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chris webster wrote:I wonder how many of your fellow Americans are similarly confused even today?
Martin Vajsar wrote:
chris webster wrote:I wonder how many of your fellow Americans are similarly confused even today?
Many, at least if one has to judge by the amount of jokes about ignorant Americans that circulate in my country.
Seriously, though: how much does a smart, well-educated and open minded European know about the geography, history and politics of the North America?
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Martin Vajsar wrote:
chris webster wrote:I wonder how many of your fellow Americans are similarly confused even today?
Many, at least if one has to judge by the amount of jokes about ignorant Americans that circulate in my country. Seriously, though: how much does a smart, well-educated and open minded European know about the geography, history and politics of the North America?
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chris webster wrote:So when Americans were sending money to Ireland for political (or paramilitary) purposes, I think it's reasonable to expect that they should have known a bit of basic geography and history about the place (as should Brits, of course). Now those days are - thankfully - past, I think it's strange if Americans generally still don't know that the Irish Republic has been around for nearly a century and indeed that several US presidents have enjoyed an enthusiastic welcome from their proudly independent Irish hosts.
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I don't think that applies on this side of the Irish Sea. I think (not certain) that the constitution of the Irish Republic aims for a single Cpountry for the whole of Ireland, but that is not British policy as far as I know.Ulf Dittmer wrote: . . . Northern Ireland . . . Both the British and Irish governments agree that it should eventually revert to Ireland. . . .
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I don't think that applies on this side of the Irish Sea.. . . Northern Ireland . . . Both the British and Irish governments agree that it should eventually revert to Ireland. . . .
Not so much the potato famine as the way the English landowners ill‑treated the peasants during it and helped them but little.
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Maneesh Godbole wrote:As an Indian, I cannot help but wonder, how many places have the British poisoned during colonial times. India-Pakistan, Ireland, Israel-Palestine.
Pat Farrell wrote:My understanding, mostly from reading The Economist, is that this Independence for the Scots is because they are tired of paying taxes and getting no representation.
Plus the huge profits from the North Sea oil goes to London.
Ulf Dittmer wrote:Scotland is proportionally represented in Westminster. In fact, they can vote on some issues concerning exclusively England where English MPs can't vote on the same issues with respect to Scotland because those have been devolved to the Parliament in Edinburgh (the so called West Lothian question).
Ulf Dittmer wrote:That may be, but Great Britain spends more on Scotland per head of population than on England or Wales. That difference would in the future have to come from Scottish taxes and natural resources. So it's not like the oil revenues go straight to England with nothing in return.
Pat Farrell wrote:The essential argument is that "too much" goes to England with too little in return. Which is always the complaint of colonies, whether or not its true in fact.
Matthew Brown wrote:It isn't a colony, it's part of the United Kingdom. That's like saying California is a colony of the US. London may dominate Scotland economically, but that is equally true of all of England outside the South East (see "The North/South divide).
I'm not saying I'd blame them for wanting to be independent, but you aren't giving an accurate description of the situation now or at any time in my lifetime.
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Campbell Ritchie wrote:Us in Northern England would like a regional parliament. But we were offered a regional talking shop and jobs for the boys of all three parties (though round here it would be predominantly Labour) so we put the Xs in the same squares and told them to get stuffed.
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chris webster wrote:Westminster's never going to give power away voluntarily!
Maneesh Godbole wrote:If Scotland secedes, will the United Kingdom be renamed to Divided Kingdom?
Maneesh Godbole wrote:will the United Kingdom be renamed to Divided Kingdom?
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Campbell Ritchie wrote:Us in Northern England would like a regional parliament...
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Pat Farrell wrote:Too early to have any totals yet. I've checked the BBC and other UK news sites.
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