I don't know. I think the humans who live there should have a say. Using your argument of proximity I could argue that England has a territorial right to Ireland - and your only get out of this would be that Ireland is a much bigger island with a much bigger population - at which point the argument becomes quite muddy.
Did the SAS win that one 5-0 or 8-0, I forget. I used to have the SAS World Tour T-shirt and on front it had the front cover of Private Eye, "why did you shot him 16 times? Because I ran out of bullets"(think that was reference to Gibraltar?) Can't even remember all the places on the back of the T-shirt now, but by ****, it was a cracking t-shirt.
For the Falklands, Google "Martin Garcia Island" For Gibraltar Google "Melilla" or "Cueta" You could not take a blowtorch to the Argies or the Spaniards necks.
it wasn't so much the size of the island, rather the system of Governance foisted upon it. Ireland had governance from long before the Brits came. The Malvinas was just a bunch of rocks the dutch, Spanish and Brits wanted control of. The people living there are doing so solely to protect British interests. I am not dismissing their say, just that in my opinion adducing legitimacy for governance on the basis of what planters say is a fait accompli.
This will become a battle of wills... which Irishman will back down (or bore the other person to death) first! please log in to view this image
My tuppence is that describing Argentinians as kind of ethnically Spanish is pretty over-simplistic. Like saying everyone in Britain is Norman http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnography_of_Argentina
Well considering most immigration to Argentina originated from the Italian peninsula, then it would not only be pretty simplistic but fundamentally wrong.
It's actually a really diverse country - like a lot of South American countries. Brazil and Peru have large ethnically Japanese communities. The Falklanders, though, ARE the direct descendants of settlers from one nation, mostly as witnessed by all ugly they all are. I think Mick comparing the diverse Argentine populace with about 6 families of web-toed weirdos was uncharacteristically misgiven.
Germany invaded the Falklands in the 40s?! So our brave boys in '82 fought Maradona's chums for Fritz' benefit?! Gott in Himmel. Ich bin ein Berliner
