Loud and clear

The overwhelming turn-out in favour – just three out of more than 1,500 voted no – sends an unequivocal message to the Argentine government, and every other nation for that matter, that the islanders’ have no desire whatsoever to change the status quo.

David Cameron’s insistence that Argentina now leave the issue alone is likely to fall on deaf ears, however, as the Latin American leadership continues its thinly-veiled attempt to divert attention from the country’s parlous economic position by focusing on the sovereignty of a nest of islands lying 184 miles from its mainland.

How ironic that a nation which talks so much about “fairness” and “justice” when it comes to the future of the Falklands should itself be guilty of ignoring both those ideals in its stubborn refusal to recognise the islanders’ fundamental right to self-determination.