Don't Cry for Me Argentina: More than 99% of Falkland Island VotersVote to Remain British (92% Turnout)

(CNN) -- Residents of the Falkland Islands voted overwhelmingly to remain a British Overseas Territory, an official said late Monday.

The question put to voters was: "Do you wish the Falkland Islands to retain their current political status as an Overseas Territory of the United Kingdom?"

More than 99% of voters said yes, according to Darren Christie, public relations manager for the Falklands Islands government. [....]
"The Falkland Islanders are a peaceful, hard-working and resilient people. Our society is thriving and forward-looking. All we ask is to be left in peace to choose our own future, and responsibly develop our home for our children and generations to come," the government says.

More Here: http://edition.cnn.com/2013/03/11/world/americas/falklands-referendum/?hpt=hp_t1

 

Calls to mind Nile Gardiner's piece (three years running now...) on Barack Obama's Top Ten Insults Against Britain in the Telegraph.  The number one grievance Gardiner cited in 2012 was: Siding with Argentina Over the Falkland Islands.  " In a March 2010 press conference in Buenos Aires with President Cristina Kirchner, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave Argentina a huge propaganda coup by emphatically backing the position of the Péronist regime.

In June 2011, Mrs Clinton slapped Britain in face again by signing on to an Organisation of American States (OAS) resolution calling for negotiations over the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands, a position which is completely unacceptable to Great Britain. To add insult to injury, the Obama administration has insisted on using the Argentine term “Malvinas” to describe the Islands in yet another sop to Buenos Aires."

Ah, yes.  Demonstrates, once more, what lessons the Czechs, the Poles, the Egyptians, the Iranians etc have taught us -- Obama always comes up on the wrong side of history when he can't confiscate other people's possessions as hand-outs to buy votes.  Stack the Senate and House with Republicans in 2014.