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Jimbuna
06-12-12, 06:24 PM
Not much doubt which way the vote will go :DL


The Falkland Islands are to hold a referendum on their "political status" in a bid to end the continuing dispute with Argentina over their sovereignty.

The vote will be held in the first half of 2013, the Falklands government said


http://news.sky.com/home/world-news/article/16245858
CaptainHaplo
06-12-12, 06:31 PM
No doubt whatsoever - but if the argentinian president needs any consoling after the results, she can come to my house. I'll uhm.... cheer her up!
nikimcbee
06-12-12, 06:58 PM
No doubt whatsoever - but if the argentinian president needs any consoling after the results, she can come to my house. I'll uhm.... cheer her up!

I'm sure you will!:03: wink wink nudge nudge. Are you into holiday snaps?
http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20060727203016/uncyclopedia/images/1/11/Nudge1.jpg
JU_88
06-12-12, 07:49 PM
I'm sure you will!:03: wink wink nudge nudge. Are you into holiday snaps?

Too late, Jim got there first, she been ruined, move on :D
BossMark
06-13-12, 05:09 AM
Not much doubt which way the vote will go :DL

I don't think even I could lose that bet :yeah:
STEED
06-13-12, 08:18 AM
Argentina has time to buy votes and fix the outcome...And here comes a good will cheque for $1 Billion. :shifty:
nikimcbee
06-13-12, 08:21 AM
Blimey! That Jim's got ta movez!:haha:
Tribesman
06-13-12, 08:22 AM
So when do the people in Hong Kong get to vote on their future?
Herr-Berbunch
06-13-12, 09:34 AM
Hong Kong long gone. Gibraltar next, but we'll wait until the Spanish economy is in a worse state.

Or St. Helena. Diego Garcia. A handful-or-so others.

Or, and here is the important bit, British Antarctic Territory - give the penguins the vote. But not 'our' Penguin. :03:
Jimbuna
06-13-12, 10:42 AM
So when do the people in Hong Kong get to vote on their future?

As soon as the Chinese realise there's no oil in the area.
Garion
06-13-12, 10:48 AM
Just a thought and I could be wrong, but Hong Kong was only on a 99 year lease?

Cheers

Gary
Herr-Berbunch
06-13-12, 10:56 AM
We haven't had HK since '97 when the lease expired, Chris Patton was the then governor, and once more a piece of the empire crumbled.
Tribesman
06-13-12, 11:48 AM
Just a thought and I could be wrong, but Hong Kong was only on a 99 year lease?

No but with a sort yes, that was only the New Territories which they leased rent free in 1898.
Hong Kong itself and Kowloon were both ceded permanently to the British crown.
Jimbuna
06-13-12, 11:59 AM
Not that we could have held onto them...I was there in the late seventies then again in the early eighties and walking up the territorial boundary/street (I forget the name now, one wouldn't dare cross onto the other side seeing as at least one in ten of the pedestrians wore a uniform and had a rifle with bayonet attached slung across their backs.

When ashore in the area having a drink it was an unwritten rule that one of the company remained sober to ensure nobody 'strayed' into China.