Argies On Falklands Soil!

[Philtaz]

Argentina screens Olympic advert showing their athlete training in Port Stanley, having done so without authority.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/...atin-america-17946838

Cheeky b******s!

[MarkRae]

They are playing a very dangerous game indeed. Our military is currently ranked fifth in the world in terms of strength of fire-power - theirs isn't even in the top thirty...

[Philtaz]

After all their whining and BS about Prince William carrying out some of his training in the Falklands, they certainly know how to wave a red rag.
Imagine if Maggie was in power now? She'd have been apoplectic after seeing that!

[MarkRae]

> Imagine if Maggie was in power now?

She isn't. Let's at least be grateful for that!

[Philtaz]

Your data on the relative comparisons in forces bears out Mark, however they do have superior numbers within closer range and I was always told whilst serving that 'there is no substitute for boots on the ground'.


But I also remember having a t-shirt that had the motto:

Peace....through superior firepower.

[FredPuli43]

Now, now, Mark, just because she was misunderstood over poll tax, a generous measure which left my mother's gardener, with his family, in his cottage paying far more of the tax than she did. She paid it for them, thinking the measure..er...misplaced. Maggie had clearly intended such philanthropy from the landowning classes , while being inspired by the feudal times of John of Gaunt, whose idea poll tax had been. Curiously, his caused the peasants to revolt, but we can take the comparison too far..

[MarkRae]

She remains, without doubt, the most loathsome Briton who has existed within my lifetime.

That said, Arthur Scargill is a close second...

[FredPuli43]

And it could have been worse. Didn't Arthur Scargill become president for life?

[MarkRae]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11090197

Read it, twice, and smile lots.

[FredPuli43]

Tragic. Like the quote beginning "I imagine..".[that Arthur will be against it]. The language of the NUM has changed somewhat, hasn't it? (I imagine)

[emmie]

didn't know they were sending anyone to London, perhaps we can stop them at the UK border checks, lol

[jake-the-peg]

That's hillarious!

I particularly like the "without authority" bit - it makes the Falklands sound deeply sinister like occupied territory where armed soldiers demand your papers the moment you're seen and any foreign looking people are instantly rounded up.

Just the impression they want to give.

They'll be very very happy with this response.


As for winning a war - Mark's right, they haven't had a new warship or war plane since the Falklands 30 years ago.

The common jolke now is that they couldn't win a war against Paraguay

[Quizmonster]

A month or so ago, the Argentinians 'nicked' (nationalised) a Spanish oil company operating in their country. It seems that any time that government is in trouble, they steal something!
One sneaky runner and a cameraman - at what seemed to be 5 AM on a Sunday morning - is about the measure of them. I'd prefer 'cowardly' to 'cheeky', Phil.

[emmie]

over a memorial, rather disrespectful too.

[rojash]

"That said, Arthur Scargill is a close second..."
Come off it - Tony Blair has go to come second.

[emmie]

first not second

[jd_here]

Rojash and em10.....stop reading the Daily Mail!

[vulcan]

Die this actually happen ? it doesn't say much about our defence of the Island if it did.

[flip_flop]

Interesting Fred - your mother was very generous.

Of course the poll tax was a much unfairer system than council tax. I mean with council tax, an abitrary decision on the value of one's house is made and the tax is charged accordingly. So a couple living on state pension may be paying the same amount as their next door house which has four earning adults living in it.

Yep, council tax sounds much much fairer.

[youngmafbog]

She did plenty right. Reds still ranting about her 30 years on shows she was good.

MarkR, you should have said "In my opinion" as your views are certainly not shared by all. She had her faults and may not be the person we need right now, but at the time we needed someone like her to bring the 'Sick man of Europe' back to being great. We certainly would not have the likes of Nissan and Honda here if she had not sorted the Unions. And no point banging on about miners as caol is an awful product polluting the country with CO2 etc so we would not be using it now anyway.