How should the UK government respond to Argentinia?

Just give them bak the falklands they are near to it than the Uk so they should have it.

Just give them bak the falklands they are near to it than the Uk so they should have it.

No, if people (non-British) citizens in habited the island before Britain made a claim to the island and then in modern times they were unanimously in favour of remaining part of Britain, this would certainly give Britain's claim a greater legitimacy, yes. It makes a difference as it sets a example, by which a country can claim absolutely any piece of land in the world by transferring a section of it's citizen's there.

So, only You seemingly suggest in your post that just because Britain hasn't settled some of it's islands, it does not mean they are not rightfully Britain's. However, in your previous point you suggest the Falkland's are rightfully Britain's because 'nobody else successfully settled them and we did'.

No, because if the islands were uninhabited before, then another country could not simply place their citizens on the island, so as abiding by the principle of 'self determination' they could have a legitimate claim. However, if a country made a claim to a populated group of islands and the population voted to uphold that claim, then that would be legitimate under the principle of 'self determination'.

So, only countries inhabited by non-British people can determine to become part of Britain?




It is up to Britain to defend her borders and stop people settling her lands. If we let a group of people come and settle on a piece of uninhabited land and did nothing for 150 years to remove them, then I would argue for their right to self-determination as strongly as I argue for the Falklander's rights.




So, no country or group of people could ever expand from the land they inhabited, meaning that by right we should all be roaming the plains of Africa, because as soon as we left those plains we lost our right to self determination?

Are you serious I'm talking about modern times, with organised nations. If you haven't noticed we are not all one country, British people colonised North America when it was part of the British empire, they then created the United States of America; if the people of the Falkland's had done the same there would not be a dispute.

Who else thinks we should bomb the coast of Argentina?

Are you unaware that in 1982 Argentina was ruled by a military dictatorship which murdered many of it's own citizens, it is now ruled by a liberal democracy...

Lets face it - historically and geographically neither side has any more of a claim to the islands than the other.

Oh, and if oil is discovered off the Falklands, then apparently the islands themselves would not be big enough for the on-shore facilities.

So the "Falklands" oil industry would require a bigger nearby landmass - and that would be... Argentina.

So what's the problem for Argentina? I think that Las Malvinas is just one of those unimportant populist issues that politicians obsess over and grabs headlines - every country has them.

Oh, and if oil is discovered off the Falklands, then apparently the islands themselves would not be big enough for the on-shore facilities.

Liberal democracy? I don't think so. Liberal democracies don't bang the drum and demand sovereignty of other countries' possessions without any thought for the rights to self-determination of the inhabitants of those possessions.

Oh right, so where is this arbitrary cut off of 'modern times' where these 'holier than thou' rules apply? Let me guess, about 200 years ago, just before we settled the Falklands and just after America declared independence? Don't forget most people in the US never wanted independence from Britain, they just wanted representation, what happened to their right of self-determination? Oh that's ok though because it conveniently occurs just before your cut off for 'modern times'.

Are you really naive enough to think that the world or Argentina hasn't changed since 1982?

Or the one advocating decolonisation by nations.