Falklands to hold Referendum

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Just announced on BBC News. I wonder what the result might be?

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southame...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/falklan...

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Asterix said:

Why do I think the Government of the Falkland Islands looks like this?

Couldn't find an "in session" picture, but the outside looks like this:



You probably aren't that far off.

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http://www.buenosairesherald.com/article/103369/ma...

Reading comments on Spanish language websites, they seem to be rather less jingoistic than before. Still plenty of nutters, but quite a few Argentinians saying "Why on earth would they want to be part of a corrupt and bankrupt state?"

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10 Pence Short said:

The UK?

Very Good.

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Mr Sparkle said:

Excluding the service staff most have been there for a few generations I think. There was no indigenous human population.

Most families there can tell you how many generations they've been islanders - I think 6 is about the maximum. I understand some of them can trace ancestry and continuous habitation back before 1833, which is quite a crucial point given the current argument.

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ralphrj said:

davepoth said:

I understand some of them can trace ancestry and continuous habitation back before 1833, which is quite a crucial point given the current argument.

But not to Argentina as they claim that there was an indigenous Argentine population that was removed from the Islands by the British in 1833.

They are the people that Kirchener says were removed. Except they weren't indigenous (nobody lived there until it was colonized) and they weren't Argentinian (since Argentina didn't exist in its current from until 1861), although the most famous of those original colonists, a Carmelita Penny, did come from Buenos Aires.

Thus the Falklanders can legitimately claim an unbroken occupation of the islands since before 1833.

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Mad Agrentine lady rabbiting on live in the General Assembly right now:

http://webtv.un.org/

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NDA said:

I like how they say 'we will never surrender our claim to the sovereignty'.

Purleese.

Go away. It belongs to us. Always has done.

Well, it was owned by France first, but they aren't especially bothered. And before that I assume penguins had a legitimate claim.