Falkland islands

Im suprised no one has mentioned it, whats you opinion on this situation.

I believe this is one of the few places we never took by force? and there were no natives living on them previously?

Im believe no one wiill offer the uk any support, even chile has switched sides, i think we will be backed in to sharing sovereignty.

You forget about the Yanks and their love of the "Black Gold".

Our islands as they have been for the last 300 years on the most part. Argentina has no claim over them. And compared to 1982 the islands have a far better defence force while the argentines have nothing that they could realistically use in an attack. I ant really see the americans sitting out of it either especially with the new US free americas block on the cards.

I personally think that the people of the islands should get to choose who they are governed by. Having had family members spend time over there I am very confident that they would choose to be ruled by the British not the Argentinians. This is a similar situation to 1982, trouble in the Argentine homeland, us drilling for oil gives them a good option to deflect their troubles and people's attention elsewhere. As for what Hugo Chavez said about the days of the Empire read above, if they wish to remain British then who is to tell them that simply because of their geographical location that they should not be allowed?

Agree, the islanders opinion should count.

One of the documentary on for the 25th anniversary had interviews with the islanders and i can remember them saying that they wanted to be part of britain

[fastdruid]

As far as I'm concerned it should only be up to the residents and AFAIK they want to be part of Britain.

Druid

I've been there twice, 87 and 88. I can say that while I was there the "locals" were definately proud to be British.

you gotta fight

for your right

for a windswept cold iiiiisssslllaaaaannndddd

I'm suprised it hasn't been mentioned, I didn't want to start a thread as I'm not so clued up on the history of the previous conflict, but it was big enough news that my mate and I talked about it all day when the news first broke some time last week

Why do you think we went in their in the 1st place? Bugger all to do with sovereignty, they knew back then about the oil reserves that's why the Yanks wanted to get involved all them years back.