Good luck complaining to the UN.

Chapter 1, Article 1, part 2 states that purpose of the UN Charter is: "To develop friendly relations among nations based on respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples, and to take other appropriate measures to strengthen universal peace."[13]
Article 1 in both the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)[14] and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR).[15] Both read: "All peoples have the right of self-determination. By virtue of that right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development."

Originally Posted by BuggerAll

Jim hates Britain and America and takes every opportunity to badmouth us. Meanwhile he is part of a system that oppresses the Aboriginal natives of Australia.

I also seem to recall his saying he was British born. It seems he just can't bear to relinquish all ties with the Old Country.

Listening to the news today, it was suggested that she may be playing the long game. They tried military means once didn't work, so diplomatic/political methods?

I don't want to sound overly pessimistic, but who would have predicted the way Ireland turned out back in the late seventies and early eighties?

Blair was close to selling out Gib, is Cameroon or his sucessor likely to stick to their principles, or will they take the cheapest, most expedient route?

Originally Posted by Chef

Listening to the news today, it was suggested that she may be playing the long game. They tried military means once didn't work, so diplomatic/political methods?

I don't want to sound overly pessimistic, but who would have predicted the way Ireland turned out back in the late seventies and early eighties?

Blair was close to selling out Gib, is Cameroon or his sucessor likely to stick to their principles, or will they take the cheapest, most expedient route?

Despite many of Cameron's numerous U-Turn's the Falkland's won't be added to the list as it would be Political suicide.

Just further hot air & moaning from the female, as not to do anything would'nt look good for a person in her position.

Originally Posted by Chef

Listening to the news today, it was suggested that she may be playing the long game. They tried military means once didn't work, so diplomatic/political methods?

I don't want to sound overly pessimistic, but who would have predicted the way Ireland turned out back in the late seventies and early eighties?

Blair was close to selling out Gib, is Cameroon or his sucessor likely to stick to their principles, or will they take the cheapest, most expedient route?

Whatever chance they had before 1982, after causing this to be built…



…they have precisely no hope of that ever happening again.

The real problem , as pointed out in Hugh Bicheno's book " Razor's Edge " , is our own Civil Service .

All white dependencies of hardy self sufficient farmers and fishermen the other side of the world is far too 1950's for an urban , multicultural ,PC and basically left wing organization such as the modern Civil Service .

They pretend to do the government's bidding whilst really hoping to give it away eventually to an unstable and corrupt third world country .

If the Falklands were a basket case of crime , benefits , alcoholism , and welfare dependency they would take a more benign view of the place .

Originally Posted by 2/51

Does make me laugh that both Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and her husband, the former President, are both of non Argentinian decent.

His mother was Chilian/Croatian mix, his father, Swiss-German, who served in the German army (SS) and fled to Argentina after WW2.

She had a Spanish father and...and a German mother.

Although born there, they are both of immigrant families, yet both seem to want to impose foreign rule on British subjects.

The Austrians have a bit of previous for this sort of thing too.

Dont you think some of Germany had SS Fathers, and the children turn out ok, move on past that rhetoric

Originally Posted by velcrostripes

The real problem , as pointed out in Hugh Bicheno's book " Razor's Edge " , is our own Civil Service .

All white dependencies of hardy self sufficient farmers and fishermen the other side of the world is far too 1950's for an urban , multicultural ,PC and basically left wing organization such as the modern Civil Service .

They pretend to do the government's bidding whilst really hoping to give it away eventually to an unstable and corrupt third world country .

If the Falklands were a basket case of crime , benefits , alcoholism , and welfare dependency they would take a more benign view of the place .

Cracking book, and bang on the money - both the book and your comment.

Originally Posted by DesktopCommando

Dont you think some of Germany had SS Fathers, and the children turn out ok, move on past that rhetoric

Do some digging around on line , you'll find that the parents were angels compared to this couple .

They built their first fortune by buying the expropriated properties of the
" disappeared " from military contacts through bribery .

Many of these people disappeared because they betrayed them in the first place.

The make the Sopranos look like choirboys.