Your deliberate use of "(err Falklands)" was indeed pointed. It deliberately expressed an underlining statement. A statement that needed correcting.
As I said in the reply, oil is old news in and around the Falkland Islands. As well as that covered under the Antarctic treaties.
You imply the main reason for British interest in the Falklands is due to oil. I will concede there is SOME truth in that. However, it is a British Colonial Island inhabited overwhelmingly by British citizens and has been for over 200 years. Why anyone wants to live in such an inhospitable place is beside the point but it is and has been.
Now...In compliance with their job description my cousin and a couple of my friends paid a visit to the Falklands some time ago. Stopping of at Tumble down and Goose Green. Unfortunately they had to leave some of their friends, a piece of England, behind on a permanent basis. We can of cause postulate as to why that happened. Oil? National pride? Desperate Junta?
As far as my patriotism is concerned it's like this...British by birth and English by the grace of god.
