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Falklands' Mare harbor will undergo a £19m upgrade to cater for larger vessels
UK Preston based VolkerStevin has won a £19m deal to improve defense infrastructure on the Falkland Islands. VolkerStevin is a contractor providing a wide range of engineering and construction services across a number of market sectors and in this case will upgrade Mare Harbor as part of a design-and-build deal for the UK Defense Infrastructure Organization. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment ruleshow will they possibly manage in the crowded area that is mare harbour :)
Mar 23rd, 2016 - 07:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0it wont take the carrier , will it
Mar 23rd, 2016 - 08:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Looks as though they're planning to stay for another couple of hundred years, or twenty-nine Argentine sovereign debt defaults, whichever comes first.
Mar 23rd, 2016 - 10:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0They will stay, as long as the islanders want us to,
Mar 23rd, 2016 - 11:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0and there is nothing Argentina can do abt it.
But cry.
What a waste. Oh well, taxpayers of GB.
Mar 24th, 2016 - 02:33 am - Link - Report abuse 0@5 “...Oh well, taxpayers...”
Mar 24th, 2016 - 02:48 am - Link - Report abuse 0Defence of the Falklands represents a tiny fraction of what it costs for all those silly mythical malvinas argentinas signs on the buses and frontier control stations.
Oh, well. Taxpayers of Argentistan.
As per usual Vestige, you have no idea what you're talking about.
Mar 24th, 2016 - 07:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0Bit like your prediction regarding the NZ flag.
How did that one turn out?
Ooh goody.
Mar 24th, 2016 - 09:06 am - Link - Report abuse 0Protection of all of our UK territories in the South Atlantic against italio-Spanish colonialists.
I heard a whisper from Brasso that Odebrecht had put in a bid for the contract but they were 40% higher than the winning bid, I wonder why? They must have thought they were dealing with a Brazilians.
Mar 24th, 2016 - 02:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Wow! £180 million! Thats $250 million for Argie Turnips. That demonstrates confidence in the future of the Falkland Islands. Roll on roll off too. Soon be a better port than that Ushuaia place.
Mar 24th, 2016 - 02:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0And as for a Spanish attack from the mainland squatters. We are still waiting for the swimmers, Paul Cedrons Beechcraft Bonanza and hell to freeze over . LOL!
Defence Secretary Fallon is 100% right.
Mar 24th, 2016 - 03:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Philippe
If a roro facility brought a net return to the GB taxpayer then maybe it would be worth it.
Mar 24th, 2016 - 03:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Doubt that happening though. A share of 180 million worth of unfilled English potholes and understaffed wards is all Mr fallons constituency gets in the meantime.
All thanks to the kelpanites.
7 - which prediction are you talking about.
#12
Mar 24th, 2016 - 04:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0If your shower of arseholes backed off with their spurious claim to the Falklands then we would have some extra money to spend at home. So it's YOUR fault.
I believe they are also incorporating a canoe pontoon. This is being specifically provided as a friendly gesture for courtesy visits from the Argentine Navy. There is also a mooring buoy for the Liberturd should it visit.
Mar 24th, 2016 - 04:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Vestige
Mar 24th, 2016 - 11:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Your continual predictions of anti-British and republican fervour that you keep posting.
Seems the first test of that, NZ changing its flag, failed!
their free choice and they decided to keep with the old flag,
Mar 25th, 2016 - 01:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Britain aint finished just yet,
Argentina on the other hand.
15 - Are you making a claim that I made a prediction that didn't come to fruition?
Mar 25th, 2016 - 05:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Or are you merely inventing something.
Please provide a link to back up your claim.
That aside, I think 43% while going against a long established status quo in N.Z, a place significantly less republican than Aus, is a good indicator for what will be coming to Aus soon.
#17
Mar 25th, 2016 - 06:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Why does this interest you so much? You seem desperate to see a split in relations between the UK and it's erstwhile antipodean colonies If either country became Republics and changed their flags it would make NO difference to their relations with the UK.
Ties of history and blood are too strong to cause a permanent rift in relations.
They are and will be closer to us, than Argentina will ever be.
Mar 25th, 2016 - 08:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 018 - Au-contraire Clyde. Any passion you may have noticed will have invariably have come from those who can't accept certain facts I have presented.
Mar 25th, 2016 - 10:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Yes I have a preference for republics, and I have certain opinions that others can't tolerate quietly. Especially when presented with scary numbers.
They demonize the messenger.
It isn't that you have a preference for republics Vestige it is that you are anti-British (or more pointedly, anti-English). Be proud enough to own it.
Mar 25th, 2016 - 11:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Plenty of predictions but as you highlighted in your post, none have come to fruition.
It isn’t the “scary numbers” you present as I've yet to see anything scary.
Your predictions:
25/11/15
“I believe he will be the last Canadian pm to meet the queen of England, and the last Canadian pm to govern a constitutional monarchy.”
5 months later?
9/9/13
“Maybe 12 years would be pretty good timing for the next referendum” for Oz.
2.5 years into that prediction and nothing. To give you comparison, in 2011we started the process of changing the constitution to recognise Aboriginal Australia….. 2011 - 5 years ago and we still haven’t even set a date for that referendum.
Which is probably why two years later you updated your prediction:
15/9/15
“You can put me down for 2025 too. Although thats a conservative bet, my gut says 2020.”
“Turnbull got elected. An ex-chairman of the Australian Republican Movement as your new prime minister. Enjoy.”
Enjoying it very much. Our PM’s take on a republic in January:
‘“Frankly, there was more momentum in the late ’90s than there is now. It needs to have grassroots support. It is not something that a government can just do, even if it wanted to.”
NZ debated to change its flag for nearly 2 years and they couldn’t even decide to remove the Union Flag from their own flag? And as Vestige so helpfully stated, this “is a good indicator for what will be coming to Aus soon”.
Exactly no change!
However I always loved this quote:
“The blue blood era is over, it takes a Putin or a Merkel or an Obama these days.”
Yeah, because those 3 have done such awesome things for their countries (even though Merkel isn’t a president).
I've waited all these years for this rise up in support for a republic in Australia or Canada or New Zealand that Vestige claims exists….. and yet no one can find it.
21 - quite a lot of digging, yet no reference to any post where I make any prediction on the nz flag referendum. Conspicuous absence.
Mar 26th, 2016 - 03:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I'm not anti-British. I'd say it if I was. Given some of the things said in here about Argentinians, south American, or just anybody not white and English I'm sure I wouldn't be banned.
As I said I'm pro-republic. Like most humans.
None of you quote mining discovered anything anti British if you'd care to examine my words.
And yes the blue blood era is on a consistent decline over time, just like republicanism is growing over time in Aus. I've shown you the stats in the past - you clung to the anomalies for hope while wilfully ignoring the trend.
Re; last paragraph. I don't remember ever making a claim of rising support for a republic in NZ. Aus and Canada yes. NZ nope. NZ lags behind aus in that regard unfortunately. Yet still managed 43%. Not bad. One wonders if the stronger republicanism of Aus might bridge that 7% gap.
Only time will tell.
Although I think Charlie being in line for the chair gives us a clue.
I'm not anti-British. I'd say it if I was
Mar 26th, 2016 - 07:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0[ then repeat after me ]
I love the British, you think they are brilliant and have charisma
solid honest loyal and true,
long live great Britain and all its fantastic offspring.
5 times please.
Will ...
Mar 26th, 2016 - 07:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I admire some British people, and think they are brilliant and have charisma
solid honest loyal and true,
long live certain people within great Britain and all its fantastic (as per my criteria) offspring.
...the one time suffice ?
I can't do the 60 million with one brush thing.
Although, some in here can, Ive seen it done, must take lots of practice.
Ha
Mar 26th, 2016 - 07:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0thank you Vestige,
many others would not be so honest.
No Vestige you didn't make a prediction about the NZ Flag. That's why I said “a bit like your prediction regarding the NZ flag”.
Mar 27th, 2016 - 01:05 am - Link - Report abuse 0You didn't make one.
You don't make predictions that close to the present. You prefer to sit behind 5-10 years. However those 5-10 years are now shrinking and nothing is happening.
“I don't remember ever making a claim of rising support for a republic in NZ. Aus and Canada yes.”
Yes, yes.... this rising support.... that no one can seem to find.
However I enjoy many more year so of discussing this simply because I can't find anyone in Australia that wants to. I can't find anyone who supports an Australian republic so I guess I have to drag this loneliness online to someone foreign who does.
Now that is strange. Considering 45% of the Aus public voted Republican in 99. If republican numbers had even halved since then it would in theory only take conversing with 4 or 5.
Mar 27th, 2016 - 04:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Maybe you're only asking within your own community - who incidentally are the second highest subscribers to royalist magazines.
Juuust behind ditzy young women and their tiny minds filled with castles and horses and handsome princes.
I'm sure your reasons are much more sensible.
@27 when it comes to “ditzy young women” there is no nation than can hold a candle to the World's Ditz Capital, right here in Argentistan.
Mar 27th, 2016 - 07:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0There was a much-commented article earlier this year which met with widespread agreement, entitled “Las argentinas son muy lindas pero acomplejadas”
Of course, then there was the unrivaled and likely soon to be indicted Queen of Ditz herself, CFK.
Another lonely boy with a dose of the CFKs.
Mar 28th, 2016 - 12:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0@28
Mar 28th, 2016 - 02:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You are quite right Argentina has some stunning young ladies, but I speak from experience once they marry and have children then they go to seed. No breasts but huge arses.
@30 That is hardly unique to Argentistan.
Mar 28th, 2016 - 03:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What does stand out here are not the physical tendencies but the very conspicuous psychological deformities that are indistinguishable from clinical lunacy.
How much did she take you for Marti ?
Mar 28th, 2016 - 03:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0As I recall it was about 30 pesos, enough for the remís to take her back to her parents' house.
Mar 28th, 2016 - 06:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Oh. You pay for it.
Mar 28th, 2016 - 10:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Only when they're underage.
Mar 29th, 2016 - 12:17 am - Link - Report abuse 0Theres somebody at your door. You should probably answer it.
Mar 29th, 2016 - 01:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0Vestige
Mar 29th, 2016 - 09:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0You have no idea how hard it is to find someone who wants to discuss this in Australia. Honestly, republicanism is such a non-event here that the only people that seem to want to talk about it are the Australian Republican Movement (ARM) who write advertorials for newspapers.
No one else discusses it.
To give you an idea about how few really care, ARM started a petition on change.org a couple of days before Australia Day this year.
It quickly reached a grand total of 13,000 signatures within a week..... and that's it. The end. Great story not!
The petition has been there 2 months now and it is for all intents dead and forgotten.
To give a comparison, a petition was started around the same time regarding taxing backpackers has reached 30,000+ and is still gaining and one regarding wages at Domino's Pizza reached over 44,000. 9,000 wanted to cancel NYE fireworks in Western Australia.
ARM couldn't even get 14,000 Aussies to fill in a simple quick form online.
So, no, most Aussies don't care. Which is what I have been trying to tell you for several years.
You seem to be under the impression that many Aussies are chafing at the bit regarding the monarchy.
As for my community? What community? The gay one? BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA ummmm yeah because queens like the Queen?
Or did you mean the university community?
Or perhaps the Australian born community?
The younger community?
White?
Blue eyed?
I'm unsure how you have pigeon holed me but then again you're not very good at getting stuff right anyway.
37 - You really shouldn't take the world of online petitions too seriously. After all in the US some 35,000 people signed an online petition to build a death star. Then there was the boaty mcboatface incident in GB... that's the internet for you.
Mar 30th, 2016 - 02:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I'd look more to real life established factors such as the queen soon hitting 90, and the Aus public being told Charlie is their king in the not too distant future.
Liz only ever had to deal with slow steady growth of republicanism over time - no one unifying event. Charlie WILL face a moving force.
And yes queens like the queen. For want of better words. Just like they take much more interest in celebrities in general.
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