Morrissey: 99.8% of people on the Falkland Islands disagree with you.

Theo

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99.8% of Falkland Islanders back the status quo.

So why does Morrissey go on about it?

"If the islanders want to remain British, that's fine," says Jorge Kasparian in his Buenos Aires shop that sells takeout food. "You can't force them to be Argentine."

While Argentina and Britain squabble, the Falklanders will have their say through the referendum.

"This is our chance to show what we want," says Marsh, the eighth-generation islander. "And we do not want to be Argentine."
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/03/10/falkland-referendum/1973351/

So, Morrissey, why not leave the Falkland Islanders alone and go post some more support for animal rights nutjobs who wanna send mail bombs to the family residences of scientists working on cures for AIDS and cancer?

Dear Lord.
 
Maybe Morrissey should tell us again about how he has worked out that Chinese people are "sub-humans". LOL
 
Yes, we should all agree with everything everyone else tells us to think.
 
98.8% of people on the Morrissey solo forum think Theo is a right wing nut job.:crazy:
I love being in a minority.
But in this case I'm not.:rolleyes:
 
malvachat ftw
 
99.8% of Falkland Islanders back the status quo.

So why does Morrissey go on about it?

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/03/10/falkland-referendum/1973351/

So, Morrissey, why not leave the Falkland Islanders alone and go post some more support for animal rights nutjobs who wanna send mail bombs to the family residences of scientists working on cures for AIDS and cancer?

Dear Lord.

Firstly - staus quo are shit.

Secondly..... an Empire takes over an island..... the said Empire moves in XXXX amount of it's population to exclusively live / work there.
A hundred (or however many) years later, the descendants of those people are given the chioce to vote:
Do you wish to be ruled by the country of your ancestors origin or the country that is nearest and has the most historical rights to your island?

Shock horror - hold the front page.... the Islanders go with the former!

Morrissey is so right on this issue.
 
Firstly - staus quo are shit.

Secondly..... an Empire takes over an island..... the said Empire moves in XXXX amount of it's population to exclusively live / work there.
A hundred (or however many) years later, the descendants of those people are given the chioce to vote:
Do you wish to be ruled by the country of your ancestors origin or the country that is nearest and has the most historical rights to your island?

Shock horror - hold the front page.... the Islanders go with the former!

Morrissey is so right on this issue.

You're exactly right. Good point.
 
Firstly - staus quo are shit.

Secondly..... an Empire takes over an island..... the said Empire moves in XXXX amount of it's population to exclusively live / work there.
A hundred (or however many) years later, the descendants of those people are given the chioce to vote:
Do you wish to be ruled by the country of your ancestors origin or the country that is nearest and has the most historical rights to your island?

Shock horror - hold the front page.... the Islanders go with the former!

Morrissey is so right on this issue.

i presume then that the people of America will be leaving shortly and returning it to the Native Americans?
 
99.8% of Falkland Islanders back the status quo.

So why does Morrissey go on about it?

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/03/10/falkland-referendum/1973351/

So, Morrissey, why not leave the Falkland Islanders alone and go post some more support for animal rights nutjobs who wanna send mail bombs to the family residences of scientists working on cures for AIDS and cancer?

Dear Lord.

For once I agree with you. Morrissey's stance on the Falklands makes no sense. As far as I can see, by any normal standards there is no legitimate, reasonable case at all for why the Falklands should be Argentinian.

To be fair, it is a stance relatively widely shared on the British left it seems, it's not peculiarly Morrissey. It is hard to escape the impression that the stance has more to do with who takes the opposite view than with the actual merits of the case. Reverse reasoning. It was a focal point of the Thatcherite political wars, a rallying point for both sides. But even if you think the war was really about Thatcher grasping an opportunity to rally the nation to her evil regime at a price paid in blood by other people, that doesn't actually mean you can just ignore the fact that the actual people living on the islands regards themselves as British. Or that there has never been any argentinian population on them. But that matters less, evidently, that people's attachment to their own political emotions. I have no patience with such childish sectarianism.
 
Firstly - staus quo are shit.

Secondly..... an Empire takes over an island..... the said Empire moves in XXXX amount of it's population to exclusively live / work there.
A hundred (or however many) years later, the descendants of those people are given the chioce to vote:
Do you wish to be ruled by the country of your ancestors origin or the country that is nearest and has the most historical rights to your island?

Shock horror - hold the front page.... the Islanders go with the former!

Morrissey is so right on this issue.

You seem to forget that the Falklands were unpopulated. There were no people living there when the British arrived. So your little knee-jerk, "boo-hoo imperialism" thought scheme does not in fact hold up.
 
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