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Isn't it "irrelevant" with an "a"?
why should the UK increase military presence
'Cold, mountainous environment with nothing to get in the way'… Scotland, anyone?
As for the landmines, can't those be taken out? I don't know much about landmine removal.
Simple, it hasn't done so.
'Because it is there' is a great maxim for mountain climbing, but a very bad one for the management of international relations
Not really the point. If the Union is to be understood as anything more than English microimperialism, then the other indigenous tongues of the Isles need to be recognised as, at least on some level, its equal. The greater usage of English certainly allows it to play a role as first among equals- I'm not suggesting that ever scrap of government information be available in Cornish on demand- but it falls short of any legitimate hegemony. (I would go so far as to say that the same is true within England- that regional dialects such as Northumbric demand more respect than they receive.)More likely to be Punjab or Urdu then Gaelic or Welsh tho tbh ;p
Why would we want to do that?Not really the point. If the Union is to be understood as anything more than English microimperialism,
I've already corrected him but he insists on doing things the English way, i.e. wrong. ؟
My, my, I'd have thought the next place UK troops were to be deployed was somewhere in the Near East from recent history.Oh, I'm not saying that they're the only place that it can be done, but they're a very good training area - not to mention that they provide incredibly realistic training for what is probably the UK's most likely future conflict: the guys down there are doing their live-firing training on the same hills that would be battlefields if the Argentines invaded!
Yeah, that's sick. I'm sure it'd be a great gesture if Argentina could offer some deal: helping remove mines in exchange for being allowed to identify the remains of their dead.Flying Pig said:I was joking; the Royal Engineers spend a lot of their time clearing them up, even now.
Simple, it hasn't done so.
Flying Pig said:'Because it is there' is a great maxim for mountain climbing, but a very bad one for the management of international relations
I was meaning to say that I don't believe the UK actually has increased its military presence in the region, Dauntless replacing Montrose and all.
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What do you think all that hooligan stuff has really been? We've been training them on the InterCity for a reason.Maybe it's time Scotland tried a century's worth of poorly planned and thought out rebellions, each stupider than the last.
Go for the unemployed ones first. You'll solve unemployment and start an independence war.I'll call some of my fellow effete intellectuals, see if any of them fancy dying bloodily for no particular reason.
The English way is wrong, therefore, my statement stands .Or wrongly
And, besides, why does everyone keep expecting Argentina to invade while also stating it's impossible?.
My, my, I'd have thought the next place UK troops were to be deployed was somewhere in the Near East from recent history.
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Oh good god! You don't want to go starting a war with the English, that never ends well!Go for the unemployed ones first. You'll solve unemployment and start an independence war.
But it's still stupid to incense them by all this manouvering.It's impossible that they'll win. It's not impossible that they'll be stupid enough to try.
Wasn't there some presence in Lybia last year?Flying Pig said:There's another thread on this, but I'm convinced that, even if there is American involvement in that part of the world (very unlikely), the British will not intervene.
Don't you?Do you believe the UK is militarising the situation?
But we get rid of the effete intellectuals and adance in our secret plan to crown Kan' Sharuminar as kig of Scotland!Oh good god! You don't want to go starting a war with the English, that never ends well!
You just keep having stupider rebellions, and eventually the English will act even stupider in response.
Don't you?
But it's still stupid to incense them by all this manouvering.
Wasn't there some presence in Lybia last year?
Auntie said:Argentina has riled the Falkland Islands by broadcasting a political advert filmed on the territory without authorisation.
The advert features an Argentine athlete training in the Falklands ahead of the London Olympics in July.
It ends with the slogan: "To compete on English soil, we train on Argentine soil."
Falklands legislator Ian Hansen dismissed it as a piece of "cheap and disrespectful propaganda".
The advert - broadcast in Argentina on Wednesday night - is the latest measure by Argentina to reassert its claim to the British overseas territory it calls the Malvinas.
'No respect'
Produced by the Argentine presidency, it is titled Olympic Games 2012: Homage to the Fallen and the Veterans of the Malvinas.
It shows Argentine hockey captain Fernando Zylberberg running and exercising in the Falklands capital Port Stanley, interspersed with shots of penguins and the windswept South Atlantic.
Mr Hansen said the video had been filmed without permission from the islands' authorities.
He accused Argentina of trying to "politicise the Olympics in service of its territorial ambitions".
"It is deeply sad to see Mr Zylberberg clambering over a war memorial. Sadly this illustrates the disrespect the Argentine authorities have for our home and our people," Mr Hansen said.
"At no stage does the video feature any Falkland Islanders - a clear reflection of Argentina's policy, which is to pretend that the people of the Falkland Islands do not exist."