- Joined
- Sep 16, 2009
- Messages
- 2,922
- Reaction score
- 343
- Gender
- Male
- Political Leaning
- Conservative
Defence spending on the Falkland Islands has dropped by 50% over six years. This at a time when the Argies are rumbling over doorstep territory they never even noticed until 1830.
Falklands defence spending plunges by 50 per cent in six years | Mail Online
But never mind. The American left is riding to the rescue. Hilary Clinton (minus the first 'n') has won the day. By wanting to persuade her fellow yellowbellies in London to cast doubt over the legitimacy of the rightful sovereignty of the Islands, the Argies are now pushing for Britain to abandon its people. Again.
Argentina celebrates diplomatic coup as Hillary Clinton calls for talks over … – Times Online - Rock's Blog Spot - RBS
The Labour Party wanted to hand over border control to Argentina in the '60s, much to the Islanders' rage. The Labour Party sold to Argentina the weapons it used against us in 1982. The Labour Party's backbenchers, despite Foot's declaration of support for the 1982 Liberation, howled like banshees for Margaret Thatcher's blood because they would rather Britain not fight back.
These are the scoundrels we are trusting with the safety and security of some of Britain's sovereign islands. Forget Iraq or Afghanistan, the Government would have to battle selflessly for its own People - an idea totally alien to the backstabbers in Power.
-- The Labour Party wanted to hand over border control to Argentina in the '60s, much to the Islanders' rage.
-- The Labour Party sold to Argentina the weapons it used against us in 1982.
-- The Labour Party's backbenchers, despite Foot's declaration of support for the 1982 Liberation, howled like banshees for Margaret Thatcher's blood because they would rather Britain not fight back.[/I]
--These are the scoundrels we are trusting with the safety and security of some of Britain's sovereign islands. Forget Iraq or Afghanistan, the Government would have to battle selflessly for its own People - an idea totally alien to the backstabbers in Power.
British arms sold to Argentina:
--
Fair to say the Tories also share some guilt.
But Labour people are more culpable to ideas of just handing places over.
-- A number of noisy Labour MPs did indeed howl like banshees, for years afterwards too. I remember seeing a 1990s documentary on Channel Four (please let me remember the name, so I can check Youtube), in which various Labour MPs hurled spiteful abuse at Margaret Thatcher and none at General Galtieri. (Indeed, the final quote of the show was of some Labour twat saying "In 1982 Britain was ruled by a bad, bad person".)
- Let's hope they find oil in Gibraltar, then perhaps the 'ethical foreign policy' of Labour may backpedal there too:
Labour Trashes Colonies | The Sovereign Society
In the earlier days of the Empire we assumed we'd have to give some colonies back later on.
-- But later on came too soon for many people, particularly as it suited Labour's ideological book to jump on the trends of the times and start disseminating. That Leftists have also been very keen to de-emancipate British sovereign soil slice by slice just reveals a darker agenda.
-- Well that's what you get when you assume you can trust the Argies to behave like grown-ups towards Britain.
--The fact they even think about transferring sovereignty is treason enough. And they're not bmere 'residents', but British citizens holding our passports.
-- The Channel Islands enjoy a special Devolution, something you'd expect Lefties to cheer but they don't. All the Islanders' roots and links lie with us, as they have since the Middle Ages when our early kingdom also comprised of half of France. When the Nazis invaded the British Channel Islands they were considered by all involved British territory behind the German lines.
I don't know what it's worth, but Professor Simon Sharma, he of telly fame, reckoned that when the British Empire of nations was morphing into its commonly known imperial form, the general consensus of our governments was that we'd 'bring them up' and turn them into dependent trading partners with domestic autonomy. (It's on one of the episodes of History of Britain.)
'Managed Decline' became the Whitehall motto before long, on everything.
-- What would happen if Scotland gained 'independence' and ran itself, though culturally and ancestrally linked to us? Would we abandon them if the place got invaded? You bet we wouldn't as the Left would demand we go in, just as they demand we police the world even today.
Besides - when in all the years of Empire did we actually create (through deliberate policy and effort) a country that could survive on its own?
-- India certainly became industrialised thanks to us.
Sorry about that. You see, we have spineless self-aggrandizing A-holes in power right now, who lack the moral fiber to remember who our friends are.
Do what you have to do. Hillary Hussien won't do anything other than squawk about it, and in 2012 things should get better.
We certainly should have run the Empire better.
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?