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Ronnie MB 🇫🇰 (Ronnie MacLennan Baird)

Ronnie MB 🇫🇰 (Ronnie MacLennan Baird)

@RMBFLK

Clyde built/Falklands anchored: freelance journalist/broadcaster, lawyer, legislative drafter, public policy consultant and tour guide - we multitask here!

Stanley, Falkland Islands انضم Haziran 2014
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Ronnie MB 🇫🇰 (Ronnie MacLennan Baird)
Ronnie MB 🇫🇰 (Ronnie MacLennan Baird)@RMBFLK·
According to an AI analysis of my tweets, I am "like a Swiss Army knife that's been left out in the Falklands' harsh weather - rusty, a bit dull, but still trying to be useful" Not entirely unfair, but it's not just the Falklands weather that's harsh!
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Daniel Hill
Daniel Hill@hilldaniel·
@RMBFLK You may well know -- do these posts usually go together? Or is James Lewis KC the first to hold all four simultaneously?
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Daniel Hill
Daniel Hill@hilldaniel·
James Lewis KC is Chief Justice of four different jurisdictions: (1) the Falkland Islands, (2) South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands, (3) the British Antarctic Territory and (4) the BIOT. Has anyone ever been simultaneously Chief Justice of more than four jurisdictions?
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Ronnie MB 🇫🇰 (Ronnie MacLennan Baird)
Ronnie MB 🇫🇰 (Ronnie MacLennan Baird)@RMBFLK·
It appears that the Financial Secretary and those advising him may have misread section 77 of the Falkland Islands Constitution and section 9 of the Finance and Audit Ordinance (The alternative possibility is even more worrying)
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Ronnie MB 🇫🇰 (Ronnie MacLennan Baird)
Ronnie MB 🇫🇰 (Ronnie MacLennan Baird)@RMBFLK·
It is good that there are provisions to allow government to carry on and the public service to continue, but I respectfully disagree with the assertion that the Financial Secretary has “direct authority”
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Ronnie MB 🇫🇰 (Ronnie MacLennan Baird)
Ronnie MB 🇫🇰 (Ronnie MacLennan Baird)@RMBFLK·
Section 9 provides that the mechanism involves a warrant issued by the Governor (either on the advice of Executive Council or as a matter of good governance)
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John Gordon Sinclair Blue Tick
John Gordon Sinclair Blue Tick@Jgs_x·
Travelled to London yesterday to do some dubbing (ADR). 6hr round trip to record ONE word! I’m going to use that word now in common parlance to describe ‘a colossal waste of time.’ No clues, but £100 prize if you can guess what that word was. Answer on Saturday morning. 👍
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Ronnie MB 🇫🇰 (Ronnie MacLennan Baird)
Ronnie MB 🇫🇰 (Ronnie MacLennan Baird)@RMBFLK·
I always look for ways to bring my vocation and my avocation together Reading out provisions of the Hovercraft Act 1968 on the Falklands Radio Breakfast Show* was one of my better ones (* today’s quiz question was about the mode of transport launched on this day in 1959)
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Ronnie MB 🇫🇰 (Ronnie MacLennan Baird)
Ronnie MB 🇫🇰 (Ronnie MacLennan Baird)@RMBFLK·
A bizarre correlation I have noticed (no causation is advanced, nor is any political endorsement) On both occasions (1978 and 2025) when the SNP have lost a Hamilton by election, the Scotland (men’s) football team has lost 3-1 shortly afterwards (to Peru and Iceland)
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Ronnie MB 🇫🇰 (Ronnie MacLennan Baird)
Ronnie MB 🇫🇰 (Ronnie MacLennan Baird)@RMBFLK·
It occurs to me (but doubtless occurred to others sooner) that the story of the Glenmutchkin Railway is being re-enacted once again I wonder if AI was sufficiently self-aware to recognise the similarity when that particular bit of human creativity was fed into it
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Ronnie MB 🇫🇰 (Ronnie MacLennan Baird)
Ronnie MB 🇫🇰 (Ronnie MacLennan Baird)@RMBFLK·
@yuanyi_z I was in Winnipeg some years ago and happened to be in the store on what I only found out was the anniversary of the Company’s founding when I was handed a piece of birthday cake I though that was so charming
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Yuan Yi Zhu
Yuan Yi Zhu@yuanyi_z·
We are sad because the Hudson Bay's Company was one of the last reminders of the heroic age of Canadian history. Hope this helps.
J.J. McCullough@JJ_McCullough

Anyone sad about The Bay closing forever has a LOT of hard introspection to do. Tough questions need to be asked, like “did I shop at The Bay enough?” and “were enough of my clothes and home furnishings sourced from quality The Bay essentials?” If not, you share the guilt! Shame!

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Ronnie MB 🇫🇰 (Ronnie MacLennan Baird)
Ronnie MB 🇫🇰 (Ronnie MacLennan Baird)@RMBFLK·
@MagnaAulae Indeed (and that may concentrate minds) Also, one of the asterisks in the provisions for the four months after Jul 1 is whether warrants for spending are granted on advice or at discretion
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Gary Phillips
Gary Phillips@MagnaAulae·
@RMBFLK "There is reserved to H[is] Majesty full power to make laws for the peace, order and good government of the Falkland Islands ..."
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Ronnie MB 🇫🇰 (Ronnie MacLennan Baird)
Ronnie MB 🇫🇰 (Ronnie MacLennan Baird)@RMBFLK·
Today would (should?) have been the day of the Governor’s Speech and the Budget in the #Falklands Both have been postponed until 14 July The new financial year starts on 1 July “Business as usual” has been promised
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Ronnie MB 🇫🇰 (Ronnie MacLennan Baird)
Ronnie MB 🇫🇰 (Ronnie MacLennan Baird)@RMBFLK·
For now, all people (including those running departments and subvention bodies) can do is to wait and see if decisions can be reached in time for a rescheduled Budget on 14 July …
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Ronnie MB 🇫🇰 (Ronnie MacLennan Baird)
Ronnie MB 🇫🇰 (Ronnie MacLennan Baird)@RMBFLK·
I spent some time recently getting my head round the relevant sections of the Finance and Audit Ordinance Money can still be released for up to four months (subject to asterisks) but a complication is that this might run out during the run up to the election due in November
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