Chile has reiterated its support for Argentina’s claim over the Falkland Islands, according to a joint statement issued following a meeting between the two countries’ leaders.

The statement, released after talks between Argentine President Javier Milei and Chilean President José Antonio Kast in Buenos Aires, confirmed what both sides described as a high level of alignment across bilateral and regional issues.

Chile expressed backing for Argentina’s “legitimate sovereign rights” over the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, and called for renewed negotiations between Argentina and the United Kingdom aimed at reaching a peaceful resolution in line with UN resolutions.

Argentina welcomed the position, noting Chile’s support on the issue. Beyond the sovereignty dispute, the two governments outlined plans to deepen economic cooperation, including expanding trade, improving investment conditions, and strengthening integration in energy and mining. Both sides also highlighted efforts to support private sector growth and increase collaboration on technology, training and innovation.

Security cooperation was also discussed, with an emphasis on tackling transnational organised crime through closer information sharing and joint capacity building.

The statement also pointed to continued cooperation in Antarctica under the Antarctic Treaty System, describing it as a strategic area of shared interest.

Both countries agreed to improve physical and digital connectivity, including modernising border crossings and streamlining procedures to reduce transit times for goods and travellers while maintaining security standards. To support these efforts, Argentina and Chile plan to convene a series of bilateral mechanisms, including meetings between foreign and defence ministers, as well as joint commissions covering security, trade, Antarctic affairs and counter-narcotics.

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    • Well cultures that reject fundamental truths like vast parts of British are very vulnerable to the reality.

      Weakness invites the predators and not only predators.

      • Me too. Its another attempted and unjustified Land Grab by the malcontents of this world. Argentina like Mauritius never owned the Land they claim. Argentina bases its claim on Spain the counrty whose power it overthrew on Independence. Independence is a reset and unfortunately Britain was the owner by then having discovered the Falklands in the first place and contested ownership with both Spain and France who were both reset by Britain and its allies in 1814. Ditto Antarctica discovered and explored by Britain in the early years of exploration.
        Besides which Britain presents no threat to either of these countries. In fact both benefited greatly from British power at the time of their new foundations.
        At the moment the chief threat to Britain’s rights in this part of the world are elements within Britain like their Attorney General and Prime Minister and the rag tag incoherent lefty political party that sporned those two.
        Britain will not yield, so Argentina and Chile have got to be friendly and reasonable towards their kind neighbour, Britain.

    • The Dictator Pinochet, who was a friend of Thatcher was in charge then. With Argentina cosying up to the US and Britain edging away from same I suggest The Falklands could be the next territory the human rights lawyers in charge of the UK will negotiate away.

      • Falkland’s is completely different to Diego Garcia. UK sovereignty is recognised by the UN. Argentina had no legal claim, if anyone in South America had a claim it’s Uruguay.

        • That’s interesting, what’s the basis of Uruguay’s claim?
          (not that it would be a greater claim than the self-determinism of the Falkland islanders claim, or the UN’s recognition or the fact that the Falklanders have been British before Argentina existed etc. etc. etc.)

            • He seems to be.
              Ray and another put the UK down at every opportunity regards our military.
              And he doesn’t need to….as we ourselves know what capabilities out military have.
              So, he’s a wind up merchant, as why else come here?

            • 77mn poorly educated Americans voted for fascist dictatorship, the convicted fraudster and proven rapist who had se# with a pron star while his wife nursed their newborn.

              So his character is proven, and they don’t care how many teen pussies he grabs..

              Trumpistan is despicable, and we won’t trust that broken system again. The ignorance is deliberate.

              This has been the most successful FSB kompromat operation. In the ruzzian war in Ukraine the first country to surrender was the USA.

              Only Constitution reform to prevent #47 foreign interference happening again will enable the eventual alliance rebuilding in the US national security interest.

              America Alone is weaker and poorer until then…

          • Temporarily so. By 2032 the Royal Navy will be back to full strength and the left will still be fighting like rats in a sack and overtaken by an Islamist Party.

  3. Wow, I remember when these guys were firmly against Argentina’s claim to the islands.
    Well we better get rid of Starmer quickly before he gives them away

    • Clunker,
      Already, thanks to Starmer’s decision to give away DG/Chagos, the Cypriot PM wants to enter into discussions about a ‘new arrangement’ for our sovereign bases there.

      • Yesterday was good news day regarding the Chagos. Starmer has withdrawn his bill in Parliament. He could try to bring it back but he knows he could be arrested and tried for treason if he does. The Treason laws are less draconian but they still exist and they probably still have a degree that covers harming the British People and not just harming the King. The King is subject to parliament, as the English Civil War determined. This is my reading but I’m not a constitutional lawyer just an amateur.

        • What utter nonsense. Firstly, the entire Chagos Islands deal was started by the Tories, not by Labour or Starmer. The ICJ judgement was the reason, which held that the islands were unlawfully separated from Mauritius when it gained independence. That’s why the deal was started, not any nonsense about “treason”. The Chagos deal was an attempt to resolve the issue in a way that ensured continued access to Diego Garcia, on a legally sustainable basis. Without the deal, Mauritius can seek support through the UN and the courts to force the UK to compromise or compensate them. That will be far more costly and complicated than the deal would have been.

          Drop the nonsense about treason, and actually recognise that “lefty lawyers” aren’t the reason for it. Even the US government approved the deal, because they acknowledged that the deal is the best way forward. It was only the idiotic ranting by Trump and Farage that sank the deal. The deal wasn’t even particularly expensive, it was only because idiots decided to talk about the total cost over the century of the payments, as if that was due now.

  4. And, I claim the Crown Jewels because I once went to see them. Doesn’t mean they are mine or I am going to get them. In fact I would have more chance on getting them(the crown jewels) then Argentina and Chile does if getting the Falklands.

    Jog on boys, jog on!

  5. Ok. So, Chille buys old british equipment and attacks the Falklands sovereignty? Pretty sure that’s what Argentina did. I wonder what Javier Milei has on Jose. Or just thought that Starmer was having a fire sale Diago Garcia and the issue with Cyprus.

  6. Who wants to bet that, in some sort of vindictive turn of events, Trump will support Argentina (he’s already pals with Javier and has given him jets)

    • It’s been on the cards the whole new US defence strategy is basically aligned to removing any other none US influence from the Americas.. it’s also the best access to the Antarctic.. so

      • US Security Strategy
        Europe sees that This US is unreliable. Germany and UK won’t tolerate that. France will say CDG Told you so.

        Europe must take the initiative in European NATO command to send the American staff home and lead for the interests of all European people. Maga will claim they saved taxpayers money ..

        Europe already started with Joint Expeditionary Force and Enhanced Forward Presence.
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        There can be no influence for a country that will not uphold Article 5, especially no membership veto for USA or the RF terrorist state.

        They said they won’t support Article 5, so European NATO countries will take that duty and decide what security guarantees will be given to Ukraine. The best security guarantees are Ukrainian weapons made by Ukraine and ITAR free, so only Ukraine decides how they use them.

        Deutchland, Czechia, and Great Britain have been investing and collaborating with Ukraine to design, build, test, and improve long range precision fires.
        A refinery a day keeps the orcZ away.
        Flamingo go go 🦩🔥🦩🔥🦩

        Increased defence spending to 5% GDP means European NATO taxpayers expect their tax to be spent on European jobs, profits, and taxes, not US MIC. There’s no reason to pay the US arms premium for interoperability when USA has said they will not uphold Article 5. So it’s on #47 that red states, where US arms are built, that they lose jobs, profits, and taxes. Lower export volumes increase the unit price to US taxpayers.

        Only serious Constitutional reform to prevent #47 foreign interference happening again will enable the eventual alliance rebuilding in the US national security interest.

        America Alone is weaker and poorer until then.

        Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦
        Heroyam Slava 💙💛
        #StrongerTogether
        #WeAreNATO
        #vpdfo #FDJT

    • Trump is more likely to claim to claim any European territories in the Western Hemisphere for himself rather than give them away.

    • And what’s that worth? Uk is defenseless The UK is a joke and it’s not Trump’s fault. Time to grow up

    • At some point someone has to tell him, as a friend, to back off. We need to get our SSNs back in full working order PDQ (at least3) and send some troops to Ascension. We need more P8s.

  7. I’m sure Starmer will give this is full attention and let Argentine air force use the Falklands airfield .And sell off one of our frigates to Chile ,what’s left . 🙄

    • Even Starmer remembers 1982 and the sacrifice paid to defend the Falkland Islands right to self determination.

      His current resolve not to join an illegal war of choice suggests that he won’t budge on the Falkland Islands. It’s clear that British resolve in 1982 was respected and is valuable internationally to this day.

  8. Its as if they have seen a fire sale on all british overseas territories, Royal Navy stretched, clamoring for reparations, and a government that seems to say uk is bad.

    Added, we have a weak Prime Minister.

    I smell trouble.

    We need a strong bombastic pm. Sadly, I can’t point to a single mp worthy of the role.

    • Why does our political system limit us to student politicians and weak leaders? Is Starmer, Johnson, Sunak seriously the best we have to offer. Would a Churchill become leader today?

    • Someone who doesn’t take fools gladly, rather than bombastic. Bombastic just mean showman, and that’s not people want. Also, a showman is good at misdirection.

      • Someone with ice in their eyes.. essentially someone who Putin Trump and Xi would look at and go… nope not playing with them.

        Essentially the geopolitical and geostrategic version of that guy who’s friendly and affable.. but you know would beat you to death with a bat if they to… we need to channel Ukraine.

      • Being legally minded he should have a more principalled background that reflects the rules and values that the UK and Western Liberal democracies operate by and want to defend, to lead and influence others to join in the same. He’s no megalomaniac thank goodness. That wouldn’t be very “British” would it!?

        • Legally minded in a national leader can be a negative, not a positive. There are times when a national leader may have to say f*** it. Sometimes following the rules will get you killed. Compare a military sniper to a police sniper. The military sniper gets a medal, the police sniper has to explain why they pulled the trigger (or why they waited or should they have delayed).

    • This is exactly it. I was over the moon when it became clear Starmer was going to be the next PM. A grownup in charge following a bunch of clowns, talk about getting that one wrong.

      Take away Starmer and what do we have? Absolutely nothing and absolutely nobody. What a shocking state of affairs.

        • Had to look that up as never heard before, but totally agree.

          Sadly, quite a few political class, educators, west midlands police leaders etc could all be similarly labeled.

        • There’s something particularly childish about the use of the word ‘traitor’ to describe people you have political disagreements with. I am not a fan of Starmer, but he isn’t a traitor under any correct definition of that term, whatever the facebook posts of the likes of Britain First and Stephen Yaxley Lennon , or the litany of russian bots spreading division, come out with.

          • I agree. However he is allowing a Chinese spy base to be built near critical infrastructure, trying to give a vital strategic overseas territory away to an ally of China and the report into overseas meddling in UK politics was written by….someone who did work with the Chinese Communist Party. He needs looking into at the very least, even if the word ‘traitor’ is a taf dramatic at this point.

            • Starmer has plenty of faults but it’s nonsense to label him a traitor.

              There are plenty of politicians out there who have taken money from foreign states/other actors and acted in ways detrimental to U.K. interests. The Welsh Reform leader comes to mind.

              • It’s all projection. As you point out, senior leaders in the Reform party are literal traitors, and there is plenty is reason to suspect that Farage was doing the same.

    • Ronald Reagan kept onside with Argentinian junta during Falklands crisis. Maggie would have hand bagged him in private.

  11. The UK needs to grow up, the world has changed.. it’s now full of powers that only care about power and the will to use that power..

    I have said this for a long time the south Atlantic will explode as a power group will decide to take the Falklands from us.. and when it happens it will not just be Argentina it will be a co-ordinated effort, because the Falklands and the south Atlantic islands are just to strategically important for when the Antarctic opens up for exploitation and that will be soon.. the US has made it clear in its strategic defence document that it will accept no control in the Americas other than the US.. so at some point the US is very likely to stab us in the back over this..

    I think the UK needs to understand if it’s not powerful in its own right and able to defend irs own territories as well as be a core member of a political pole..in the new world order we are seeing it’s going to end up shit creak.

    The political poles are now becoming clear as well as the likely victims left out on their own..

    Poles
    US
    China
    EU
    Russia
    India
    Potentially a gulf pole

    Left out on a sticky wicket
    UK
    Gulf states unless they pile
    Canada
    Western pacific nations medium powers ( Japan,Australia,Korea)
    Isreal

    Victims of a power pole
    1) every nation near Russia not in the EU or part of ENATO ( victims to Russia)
    2) African nations ( always and to everyone)
    3) South and Central America ( victims of the US)
    4) small western pacific nations ( victims of China )
    5) Afghanistan ( someone will invade they always do)
    6) Pakistan ( unless it builds a union with gulf states )

    Essentially the world will be about 4-6 power poles and everyone else is food for the poles…

    • I can’t see anyone trying to take the FI however I do believe the UK should have an A2AD capability that it can rapidly role out on any of its island bases.

      These islands are our real ace in the hole, having a DF26 style long range hypersonic anti ship missile, long range cruise missile and a SAMP/T capability all deployable by A400M, we should practice deploying such a force each year.

      • Not yet Jim as the Antarctica treaty is still holding…. Due to the tyranny of distant and conditions.. but give it a decade and it’s going to get hairy.

        I agree on the area denial.. as well as presence work.. in a decade having a full airfield with a direct UK sovereign airbridge as well as everything else will be huge.. this is not an Atol in the mid Indian Ocean it’s core UK as essentially the only Atlantic power that stretches from north to south.. we should be banking that in our back pocket..

      • CAMM battery already deployed over there, Purchase StrikeMaster battery (NSM launched from mobile Bushmaster) and you’ve got a decent A2AD bubble – Ensure enough AT to ferry Typhoon/35B reinforcements in a timely manner and you’re golden.

        • The cam battery should have been in Cypress… The reason it’s f****** around down there is old people’s ‘s remembrance of something that happened a long time ago.

          • I don’t consider myself old and I remember the FIW – you sound like you’re still wet behind the ears. We need more military spending everywhere but certainly shouldn’t neglect the FI – problem with Rays bff Trump is that no one knows where the next war will be or who he will think is responsible for clearing up his mess

            • Wet behind the ears my ass. Old-timer… The problem is the UK is not really relevant anymore. Militarily. The UK still has a fetish for the Falklands while the rest of the world that’s actually important moves around them . It’s time to grow up. The 100,000 cypriots are not impressed with the UK at the moment and no one else in the Middle East. Even remotely cares what the UK is doing. That is the definition of irrelevant

                • Yeah because the UK has become a colossal failure and the reason that NATO is not relevant anymore. Rent-free my ass. This is reality. The rest of NATO used to depend on you. Sadly those days have passed.

                  • Epic projection as it’s the USA that nobody in NATO trusts anymore.

                    Europe sees that This USA is unreliable. 80 years peace and stability gone in 100 days of betrayal by #47

                    Time to stop buying US arms and send the Americans home from NATO Europe command so we can run it for the interests of all European people. Maga will claim they saved taxpayers money.

                    America Alone is weaker and poorer.
                    FAFO USA

              • There is oil offshore of the islands, one field expected to come online in around 2028. There are believed to be at least 4 fields in total. It’s expensive oil, but right now there would be plenty of buyers, especially if UK can guarantee delivery. People are also forgetting that if anything closes the Panama Canal (including due to lack of water), then the straight of Magellan once again becomes a prime waterway. Anything going through that straight has to go past the Falklands.

        • Donaldson,
          Do we actually have a CAMM (SkySabre) battery in the Falklands or just one or two launchers?

      • My be worth having a T31 based down there when they’re ready. Might then be able to work on mutual relations with friendly South American countries and even South Africa with port visits.

        • Hey Quentin – how are you Mate? Sadly we can rule out co-operation with South Africa. They are completely in the China/Iran/Russia order nowdays.

          • The BRICS are a confection for non US dollar trade, mainly in oil, so very weak while RF terrorist state oil exports are down 60% and nobody wants rubbles, not even ruzzian oligarchs. Ruzzian Bonds denominated in Yuan tells you how healthy BRICS are…

            The CCP dictatorship will continue to source oil by pipeline and from USA, Venezuela, Nigeria etc so are not bothered by BRICS minimal success.

            Are the ANC corrupt enough to continue, yes, and smart enough not to depend on it, probably. So will they continue to play all sides for whatever they can get, yes, I think they will.

        • Type 31s aren’t going to deter anyone, they’re the cheapest thing you could possibly slap an ensign on and call a warship, alright for showing the flag in places and looking like a warship but not for actual fighting.

    • Skim read this and thought the Polish were accelerating their spending again so much that they were ahead of the US!
      There must be some way of getting Defence to the top of the agenda short of an actual war in which our people die, or is it hopeless? The Falklands are safe I hope, at least militarily.

    • I can see America behind the scenes backing a country in backing Argentina to take FI and then stepping in with a counter-invasion “on our behalf” and keeping it for themselves.

  12. As the native Indians were in Argentina at the time the Falklands became ours does that mean they can claim Argentina back then?

  13. Probably a non-story but who could blame them. With the mood music on Diego Garcia and Cyprus, why wouldn’t you try your luck

  14. Time to reinforce the garrison on FI. A few more Typhoons may deter any Argentine aggression.
    Not sure if we have any spare Typhoons available.

  16. So does this mean that Chile has settled their dispute with Argentina over those islands in the Beagle Channel that they both claim, and that Chile has forgotten that Argentina had a plan with Peru, to attack Chile had the Falklands all gone the way the Junta expected. ie nil British response ?

  17. I think we should put together a task force if the need arises. Forty odd warships and sixty plus RFA and Merchant Navy ships should do the job. Ah yes, there is one small problem…. we only have one spare destroyer, a couple of frigates and no amphibious capabilty. Oh well, never mind. Best let them get on with it then.

    • May have a prolem with the destroyer. I’ve just picked up a news report saying the HMS Dragon has gone into port with a water supply fault.

      • Defending the FI properly will mean a task force is not required. 6 additional Typhoon aircraft a nuclear sub plus battalion of infantry should be enough to put off any Argentine aggression.

        • I think you mught have missed the irony somewhat. Interesting you mentione a nuke. Which one of one, which is in Aus. did you have in mind.

          • That is for the military planners to sort out. Surely if we have 9 nuke subs then one can be made available.

          • To be fair one SSN was enough in 1977 to deter an argentinian invasion, enough to drive their navy away in 1982 and likely would be again. The sub being in Aus actually makes it closser to the Falklands.

            • Yes one SSN would be enough to keep the Argentine navy in port.
              What’s the problem with the other 4 Astute class subs. Surely you can make one good one from 4 for operational requirements.

  18. All overseas territories should be incorporated into the UK. Like France does with Réunion. As for Chile and Argentina, both are led by extremists, which seems to be the de rigueur these days.

  19. Ignore.
    But review contingencies anyway.
    Better still, create an MP and make the Falklands and South Georgia a part of the UK.
    Despite the anti Starmer comments, cannot see any movement here, he was forceful enough in the Commons over this last year, and people died within living memory retaking the place.
    So, jog on Argentina.
    Chile? Do we still support the T23s and T22s we sold them?

    • Possibly mate but the way Starmer operates shows how wishy washy he is, and weak when challenged, especially if a country can come up with some “international rule of law” chuff! Chancers in various countries see this and are ready to give it a go! I do not think he would give it away (not for any other reason than even the average person on the street will mostly object) and the fear he will lose even more of the average working class persons who are on the edge and being ignored, abused and milked dry under the dream of international no borders socialism!

      • Hi mate.
        That all falls into my “living memory” bit, he’d not dare!
        While we’re at it, the long list of countries we’ve taken millions from with migration, given billions more in aid, who now want reparations by using history as a weapon can go do one as well.

    • Mate , l’m keen to understand how it is that Chile still ope rte the Type 23 frigates , but the RN are retiring theirs?

    • DM – I’m guided by the binding rule of democracy. There should be a final referendum asking the Falkland Islanders if they wish to be part of the UK or part of Argentina . We both know the answer!

      • Klonkie, that last referendum on this subject was only 12 years ago. Why have another?
        Then, on a turnout of 92%, 99.8% voted to remain a British territory, with only three votes against.

  20. Politics, politics and more politics! However it doesn’t help by having a Government ripping itself apart with covert and more overt in-fighting and a pathetic PM who has already shown the way on his thought process regarding overseas territory and the lack of will to keep, support and protect! It’s pretty obvious that all and sundry see Starmer and puppet master Hermer as “internal law” poodles and have a possible future eye on getting the sad group of none entities in the UN to knock up a rule that the “occupation of the Malvinas is illegal”? Wonder what Chile will want in return for this support?

  22. It seems a few people on this site are now suffering from a thing called Sir Keir Derangement Syndrome.

    It’s a complex condition closely related to Trump Derangement Syndrome.

    Although there is a difference the medical experts say. During bouts of Trump Derangement Syndrome, the sufferer usually has a negative reaction to the unhinged statements and actions of a nonse president.

    But during bouts of Sir Keir Derangement Syndrome, the sufferer has a negative reaction (usually hysterical) to something Starmer has never done, said, or even suggested, and blames him for finishing a deal that his predecessor started (when nothing got said)

    Fascinating stuff.

    • Like the crashing of the economy, underfunding of defence (dont remember seeing any new orders for FJ). Starmer is simply inept as are the rest of the human rights lawyers that mask as politicians.

    • Agree. But it’s not just Starmer, all PMs who are unpopular.
      It happened with the Tories too, throw enough mud, it sticks, then is seen as the norm.
      The PMs u turns, and image of hiding behind legalities rather than leading, while having an unfortunate look of being mortified constantly ( not his fault I know ) reinforce it.
      As I said, I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt on this one but Chagos has set the ball rolling that we are weak and will cave. The Cypriots, now slavery reparation demands, all fuelled by a press who either loathe Starmer or who would agree with all that.

      • “Unfortunate look of being mortified constantly”

        Yeah fair enough that did make me laugh

        It does happen with all of them but I think the Starmer hate is a bit forced by a fair few tbh.

        That’s a funny one u turns, I did about 4 u turns today at work and was patted on the back for it, is changing your mind really such a bad thing, and Starmer uses it himself as an attack with the tories and reform “u turning” I really don’t get that one, another strange thing this country does, in my view any person that changes their mind due to either public disapproval, new evidence, different advice etc, is probably doing the right thing and it’s great they have listened.

        • Fair points mate, yes, if the U turn is valid as the original decision is wrong, fair enough, then it’s the right one.
          The problem as I see it is, it then makes people question why policy was set that way in the first place, again, results in a wider lack of confidence that there is a plan, worked out, validated, and stuck to.
          And it is his job. When I was a signalman, if I was changing my mind too often there’d be carnage and we’d not have an efficient train service.
          One U turn he seems determined to see through to the end is one of his most unpopular. Chagos.

  23. Recent event in the BOI, Gibraltar and Cypris cannot be reassuring for Falkland Islanders.
    The finalised Chagos hand-over treaty between the UK and Mauritius was agreed way back in May 2025 – the fact that the hand-over didn’t as then expected happen in January was due to several unexpected events. These being: (1) determined parliamentary opposition to passing enabling UK legislation, (2) the complication of the big American base on Diego Garcia and Trump’s see-sawing approval of the deal, (3) the involvement of said base in America’s war with Iran, and (4) the return of a few Chagos Islanders who were forcibly deported by the UK in the 1960s.
    Starmer (a former human rights lawyer) apparently ordered the later to be arrested and removed from the islands, but a Court ruling intervened. We seem to be in situation where on one extreme the Chagos Islands could be furtively handed over to the Mauritius tonight, i.e. presenting a fait accompli that Parliament, the King, Trump et al will have to accept. Or on the other hand the whole deal is off and the BOI will remain British for the foreseeable future.

  24. Interesting given Defence Analysis also highlighted the waning ability to defend the Falklands into the future. Painful but maybe true.

    • Fieldlander, when you look at the core of what we have in the Falklands that actually has deterrent effect, it isn’t that much. I cannot believe that we will ever make big savings by, say, cutting one or two Typhoons or a platoon of Infantry.

  25. Ironic as Argentina tried to invade Chile in 1979 and would have invaded Chilie if the British hadn’t defeated them in the Falklands.

    • You are right the Argies would had invaded us. Chile´s new governmental authorities know little about Chilean defence needs and stance.

      • Other way round actually we’ve sold most of our ships and they’re still doing it. We sold Chille 3 of the Type 23s a few years ago. Previously sold quite a lot of the Sold Ocean (years ago) and Bulwalk (last year) to Brazil. We just sold 4 of the Tide class tankers to a private company just a couple of months ago.

  27. The Island is British and the inhabitants are British. No one on the islands wants Argentinean rule so leave alone. Maybe with the present US cock up in the Gulf and the rising cost of oil we could finally develop the Falkland southern basin and refine it in the UK?? Failing that idea support Falkland farming and import to the UK both Mutton and fish? Finally import the kelp again to produce both bio degradable plastic or cattle feed? All would support the inhabitants and the UK showing proper support!!

    • The North Falklands basin is due to come online in 2028. Not sure where they are up to with the other 3 (one of which would technically be shared with Argentina). I understand that the South & East Falkland basins are the largest but still appears some way off commercial operation.

      • Agree and having spent many years in and operating around the islands it needs to stay British. Agree the wildlife is superb.

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