The Falkland Island's. What they might not want you to know ...

Ok I will concede this is a bit of a conspiracy issue ...

The younger members on this board my not know that 25 years ago there was a war over the Falkland Islands between Britain and Argentina, the latter naming them the Malvinas. Under dispute for about 150 years or so.

The war lasted about 6 weeks, and the US came to the aid of the British fleet that Margaret Thatcher immediately dispatched, giving them "black boxes" that would allow British ships to evade the French Exorcet missiles of the Argentine navy, which were, and are, ship destroyers.

Anyway, at the time a lot of people wondered what the fuss was all about. Who care's about a tiny island chain in the South Atlantic with a population of 800 and 30,000 sheep?

Unless you consider wind patterns. Because The Falklands have their own, which are entirely separate from the rest of the planet!

So, in the event of a nuclear war this would be the ideal place to be, since there would be no wind-borne fallout from anywhere else.
So you would provide for your provisional governments to get to the Falklands fast while the rest of the planet chokes to death on radiation-rain. It is perhaps why there is a now a D-notice on reporting why certain cave entrances are off limits to the population. (D-notice is a "desist" notice presented to news media in Britain, not enforceable unless you want your license renewed ...) The official reason is they are "dangerous". Right ho...

Both the US and British governments refused to give this tiny island chain up, and why would they, if this is true?


Anyone with any meteorological knowledge care to comment on this?

 

We rfeused to give it up, because we had Thatcher as a prime minister. She would have sacrificed as many people as neccessary to keep the union jack flying on someplace most people didnt even know we owned. The island only exists to keep its one post office running so it can supply letters to people so they can stay on the island to run the post office, so that it can be used as a pub quiz question back home about the furthest post office from the mainland.
Shame she spent so much time doing that she never noticed that the UKs manufacturing industry collapsed around her.

 

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Gruinard Island, its off the coast of Scotland.

 

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Dunno I wasnt born until '84. But I know quite a lot of people who would glady have given up the Falklands in return for their local industry. If you live in one of the cities in the South-East where much of the economy in tertiary then you proably did ok under Thatcher. However if you live in South Wales or the Norht east in particular, you in all probability got completely screwed.

 

Well, I don't know much about it but I will say that we might better be packing for the Falklands. But I'll stop there, lest I get into politics.

 

I dont think Argentina is going to get it off us anytime soon, not with their place collapsed like it is. We've taken to fighting each other on the football field (soccer - football if your in America i believe).