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FIGO congratulates new Secretary of Defense Shapps and acknowledges outgoing Wallace
The Falklands government Office in London, FIGO, has sent congratulations to the new UK Secretary of State for Defense, Grant Shapps, a staunch supporter of the Falkland Islands and its right to self determination and to decide on its future. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesHow much do you think they would “support free determination” if the islanders were start seeking to break from the UK and have closer ties to the Argentinians? ... Boy that would be fun to watch ! Seeing how the British start lying through their teeth and putting on a show while they start coming up with new creative slander and explanations about how the Argentinians would eventually invade the islands and take them over
Sep 06th, 2023 - 11:35 am - Link - Report abuse -2The islanders are free to get closer to anyone they want. Britain gets nothing from the Falklands, wants nothing from the Falklands, they can have independence tomorrow if they want it, they can choose to be Argentinian if they want, it is their choice, is that so difficult to understand,
Sep 06th, 2023 - 11:47 am - Link - Report abuse 0Trimonde
Sep 07th, 2023 - 07:48 am - Link - Report abuse 0How did Britain behave when Jamaica, Barbados, Bahamas, Grenada, St Lucia, Trinidad, Australia, New Zealand, Canada etc wanted to practise self-determination?
Hundreds of millions of people around the world as Britain voluntarily dismantled its Empire.
3000 folks in the Falklands are no different, we will support what they want.
Unfortunately, Argentina is a corrupt cesspit of a country with failed Peronist doctrines bankrupting the State. Maybe in centuries in the future that wont be the case, and the islanders will want to join them....Britain would happily support that.
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