TheEye stands with our overseas friends. However a fisking is needed of this strange message from our Prime Mentalist.

Courtesy of the undeniably excellent Falkland News (confess now, you read it every day don’t you) we find that the One Eyed Son Of The Manse has issued a New Year Message to his grateful subjects. I thought that was Her Majesty’s sort of thing but TheEye has obviously been overtaken by the creeping Cromwellian sedition.

The Snot-Gobbler says: “I recognise that, through your full participation in the constitutional review, you have shown your unequivocal desire to remain British. Translation: We wanted to give you to the Argies but couldn’t get away with it.

“..and we all have to do our best to plan against further shocks to the global economic system”. He caused most of it! “Exploration for oil and gas around the Falkland Islands continues. The British Government will continue to support your ambition to develop this into a viable and secure sector of your economy.” Oh – tax revenue – should have guessed.

“Next year you will have new elections for a new Council. That will be an important expression of the democratic tradition of this islands that we shall seek always to uphold.

Yes, just like you’ve already tried to give Gibraltar and the Falkland Islands away in exchange for a couple of knocked off DVDs from the UN Security Council. The stout British residents of the places in the world which still proudly fly the flag won’t ever stand for it.