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Why would a government spend $$billions when they could solve the problem by offering $$millions to the British people living there to move? It really just doesn't make economical sense.... or does it?
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Obvioulsy you have a dog in this fight and thats fair enough but these "people" are British by passport alone, they are Falkland Islanders and have been for nearly two hundred years.
How would anyone here feel if a government offered them money to leave their homes, yes, the Falkland Islands are their home. They are self governing and by overwhelming majority choose to remain a part of Britain.
And my personal feeling as a British citizen and taxpayer is if they want to remain British and a forgein entity violently invades their home and they ask for help, they come under the protection of the British Government elected by the British people and they should get it.
Sure there may be oil there but his is not about oil directly, it is about the people. Thats why the British sent its military forces, not to liberate the Islands but to liberate the people. I support PM Brown stand on this, I dont believe any other elected PM would be different.