One of our faithful US members has just renewed his subscription and ordered one of the new lapel badges - this will be the first badge to wing its way across the pond to the US. He will know that it is on its way as he tells me that he has been reading this blog which is reassuring as sometimes you wonder if anyone reads it although the statistics say that there are more hits from the US than the UK! So thank you - you will know who you are. The package was posted today.

It is good to know that we have supporters in both the USA and Canada. The visit to the Falkland Islands by US Congressman Jim Sessenbrenner a few weeks ago was encouraging - he thought he was the first sitting member of the US Congress to visit the Islands and hoped that he would not be the last. When he addressed the Legislative Council in Stanley he said that the United States has always stood for the principle of self determination saying "we let the British Crown know that about 230 years ago and we haven't changed our viewpoint that the people should be allowed to direct able to choose their system of government and make whatever alliances and determinations that are necessary" Let us hope he takes his experiences back to Congress and convinces a few other members of the importance of self determination to the Falkland Islanders.