Falklands Referendum
 

Not much doubt which way the vote will go :DL

http://news.sky.com/home/world-news/article/16245858

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?
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Too late, Jim got there first, she been ruined, move on :D

I don't think even I could lose that bet :yeah:

Argentina has time to buy votes and fix the outcome...And here comes a good will cheque for $1 Billion. :shifty:

Blimey! That Jim's got ta movez!:haha:

So when do the people in Hong Kong get to vote on their future?

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:

As soon as the Chinese realise there's no oil in the area.

Just a thought and I could be wrong, but Hong Kong was only on a 99 year lease?

Cheers

Gary

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.

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.

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.