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Results of the 2013 Falkland Islands Referendum Do you wish the Falkland Islands to retain their current political status as an Overseas Territory of the Unite
by GJim 2y ago
Results of the 2013 Falkland Islands Referendum
Do you wish the Falkland Islands to retain their current political status as an Overseas Territory of the United Kingdom?
YES: 1513
NO: 3
Why do you not wish to accept the above democratic decision made by the islanders? We can only conclude you are trolling.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Falkland_Islands_sovereignty_referendum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Falkland_Islands_sovereig...
- brookst 2y agoFair point. So do a one-time tax levy of the Falklanders to buy the telco out, since they can no longer honor the commitment they made to get service installed. Shouldn’t be more than a half million pounds each?
- devilbunny 2y agoI have no doubt that the islanders very much wish to be British subjects rather than left on their own (they would, in that case, quickly become Malvinians). But why should someone in Glasgow want to pay taxes to support them in living there permanently?
- blibble 2y ago> But why should someone in Glasgow want to pay taxes to support them in living there permanently? you could have picked a better example, Scotland is a net drain on the UK treasury why should someone in London pay to support people living in Glasgow permanently?
- KennyBlanken 2y agoYou should have picked a better example, Glasgow is a port city and almost certainly not a net drain; the rural parts of Scotland are. Just like all the rural parts of England, which leech of the English cities. Just like all the rural parts of the US, which leech off the "coastal liberal elites."
- blibble 2y ago> You should have picked a better example, Glasgow is a port city and almost certainly not a net drain certainly true in the 1900s unfortunately in the 2000s it's at the wrong side of the island
- devilbunny 2y agoThat was the point. If I had meant London, I would have used it.
- bolognafairy 2y agoThis is how wealth redistribution works. This is how taxes work.
- devilbunny 2y agoYes, it is. But at a certain point you stop paying for people to live somewhere unsustainable and just pay them to leave, if it’s a financial decision.
- DiggyJohnson 2y ago> We can only conclude you are trolling. You made an excellent point and then this sentence cancelled that out. You can have major disagreements with other people, even ignorant people, without assuming that your disagreement means they are trolling / a bot / arguing in bad faith / etc.