Kan' Sharuminar
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It's a big rock with a lot of sheep and some people. Let them decide and for goodness sake shut up and feed the news with something more interesting.
So is Australia.It's a big rock with a lot of sheep and some people.
So is Australia.
It's a big rock with a lot of sheep and some people.
It's a big rock with a lot of sheep and some people. Let them decide and for goodness sake shut up and feed the news with something more interesting.
It's a shame that it hasn't meaningfully increased their pverall rate of die-off.The British aristocracy are surprisingly willing to throw themselves in battle- just look at how many of them died in the First World War in proportion to the rest of the population. It can be a real point of honour for them, for whatever reason.
Erm, what? I assume you have no idea of what a successor state is.The Spanish Empire was disbanded, not handed down to a successor State. And the Falklands weren't theirs to give away anyway.
Looks like the row has notched itself up a bit.
Falkland Islands newspaper calls Cristina Fernández de Kirchner a *insert naughty word*
Thousands of complaints after insult that followed Fernández accusing Britain of militarising south Atlantic islands
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/feb/09/cristina-fernandez-de-kirchner--penguin-news
Yep, no one's doing anything to settle the dispute, they're (sub/un)consciously taking as many steps they can to make sure this goes on for longer and longer.The best way to describe what's going on is probably "posturing."
So is Britain if we look at it that way.So is Australia.It's a big rock with a lot of sheep and some people. Let them decide and for goodness sake shut up and feed the news with something more interesting.
Now, people does Thatcheron really care about ~3000 people or is it the billions in dispute over potential oil exploitation plus control over Antarctica, plus the more immediate objective of looking capable of doing anything at all instead of showing how crappy his government and any other Tory government is?
"Who the hell cares about some piss-soaked little islands, I need a job"?I suspect it's more to do with the fact that giving away the islands today would be political suicide because of the lives lost in 1982 and public feeling towards the situation.
"Who the hell cares about some piss-soaked little islands, I need a job"?
Although I guess Scotland tends to sit at the far end of the bell-curve on these issues.
Ummm no. It doesn't have anything to do with his political opinions per se, but his history of putting his foot in his mouth similar to Michel Moore or Bill O'riley, (an example of both sides of the political spectrum for ya)
I guess this is a regional thing. I can't see it changing anyone's mind here- or, at least, not beyond the extent to which it would re-enforce an already existing trend towards the SNP. (And at this point it seems that no government minister can so much as draw breath without dropping another vote into Salmond's hands.)The furore over a government minister being seen to abandon the islands after the 1983 conflict would be tremendous. Maybe in a few generations the public will care less but I hope not.
Well, sure, now you say that.Ummm no. It doesn't have anything to do with his political opinions per se, but his history of putting his foot in his mouth similar to Michel Moore or Bill O'riley, (an example of both sides of the political spectrum for ya)
I suspect it's more to do with the fact that giving away the islands today would be political suicide because of the lives lost in 1982 and public feeling towards the situation.
How the Falkland Islanders went to war in 1982 to rid their country of the Argentine invaders with courage, ingenuity and vital practical help to the advancing British forces has been told for the first time.
They braved danger, deportation and imprisonment as they also spied on and carried out sabotage against the Argentines, carried out psychological propaganda, transmitted intelligence by radio, ferried ammunition and the wounded, guided the advance paratroop patrols and fought in the front line. Women as well as men were in the forefront of "the fighting farmers".
Excellent reading, thanks for the link. I mean no disrespect to them by this at all, but I couldn't but help think of C.W. McCall's "Convoy" when reading of Trudi's caravan of ammunition! Rubber Duck, even!
Ah, Rubber Duck to Sodbuster, come over. Yeah, 10-4, Sodbuster? Lissen, you wanna put that micra-bus in behind that suicide jockey? Yeah, he's haulin' dynamite, and he needs all the help he can get.
...
'Cause we got a mighty convoy
Rockin' through the night.
Yeah, we got a mighty convoy,
Ain't she a beautiful sight?
Come on and join our convoy
Ain't nothin' gonna get in our way.
We gonna roll this truckin' convoy
'Cross theU-S-AFalklands!