Libertad o Muerte

We have only ourselves to blame that Carlos Cortiglia feels that only the BNP expresses his Uruguayan sense of British patriotism.

Of course he supported Britain against Argentina in 1982. Uruguay really was created by Britain specifically not to be Argentina. Those on the Falklands requiring serious medical attention are taken to Montevideo to this day. But for how much longer? Ongoing developments are strongly redolent of Peronist and kindred tendencies. Greater Argentina does not only mean the end of the British Falkland Islands. Greater Argentina also means the end of Uruguay. Bilateral ties around the world. And since it now includes African countries with no British imperial past, the Commonwealth.

But instead, we have favoured American hegemony and its pet projects, Mercosur as much as the EU and vice versa, over the Commonwealth, the BRICS countries (two of which are Commonwealth members, while a third is Brazil), and, I say again, bilateral ties around the world. Our engagement with the Americas should be as an American country seven times over, since the Falkland Islands, Bermuda, Anguilla, Montserrat, the Cayman Islands, the British Virgin Islands, and the Turks & Caicos Islands are each and all British by choice, whatever the United States or anyone else might think.

Two more American countries, Dominica and Trinidad & Tobago, retain the right of appeal to a body drawn from the High Court of Parliament at Westminster. Lucky them. We no longer have any such right here.