Rant number 39
Britain used to be a big empire. We ruled! We had a kick ass navy, we had possession and control of countries all around the world. That's what we did!
But we don't any more.
Like a naughty bully, caught with every ones lunch money - we have had to give back the countries to their original owners (apologising when prompted by our mum, head bowed and far from shameful) leaving us almost back to where we started.
We have however managed to retain a couple of bits and bats around the world. Australia is still under our sovereignty for instance, Gibraltar is too, 14 Sovereign states remain in total.
For the most part, this means that they get a bit of our flag (often in the corner of their own flag,) and a visit every now and then from the royal family. Most of them actually quite like this. They're happy to be part of it - and they don't mind it when the queen visits as long as she wipes her feet on the way in and promises to make Phillip behave(she succeeds at this most of the time...)
There is one problematic part of the Sovereign states however - the Falklands.
It's not actually the Falklands doing. They don't seem that bothered with being a Sovereign state. The issue falls with Argentina - off which cost the Falklands is located.
They don't think it belongs to us though, they want it back! and with the risk of sounding rather unpatriotic, I can't help but see their point.
You see, us owning the Falklands, is pretty much the same as them (or any other country for that matter) owning Northern Ireland or the Isle of Man. It just doesn't make much sense.
This of course is old news. Thirty one years ago, there was a pretty vicious war in which many died for just this squabble and, under Maggie bloody Thatchers nut-cracking rule - we put the boot in and retained possession.
The thing is, it's all starting to happen again - and we are still holding on to that lunch money like the idiotic bully we are so capable of being.
As the anniversary approaches, we have - just by co-incidence - decided to send down a humongous billion pound warship to sit in the waters around the Falklands. It's got nothing to doing with staking our territory out or anything really.
We as a country - do not have the money to need such a pointless war to happen again. We cannot however really afford to let go of the resources the island allows us access to. Thus, we are stuck between some granite & a biker bar...
I just hope the bloody Tories can not stir things up this time round.
Rant over.
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