Security

On the Falkland Islands, we'd get nothing from the EU as such, nor from most of the members individually. What's it to them, after all?

However, the French provided invaluable intelligence support last time and would certainly back us up in some way again, possibly of a more public kind this time, which is not to say that their support was not important last time. Only they really understand the relationship that we have with our Overseas Territories.

And Portugal was faithful to our oldest alliance in 1982 when it came to the use of the Azores; no doubt that would apply again.

But we can forget about America. It would be worth seeing this thing go to the Security Council, for the spectacle of certainly France, and possibly also Russia and China, backing us up while America either abstained or voted for the other side. Even then, though, would some people over here get the message?

Why shouldn't the Falklands be British a thousand years from now? The period of decolonisation is a thing of the past. The ties that still exist today are for ever.