Next Falklands war

[MicrosoftBob]

I think we need to add a corollary to Godwin's Law:

Where a discussion takes place on a UK forum, then that discussion will sooner or later involve the question of Scottish independence.

Call it Blair's Law they'll love that

[Batcher]

Doesn't mean you've won, just that you can't argue on topic.

I WIN !!

[BrilloPad]

So are you upset about all your tax money unfairly funding Scotland then Brillo ?

Oh, hang on......

Ouch!

[alluvial]

I WIN !!

No you didn't

[NotAllThere]

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Peru/Equador - I haven't researched it but I can guarantee that when war broke out at least one side was not a full democracy....

You can examine a list here - some of these were definitely both democracies. For example the invasion of Iceland by Britain during the second world war.

Of course, if you narrow your criteria enough, I'm sure you'll reach a point where no democracy has invaded another and no democracy has been at war with another democracy. The fact is, it may be rare, but it does happen, and there is nothing intrinsic to democracy that would prevent it.

[Batcher]

So are you upset about all your tax money unfairly funding Scotland then Brillo ?

Oh, hang on......

Oh no. Did I forget to thank Brillo for funding my two kids through Uni for 4 years each? Or for all those free prescriptions, care for the elderly, etc, etc?

Thanks Brillo. Top man !!

[pjclarke]

Of course rights are negotiable, it happens all the time. The 'right' to self-determination was formalised in the Atlantic Charter of 1941, before that it only existed as a principle, with no standing in law.

Britain violated the rights of the Argentinian settlers when she kicked them off by force just six generations ago. Our 'rights' to the rock date back to that act of aggression.

However it is moot because there are sufficient people here who still think we should maintain some kind of Empire, to make a negotiated handover of the islands a political impossibility, however I do think that expending so much taxpayers' money and human life on the 'rights' of a community the size of Framlington, a third of the way around the world is just

We could give them half a million each, and relocate them to a reasonable simulcrum of the Falklands in the Inner Hebrides, and it would cost less, and nobody has to die.

[TestMangler]

Oh no. Did I forget to thank Brillo for funding my two kids through Uni for 4 years each? Or for all those free prescriptions, care for the elderly, etc, etc?

Thanks Brillo. Top man !!

Think you'll find that Brillo didn't contribute his fair share due to some complicated offshore loan arrangement.

if he had done the right thing, we could have got more, much needed, subsidy from down south. Don't worry though, I hear Nicola is going to get us free marina berthing and 4 years subsidised Porsche servicing as part of a deal with Labour.

[barrydidit]

4 years subsidised Porsche servicing as part of a deal with Labour.

Does that cover parts as well as labour?

[Batcher]

Think you'll find that Brillo didn't contribute his fair share due to some complicated offshore loan arrangement.

if he had done the right thing, we could have got more, much needed, subsidy from down south. Don't worry though, I hear Nicola is going to get us free marina berthing and 4 years subsidised Porsche servicing as part of a deal with Labour.

I'm sure he has paid some sort of tax & NI at some point though, and certainly VAT. He'll probably be caught by the mansion tax too so we can have an extra 1,000 nurses. Hopefully those nurses will be immigrants as well as we need to get our numbers up.