£176billion in oil revenues to the Government and that is just what is round the Falklands. But the Argentines do not just claim the Falkland Islands some 400 kilometres from their shore they also claim South Georgia at 1350 kilometres and the South Sandwich and South Chatham Islands some 2650 kilometres from their shores. As far as the Argentines are concerned it is all about oil.

The importance of the Falklands is that it provides a good base to support operations from, politically stable and well outside the corruption of Argentina and the grasping hands of the Kirchner Family, worth $2.3 million dollars when they went into politics they are now billionaires. Since the mid 1990's the oil & gas industry has specialised in extracting oil and gas from harsh and remote locations.

Britain should back the islanders to the hilt - the Argentines did all the negotiating they wanted to in 1982 and it did not pan out too well for them.

Mind you anything that twat Sean Penn supports has got to be suspect.