Falklands: consultation on ceremonial Governor's uniform, tradition or modernity?

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The Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly is seeking public views on whether or not to continue the use of the ceremonial uniform of the Governor. This consultation seeks to get a sense of the view of the public in regards to the use of a ceremonial gubernatorial uniform. The response period closes Sunday 20th April. Read full article

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Liberato
Devolve the plums to the chicken and the islands to Argentina and everybody's happy. The chiquen, the british in Malvinas and Argentina.
Apr 20th, 2025 - 01:31 pm - Link - Report abuse -6
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Esteban Domingo Fernandez
Better still Libby, all you Spanish Italians and Germans return back to Europe and give the land back to the natives, the British where hardly chickens when they kicked your ass in 1982 after an illegal invasion, its you who where the Turkeys who got plucked stuffed and roasted, idiot,
Apr 20th, 2025 - 06:25 pm - Link - Report abuse +6
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darragh
Liberato

The last time Argentina did something silly they got well and truly 'plucked' didn't they.
By the way as far as I can see there are no 'plums' in the ceremonial headdress.
Apr 21st, 2025 - 01:45 pm - Link - Report abuse +2
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Veteran
For what it is worth, then having just watched the immaculate, yet flamboyant Swiss Guard at the Vatican, then there is a place for tradition and respect for the longevity of an institution.

I believe one of the great British virtues is tradition and a sense of place.

However, if the population of the Falklands feel that this uniform is archaic and sends the wrong message, then who am I to argue.

It will annoy the near neighbours though.
Apr 21st, 2025 - 03:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Jack Jones
Where do these clueless poorly educated Argentine trolls spring from. is their an academy that they go to that teaches them to open their mouth before getting their brain in gear,
Apr 21st, 2025 - 04:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Liberato
Jack Jones, Every nation has traditions. Some of them good, and some of them questionable. The use of that uniform in the colonial regime has no importance at all for me or my fellow countrymens.It doesnt change anything.
But it doesnt means i have to respect it. It is a colonial traditional uniform. And i dont like the uks colonial attitudes.
As im sure you dont respect the mutilation of genitals of women in Africa or the Animal sacrifice to God involving mass ritual slaughter, etc.
If you like to dress a man with feathers taken from the royal chiquen, go ahead. All i can think of is that i hope the chiquen was tasty.
Evidently, the others commentators here has a better sense of humour than you. They understand a joke.
Apr 21st, 2025 - 11:45 pm - Link - Report abuse -3
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Jack Jones
A very poor joke Liberato and about as funny as diarrhoea, if you have nothing better to do than post rubbish then you are a sad character who needs to grow up,. What I said still stands, your second post is just as bad,
Apr 22nd, 2025 - 08:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Terence Hill
“I dont like the uks colonial attitudes. As im sure you dont respect the mutilation of genitals of women in Africa or the Animal sacrifice to God involving mass ritual slaughter, etc.”

And of course there is a colonial Argentine attitude!

“At the end of the colonial period, Blacks constituted approximately a third of the urban population. According to the census of 1887 and the opinions of contemporary observers, the urban Black population declined numerically to roughly half its colonial size and fell to an inconsequential 2 percent of total population by the end of the century. How did the Black population of Buenos Aires disappear?
It is widely reported that president of Argentina from 1868 to 1874, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, undertook a ‘covert genocide’ that wiped out the Afro-Argentinean population to the point that by 1875, there were so little Black people left in Argentina that the government didn’t even bother registering African-descendants in the national census.”
https://afropunk.com/2018/07/argentinas-black-population-has-been-systematically-erased-removed-in-whitewashing-effort/
Apr 23rd, 2025 - 03:07 pm - Link - Report abuse +1
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imoyaro
”...Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, undertook a ‘covert genocide’ that wiped out the Afro-Argentinean population to the point that by 1875, there were so little Black people left in Argentina that the government didn’t even bother registering African-descendants in the national census.”

I'm glad you brought that up. It still brings a smile to remember that that Unitarian Nazi's son died face down in the mud before Curupayti during his attempt to exterminate the Paraguayan people...
Apr 23rd, 2025 - 09:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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