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OnDoutside

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5. They've never come to terms with losing the empire. In fact, I would suggest part of the reason

Reply to malaise (Reply #2)

Wed Jan 27, 2021, 01:27 PM

Jan 2021

for voting for Brexit, was the romanticised propaganda of taking their Empire back. They might find this time that the natives have a lot more than rocks and spears !!! Maybe they need to go through this, because they have never had that conversation with themselves. Particularly, the History taught in British schools glosses over much of the downside like the Irish War of Independence etc. I feel there is a harsh lesson on the way, but maybe it's one that needed to happen and one day they will emerge all the better for it.

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Brexit and COVID have slammed the not-so-United Kingdom. Its survival may be in danger (LAT) [View all] dalton99a Jan 2021 OP

Brexit Turbineguy Jan 2021 #1

oh yes, bdamomma Jan 2021 #29

Hope I'm alive to see them turn into an impoverishes island malaise Jan 2021 #2

They've never come to terms with losing the empire. In fact, I would suggest part of the reason OnDoutside Jan 2021 #5

You are correct - all those Eton, Winchester and St Pauls boys yearn for empire malaise Jan 2021 #6

The natives have nuclear weapons. Dawson Leery Jan 2021 #9

Hold onto yer hats, lads ! OnDoutside Jan 2021 #14

No one has ever practiced slavery like the Brits Drahthaardogs Jan 2021 #17

Johnson is Trump lite dlk Jan 2021 #3

I fear the Shinners will drag us into another Civil War. Whatever the merits of uniting the island, OnDoutside Jan 2021 #4

Yeah. India...Partition Day, 1947. roamer65 Jan 2021 #7

Yes, and much of the colonial countries in Africa. If you asked me in the 80s, who wanted OnDoutside Jan 2021 #12

I thought we didn't allow denigrating terms here? flotsam Jan 2021 #15

No it isn't. OnDoutside Jan 2021 #21

This flotsam Jan 2021 #23

I live here. OnDoutside Jan 2021 #28

The half island that borrowed and stole everything they have from someone else Dawson Leery Jan 2021 #8

If the UK all broke up into individual nations, Yavin4 Jan 2021 #10

Yes. If they meet the criteria: dalton99a Jan 2021 #11

Yes, though I think England would find a lot of obstacles in their way, and all the old cozy OnDoutside Jan 2021 #13

Never knew there was this much British hate here. MicaelS Jan 2021 #16

Look to history Lars39 Jan 2021 #18

So why don't we also see great hatred here for Spain? DavidDvorkin Jan 2021 #25

Perhaps the people here have been personally affected by the UK Lars39 Jan 2021 #26

Probably because Turin_C3PO Jan 2021 #27

To be fair, I don't think hate is the operative word. Schadenfreude is more accurate. OnDoutside Jan 2021 #22

I've seen it here before DavidDvorkin Jan 2021 #24

Looks like the final gasps of an empire. Xolodno Jan 2021 #19

There goes Air Strip One. Kid Berwyn Jan 2021 #20