! This post hasn't been updated in over a year. A lot can change in a year including my opinion and the amount of naughty words I use. There's a good chance that there's something in what's written below that someone will find objectionable. That's fine, if I tried to please everybody all of the time then I'd be a Lib Dem (remember them?) and I'm certainly not one of those. The point is, I'm not the kind of person to try and alter history in case I said something in the past that someone can use against me in the future but just remember that the person I was then isn't the person I am now nor the person I'll be in a year's time.
Falkland Islanders will tomorrow celebrate the official surrender of Argentina following the invasion of the territory in 1982.
The Argentinian government and military didn’t think we would go to the effort of sending forces halfway round the world to defend a bunch of remote islands in the South Atlantic. Unlucky.
Look better with the Union Flag replaced by a Cross of St George wouldn’t it?
My dad was one of the liberaters.
My uncle was there too.
Glory to the liberators of islands!
It’s a bloody shame that mentally retarded lefty liberals feel ashamed of the victory and are itching to apologise for it.
Looks crap with st Georges cross on it. Anyway, if the UK were to break up, all remaning British dominions and dependancies would go their own way. Meaning the Falklands would become independent. Then i’d give it 2 or 3 weeks before the Argies tried to take it!
Looking great with CoSG on it! You are the traitor, Calum. And dumb trator too. Falklands will remain with England after that rotten UK collapses under weight of Scottish appetites.
My dad was the second oldest person to march all the way across.
I wonder how many Witan’s have Falkland’s connections.
How am i a trator. I am not English, i am BRITISH.
Also, i a correct, if the UK were to collapse, then all British dependencies would become independent, they wouldn’t become English or Scottish or Welsh dependencies. They would become independent.
Furthermore, your assertion that any such ex colonies would become English were the union to collapse merley gives creddence to scottish Nats calls that Scotland plays 2nd fiddle to endland in the Union, for your assertion presumes that all that was British would hence become English.
Calum, on what basis do you assert that the colonies would become independent? Bear in mind that a lot of them were English colonies in the first place and that they have their own legal system and can decide who they are a dependency of.
It is just my opinion.
Like all nations when they disovle and fragment, all their ex possessions tend to split and splinter, going their own way. Be that the Soviet Union, or even the Ottomans or the Hapsburg empire.
All British dependancies are British, not English possessions. Hence, were the UK to collapse, then they would in my opinion declare independence from a nation that no longer existed.
Furthermore, were the nations not to declare independence, why would they become English? The Scots, welsh and even Northern Irish would have as much claim to them, for we living in the United Kingdom if great Britain and Northern Ireland, all British dependencaies are dependent on the UK as a whole, not on England. So who is to say that dependencaies wouldn’t go to the Scots. Why wouldnt all British dependancies be divided equally between the component members of the UK? The fact that you presume that they would all go the England show a vertian english arragonce, this very english arragonce is what has lead the union falling into such bad state, sue to arragone Englishmen presuming that they are the dominant nation, then contradicting them selves harking poor english, ruled by a scottish raj, poor Enflish, damn barnet formula, poor english, why no EvOL etc… bla bla bla.
When the USSR collapsed, Russia laid claim to several soviet republics that would have been left in limbo. Some of the other former soviet republics also claimed neighbouring republics. It’s mostly worked ok with the exception of Chechnya and the other one in Georgia that sounds like Azkaban.
The Channle Islands, the Isle of Man and Gibraltar are possessions of the Crown and are technically run by the Privy Council on the Queen’s behalf with day to day affairs of state being the responsibility of the devolved governments of those territories. The others are Overseas Territories and have their own legal systems. They can declare independence if they want or they can choose to become a dependency of another state if both sides agree.
When (not if) the UK breaks up, British dependencies will have to decide for themselves whether they want to go it alone or whether they want to remain a dependency of one of the former “British” nations. As England is the only nation in the “union” that can support itself it’s not hard to guess where they’ll go.
You beat me on that thought, Wonko – “As England is the only nation that can support itself”. What points for colonies like Falklands to stay with Wales or Scotland when those countries are quickly to become bankrupt deserted backwater after collapse of the UK?
(Chechnya is not the former soviet republic, it have been part of Russian Empire, then Russia.)
Calum, your claims that you are being British confirm that Britishness have degraded into complete shitty hellhole and refuge for politically-correct bigots like you. All sensible people are now affiliate themselves with nationality (like English) rather than artificial senseless “Britishness”.
You what Scaffold? I feel British because that is what i am. I don’t feel English, being born in England, nor do i feel Scottish, my dad is from Scotland, and nor do i feel Irish, my Mum is from Ireland and i have an Irish passport.
I feel British. Why? Because i was born in Britain. I live in Britain, and probably allways will do.
How the fuck is calling myself British adhering to some PC bullshit? Also, how am i a biggot? Especially with it coming from you!
Also, Wonko. I stand by my asertion that most British dependencies wouldn’t remain crown colonies, and wouldnt all folck to become english colonies.
Also, i don’t think that every nation bar england would suffer from the break up of the Union, as EVERY nation, England included would suffer imensley form the break up of the UK. Your beloved England would become a 2nd rate nation, along with the rest of the component nations of the UK. We would loose our perminant seat on the UN security council and would fall into a state of national crisis, in England, Scotland and Wales. The colpase of the UK would be disastrous for all parties involved.
How can wealthy nation of around 50m population, having London as its capital, having nuclear weapons (Scotland is nuclear-free, remember?) and so on, become a 2nd rate nation? Nope, only the celtic fringe will suffer and not least because of the flood emigration to England.
Thanks for clarifying your background. It is now wonder why you so vigorously hate Cross of St. George. What else can we expect from the young Scottish/Irish? You hate England and all things English and still you live here – how typical! When UK breaks up and celts (FINALLY!!!) go it alone, will you relocate to Scotland?
You what mate!? For football i am probably england, i have 10 year tickets for Wembley Scaffold.
But, i am not english, or scottish nor irish. I am British. So f**k you.
Also, talking of now 2nd rate nations. The fact that Russia had a population of 141,377,752 people didn’t stop it from becoming a 2nd rate nation under Yeltsin did it eh?
You are juggling with the facts, Calum. Russia’s misery has roots in its ruined economy it inherited from the Soviet Union. England shall survive collapse of the UK in a much better shape.
The British economy is one interlinked between the member states. I will admit, my use of Russia is extreme, yet still a highly valid point.
Russia’s problem was foolish leadership and market shock therapy, which Yeltsin did little to tame. Yeltsin has made quite an achievement, he managed to destroy 2 nations almost single handedly – The Soviet Union and Russia.
England along with all other member states would suffer imensley from the hypothetical break up of the UK. England would probably loose North Sea oil revenue, meaning a reliance on oil and gas from unstable regions and markets, i.e Russian, Nigeria, the middle East etc… Furthermore, the loss of Pride and international prestige would be irreservable. England wouldn’t be a real world power (nor would any other ex UK nation) as the UK is, as with internal state collapse comes mass political instability. England and other ex-UK states would become unattractive to investors. For it is stability that investors look to. As a result of this political instability investment in ex-UK financial markets would fall. This would be disastrous for England in particular, where it is London’s financial markets which spur economic growth, consolidating and reinforcing existing economic and political stability. The collapse of the UK would inevitably lead to political instability which invariably causes economic instability, thus meaning that England in particular would suffer, due to the prominance of the financial markets to British economic growth.
The collapse of the UK would have vast economic and social costs for all member states. To Scotland, Wales and N.Ireland due to the loss of Barnett money and any power status amongst other costs. And to England from the loss of N.Sea Oil revenue, and the accompanying reliance on unstable markets for energy. Additionally, as previously stated England would suffer from the ensuing political instability leading to economic disaster and so on. The collapse of the UK would be disastrous for all.