For The Wounded & Dead of the Falklands War
2 April 1982 – 14 June 1982

This post shall remain public 2nd April to 14th June 2012,
in memory of those who, on both sides, fell during
this terrible war 30 years ago.

10 Things To Remember:

1: The 2nd April marks 30 years since the start of the Falklands War. Britain did not start the war, it started because of a hostile invasion of British territory.

2: The British first landed and laid claim to the Falklands in 1690, when Captain John Strong sailed through Falkland Sound, naming this passage of water after Anthony Cary, 5th Viscount of Falkland, the First Lord of the Admiralty at that time. British people settled on the Falkland Islands in 1833, they had no indigenous people.

3: Every single person on those Islands today is of British descent. Argentina claim those people have no right to choose their allegiance, the British believe everyone does.

4: The entire population of the Falklands has, for 30 years, had the power of self determination, meaning they can choose to stay as part of Britain or not. Every single one of the people on those Islands considers themselves to be British and wishes to remain a part of Britain, continuing to make that land British.

5: It is ridiculous to expect a people who have lived somewhere for 200 years to move from their country of origin and their ancestral home or allow themselves to be suddenly ruled by a foreign Nation. That's if it were not ridiculous enough already to expect a Sovereign Nation to hand chunks of it's land away, at demand.

6: This is not a British Empire/Imperialist matter. The Empire & British Imperialism have been dead and gone for 60 years. It could possibly be an oil issue. It is interesting how the desire for the Islands has peaked at the discovery of oil in the recent decades.

7: This is not a colonial issue, no indigenous peoples had their land stolen or were displaced. The only colonial issue is that Argentina was itself created by the colonisation from Spain, who did displace the indigenous people and steal their land to be who they are now. America, Canada and Australia were the same thanks to the terrible behaviour of the British Empire, however the Falkland Islands do not fit anywhere into this bracket.

8: Despite calls to "get around the negotiation table" this will not happen. There is nothing to negotiate as far as Britain is concerned and frankly to suggest there is is obtuse.

9: There are times to let go and move on. IMHO it's time for anyone who feels that Argentina has a legitimate claim to those Islands to get over it. The matter was dealt with 200 years ago when they became British and ultimately settled [for good I hope] 30 years ago.

10: Her Majesties government of Great Britain will never relent over the matter of what is Sovereign territory and will always continue to protect Her Majesties subjects that live there for as long as said subjects wish to remain a protected part of Britain. The Falklands war was as horrid as all wars, battles and conflicts are. People died on both sides. That is the horrible tragedy here.

In the coming months, the British shall remember the injured for life and fallen to death on both sides of the war.

HM Government's Falkland Island's Policy, Since 1982
Reiterated at the restoration of relations in 1989.
Diplomatic Relations resumed with two provisos:
A permanent arms embargo with Argentina remains
& no diplomatic negotiations over the Islands'
sovereignty will ever happen. The matter is resolute.

The people of the Falkland Islands, like the people of the United Kingdom, are an island race. Their way of life is British; their allegiance is to the Crown. They are few in number, but they have the right to live in peace, to choose their own way of life and to determine their own allegiance. It is the wish of the British people and of Her Majesty’s Government that we do everything that we can to uphold that right. That shall always be our endeavour and the resolve of every Member of the House of Commons. As long as the people there wish to keep their allegiance to The Crown and the British Government, the Falkland Islands are and shall always remain British.