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Related: About this forumTim to give away the Falklands Corbynistas!!!
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/mar/29/falkland-islands-argentina-waters-rules-un-commissionUN says Falklands belongs to Argentinian waters. Corbyn is right Momentum time to heckle the moderates!!!! Withdraw troops!!! Spend 0% on defence!!!!
Ghost Dog
(16,881 posts)covering future resource exploitation in the area.
This should prohibit certain activities and carefully control others. Any large-scale oil extraction would be madness, taking the global environmental context into account.
Money would be better spent policing jointly those fisheries.
VMA131Marine
(4,124 posts)Because the islanders won't agree to it for a start.
Bad Dog
(2,025 posts)There needs to be some sort of agreement similar to what ghost dog suggested.
LeftishBrit
(41,192 posts)and I didn't think he had strong views on the Falklands (or probably on anything).
At any rate, I think that the Falklands should remain British as that's what the islanders want - or at least not to be Argentinian - but there should be negotiations between the UK and Argentina about resource handling, as others have suggested.
Denzil_DC
(7,188 posts)and every one a winner!
Tick tock ...
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)And why does he want to give away the Falklands?
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)Those of you in the UK group don't have to just put up with this.
Bad Dog
(2,025 posts)With banning and hosting privileges. Murial Volestrangler was going to look into it but I don't know if anything has come of it yet.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,154 posts)Denzil_DC
(7,188 posts)You could link to the thread where where we thrashed it all out, to show the level of support.
I know "Ask the administrators" can be Tumbleweed City quite often, but it's where I've seen others ask about setting up groups etc., so it might spur a quicker response.