of ties with UK. Argentina's claims to the Malvinas are ridiculous, in that they were unoccupied until occupied by the British as a station for providing provisions for sailing ships. They have never belonged to Argentina! It would be like the US claiming the Bahamas besause they lie off the coast of Florida. Error: world war II should have been WW I. Eire had been occupied by the Bristish since before the Union of Scotland and England. Henry VIII sacked and took possession of RC churches in 1536, and claimed possession of Ireland about 1540. The Island of Eire then remained under English rule until just after WWI, when a vote of the people was taken (I forget the exact date -- before I was born). In favor of ties with the UK is not the issue. The Spanish, in general, those who are aware, view this as an occupation. At least the Spanish I have met. I speak Spanish, French and Portuguese. So I stand with the Spanish. I assume that the results will be the same re: the Malvinas. But the issue is HYPOCRISY. The British have occupied these lands since 1690 -- Falklands, 1704 Gibraltar, yet never a written debate in their papers or on the net on the morality of it. BUT,, their papers and websites are full of rants that Israel has no right to be in Judea and Samaria and Gaza ( before they evacuated) and Palestine must be an independent nation !!! Whiskey