British Forces South Atlantic Islands (BFSAI) have announced that troops from the 2nd Battalion, The Rifles, will carry out Exercise Cape Sword, a large-scale blank firing and manoeuvre exercise across the Falkland Islands between 6 and 14 October 2025, according to a statement issued by the government of the Falkland Islands for the information of residents.
The training marks the culmination of 2 RIFLES’ deployment as the Roulement Infantry Company in the South Atlantic, and will include coordinated maritime and land insertions, urban patrolling, and simulated combat engagements using blank ammunition and pyrotechnics.
According to BFSAI, Exercise Cape Sword is designed to test the battalion’s readiness to respond to a range of operational contingencies while maintaining familiarity with the islands’ terrain and settlements.
The exercise will begin on 6 October in central Stanley, where residents can expect to see British soldiers conducting maritime and land insertions to initiate the scenario, followed by 2 RIFLES patrolling through the streets. Training will then expand to the wider Stanley area between 7 and 9 October, running day and night with blank firing, loud bangs, and the use of parachute illumination to simulate battlefield conditions.
The final stage will take place near Wireless Ridge on 10 and 11 October, featuring further blank firing and illumination rounds expected from 0500 hrs on the morning of 11 October. Residents have been advised to anticipate noise and visible military activity throughout the period, particularly during night hours.
BFSAI made clear that that this is a controlled training exercise posing no risk to the public. BFSAI’s notice also urged residents not to be alarmed by increased military presence, gunfire, or pyrotechnic effects, and to contact 28100 with any concerns or questions.
Exercise Cape Sword is one of several major training events conducted by British forces in the Falklands each year, ensuring that the garrison remains proficient in operating independently across the islands’ remote and challenging environment.
The film “Southern Comfort” springs to mind.
With the Falklanders as the Cajuns?
Yup, you got it !
Love that film, Powers Boothe played a great part, just like he did in Tombstone and By Dawns early light.
Are you talking about the Stills?
It was the plot of the film. Group of Soldiers on excercise in the swamps with Blanks, one soldier decided to fire his MG at a few locals and they thought the bullets were live.
Cue the Locals hunting them all down.
Cue the Argies having a melt down😂
The only complaints will probably come from the islanders because they won’t be allowed to supply tea and sarnies to the troops👍
I read that the Argentinian President has been grandstanding about the Falklands again, no doubt for internal deflection reasons as their economy struggles.
No, Argentina, it was not “illegally occupied” as you as a nation did not exist at the time Great Britain arrived there.
It’s as bad a the UK trying to claim Calais back.
Ha, and as bad as giving the Chagos to Mauritius who never owned them either but are now going to be some £30 Billions better off !
Can we give Scotland back to North America ? It did float here from there.
Yes.
Very poor. But we were backed into a corner concerning UNCLOS, and Brexit, as J comprehensively explained here a while ago, and apparently Starmers mate is linked to them too so, you know, troughs and all that.
I’d just hand the site to the US for free, on the condition that we, as a 5 Eye and UKUSA signatory, can still access the new undersea cable that will run from Oman to Australia and that has oh so conveniently been routed via D Garcia at the US expense.
Things are never as clear cut as they seem.
Starmer has a mate see. A fellow member of The Lawyers Cabal. That group that infests every level of government ( over 40% of MPs are lawyers ) They are very good at undermining the UK and taking big sums of money in the process. Nice little earner eh?
Matrix chambers and the Fabian society ain’t it😉
Yup, communists. The enemy within.
Should be shut out of all Government business and some investigated for treason. This China business is no different.
If Mauritius never owned them why did we pay Mauritius for them in 1971?
Jim, I believe we paid Mauritius in 1971 to adminster the Chagos for us.
The Chagosians Owned the Chagos Islands before the French took possesion and later gave them to the British but they were never Mauritius possesions.
I have yet to see any good reason for the UK to pay the £30 billions that have been banded about since this deal was conceived.
How much would we have to pay Spain to take Gibralter ?
Yes but we set this all up, we didnt want to recognise the chagos, we paid Mauritius for the islands with a promise to return them to Mauritius once we no longer needed them for military purposes. That’s why the islands belong to Mauritius.
This was all a result of our under handed actions in 1966.
The last conservative and current labour governments are just doing what they can to remedy the legal situation we caused in 1966.
But they were never Mauritius Islands, They were Chagos Islands, they are not even close to Mauritius, in fact they are closer to Sri Lanka and the Maldives.
Quite how anyone thought giving them away for such enormous cost, was a good Idea I’ll never know.
One of my colleagues is Argentinian and he describes the Argentine President as Argentina’s version of Donald Trump. Here he is ‘singing’ at a rock concert recently…..
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/10/07/americas/milei-concert-argentina-economy-intl-latam
…just to re-iterate…that is the Argentinian President singing on stage at a rock concert….
Yes! I saw an article about this when he was still in the running.
Christ, We’ll be seeing Actors and Comedians as presidents next.
Oh hang on !
Argentina is at the centre of a little political storm following the recent bail out by Donald Trump. They removed export tariffs on agricultural products and China instantly bought a large quantity, including soybeans. Up until recent times the US was China’s primary supplier of this produce but, for obvious reasons, US sales have gone from Billions last year to precisely $0 this year. Many American farmers are on the brink of collapse and requiring Government aid which, apparently, isn’t evil socialism when they need it.
I wonder if the defensive plans have been relooked at in the era of surprise drone attacks. If the typhoons there were taken out by smuggled drones attack then the islands would be a whole lot harder to defend.
I think MoD actually plan for a lot of eventualities. It is the nightmare scenario. But I think extremely unlikely.
I don’t believe there is much traffic on local roads if they are launched from a truck, so you stand out.
And if you look at the terrain around MPA it looks flat or at best gently undulating over a wide area. So range of Drone depending, you’d stand out having to march there from your submarine or whatever landed you to release if you’re doing what the Israeli’s did in Iran.
But knowing how easy it was for those traitors to access the RAF’s biggest station, perhaps I am being to confident.
Wouldn’t need a truck, just do what isreal did, with a few mobile launchers. Its only what 3 jets they need to deal with. a few men with backpacks could easily carry a few dozen drones with rpg rounds attached.
Yes, maybe not.
Hopefully the nature of the terrain around and any ISTAR that exists there would pick them out. I’d read that SF did a audit on security some years ago.
There are, I believe, 4 Typhoon there.
Negating their only Tanker would be an easier task, it has nowhere to hide.
Any SF audit a few years ago is now going to redundent, its clear no military is prepared for drone warfare, whether its the US or anyone else.
Doubt taking out the tanker would do much, its not an overly big island and so the jets could easily patrol it if needed in a rotation scheme of 1 up the other 2 getting refueling/maintance, assuming not all 4 are available at once.
I guess the question is if they are in shelters or just packed on the run way like the Russian jets have a habit of doing, which has resulted in so many getting destroyed on the ground.
i should add i don’t think they would try, Argentina might capture the island maybe but they would have no hope of holding it. The RN is significantly reduced in size but still capable of launching a pretty effective task force if needed.
Hi Steve, In 1982 the RN Task Force comprised: 2 carriers, 8 destroyers, 16 frigates, 2 LPDs, 2 OPVs, 6 subs, 3 hospital ships, 5 minesweepers. The RFA support comprised: 10 oilers, 6 LSLs, 5 stores ships, 1 Hel Sp Ship. Plus the STUFT.
Yeah and not repeatable. But when working together the modern t45 is far more effective than a dozen of the destroyers of the era and the t23 and astute are far more effective than their era versions. That’s before you put f35b in the mix that is different league to the harrier and would even now be in larger numbers. Getting troops to shore would be complex but we have large numbers of chinnok supported by Apache and merlin/wildcat.
It would be a different form of landing but I suspect far more lethal.
Getting the troops there would still be hard but commercial shopping could again be used.
Issue is with the modern RN is individual vessels can only be in one place at a time no matter how powerful. But in a task force scenario that isn’t so much an issue.
Hi Steve and others. The big difference between 1982 and now though is that back then we had 60 Marines to defend those relatively large islands. Now the UK is well entrenched on the Islands with enough firepower to hold of the Argies until help arrived
There are a lot of troops there that can be put to defensive duties but only a very small fraction are infantry. They for sure could cold mount pleasant for a fair while but not sure a lot more than that. Kinda depends on the numbers of troops that Argentina decided to commit to it and what level of hardware it brings over like artillery and armored vehicles etc. in theory mount pleasant could be reinforced by air but it would be very risky in the era of manpads.
The islands are for sure far safer than they were not I suspect they could be taken. Argentina landed what 10k troops last time, so the defenders would be out numbered 10 to 1.
The Typhoons are in a dispersal area, in shelters.
However, those Shelters I believe are not HAS, but just to protect against the weather. There are around 14 to 16 of them, they are easily identifiable on GE.
Designed to accommodate reinforcing fast air assets from the UK.
The Atlas, the Voyager, and the contractor rotery assets are just parked up on the flight line or in a hanger if one fits.
I guess the other option is go after the fuel, that has been highly effective for Ukraine. Fuel tanks are basically bombs waiting to explode.
Very true! The RAF fuel farms all look alike to me, at least, and are again easy to spot.
Well as every body on the islands know each other inside out I can’t really see where any inside threat would come from TBH! Anybody strange will stand out a mile.
Stand out yeah but they do have tourists there, just not huge numbers, strange as it might seem
Checked and around 80k cruise ship visitors and 2-3k other tourists.
That many? More than I thought. Though they I assume will be landing at Stanley and not East Cove Military Port, so nowhere near MPA, which is far to the west of Stanley over, I understand, not great roads.
Surprised me also, didn’t expect cruise ships to go there.
I suspect where there is a will and some creative thinking it could be done. The main issue is getting away alive after doing it. Fpv drones have a reasonable range but are to a degree limited
Agreed, Steve.
I’ve always rather fancied reclaiming Aquitaine myself.
Morning RS.
I actually had to look that up….and I had no idea England owned such a chunk, thought it was more Normandy Calais area
I agree! I bet the scenery there and climate is better than drab industrialised Calais as well.
Calais should be re taken. .🤔🤔😆😆😆
I would like to see a CSG visiting the area instead of a rather pointless trip to the Far East. U
It’s be great for the 3000 odd islanders, the sheep wouldn’t have much interest. The South Americans would likely vary from hostility to apathy since they’re not really threatened by anyone. Given a choice between the two, I’d much prefer future trips to the Far East with its 1.6 billion people.
Hard to believe how small our Army is today from the Army of 82 🕵
Andrew, From 160,000 regs in ’82 to 73,000 today, but the first cut from 160k to 120k was a result of the end of the Cold War (Options for Change ‘SDR’ of July 1990) was understandable at the time.
It was rather ironic therefore that 1 Armd Div started to be deployed to Saudi Arabia a couple of months later. British ground forces rose to a peak strength of 28,000 deployed soldiers, comprising 7,000 vehicles, including 179 Challenger tanks, 316 Warriors, 79 artillery pieces and 16 MLRS. Perhaps that 40k cut was not very sensible after all.
As for multiple cuts from 120k to 73k, there has never been an operational justification.
I think allowing the regular Army ti shrink below 100,000 was a serious mistake Graham.
Those who claim today that it could be rapidly expanded if needed, completely miss the point that huge swathes of MOD estate have been sold off and the reserve equipment to equip the thousands of reservists called up, just doesn’t exist anymore.
Back in the 1980’s, we had considerable capacity to rapidly expand the Army in wartime, I remember reading once, some years ago, that the army could, in wartime, have been expanded to 350,000 with the estate and equipment reserve to cater for it.
Today, we would be lucky to equip, house and feed 140,000, regulars, AR and recalled reservists at an absolute push. That would probably be top and tailing bunks too🤣
Anything over that would probably rely on US surplus equipment, transport, personal gear, small
arms etc and suitable estate requisitioned by the
crown!
Agree.
There are contingency plans in place. I know of one location railway wise which is no longer used but the infrastructure there is retained in such a way so as to reinstate if it becomes necessary, with a rail line straight inside the location.
We sold off too much and stopped ‘ the unnecessary’ stick of reserve equipment decades ago.
There’s little in the supply cupboard of substance. Take the L86A2/3.
We have been steadily rebuiing worn A2’s to A3 spec. Unfortunately, that has been predictably fewer rebuilds than the A2’s wearing out, because you wouldn’t want to waste money after all!!!!
The small arms stocks are in a state of ‘graceful decline’, I believe they call it…
All well and good when you only need to equip 30,000 plus ‘shooters’, but the plan goes rapidly tit’s up if a War breaks out!
We can only hope Project Grayburn produces 200,000 rifles and 50,000 ish L85A3’s are maintained in reserve.
I defer to you on that, mate, I know you know your rifles.
I take it you mean the L85 A2/A3 as the L86 is, as far as I’m aware, long gone, and never was going to be upgraded to A3 standards.
Morning Dern, yep A2/A3.
The original plan to steadily rebuild the A2 inventory has ( I hear) met a typically cost conscious end.
Topping out at under 50,000 rebuilds.
New receivers being ordered at 5,000 at a time from Hk for the rebuilds.
The bean counters probably thought that’s enough fir war fighters and the least knackered A2’s will do for the rest.
One can only hypothesise this plan was put in place before the Ukraine bun fight kicked off plunging us into Cold War 2.
We can only hope Grayburn is properly funded, (all the rifles are quality contestants) with domestic production and produced in quntity.
Agreed, the Army needs to be at least in the 80-100k region to provide an ENATO framework army, and the AR is only good for individual BCR’s at the moment.
We can hope for 100,000.
I suspect they will settle on an achievable 85,000, with a larger AR in the next SDSR.
Of course, to increase recruitment and improve retention, they will need to inject some serious magic source to make this happen.
So we are reduced to calling some training in the field by one light infantry company (c.120 men and women?) a “Large scale exercise”? Desperate times for the British Army and Royal Marines.
This is just the RIC deploying on exercise and they are not augmented by the remainder of the battalion joining from their base in NI, right?
The RIC when I was in FI some 25 years ago was 110-strong. They patrolled in rural areas regularly and also exercised regularly and often in conjunction with the FIDF (who don’t get a mention in this press release).
The only difference is that on this exercise the troops will conduct some urban patrols. Interesting that this is called a major training event – it’s certainly small-scale.
Hi Graham.
Yes, the Infantry component in BFSAI is the Roulement Infanty Company and FIDF elements.
Not Battalion sized. I doubt that level has been down there since the mid 80s.
To be fair mate, all Argentina can do is puff and bluster.
Their military capability is next to nothing, I doubt they could take and hold an island on a boating lake!
That said, some sort of attack on the islands or its infrastructure is always a possibility not to be taken lightly…
Evening mate.
I agree. It is the headline making “spectacular” that concerns, not any sort of Red Storm Rising scenario where they appear OTH in a big ship and take the airfield by coup de main.
We knew they might be coming in 1982, the FCO did not believe the data. Our intelligence apparatus in the South Atlantic I understand is far better than then.
Daniele, Yes, I wasn’t suggesting that there had ever been a battalion down there, prior to the establishement of the RIC. Just musing on whether 2 RIFLES would send any more troops down there from NI just for this exercise, and rather thinking that they wouldn’t!
The FIDF company is under the command of the Governor but they would be chopped to Comd BFSAI in a crisis.
BTW the roads are much better these days in certain areas ie linking significant settlements. Roads out of Stanley were especially improved a while back.
Hi Graham.
Yes, I was in agreement, I don’t think I articulated that very well there.
I wonder if post RIC formation whether there has ever been a larger deployment, even if just another Company.
I do not recall.
Those far, far away islands are of utmost importance!? The islands have nothing but plain rocks and grass for special sheep. The sheep must be extra ordinary to expend a lot of military resources to pamper them.
There are no resources, not fit for tourism, only for sheep. Falklands is far too far away to be a military asset against Russia and China, even USA.
Maybe 1000s for years from now, Brazil, or Chile, or Peru might be a threat, if they can stop from cha chas, samba, and tango to be serious.
Any CEO would divest of the money losing Falklands but, it is the only remnants of Empire. We must keep up appearances, never let France have more imperial possessions.
You forget Antarctica is next door, and we have a prime piece of it.
Your written English is interesting with that name.
“He” will be another new name, on a mission to wind up the regulars on a subject worthy of winding up !
It’s just a game.
You must still be in bed to be here so early!
I at least have an excuse being on night shift!
Afternoon !
Yes I get up early, 4am normally, I like to get things done or get out on my Electric Motorbike (makes no loud noises) Best time of the day.
Going to go off for a long ride on the new bike in a bit, not sure where yet, probably do the coast, get some Crabs !
4am f&£k me, I thought my 7.00 am was a crime against humanity.
The older you get, the less time you have.
Not completely true . As I sometimes tell my clients I could be hit by a meteor sitting at my desk in 20 seconds time or they could invent immortality and I live for 1000 years .. who knows
I’ve seen young fit people dead in an instant, people diagnosed with a terminal disease given a month and 2 years later told they seem to have gotten better.. i have even reviewed medical notes ( I was investigating the amazing recovery of a patient) which stated resuscitation stopped, no breath sounds, no pulse RIP… then read recovering well for discharge home tomorrow… it seems after they called the resuscitation as futile the last dose of adrenaline did something and the person had spontaneous return of circulation after they had packed up….I was also once involved in a 5 hour long resuscitation due to arrest through hypothermia and when we finally warmed up the dead block of ice.. lo and behold they got better.
So even when your dead there is hope 😂
The difference in FI is that there is a small tight indigenous population and outsider stick out like a sore thumb.
FI population are generally very pro British military – want them there.
So the idea of ‘infiltrating’ a truck isn’t terribly realistic as the locals would be watching like hawks and be on the phone in one minute as they don’t want to be invaded again – thank you very much.
However, a cargo ship or trawler with drones is something else. That said the radar heads would quickly pick up what was going on and there is a good concentration of Land Ceptor there.
I do wish they there was an integration between the Land Ceptor system and 40/57mm mounts for anti massed drone use so the precious missiles we’re not depleted.
I agree.
I wish it were the same in our own country.
At least the local spotters at RAF sites should be on the ball, which I think you yourself have mentioned previously.
These Infiltraters will come disguised as Sheep !
Wasn’t that what we did ?
What, in 82??? 😆
You forget that we have several places in the South Atlantic where we maintain “presence”. Minerals, fisheries and mainly? Keeping out the Chicoms. Also the Falklands, St Helena and others are strategic assets for allies. We gave up Simonstown for a rather stupid reason. That was a grave mistake.
There are 3000 British families that live there. That in and of itself is reason enough to care
Hi there, how’s Iran today my little bridge dweller?
You are being very ‘transactional’, much like an American. The people there are British and need to be protected from Argentina’s quest for colonial expansion. The cost of Defence in the islands does not come into it.
The thing about the Falklands is it’s a bit of a backwater that would/will suddenly have vast ( and I mean global ) strategic importance when a certain set of geopolitical stars align.
It’s all to do with where the Falklands are, the fact the there Uk has invested in infrastructure and the exploitation of a virgin continent.
1) Antarctic, the last great land grab on this planet will happen soon, China is already gearing up for it and showing signs it’s ready for the start gun.
2) 50 year review clause on exploitation in 2048 the environment protection clause is up for review and can be changed to an exploitation clause.. I’m pretty sure that will happen. Once that occurs the entire point of the treaty Becomes redundant and every will re assert their claims or dispute the claims others have made.
3) China may not even bother to wait as it sees no reason to be bound to what it views as an enforced western liberal democracy enforced world order.
4) The UK has a ( suspended) sovereign claim to the most accessible and best bit of the Antarctic. The Antarctic peninsula, has the exposed land and most easily ( and we are talking Antarctic easy… which is hard ) mineral deposits to exploit. It will be the hottest ( well least cold ) bit of real estate in the Antarctic and it’s part of the British Antarctic territory.
5) Almost no nation supports any other nations claim in the Antarctic… it will become a shitshow of who can get resources to where and who is willing to fight for what. Both chile and Argentina’s claim the BAT is theirs, the US and China refuse to recognise anyone else’s claim even allies.. everyone will take what they can and it will probably be resolved at the barrel of a marines gun or who has a patrol ship resource in the area.
6) most nations will suffer massively from the tyranny of distance when trying to control and exploit Antarctica mineral deposits..but within 750miles of the Antarctic peninsula the UK has a major population, 3 ports including 1 Military port capable of offloading point class logistic ships and supporting large ocean going patrol vessels.. a large military airbase with a proper military runway, basing for a couple of thousand personnel. Not even Argentina has that level of infrastructure that close. Every major player on the planet will want access to that infrastructure when the starting gun is fired off.
What this means is that essentially the world will at some point be gunning for both the Falklands as a gateway to the Antarctic and the BAT itself as the best bit of real estate.. it also means the UK is placed top of the list to be able to exploit the Antarctic…because it has developed infrastructure in the bat..significant military and civilian infrastructure with 750miles, a number of other mid Atlantic and south Atlantic territories including another major airbase that forms a cogent UK to Antarctic airbridge ( you can fly using none air to air refuelled aircraft using nothing but UK sovereign airbases all the way from the UK to Antarctica)
As both the US and China are 10,000km away or more and cannot do that.. to exploit the Antarctic even the superpowers would need to negotiate with the UK and deal ( the US) or try and fight the UK ( China). And although the UK would not be able to challenge the PLAN in the pacific or eastern Indian Ocean, I believe it would still probably win in the south Atlantic ( tyranny of distance would be against China.. unless it had a true formal defence alliance with China ).
Full Defence Alliance with Argentina…
Excellent comment, thank you
Personally I think it is of such importance that I would put a huge marker in the sand and allow the islanders to vote to formally become part of the United Kingdom. It’s a big step for them and the UK would have to stand up to its enemies in the UN. But it would secure the future of the islanders and would mean the UK would be showing total commitment to the its south Atlantic territory an a line in the sand when it comes to any future competition or conflict around the Antarctic.. no longer is the Falklands British territory with the same old voices of imperialism.. it becomes an intrinsic part of the UK.. with all the rights and burdens there after.. it keeps its devolved powers as it needs that flexibility.. but it gains MPs and is no longer a defence burden but is a linchpin of our out of Europe defence posture as the UK and islanders benefit from all the resource revenues.
Personally I would consider this with every Atlantic overseas territory. If it’s like accession island without a culture or population it’s simply make part of the UK.. if it’s like st Helena give them the vote to join the UK.
I honestly think what makes the UK different is that it is an Atlantic island nation.. we should leaver that to our geopolitical advantage and fully embrace it as we could be an Atlantic island nation that covers the entire Atlantic creating a unique nation bridge from the northern hemisphere nations all the way to the Antarctic.. imagine in 50 years all the EU nations, Canada the US all using the UK Atlantic air corridor and south Atlantic ports and airports to develop and exploit the Antarctic.. able to sidestep all that global south political instability and Chinese, Russia influence risking them access…
Yes, good reading.
Though I don’t think any of our politicians have the guts or the will.
Especially the current PM, he’s too busy trying not to step on toes and pleasing nobody as he’s too worried about the left of his party.
As am I…..
Would you give the same opportunity to Gibraltar? As Starmer is trying for this mythical EU reset I don’t believe he’d offer it.
But if he did, fair play, I would applaud him.
Yes I personally think all our significant overseas territories should be given an opportunity to join the UK..
Indeed, though having spent some time travelling to and from both Cayman and Bermuda in my time for work, there are a certain set of OTs that have no strategic value but plenty of financial. They grey area of law they exist in as territories has been exploited wonderfully. Not in their interests to clarify their international position one bit!
Also side note – would not recommend visiting either. Bermuda is much nicer but both are quite built up, very small and not especially picturesque
Yes agree, the vote would be important as would a high level of devolved powers.. keep the money flowing.. just allow the UK to benefit from the revenue..and give those havens more security…this is were brexit could pay big dividends ( we can be as shady as we want ) .. we could bring all the shadow tax havens into the revenue fold.. just being carful not to milk the cows to death ( keep them ultra low tax… because a little of a lot is a lot more than a lot of a little ).
Agree about Bermuda.. I stoped there once to go on a submarine.. very disappointing place.. other destinations to point your bow at.
And another hot potato, the 2 SBAs of Cyprus?
I think those would need to stay as they are.. I’m not sure we would want to trigger a war and that island is still a trigger point.
My point exactly. A self contained territory like Ascension, sure thing.
Cyprus is….complex, but for me the SBAs are the most vital piece of overseas real estate we have.
The only other concern I would have with the European elements over the Atlantic islands is the migrant asylum seeker issue.. if the UK was officially on the Med I think they would be buried under people…
The Atlantic islands are 1000km away from humanity and not a navigation that can easily be made.
Yep, I’d considered that too.
Like Italian Lampedusa.
Imagine if the chagos islands has simply been incorporated into the UK last century, the UK would not have been backed into a corner.
Coy level and the FIDF is as big as it gets! Lovely place, clean air, bit chilly on occasion, bit damp with very local locals lol. British land, the locals want to stay and the offshore possibilities regarding minerals and oil are being investigated. The Argies don’t want to invade, currently not capable of it anyway, yet more political chuff by the same political clowns we also have over here! Given Starmers current ratings I’m surprised he doesn’t want to invade somewhere…..