2015 - 09:09 am - Link - Report abuse 0Clearly the Argentine nation heeded the Pope's advice and voted with their conscience!
Macri is a business man so he will want to forge a good working relationship but he has bigger problems to deal with and he needs to keep the 40+% that voted for Scioli happy. I think at best the FI can expect at this time is that the spiteful campaigning will stop. The Argentines certainly don't have money to waste on a fantasy.
Nov 23rd, 2015 - 10:50 am - Link - Report abuse 0@2 Agreed. There is nothing super critical to resolve with the Falklands/Malvinas issue in the short term. As ElaineB says, “he has bigger problems to deal with”.
Nov 23rd, 2015 - 11:00 am - Link - Report abuse 0But if you think about it, even just reducing the frequent news and demands regarding the islands will be pleasantly received by many people worldwide, regardless of their opinion on the issue. It's just NOT the most important issue impacting their daily lives. Jobs, the economy (investment, trade and inflation), safety, etc., is what needs to be addressed first.
Best wishes everyone.
At last that Harpy will soon begone.
Nov 23rd, 2015 - 11:48 am - Link - Report abuse 0Not so much gone as irrelevant which will surely be more painful for her.
Nov 23rd, 2015 - 11:55 am - Link - Report abuse 0The Islanders might be kind enough to send President Macri a welcome gift of some lightbulbs, just in case they are all stolen from the Casa Rosada.
Nov 23rd, 2015 - 12:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Macri favours creating a better working relationship with the UK and easing off on the Malvinas rhetoric. Good news as that mythical Malvinas stuff is wearing a bit thin on the imagination: https://www.academia.edu/17799157/Falklands_-_Some_Relevant_International_Law
Nov 23rd, 2015 - 12:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It's good to see that no-one here is being euphoric. Many have pointed out that Macri has a lot to do. He could start by getting rid of the First Temporary Provision of the Constitution and replacing it with a permanent section stating that argieland has no claim to certain South Atlantic Islands or, for that matter, any part of Antarctica already claimed by anyone else. Then he could get on with paying argieland's debts. Remembering to apologise to Judge Griesa and asking whether the judge would like Kick it Off in his court for punishment.
Nov 23rd, 2015 - 01:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You will never get your wish since Antarctica is not a claim, but a territory that does not belong nor will it belong to your country. That is a certainty.
Nov 23rd, 2015 - 04:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 09 NOSTRILS
Nov 23rd, 2015 - 05:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0looks like you and the K's and Enrique, are all irrelevant and none of you speak for the Argentine people.
They have made it very clear democratically, that they wish to be represented by Macri and share his vision, not yours.
I know you will be bitter for some time.
We'll just ignore you.
I do not think the President-elect can just make a sharp U-turn and drop the claim all together. It is too sensitive a question within Argentina. But , it would be step forward if he just scales down the anti-F.I.-activities performed by the previous government. For instance to abolish the government post curretly held by Mr. Filmus.
Nov 23rd, 2015 - 06:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Hardly anyone outside La Cámpora gives a flying f about Las Malvinas. There won't be any rhetoric in that regard as long as Macri is president. If the islanders are smart they'll convince UK to pull some levers behind the scenes at the IMF because Argentina will need financial aid immediately. It's in anyone's interest that Macri finish his term and then another one.
Nov 23rd, 2015 - 06:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0JUST IN CASE
Nov 23rd, 2015 - 07:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 04xSSBN nuclear deterrent subs
7x SSN hunter killer subs
2x aircraft carriers
19 x destroyers and frigates
Up to 6x patrol vessels
12x mine hunters
3x survey vessels
1x ice patrol
3 Commando brigade=
2x landing platform docks
3x landing ship docks
6x fleet tankers
3x support ships
4x merlin mk squadrons
2x wildcat squadrons
@1 gordo1
Nov 23rd, 2015 - 08:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Sorry, but I cannot square the facts of the matter.
1) many more people voted than usual and they voted for Macri it seems given that La Camping-it-up ran out of money trying to bribe the stinking poor.
2) who did The Dope of an Argy Pope say WHO people should vote for? He didn't, so any voter could claim they voted with their conscience. Or are you saying the sensible people didn't vote with their conscience?
3) does anybody with half-a-brain take any notice of The Dope of an Argy Pope, even Argentines. People with a brain vote for the candidate that they think is going to be best for them (and therefore the country). Or do you vote for who you are told to by the missus?
4) and the most compelling one: it seems the Argentine people don't want to be robbed any more and they have woken up to TMBOA and her scumbags.
Why on earth did you switch to the RCC, wasn't the UK book of fairy tales (the St. James bible) good enough for you?
The Cristina Fernandez repeatedly declared that the Falkland Islanders were 'squatters'
Nov 23rd, 2015 - 08:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Argentinians however realised who the real squatters were,
And kicked CFK out…lol
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Briton.......I think I'd be more concerned with isil than Argentina.
Nov 23rd, 2015 - 09:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0In moments of weakness, I Would love to see CFK abducted by Moussad and air-dropped into ISIS-held Raffa....
Nov 23rd, 2015 - 10:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Muppet@17
Nov 24th, 2015 - 03:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0Mossad not Moussad, Raqqa not Raffa.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFijMqKeX48
@18 “voice”
Nov 24th, 2015 - 05:06 am - Link - Report abuse 0couldn't resist could you??
:-D
@18 Marquitos Alejandrito
Nov 24th, 2015 - 06:55 am - Link - Report abuse 0Nene - ¡buenos días! You should be celebrating the excellent news from Argentina rather than being petty about minor spelling mistakes - ¡cretino!
@9. It's time for you to understand that the days of Faggot Annie are nearly over. Therefore, it's no longer appropriate to lie at every opportunity. If you were to look up the history (that's real history, not the ever-changing argie version), you would find that NO-ONE, with the possible exception of Chile, ever accepted argieland's CLAIM. Therefore, a claim it was and a claim it remains. Not interested in such idiocies as shipping pregnant women out there. Notable that, when Britain submitted an application to the International Court of Justice in 1955 for adjudication, argieland and Chile refused to take part. As with adjudication over the Falkland Islands, this proves that argieland doesn't have a valid claim. Not least because Britain claimed the territory first. About 35 years before.
Nov 24th, 2015 - 11:38 am - Link - Report abuse 0In my opinion, I understand that Argentina has much more important objectives to waste the time on those two islands in the en. If the isd pf the world. If islanders feel British, are welcome and do business with them that we have plenty of territory
Nov 24th, 2015 - 02:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@22
Nov 24th, 2015 - 07:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“In my opinion, I understand that Argentina has much more important objectives to waste the time on those two islands ”
Yes, and if Argentina has any sense it will look after what it has properly and progress, rather than wasting time on what it will never get.
A point of argument to debate
Nov 24th, 2015 - 08:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Are you sure?! Argentina's largest newspaper claims Falklands voted in country's election
ARGENTINA's most popular newspaper has bizarrely claimed the Falkland Islands took part in the South American country's presidential election
http://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/621762/Argentina-presidential-election-Falklands-vote-Daniel-Scioli-Mauricio-Macri-Kirchner
David Cameron and the defence review – cartoon
http://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/621762/Argentina-presidential-election-Falklands-vote-Daniel-Scioli-Mauricio-Macri-Kirchner
David, our leader…
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Agree with Peter (#23). ...
Nov 24th, 2015 - 09:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0(#24)... is a newspaper opinion (or editor's opinion)... no more than this one... I'm a runner ..not a politic... never believe in politics... only I regret not being able to run the next 42km marathon in the islands because it is too difficult to travel from here.
just make sure you don not screw it up before time with Macri.
Nov 25th, 2015 - 07:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Are you going to quit the cheap propaganda you are spreading on malvinas?
the malvinas is present in the Argentine constitution: Macri won't quit. http://www.parliament.am/library/sahmanadrutyunner/argentina.pdf
besides, i am happy marcos ruda is writing publicly on this matter http://www.parliament.am/library/sahmanadrutyunner/argentina.pdf
@26 marasilver
Nov 25th, 2015 - 08:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“These authorities were ejected by violence and not allowed to remain in the territory. Most of them had been forced to leave after the 1832 attack. On the contrary, they were replaced during those years of usurpation, by a colonial administration and a population of British origin.”
You seem happy with Ruda's glaring omissions and inaccuracy. Fine, see where that gets you at the ICJ.
Because according to the history from 1833 (present in B.A archives), it's bullshit.
“Most of them had been forced to leave after the 1832 attack”
What 1832 attack?
The only attack came from the USA in 1831 (notice the difference between USA and Great Britain)? And notice the difference between 1831 and 1832? Obviously Ruda doesn't, with elementary mistakes written in his piece.
Who were forced to leave? The UP authorities (who arrived in October 1832), or the civilian population?
2/- The so-called UP authorities consisting mostly of prisoners conscripted into the army arrived in October 1832. So they were only on the Islands for three months.
The British issued a protest upon hearing that the militia (made up mostly of convicted criminals)were being sent to the Islands. Ruda 'forgets' that.
It does not say on Ruda's post that 10 of these murdered Mestivier and raped his wife in front of his children and were tried in BA,most of them shot by firing squad. (In Buenos Aires-not in the Falklands).
“ On the contrary, they were replaced during those years of usurpation, by a colonial administration and a population of British origin.”
So is Ruda saying that Antonio Rivero was British?
He chose to stay in 1833.
Is Ruda is saying the gaucho Antonina Roxa who ended up buying a ranch near Stanley originated from Britain?
She chose to stay in 1833.
You have confidence in Ruda when he seems to have a false notion of history, perhaps rather than research history properly, my educated guess is that Ruda spends more time getting gassed on his own farts.
@26 marasilva
Nov 26th, 2015 - 09:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0Marcos Ruda is a LIAR just like his uncle.
Proof? http://www.falklandshistory.com/historia-falsa.pdf and http://www.falklandshistory.com/historia-falsa.pdf
Saludos.
message to Macri
Nov 26th, 2015 - 10:33 am - Link - Report abuse 0message to Argentina,
the Falklands are British, and they wish to remain so,
please respect this or go the way CFK and soddy offy.
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