Malvinas

The Falkland islands.

28 or so years ago Argentina decided that they wanted the Falkland Islands (or as they call them, Malvinas). However as the UK have had this sovereign territory since 1833, we said: no, fuck off.

Argentina then proceeded to invade the islands and claim them, holding the British citizens hostage. What happened next is not only well documented but is one of the things that makes me most proud to say I am British.

A small island in the North Atlantic, a tiny island nation called Britain, sent their finest troops on a 3 week sea voyage to defend British territory. A tiny British territory, which many may have called insignificant. This was a point of principle and that's what makes me British and proud to be so. We could have easily given up that barren rock deep in the south Atlantic and simply recovered the few residents and re-settled them here. But we didn't, we sent our forces half way around the world and gave Argentina a bollock punch by wearing their troops down to the point of surrender.

So now Argentina and a group of other impoverished south American countries are condemning the UK for drilling for oil off the Falkland Islands, our territory.

Fine I say. We may be at the depths of our deepest recession, we may be over stretched in Afghanistan. But fuck it, bring it on anyway. At the risk of sounding like a fuckwit neo-nazi loony, just try it and see what happens. You can say whatever you like about the British, but our spirit and resolve will always prevail.

We have values, we have pride and we have determination, that will never be crushed, oil or no oil, 10 or 10000 miles away, whether for 5 British citizens or 5000 British citizens or 5 million British citizens.

In 1982 British citizens were reminded of what we stand for, why we are proud and what we can achieve as a nation. In these disparate days of British politics, perhaps it's about to happen again. I hope not, but in a horrible way, I hope so. We are not to be undermined and we are not to be divided.

Oh my, who the fuck do I think I am, Churchill?