You haven't missed anything interesting apart from Roger Waters and Sean Penn being dicks.
interesting to read that the US is asking the UK to stop voting through international aid to Argentina given they aren't paying their debts. Perhaps we ought to start signing this petition! http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/18323
Yeah, consistently thick. He's an idiot who not only does not know the first thing about Falkland Island history, he knows not the first thing about British history, either.
Yes, Roger, all us Brits ever did was rape and pillage. That's it. All that law and administration and science and mathematics and technology and medicine and democracy and abolition of slavery and wealth and trade and generally quite well-done decolonisation, all that was magic that just happended purely by luck.
Just another champagne socialist.
Well apart from the roads, sanitation, education, law and order - what did the British ever do for us?
Didn't the Romans do this first?![]()
Argentinians, they go to the house?
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All you guys being mean to Rodger. Be nice, he has a little black book with his poems in!
Yeah, consistently thick. He's an idiot who not only does not know the first thing about Falkland Island history, he knows not the first thing about British history, either.
Yes, Roger, all us Brits ever did was rape and pillage. That's it. All that law and administration and science and mathematics and technology and medicine and democracy and abolition of slavery and wealth and trade and generally quite well-done decolonisation, all that was magic that just happended purely by luck.
Just another champagne socialist.
Careful, there is a huge amount of rape and pillage that went on under the expansion of the British Empire that has been swept under the rug and is NOT taught at school, etc. theres a huge amount we should/could be ashamed of...
However whats done is done and doesn't really have any implications on the Falklands.
Careful, there is a huge amount of rape and pillage that went on under the expansion of the British Empire that has been swept under the rug and is NOT taught at school, etc. theres a huge amount we should/could be ashamed of...
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Roger Waters is a creative genius - shame about the dodgy politics.
Careful, there is a huge amount of rape and pillage that went on under the expansion of the British Empire that has been swept under the rug and is NOT taught at school, etc. theres a huge amount we should/could be ashamed of...
However whats done is done and doesn't really have any implications on the Falklands.
We asked Mitterrand not to give assistance to the Argentinians. If you're asking me: 'Are the French duplicitous people?' the answer is: 'Of course they are, and they always have been.'
Well said...Every empire or nation that has had the chance to expand, has subjugated other people. It has been the way of the world. And yet people don't blather on about how awful the Mongols were, or how the Romans went about getting their maim on. The British Empire is reviled by people around the world to this day simply because it was the last empire. Yes, bad things happened, but you don't need an empire to make bad things happen in this world, and the Empire brought a lot of good with it that echoes to this day.
Empires have traditionally ended in fire and war and collapse and ash. I think it's extremely telling that many parts of the old Empire still remain - voluntarily - attached to Britain and are happy to be part of things like the Commonwealth. For me, THAT is the litmus test.