11:53am Friday 19th March 2010
RE: The suggestion from a correspondent that the stand-off in the Falkland Islands could be avoided by sharing of oil development proceeds.
MR M GRAY (Letters, March 5) offers an interesting thought but no long term solution. The problem is sovereignty, not oil, unknown when Britain occupied the lands and allowed British people to settle there.
From which it follows that the British Government, not the islanders, must have the right to determine when the occupancy should end.
In 1982, 1,800 people might have been offered half a million pounds per head – not per family – to move back here, at a total cost of £900m.
Much death and destruction could have been avoided and a true test of loyalty been undertaken – namely, that British citizenship and support relate to living in Britain, working for the country and paying British taxes like the rest of us. Ditto Gibraltar.
Alan Kaye, Mill Road, Marlow.
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