In today's Times Major General Julian Thompson says that the Falklands will be lost if Argentina invaded. If Britain doesn't come to some kind of agreement with the Argentinian government this could very well occur. They have the military capability, with a marine brigade, a parachute regiment and some good special forces, they may not be as good as ours but how would we get ours there? We have a parachute regiment that in many cases the soldiers haven't made jumps because of the lack of aircraft. We have four Typhoons on the Falklands but as Julian Thompson points out all the Argentinians have to do is put the airfield out of use and we are in very serious trouble. We only just managed in 1982 to regain the Falklands after 74 days, with the loss of 255 British soldiers, 20 Harrier aircraft claimed 24 Argentinian planes, these planes flying from a carrier, both items of which we no longer have. Again isn't this just short sightedness on the part of a government and cabinet that have no military experience, or more important an historical knowledge. I'm quite sure that the service chiefs both present and past warned of this but we have an arrogant and I must say prime minister that is not up to the job. He cut the Nimrod programme as the aircraft were nearly finished. If we couldn't afford them at least we could have possible sold them on and recouped some of the £3 billion instead we got nothing for that outlay. We sold the 82 Harriers to the Americans,( they know a good aircraft and a bargain when they see one). Cameron says that in the event of an invasion of the Falklands by Argentina, Britain has contingency plans. In his case it would be a white flag, because there is no possible way of retaking them. He could threaten to send a nuclear submarine, to do what? Launch a nuclear missile attack on Buenos Aires, I don't think so. Like most of his plans for the economy, child benefits, income tax proposals, making the banks and the very rich pay more, he no sooner comes out with these proposals than he starts to back pedal on them and has to start to rethink them. He's a prime minister with nothing but rhetoric all bluster but no substance, the quicker he goes the better for the country in more ways than one
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