[Sirius]

Originally Posted by Mr Angry

Actually that's not the reason.

The reason it has become an issue and was raised at PM question time was because a chap called James Beck, whose father helped the British forces in 82, gave up his British passport for an Argentine one and Kirchner presented it to him personally (much to the annoyance of some MPs who raised the issue in the House).

I stand corrected Sir

---------- Post added at 14:31 ---------- Previous post was at 14:29 ----------

Originally Posted by Anonymous

We don't want any military conflict and a possible resurgence of the 'war spirit' we got last time - Thatcher took full advantage of that to smash the unions and ruin this country by selling everything off, a classic example of disaster capitalism. She'd wanted to use shock therapy for years, but until the Falklands happened she had no excuse. 'There is no such thing as society' is classic capitalist thinking at its very worst.

Do we want Cameron et al to do something similar? I sure as hell don't. The country's in enough of a mess as it is.

(See Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine for details of disaster capitalism)

We dont have the ability to defend the Falklands any more. Infact i dont think we could defend our own country against anyone any more