Oberleutnant posted:

Yeah from what I gather the Falklands are just Argentina's dead cat they can fling around whenever things are looking hairy for the government anyway.

kapparomeo posted:

That was the idea of the last referendum in the Falklands. The question was not "do you wish to be ruled by Argentina" but "do you wish to change the constitutional status of the islands". If they had voted for it then there would have been a consultation on what exactly that change would have been which could have been one of the answers above, but the islanders are overwhelmingly satisfied with the status quo.

Mega Comrade posted:

This seems an odd response seeing as it says 'Sex' on the birth certificate and sex and gender are not the same thing.

ukle posted:

Also the Status Quo for the Falklands (and places Gibraltar, Cayman Islands etc) is loving amazing i.e. they pay zero tax to the UK, have full self determination on most matters, yet have the backing of the UK for defense along with all the other trade benefits being part of the UK brings. That is the reason why all the territories want to stay British over anything else as at the moment they have it absurdly good, especially the tax havens as they are exploiting the loophole/relationship to the max.

Note in the case of the Falklands the islanders did say they would contribute to the UK to pay for the defense if they ever did get stinking rich due to oil, which would be nice of them given how much it currently costs.

V. Illych L. posted:

guys i think corbyn might be a bizarrely good politician

Saith posted:

drat. Maybe the Welsh should widen the Severn til we're considered overseas, too. I mean, we wouldn't have MPs, but it's not like that matters.

Experto Crede posted:

I was expecting more from the sun. Kind of disappointed

Yggdrassil posted:

I've been living in the UK for 3 months now, and I'm very attached to my country's (Argentina) political scene.

Basically, our president wrote a letter to Corbyn titled "Hope has Triumphed"

The pro-gov, state run media praises Corbyn non-stop

http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/elmundo/4-281551-2015-09-13.html

The anti-gov, corporate media remains neutral, saying that the success of Corbyn against all odds was amazing, and that he now faces internal conflict with some labour party members that do not agree with him

http://www.clarin.com/politica/Cristina-Laborismo-britanico-triunfado-esperanza_0_1429657275.html

In terms of the general opinion of me and my friends/relatives/acquaintances, we are quite happy for Corbyn's victory. Even those who do not share their view that much agree that his perspective will give the UK a much more interesting way of debating. I personally agree with most of the things he says, but I'm not happy at all with his stance on Latin America. I've seen his speech in the latin american convention the other day, and I fear he is just praising Venezuela's and Argentina's government to oppose the right wing groups that condemn those latin american governments.

Argentina and Venezuela have terrible governments, both deeply corrupted, which have shown actions that are deeply against many awesome principles Corbyn stands for.

Lunar Suite posted:

I'm moving to Manchester this week to start my MRes and in preparation I thought I'd catch up. I ended on YouTube watching some clips of debates.

Please, I beg of you, someone tell me they're not always "Mister Speaker, Mister Speaker, Ed is a big doo doo head!" This is how they spend their time?

endlessmonotony posted:

Not like an individual's sex is a binary thing either.

We define it by half a dozen markers, and some of those are not binary either. If everything goes right in the related processes, the person ends up male or female, but cancer is clear proof that things don't always go right and poo poo can end up far worse than intersex conditions as a result.

spiderbot posted:

Also you don't actually have to have had surgery to get a gender recognition certificate and legally change your gender (although you do need a letter from a medical expert) so it's not like the law isn't already OK with someone's legal gender not matching their physical body.

Pesmerga posted:

The media coverage at the moment is completely unhinged, and there are so many journalists on Twitter being either a) passive aggressive, b) going on about how loving stupid and fickle the public are, c) claiming that, for example, the large mandate JC got is tiny and insignificant, but that there was even less of one for the other three candidates is completely irrelevant, or in some cases, d) all of the above. I've never seen such unified frustration before, it's bizarre.

Experto Crede posted:

Experto Crede posted:

I was expecting more from the sun. Kind of disappointed

The Sunday Express posted:

Heads straight to refugee rally

Geokinesis posted:

There is only 1 paper with a positive headline regarding Corbyn at the local store and it was the mirror,

Oberleutnant posted:

Yeah from what I gather the Falklands are just Argentina's dead cat they can fling around whenever things are looking hairy for the government anyway.

Jose posted:

especially so now what with the conspiracy theories about their president having a lawyer murdered

kingturnip posted:

"Top names resign!"
I doubt the parents of half of those morons could even pick them out of a line-up, they're so unmemorable.
I pay more attention to politics than most people, but when that Jamie guy tweeted his resignation my first thought was "Who is he and how is was he on the Shadow Cabinet?"

kustomkarkommando posted:

I would have thought being pushed rather than jumping would be a better angle, "I was willing to stay on but nasty leftie Corbyn sacked me because I failed an ideological purity test'.

Umunna hasn't jumped yet has he?

ukle posted:

It doesn't for the overseas territories as they have full control over there own laws, them having their own MP's would be nigh on useless as there is very little the UK does that affects them (Foreign affairs and Defense are the real only ones), as they already have full self control over almost everything.