‘No threat’ to Falklands

Published on Tuesday 21 February 2012 00:00

There is no evidence of any “current credible military threat” to the security of the Falklands, the Defence Secretary said yesterday.

Philip Hammond said that despite speculation, there had been no recent change to military levels and “no plan for significant changes to force deployments”.

He sought to quell recent heightened tension between Britain and Argentina by stressing that the government had “no desire or intention to increase the heat” around the debate on the islands’ sovereignty.

However, he revealed that plans existed for rapid reinforcement of land, sea and air forces should any threat appear.

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Claudio-LaPlataMan

Wednesday, February 22, 2012 at 02:29 AM

Remember that only a government illegitimate, as the military dictatorship that dominated by force to Argentina in the decade of the 7080, commit illegal acts! Let's talk about illegal acts? The story is simple, the islands were discovered in 1550 by a Español.En 1790 the British Government signed a treaty which declared the islands Spanish property! In 1820 the Argentina occupy the islands with 150 civilians Argentinos. in 1833 a British captain, using "the reason for the weapons," drive out all the Argentines on the islands! Want to talk about self-determination? Ask the descendants of the 150 Argentine expelled! Who gave the right to occupy the British government the islands? The "right" of weapons is a "right"?

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Flakey

Tuesday, February 21, 2012 at 04:15 PM

There is no hurrican coming

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glassbenmhor

Tuesday, February 21, 2012 at 02:58 AM

And he would be the last person to be able to do anything if there, but I'm sure he will be on the phone to Beijing to beg for 25-75 billion for a Trident refit so's he can sit down in that Security Council seat. Maybe he should listen with the rest of the cabinet to the Admirals and Generals, then maybe he could do something about Englands future Oil source.

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