Are The Falklands And Gibraltar Now Vulnerable?

DTCwordfan | 16:52 Wed 29th Jun 2016 | News

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1. UK Brexits

2. Need to bring back patrol ships to UK waters for defence, immigration and fishing protection

3. UK out of EU, Spain moves into Gib, EU stands back and watches, after all they're not going to shoot down one of their own.

4. Argentina moves for the Falklands.....

why: look at the numbers of smaller vessels in the Navy here..... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/31/the-royal-navys-obsession-with-big-ships-leaves-it-unable-to-pro/

Has Spanish Internal Politics Scuppered Scotland's Hopes Of Staying In The Eu?

So 4 Business Days Later, We Are Back Where We Were, Who'd Have Though It?

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Gromit

We are not out of EU yet. We will get a New Deal and a second vote will be Stay.

naomi24

Can't see what The Falklands have to do with it.

Old_Geezer

They are always vulnerable to envious nations wanting them. They always were. But it would be foolish for any to try to invade British territories. Argentina was stupid enough to try that not so long ago. Both places could change ownership if those living there hold a referendum and vote leave. Ships are not the only way to dissuade. Much has to be done on land anyway.

DTCwordfan

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boats pulled back to the UK....not unless the Navy has the NHS money.....or a good chunk of it.

naomi24

More scaremongering.

EDDIE51

There was a question a week or two back, we have over 7500 miles of coastline it is impossible to patrol it all, always has been and always will be, nothing to do with being in or out of the EU.
Spain can close the land border with Gibraltar once we are out of the EU, again this was discussed a week and more ago, before the referendum.
Argentina and the Falklands is nothing to do with the EU again in or out makes no difference at all.

DTCwordfan

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not scaremongering, a reasonable scenario to that the fallout could be.

NoMercy

I wouldn't put it past the Argy Bargies and, I have to say, the Spanish can be an awkward and bloody minded race. However we must remember that any hostile action would incur costs on their part. Significant costs. Spain certainly aren't flush at the moment.

ToraToraTora

no more than before, do you really think the spineless EU would do anything to protect them? Use the dosh saved to bolster the Navy, in fact Bolster all the forces anyway, they have been neglected too long. Have another punnet of Sour grapes mate.

stuey

Send an expedition to Lake Tanganyika; unscuttle HMS Mimi and HMS Toutou; render them sea-worthy; and send them forth to guard your shores and out-posts:)

New Judge

You should have worked for “Project Fear” DTC.

“We are not out of EU yet. We will get a New Deal and a second vote will be Stay.”

We won’t argue, Gromit, but I’ll simply suggest you are wrong. There have been lots of suggestions on those lines since Friday and I’ll ask the same question again: “What, apart from the announcement of the result, has changed since Friday to justify a second vote?”

Old_Geezer

The fact that almost 50% of the voters have got very upset about it. And a few more have got cold feet about the more sensible decision they made. Plus it's an EU tradition that when one gets the non-approved answer one tries, tries and tries again until a different result occurs.

ToraToraTora

they welch in this it'll be civil war, mark my words.

DTCwordfan

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No need for acid comments TTT, you weaken your arguments.

Stuey, you guys in Canada have a quarter of our ex-Navy, I believe!

Answer to NJ, the terms of divorce (and properly costed and econometrics worked out - without the alarmism and TTT's scaremongering - on both sides) along with any other sensible alternatives that may arise....

DTCwordfan

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The 100 Years War, Part 2 or the Napoleonic Wars Part 2, I don't think so.....

stuey

The submarines have all vanished: Th Newfie Captains forgot to close the screen-doors.

EDDIE51

Do you think France will not let us borrow their aircraft carriers once we leave?

DTCwordfan

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those ones with the glass keels, so they can see where we sank their capital ships....in short, no.

Hypognosis

@DTC

As Jeremy Clarkson was once fond of pointing out, the Spanish built some very nice roads… with our money.

The EU is not going to refund any of our overpayments and we can't exactly collect our roads in Spain and cart them away.

If we're going to analogise #Brexit with a divorce settlement, what do they call it where one partner puts in all the money but the other partner walks away in possession of it after the separation?