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P&O scrap visit to three Argentine ports as tensions over Falkland Islands grow
3:03pm Saturday 12th January 2013 in News
Southampton-based cruise ships diverted from Argentina
TWO Southampton-based cruise ships are being forced to divert from Argentina as tensions over the Falkland Islands grow.
P&O has scrapped visits to three Argentine ports after the country failed to guarantee permission for their ships to dock there if they had been to the Falklands.
The Southampton-based company have now stopped their ships Arcadia and Adonia from docking there during their round-the-world cruises.
A P&O spokesman said: “As a British cruise company we cannot allow ourselves to be the subject of any political dispute or put our customers and crew into any situation where their enjoyment may be compromised.
“With this in mind, we have had to take the difficult decision to remove all Argentinian ports of call from the itinerary.”
The ships will now not dock in Buenos Aires, Puerto Madryn and Ushuaia.
It comes as tensions over the islands continue between London and Buenos Aires.
Argentine President Cristina Kirchner has stepped up her campaign to get Prime Minister David Cameron to hand over the Falkland Islands and a referendum of the 3,000 islanders is set for March.
Comments(26)
EarlyRiser
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3:30pm Sat 12 Jan 13
P & O cancel, yes, diverted, no, crap journalism and very poor basic english.... usual echo standards
Dave of Dibden
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4:25pm Sat 12 Jan 13
Inform Al
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5:30pm Sat 12 Jan 13
soton1980
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5:43pm Sat 12 Jan 13
kingnotail
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5:56pm Sat 12 Jan 13
MGRA
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5:56pm Sat 12 Jan 13
Inform Al
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6:02pm Sat 12 Jan 13
kingnotail wrote:Actually the Bennies do like living there, why should they be uprooted just because the Argies want the oil supplies in their waters. Oh dear I forgot we are not supposed to call them Bennies anymore, they are to be called Stills (still Bennies)
Who'd want to live in the grim far south Atlantic anyway? Turn the Falklands into an international nature reserve with no permanent human population, British or Argentinian.
MGRA
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6:06pm Sat 12 Jan 13
kingnotail
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6:08pm Sat 12 Jan 13
Inform Al wrote:I really couldn't care what a load of pathetic flag-waving colonial relics think to be honest.
kingnotail wrote:Actually the Bennies do like living there, why should they be uprooted just because the Argies want the oil supplies in their waters. Oh dear I forgot we are not supposed to call them Bennies anymore, they are to be called Stills (still Bennies)
Who'd want to live in the grim far south Atlantic anyway? Turn the Falklands into an international nature reserve with no permanent human population, British or Argentinian.
The Wickham Man
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6:53pm Sat 12 Jan 13
kingnotail wrote:And what about the Falklanders for a start? Nobody is forcing them to stay are they? But they do. Because they want to. What if you were born and raised there, your home is there, your family are there, your kids are there? your friends and everything you know is there? Does that count for nothing? What you have suggested puts you on a par with Stalin.
Who'd want to live in the grim far south Atlantic anyway? Turn the Falklands into an international nature reserve with no permanent human population, British or Argentinian.
BritBob
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6:57pm Sat 12 Jan 13
www.falklandshistory
.org/
J.P.M
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7:42pm Sat 12 Jan 13
Lets cut the pain, and get it over with.
forest hump
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7:55pm Sat 12 Jan 13
J.P.M wrote:You will have herds of fans in the Falklands! Let them decide, not someone who would be totally unaffected.
Over time we have had to return most of the "great" british land thefts. Only gibralter and the falklands left.....
Lets cut the pain, and get it over with.
Inform Al
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8:06pm Sat 12 Jan 13
kingnotail wrote:You appear to be one of Mrs Thorpes bigoted inbred cretins. The lawful inhabitants of the Falklands are descendants of the people who emigrated there after the British gumment PURCHASED the islands from the Dutch, who had won them from the Spanish. They have NEVER belonged to Argentina and there has been no colonialism since the Spanish ownershjp. The previous inhabitants included no human beings
Inform Al wrote:I really couldn't care what a load of pathetic flag-waving colonial relics think to be honest.
kingnotail wrote:Actually the Bennies do like living there, why should they be uprooted just because the Argies want the oil supplies in their waters. Oh dear I forgot we are not supposed to call them Bennies anymore, they are to be called Stills (still Bennies)
Who'd want to live in the grim far south Atlantic anyway? Turn the Falklands into an international nature reserve with no permanent human population, British or Argentinian.
J.P.M
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8:08pm Sat 12 Jan 13
Inform Al wrote:Dutch...Spanish...pu
kingnotail wrote:You appear to be one of Mrs Thorpes bigoted inbred cretins. The lawful inhabitants of the Falklands are descendants of the people who emigrated there after the British gumment PURCHASED the islands from the Dutch, who had won them from the Spanish. They have NEVER belonged to Argentina and there has been no colonialism since the Spanish ownershjp. The previous inhabitants included no human beings
Inform Al wrote:I really couldn't care what a load of pathetic flag-waving colonial relics think to be honest.
kingnotail wrote:Actually the Bennies do like living there, why should they be uprooted just because the Argies want the oil supplies in their waters. Oh dear I forgot we are not supposed to call them Bennies anymore, they are to be called Stills (still Bennies)
Who'd want to live in the grim far south Atlantic anyway? Turn the Falklands into an international nature reserve with no permanent human population, British or Argentinian.
rchased????
How can you justify this pre-victorian madness??
And what in a gumment?
Inform Al
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8:12pm Sat 12 Jan 13
J.P.M wrote:Yes, I was correct. Your ignorance is outstanding.
Inform Al wrote:Dutch...Spanish...pu
kingnotail wrote:You appear to be one of Mrs Thorpes bigoted inbred cretins. The lawful inhabitants of the Falklands are descendants of the people who emigrated there after the British gumment PURCHASED the islands from the Dutch, who had won them from the Spanish. They have NEVER belonged to Argentina and there has been no colonialism since the Spanish ownershjp. The previous inhabitants included no human beings
Inform Al wrote:I really couldn't care what a load of pathetic flag-waving colonial relics think to be honest.
kingnotail wrote:Actually the Bennies do like living there, why should they be uprooted just because the Argies want the oil supplies in their waters. Oh dear I forgot we are not supposed to call them Bennies anymore, they are to be called Stills (still Bennies)
Who'd want to live in the grim far south Atlantic anyway? Turn the Falklands into an international nature reserve with no permanent human population, British or Argentinian.
rchased????
How can you justify this pre-victorian madness??
And what in a gumment?
J.P.M
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8:17pm Sat 12 Jan 13
peachy1
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10:20pm Sat 12 Jan 13
As for the Argies bring it on they don't like us they want a scrap again so lets give it to them they didnt learn the lesson did they
J.P.M
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11:03pm Sat 12 Jan 13
peachy1 wrote:sad little girl - computer war games are not what really happens.
Don't anyone kid themselves it's not about sovereignty it's about gas and oil
As for the Argies bring it on they don't like us they want a scrap again so lets give it to them they didnt learn the lesson did they
Ayrton1
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12:09am Sun 13 Jan 13
soton1980 wrote:Well said
Well done P&O! Nice to see the Argies getting a taste of their own medicine.
Inform Al
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2:05am Sun 13 Jan 13
J.P.M wrote:Actually the reverse, pillock.
Why? Because I am able to tell right from wrong?
Pikey-Biker
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2:10am Sun 13 Jan 13
kingnotail wrote:Reading your comments on various forums in the Echo, is there anywhere you actually like?
Who'd want to live in the grim far south Atlantic anyway? Turn the Falklands into an international nature reserve with no permanent human population, British or Argentinian.
kingnotail
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2:10am Sun 13 Jan 13
J.P.M wrote:You forgot Northern Ireland
Over time we have had to return most of the "great" british land thefts. Only gibralter and the falklands left.....
Lets cut the pain, and get it over with.
mickey01
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3:17pm Sun 13 Jan 13
bigal007
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6:28pm Sun 13 Jan 13
J.P.M says...
3:06pm Sat 12 Jan 13