Falklands War II

Do you think we could repulse an Argentine invasion a second time considering the swingeing cuts the MOD has had lately. Most notably, the entire Harrier jet fleet? has been grounded and we don't have the replacements ready for our aircraft carrier(s) yet.
I don't think we could defend Shetland from the Faeroe Isles just now!
BBC News.

Love the last bit, we will take it back. We ain't got the power and he ain't Maggie T.

Just send a large one to Argentina, Level the place while the rest of the world looks on, Jeez, We dont want to mess with camamoron, Look what he just did, End of problem,

I near choked on my tea when I read that!!!
A British Prime Minister lecturing people about their "COLONIALIST ATTITUDE"!!!
That has to be a joke...

Had a little chuckle at that one myself

Send our Bankers to Argie land, they won't be able to afford to fight.

It takes an ex head of the army, General Sir Mike Jackson to to figure out what I said on Thursday. (And I was a sprog private).

The Telegraph

Just do what we normaly do, Shove our heads up americas Backside,

So it takes Michael Jackson to voice your opinion.

He was as much use as a rungless ladder,

Topdog wrote:So it takes Michael Jackson to voice your opinion.

Yeah, spooky innit...

Just hand them back. How much is it costing each year to maintain a presence there? The only reason for holding on would be oil and they didn't find much back in the 90's.

3rdforum wrote:Just hand them back. How much is it costing each year to maintain a presence there? The only reason for holding on would be oil and they didn't find much back in the 90's.

Sell it to them, economy bad we need money, they want Falklands. The people there won't want war, our guys come home and we can cut our armed forces even further.

Oil exploration in the Falklands area causing tensions in Latin America

Reuters