Falklands: how important it is for UK electorate to have the Islands remaining British

Monday, June 8th 2026 - 23:22 UTC

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This is a special week for the Falkland Islands and its people, Sunday is 14th June, the 44th anniversary of the Liberation of the Islands from the invading Argentine troops, which on that day definitively signed their surrender to the British Task Force sent to the South Atlantic to liberate the forcibly submitted Falklands people after 74 days. Read full article

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Pytangua
As the article says “This was significantly down from the 29% of all Britons who said it was very important” - so the title of the article is misleading. Time to hand back to rgentina in exchange for commitment to recognise the rights of the tiny group of colonists there.
Jun 09th, 2026 - 11:48 am - Link - Report abuse -2
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Freddie Foster
Its time for you to get a reality check and realise you have never owned the islands and never will, and ita also time for all the white Argentinians cuckoos to return back to Europe and leave the land to the true native owners,
Jun 09th, 2026 - 12:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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imoyaro
“...commitment to recognise the rights of the tiny group of colonists there.”

Who do you think you are kidding? Argentina doesn't recognize the rights of it's own citizens, never has, never will. ;)
Jun 13th, 2026 - 10:17 pm - Link - Report abuse +1
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Jack Jones
Pytangua, you call the islanders colonists. what does that make you ? every white person on the American continent are implanted European stock. in other words colonists. the Falklands are not at the top of the list when it comes to whats most important to the British people , but that doesnt mean they want to give them to Argentina, and its for the islanders to decide no one else,
you cant hand back something that never belonged to you in the first place, Britain first claimed the islands in 1594. you did not exist as a country, your post makes zero sense,
Jun 13th, 2026 - 11:06 pm - Link - Report abuse +1
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Terence Hill
“The US could withdraw its support for Britain’s claim to the Overseas Territory as punishment”

'As late as 1886 the (US)Secretary of State found it necessary to inform the Argentine Government that as “the resumption of actual occupation of the Falkland Islands by Great Britain in 1833 took place under a claim of title which had been previously asserted and maintained by that Government, it is not seen that the Monroe Doctrine, which has been invoked on the part of the Argentine Republic, has any application to the case. By the terms in which that principle of international conduct was announced, it was expressly excluded from retroactive operation.”
P.60 Sovereignty and the Falkland Islands Crisis D.W. Greig

The US resembles nothing of what she once was, and appears that she has less and less influence on others.
Jun 16th, 2026 - 03:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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