Argentina renews claim to our beloved Falkland Islands
 

Here.

Might be a prudent move to up the garrison size and perhaps a few more F3s. Presumably land based radar should be able to spot incoming Arg a/c on take off so early warning should not be a problem. HMS Liverpool is FIGS at the moment.

This is only kicking off because Falklands Oil and Gas have finally secured a drilling rig, and can now start actually pumping the black stuff out of the ground around the islands.
That and the fact that Argentina is still in an economic s**thole, makes another invasion an 'easy' way of picking up all that revenue.

Sea jet anyone? :)

Simple - Argentina v England in the World Cup and the winner keeps the islands.

Can't see what bennyfit a few more grunts and another brace of fag chariots would provide - Argentina ruled out military action several years ago. And where would the 'upped garrision' actually come from - Iraq or Afghanistan?

It would be easier to give each islander £1M each and a ticket to NZ

We still have over 10,000 in NI not doing very much.

We tried something similar in Diego Garcia. I don't think HMG would want to be in that position. The days of forcing citizens out of the land of their birth are long gone.

And didn't the Garcians win an appeal to be allowed to return sometime in the last month?

No surprises there then - saw a Malvinas flag behind the goal in the Argy Bargy game last week - went right off them again.

Not too similar. I think the inhabitants were given something nearer to £1 than £1m !

"From 1967 to 1973, British officials and military officers – in secret and for a secret fee of $14 million, paid by the U.S. military unlawfully (without Congressional authorization) – forcibly evicted, arrested, detained, deported, and excluded permanently from their homeland the entire indigenous citizen population of all 65 islands (every last man, woman, and child), an ethnic-cleansing which (as they secretly admitted at the time) violated the United Nations Charter and other U.S. and international law and, as a British Court ruled 30 years later, British domestic law as well (Nov. 3 2000)."

Hardly the same as bunging Bennies £1M and a one-way ticket each!

See http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/st...317945,00.html for more information on the scandalous treatment of the islanders of Diego Garcia.

Could the Kiwis cope with an influx of more technically advanced and otherwise superior species of immigrants? :ouch:

More to the point, could they cope if they brought 5M sheep with them...

And to add insult to injury, most of the DGs were then "re-settled" in Crawley :(

So moving Crawley very more much up-market?:eek:

A tropical paradise fishing or down town Crawley cleaning LGW toilets......:ouch:

Daede1 sorry mate that's cobblers, Desire Petroleum (who have a lot / most of the blocks around the FI) shares are still bumping along around £0.33 as they have done for ages. See here http://www.axlquotes.com/axl-dlls/pu...tml&SYMBOL=DES

Come now Beags - You ought to know better than to believe the word of a politician. :O

Sounds a great idea. Hand the bloomin things over as soon as possible. We have wasted far too much money on these islands...let some other bugger take care of them

oops!

Started another thead before I saw this one.:O

Correct me someone if I am wrong but historically Argentina has never owed the Falklands/Malvinas.

I believe that they, the islands, were originally a Spanish outpost as was the "colony" of Argentina.

Spain ceded ownership and pulled out and a couple of RN frigates planted the flag as nobody else wanted them.

This was before Argentina was even an independant country. So consequently they have no claim under international law.

Alwayz

A few went back by ship from Mauritius for visit lasting a few days.