More Argie Bargie

[TorqueVR]

MentalSarcasm said:

Snowdon has released documents that claim that the UK spied on Argentina between 2006 and 2011;

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-32172669

I think most British people will be mentally filing this under "no st Sherlock".

I should bloody well hope so!!!

[CambsBill]

NailedOn said:

http://news.sky.com/story/1457488/drilling-finds-o...
Oil!
Oil I tell you!
If there's a viable quantity, this could get interesting.

Hector & Zebedee exploration areas - sounds like my generation's now in charge of naming

[jmorgan]

TorqueVR said:

MentalSarcasm said:

Snowdon has released documents that claim that the UK spied on Argentina between 2006 and 2011;

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-32172669

I think most British people will be mentally filing this under "no st Sherlock".

I should bloody well hope so!!!

I am outraged that we have spies spying on belligerent and not so long ago hostile countries. I mean, what do we pay them for?

[MartG]

Summoning of ambassadors has occurred

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/04/09/british...

[2013BRM]

now it should get interesting

[TEKNOPUG]

You'd think that they'd have better things to do than file claims against companies opertaing in waters that they have zero sovereignty over. Clearly the Argentinian economy is going so well that their politician have nothing to occupy them all day.

[MartG]

TEKNOPUG said:

You'd think that they'd have better things to do than file claims against companies opertaing in waters that they have zero sovereignty over. Clearly the Argentinian economy is going so well that their politician have nothing to occupy them all day.

Obvious that they are manufacturing an external threat to keep their population stirred up against so they don't attack their own government for the crap economy, suspicious deaths of prosecutors, etc.

[TEKNOPUG]

The British Ambassador must have the patience of a saint! I can imagine him leaving the British Embassy after being summoned, thinking, "Christ, not this st again." as he reaches for his hip flask....

[dudleybloke]

She's heard about the oil under Gatwick and is declaring the airport and surrounding area as Argentinian sovereign territory.

[andymadmak]

TEKNOPUG said:

The British Ambassador must have the patience of a saint! I can imagine him leaving the British Embassy after being summoned, thinking, "Christ, not this st again." as he reaches for his hip flask....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymFSzyTqfe0

[Mr_B]

andymadmak said:

TEKNOPUG said:

The British Ambassador must have the patience of a saint! I can imagine him leaving the British Embassy after being summoned, thinking, "Christ, not this st again." as he reaches for his hip flask....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymFSzyTqfe0

Hoping our man in Argentina is more Sir Sidney Rough-Diamond

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vi1pyTigiT8

[Vaud]

2013BRM said:

now it should get interesting

Why? All bluster. Summoning ambassadors means the square root of nothing.

Declaring them PNG or expelling embassy staff would be a more serious move.

[Asterix]

Exactly.

After that if they become JPG or TIFF, then it's gloves off.

[Hooli]

dudleybloke said:

She's heard about the oil under Gatwick and is declaring the airport and surrounding area as Argentinian sovereign territory.

I could believe that too.

[FourWheelDrift]

TEKNOPUG said:

The British Ambassador must have the patience of a saint! I can imagine him leaving the British Embassy after being summoned, thinking, "Christ, not this st again." as he reaches for his hip flask....

hip flask........crucifix, holy water, garlic and wooden stake.

[Vaud]

Asterix said:

Exactly.

After that if they become JPG or TIFF, then it's gloves off.

Roflcopter.

[LastLight]

MartG said:

TEKNOPUG said:

You'd think that they'd have better things to do than file claims against companies opertaing in waters that they have zero sovereignty over. Clearly the Argentinian economy is going so well that their politician have nothing to occupy them all day.

Obvious that they are manufacturing an external threat to keep their population stirred up against so they don't attack their own government for the crap economy, suspicious deaths of prosecutors, etc.

Yes, almost certainly the case. Who else did similar and when?

Don't Godwin the thread!

[Hooli]

LastLight said:

MartG said:

TEKNOPUG said:

You'd think that they'd have better things to do than file claims against companies opertaing in waters that they have zero sovereignty over. Clearly the Argentinian economy is going so well that their politician have nothing to occupy them all day.

Obvious that they are manufacturing an external threat to keep their population stirred up against so they don't attack their own government for the crap economy, suspicious deaths of prosecutors, etc.

Yes, almost certainly the case. Who else did similar and when?

Don't Godwin the thread!

Roooosia?

/dumb yank accent

[LastLight]

Ha, I did think of that when I wrote it. But I was thinking of something rather earlier, the link being Germans' affection for Argentina, esp. post war - Bavaria by the Antarctic...

Ugly politics, and I'm not just referring to the President.

[mikal83]

The Prez has to do something to keep the military happy otherwise there will be yet another military takeover by a new lot who will then do some saber rattling etc...Its easy when your not getting shot at to send in a stload of conscripts that don't have a feckin clue what there doing, but with the internet hopefully they'll do a bit of searching to see what happened to them last time.