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Falklands startled at Westminster paper proposing UK citizens right to vote in Overseas Territories
“Belongership” and its equivalents are wrong,” it is emphatically stated in a startling paper from the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee. The paper says the belongership status (known as Falklands Status in the Falklands) as enshrined in the constitutions of a number of British Overseas Territories, including the Falklands, denies legally-resident British Overseas Territory and UK citizens the right to vote and to hold elected office. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesC'mon Kelpers...
Feb 22nd, 2019 - 09:56 am - Link - Report abuse -4Nothing new here at all...
It's back to the good auld days again...
Do as Master says... or you are on your own..
That's the basis of being a colony..., remember...?
Think, we can assure you we will not change the way we do things just because a group of folks 8000 mile suggest , but who have have little idea of reality. We are no longer a “Colony” - have not been for a couple of decades or so.
Feb 22nd, 2019 - 10:55 am - Link - Report abuse +3Mr. Timlander...
Feb 22nd, 2019 - 01:56 pm - Link - Report abuse -3Rest assured that you will have to change the way you do things just because The Crown, 8000 mile away suggest it..., the Crown that owns you...
You are still “Colony”..., matey..., as Gibraltar is...
As clearly stated in the Brexit Agreement...
Storm in a teacup. The FCO has already stated that it will not take up the Committee's advice with regard to belongers as that matter is clearly devolved. To do otherwise may even breach a UN Resolution, and the FCO wouldn't want to see the FIG complaining to the C24. Not that that wouldn't be fun to see.
Feb 22nd, 2019 - 10:49 pm - Link - Report abuse +2I understand that Falkland Radio has asked some members of said Committee to explain themselves in interviews, but so far the silence has been deafening.
FA Committee's come and go. They achieve little and this one will disappear when the next election looms. Which seems likely to be sooner than later.
Mr. Roger Lorton...
Feb 23rd, 2019 - 12:47 am - Link - Report abuse -2You say...:
***“The FCO has already stated that it will not take up the Committee's advice with regard to belongers as... blahh..., blahh..., blah...”***
I say...:
O'Really...?
If you really want to reassure them gullible squatting colonial Kelpers down here..., you should..., at least..., provide them (and poor, humble me...) with a link to that...: ***“ The FCO has already stated that it will not take up the Committee's advice with regard to belongers etc..., etc..., etc..., ”***..., of yours...
Specially taking in consideration that the Westminster paper in question was first published yesterday...:
https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201719/cmselect/cmfaff/1464/146405.htm#_idTextAnchor005 ...
... and that the Foreign and Colonial Office ain't precisely known for their response speed...
You wouldn't be adapting reality to your needs and wishes... would you lad...?
That wojld be akin to telling porkies..., you know...?
Naughty..., naughty...
I never tell porkies Think. Read the Parliamentary report & then Penguin News. This is going nowhere.
Feb 23rd, 2019 - 12:57 pm - Link - Report abuse +2(For the record I'm in Bangkok & using a spare computer so my replies may be slow in coming)
Always said that you are either British or you are not...if British then there should be no more privileges than every British person...
Feb 23rd, 2019 - 01:03 pm - Link - Report abuse +2TWIMC...
Feb 23rd, 2019 - 02:42 pm - Link - Report abuse -2Let's read what them Kelpers themselves mean about being British...:
http://data.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/committeeevidence.svc/evidencedocument/foreign-affairs-committee/the-future-of-the-uk-overseas-territories/written/94585.html
***“The Falkland Islands are British and not just by dint of the fact that we are an Overseas Territory of the UK. The overwhelming majority of Falkland Islanders were either born in the UK or are the descendants of people born in the UK....
Yes, we have a distinctive Falklands identity that we are proud of, but that is no different to people who are Scottish and British, Welsh and British, English and British, or from Northern Ireland and British....
We do not see ourselves as “foreign” and hope that the UK Government and wider general public do not see us as being “foreign” either....
We see ourselves very much as being A PART OF THE UK....
What a luuuuuving British family members them Kelpers are..., I say...
- Noooo problem for them having 255 of their British cousins killed to protect them against the Argie animals...
- Noooo problem for them having Britain spending billions of good Engrish £ to defend their squatted ”property” against the Argie animals...
- Biiiiiiig problem for them Kelpers though... letting any British cousin freely choose to reside..., buy property..., or vote on them windblown BOT Isles...
At this specific points them British cousins have no more privileges than any bloody Foreign person...
How democratic of them...!
Don't you Think...?
You will have noted that the Falklanders are not alone in their fears with regard to changes. All the BoTs have similar fears, particularly where they are small populations. The Falklanders have the added issue of a belligerent neighbour that would attempt to use any changes to its advantage.
Feb 23rd, 2019 - 10:27 pm - Link - Report abuse +3The people of the BoTs will be the ones to decide on any changes and that is in accordance with the UN resolutions that protect their rights. Any change to the demographics would also appear to breach at least one UN resolution (although that's hardly unusual).
And British money has been spent on British territory Think. No squatting. Argentina's spurious and unfounded claims to the contrary.
I doubt that the Government is interested in changing the situation and clearly the FCO is not. The FAC do not have the power to make it so, and this particular oversight committee will be gone within 18 months.
I think leaving devolved issues to the people that the issues have been devolved too is very democratic.
UK should follow France and find a way of making territories overseas a part of the UK in some way that is clear to Argentina and Spain.
Feb 25th, 2019 - 02:32 pm - Link - Report abuse +1In Argentina and in Spain, if they saw an MP from those territories in Westminster, this would be a clear signal that decolonisation is well and truly all over and that they have a border with the UK and not a border with a confused situation which they can exploit when there is a treacherous marxist government in Westminster.
Many in the UK have started to forget where the Falklands are, and an MP would be a good thing, now that we are about 5 or 7 MPs from the fall of the Conservative minority Government one MP would be a precious commodity for any party, and today the smaller number of Ulster MPs have more clout than the much larger Scottish contingent.
Also the patriotism of the Falklands and Gibraltar forged under a constant threat to our nationality would be a breath of fresh air against the politically correct views of the main parties. Sadly these two populations rely on other MPs elected by other people to voice their opinions.
Ooooooooops....
Feb 25th, 2019 - 03:30 pm - Link - Report abuse -1The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has..., just some minutes ago..., declared that the UK must “Rapidly' Cede Control of them Islands”...
Chuckle..., chuckle...
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