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India is not really worried about trading with us. There is a great big World out there.
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Originally Posted by AnnieS ->
We have been scrapping with the Spanish or Argentinians over the Falklands for centuries. It seems to be more a matter of national pride than any real loyalty to the people living there. The place is very quiet and the most excitement (other than RAF jets taking off) is when the penguins go for a stroll on the beach. They are on the United Nations territorial dispute list. Our original claim to them is more than a little shaky, and as they were so tiny and so far away they seemed to be forgotten and then remembered by more than one country involved (including us). But when the original dispute with Argentina came up then it was rather unbalanced with the giant British Empire on the one side and Argentina (a tiny player in comparison) on the other....
Argentina only became a country in 1816
So their claim is so shaky as to be non existent
It's has vast tracts of Patagonia that are priactically uninhabited so people are not so desperate for land that they need to live on tiny islands in the sOuth Atlantic
No Argentines have ever colonised the Falklands .
The people there are British by decent and inclination .
Most argentines prefer to live in the warm barmy Provence of Buenos Aires than anywhere else much less the artic falklands .
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Wasn't this thread about India?
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Argentina declared independence from Spain with whom we had been bickering about the Islands. It appears that at the time of Argentinian independence they were not exactly in British hands. It seems they were never that important to either Argentina or Britain and then suddenly every time someone remembered they existed they were bickered over. It was of course politically convenient for MT to win a war, although when I was growing up I don't remember the Falklands ever being mentioned in a history lesson.
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Wasn't this thread about India?
Yes, but that was before it turned into a chest-beating saga..it's funny how it was so important to send jets to defend some penguins. Great that we are such avid nature lovers.
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Waging war on a small country like Argentina is hardly "contrary" to ripping apart the fabric of British society. She did both.

She also centralised power in government more than any PM before her - even socialist ones.
Originally Posted by Muddy ->
Argentina is not small on the contrary it is a very big country .
Originally Posted by Bruce ->
Oh for god's sake...

Argentina GDP = $0.5trillion
Population 44million

UK GDP = $2.6trillion
Population 65million

Get it now?

Small boy takes his marbles back; big bully snatches them back and beats him up.
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Bruce admit it you got it wrong.
Eh? Got what wrong exactly? Facts are facts.

What the thread does show is the fragile nature of the British ego when so much fuss is generated about a throwaway line. I can't believe how such a minor comment can lead to the accusation that someone 'hates' the UK. You sound like over sensitive primary school children. Not so much a stiff upper lip more a loose flabby chin.

Toughen up folks; you'll be out in the real world in 2019.
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I can't believe how such a minor comment can lead to the accusation that someone 'hates' the UK.
Ah, that comment got to you, did it?
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Ah, that comment got to you, did it?
Only in its stupidity.

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02-12-2017, 11:57 PM
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Only in its stupidity.

Stupidity?

I thought it was rather pertinent.
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Stupidity?

I thought it was rather pertinent.
Of course you would think that. Which rather neatly makes my point.

Anyway its a lovely sunny Sunday morning and I have better things to do than converse with you so far off topic.
 
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