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July 20th, 2017, 11:12 PM | #2191 |
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Btw, didn't you have rebellions during your "20 generations" as well? I'm told the Scots still have folk songs about it Didn't you even behead the son of the Scottish King? Quote:
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I know how Scotland suffered in that war -- first time anyone ever brought war to their country aside from the English. In fact, the English were the only people who troubled their country for 1,000 years. Persistently But I don't think Bonaparte troubled them. You English have Napoleon complexes Any other wars that benefited Scotland? Since you've invaded, colonized or attacked almost every nation on earth -- there are about 10 exceptions in the whole world -- you'd think there would be something Scotland could be happy about But that isn't the case. All England wanted was Scotland's impoverished manly soldiers who they could pay cheaply to do awful things in countries Scotland had no connection with |
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I have worked with Poles, Romanians, Bulgarians and one Latvian. They all universally despise Russia and Russians for the disgusting regimes that were imposed upon them to repress them into being buffer states. It must be really galling and seem very unfair to you. |
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BTW, Palo, the Scottish soldiers marched into the fight wearing kilts and behind their pipers. March of the Camerons
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I have been following the media coverage of "progress" in the Exit negotiation and, though it pains me to admit this, I have to tell the truth. I am not impressed by the performance of the British side so far and I have gained a much improved opinion of Mr Barnier, the leader of the EU side in the talks. I think he has shown admirable patience and good humour in the face of mere ignorant boorishness such as Boris Johnson's totally uncalled for "go whistle" comment. This willingness to rise above pettiness of that sort is putting him and the EU in a stronger bargaining position, whereas the self-indulgent posturing and playing to the lowest common denominator of UK public opinion on the UK negotiating side is placing the UK in a weaker bargaining position. If nothing else, all of this makes me find peace with the outcome of the UK election. It is very positively a good thing that Mrs May and her Mad Hatter's Tea Party of a cabinet are forced to win non-Tory support for their moves. Left to themselves, they would unquestionably cop attitudes at the negotiating table and then claim success and blame the unreasonable EU because they failed to strike a deal; having not genuinely tried to strike a deal. In fact I can see why "no deal is better than a bad deal" was convenient to Mrs May. It would have saved her from the Michael Goves, Boris Johnsons, and other illiberal reactionaries in her own party throwing their toys out of the pram and complaining that the deal (whatever it turns out to be) betrays the country. No matter what the deal is, some Tories will take the "we are betrayed" line; no-deal would have forestalled this problem and been better for Mrs May. The Tory Party in general and this Tory government in particular are Freudian symbol-heads. Sadly, they were and are the only political faction in the UK who have unequivocally committed themselves to seeing Brexit through and I attach critical importance to that. I find such decisions hard to make, but once my mind is made up I am pretty implacable about seeing them through. Once this is over, the Tory Party can go rot for all I care.
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Scoundrel not forgetting the 19th Foot (later to be the Princess of Wale's Own Yorkshire Regiment the Green Howards) who's regimental Museum still display the Russian drums that they captured that day.
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