@Fedaykin

The Falklands already has radars, so I don’t see how a radar picket frigate adds much to the awareness here.

This is all really besides the point. The Argentines have zero claim, else they would take it to an independent court for resolution. Nope, just the usual hot air blowing propaganda as always to distract their population from the dire conditions. Did I mention they are British and that’s not going to be changing, since Britain was the winner, and Argentina was not. That is to say, Argentina was the loser, defeated, raised the white flag, threw in the towel 😎

Closer than the UK, but yes. Granted. So neither country has any real justifiable claim to the islands (at least no more than the US has to the moon :D). Which is why I propose using it as a bargaining chip, which the UK can grant to Argentina in return for concessions during negotiations – as long as well… negotiations take place.

The UK has more right to the Falklands than the Argentines do to Argentina. Next.

@totoro
It’s not really a concern, Argentina is not going to attack, it’s just going to beat its chest and make lots of noise! The Argentines are scared of their own military, what with it’s recent record of wide scale terrible human rights abuses against it’s own population. Hardly a group they want to arm up.

On a per pound basis this is bad idea albeit with good intentions. The answer is definitely not to create more management duplication and more smaller forces, that is the biggest problem at the moment! Reform of what the budget is spent on can be done within the current structure, and without a concurrent restructuring to manage it would have a much greater chance of success. Training the TA for civil contingencies would be an excellent idea and one I’ve been a supporter of for quite a while but I suspect the problem would be getting them enough training to be really useful would be rather expensive. Of course we could train them to drive trucks to deliver things to affected areas, but then a civilian trucker could probably do it better. Training them for medical assistance, search and rescue, firefighting or anything like that is going to need some serious money. Army units whose main role is civil disturbances creates what is effectively a Gendarmerie, and policing is done by consent in this country not by the barrel of a gun.

You made your point very clear.

It’s a shame that these threads end up the same over and over.

I think it’s important to remember that the islands really are currently British territory and that things don’t look very likely to change anytime soon. Reading this thread you’d think they were being handed over in a couple months 🙂

The vast majority of ‘average’ UK citizens, at least the younger ones, are well educated (or rather many have been to university), have access to the internet at home and on smart-phones, and live in a country that has been free of the ravages of war, oppression, famine and pestilence for decades!

And yet the average UK citizen, seemingly, has almost no understanding of the (increasingly complex) world around them or even any basic general-knowledge, can hardly string a sentence together (in their own language) let alone do anything but the most basic mathematics, and can only seem to blame all their woes on the government, the ‘bankers’, the European Union or immigrants…

…so where has it all gone wrong? :confused:

Thanks 😎

I only really use the internet on my phone to check the weather. I shall try to use it for other things in the future though. On the subject of the internet, websites such as Amazon make it much easier (and cheaper) to obtain books, particularly more advanced technical material that would never be available in a non-university library. Access to doctoral+ level research is also much easier.

I think it mostly went wrong in your perceptions. The younger generation do partly blame bankers and the government, but then I think it’s fair to say those are two groups very much responsible for the current mess! I personally am very critical of the EU, and most certainly do blame them, but many of the younger generation aren’t aware of why the EU is to blame, and so don’t blame it. It’s true to say though that UKIP is doing very well in that group, which can only be good. As for immigrants I don’t think they are really to blame, most issues with immigrants are actually the fault of government policy. Does immigration need to see extremely tight controls? Yes. Are the problems of the current immigration policy the fault of Mohammed Ajit Rikmol who works at a corner shop? No.

I have a copy of Matlab and GNU Octave… much easier than doing the mathematics 😀

Oh, and did I mention that I want a right to vote on EU membership? 😀

I’d prefer to let people have freedom of expression than have the government decide for me whose views I should hear, and whose I should not. The right to expression is more important than the right to not be offended, the latter tends to halt social evolution.

What state/country of the mentioned natives are you referring to?

USA