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I have a question for those who would see the project fail.
Why wouldn't you just say, ah salut, good luck, I wish you well.
And mean it.
You know what the psychologists would say about you.
Why wouldn't you just say, ah salut, good luck, I wish you well.
And mean it.
You know what the psychologists would say about you.
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I don't know anyone who actually wants to see it fail. Like who benefits from that?
However given the nastiness of the campaigns I think they are within their rights to indulge in a little bit of righteous 'i told you so'. All the while hoping for better outcomes
However given the nastiness of the campaigns I think they are within their rights to indulge in a little bit of righteous 'i told you so'. All the while hoping for better outcomes
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Germany gave us the East German communist Merkel she never liked the English, maybe it's down to the Russian brainwashing which she received at school.
She gave us nothing as head of the German government and Europe.
However the British government was extremely generous when it came to the German people.
Here is an example of how Britain helped Europeans. Some people sure do have short memories.
70 years ago, the United Kingdom handed over trustee-ship of Volkswagen to the Federal Republic of Germany
On October 8, 1949 trusteeship over "Volkswagenwerk GmbH" was handed over to the Federal Republic of Germany. The State of Lower Saxony was charged with administration. Colonel Charles Radclyffe (center) signed the protocol. The picture shows on the right the Federal Minister of Economics and the later Chancellor Dr. Ludwig Erhard.
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On October 8 1949, the British military government placed the trusteeship of “Volkswagenwerk GmbH” into the hands of the Federal Government. The national authorities commissioned the State of Lower Saxony with the administration. As a result, Volkswagen was in “pole position” when it came to the beginning of the so-called economic miracle.
Siemens was under British control as well.
Merkel wants to punish us for leaving Europe. When really should be sending money over and apologies .
She gave us nothing as head of the German government and Europe.
However the British government was extremely generous when it came to the German people.
Here is an example of how Britain helped Europeans. Some people sure do have short memories.
70 years ago, the United Kingdom handed over trustee-ship of Volkswagen to the Federal Republic of Germany
On October 8, 1949 trusteeship over "Volkswagenwerk GmbH" was handed over to the Federal Republic of Germany. The State of Lower Saxony was charged with administration. Colonel Charles Radclyffe (center) signed the protocol. The picture shows on the right the Federal Minister of Economics and the later Chancellor Dr. Ludwig Erhard.
Return to the Federal Republic of Germany
On October 8 1949, the British military government placed the trusteeship of “Volkswagenwerk GmbH” into the hands of the Federal Government. The national authorities commissioned the State of Lower Saxony with the administration. As a result, Volkswagen was in “pole position” when it came to the beginning of the so-called economic miracle.
Siemens was under British control as well.
Merkel wants to punish us for leaving Europe. When really should be sending money over and apologies .
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What has Merkel got to do with what happened 70 years ago. Do Germans have to do penance forever? What about the Brits and all the evil they did? First concentration camp? Built by Brits in South Africa. Amritsar Massacre? Yes, England again. Millions of Irish driven into famine? Once again, England rules the waves. Internment camps and brutal crushing of an independence movement in Kenya? You guessed it.
So please, spare me history lessons. Some people sure have short memories and your holier than thou crap.
P.S.: And do keep up: it is highly unlikely that Merkel "wants to punish England, seeing how she is on the way out.
So please, spare me history lessons. Some people sure have short memories and your holier than thou crap.
P.S.: And do keep up: it is highly unlikely that Merkel "wants to punish England, seeing how she is on the way out.
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If it's in living memory it's slightly different. Plus my post was there to highlight how helpful the British were and how ungrateful Europeans forget.... but you did that for me.
How many Irish people emigrated to England after the potato famine? A famine by the way that didn't have to happen if they would have cut out the blight and ate rest of the potato. It's all to do with the British had nothing to do with Irish farmers selling their produce to the highest bidder.
I used Volkswagen as an example I could have used many others from various countries.
You are all most welcome.
How many Irish people emigrated to England after the potato famine? A famine by the way that didn't have to happen if they would have cut out the blight and ate rest of the potato. It's all to do with the British had nothing to do with Irish farmers selling their produce to the highest bidder.
I used Volkswagen as an example I could have used many others from various countries.
You are all most welcome.
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FTFYFred Edwards wrote: ↑Tue Oct 12, 2021 3:06 pmIf it doesn't support my opinion it's slightly different.
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That’s the simplified version and the longer version you’ll still find the British (Scots and Welsh were also to blame) at fault.Fred Edwards wrote: ↑Tue Oct 12, 2021 3:06 pmIf it's in living memory it's slightly different. Plus my post was there to highlight how helpful the British were and how ungrateful Europeans forget.... but you did that for me.
How many Irish people emigrated to England after the potato famine? A famine by the way that didn't have to happen if they would have cut out the blight and ate rest of the potato. It's all to do with the British had nothing to do with Irish farmers selling their produce to the highest bidder.
I used Volkswagen as an example I could have used many others from various countries.
You are all most welcome.
The landlords middlemen, mostly Irish, (the owners were either English noblemen or wealthy land owners) had a lot to do with it plus laws on land ownership and the fact Ireland pretty much only made one type of potato, unlike Europe which had many variations.
But yeah. It’s was a pretty dire time in history and wasn’t the first, or last time, the English fucked things up.
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Apologies, moron was a bit harsh. Must have got out of bed on the wrong side that day.
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So people were starving because they couldn't figure out how to cut parts off rotting potatoes? I suppose Cromwell's scorched earth campaign and massacres of the Irish while banishing the rest to the most barren land or the West Indies had nothing to do with the British either?Fred Edwards wrote: ↑Tue Oct 12, 2021 3:06 pmA famine by the way that didn't have to happen if they would have cut out the blight and ate rest of the potato. It's all to do with the British had nothing to do with Irish farmers selling their produce to the highest bidder.
“William Petty estimated (in the 1655-56 Down Survey) that the death toll of the wars in Ireland since 1641 was over 618,000 people, or about 40% of the country's pre-war population. Of these, he estimated that over 400,000 were Catholics, 167,000 killed directly by war or famine, and the remainder by war-related disease. Modern estimates put the toll at closer to 20%.
In addition, some fifty thousand Irish people, including prisoners of war, were sold as indentured labourers under the English Commonwealth regime. They were often sent to the English colonies in North America and the Caribbean where they subsequently comprised a substantial portion of certain Caribbean colony populations in the late 17th century.
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https://fullfact.org/online/war-debt-figure/We haven’t seen any other estimates of the total damage cost of the Second World War to Britain. (If you do know of a source for this, please get in touch.) We have found a Bank of England source that cites the government’s War Damage Commission which estimated property damage (both domestic and industrial) to the UK as a result of the war at about £1.45 billion in 1945 prices. That’s equivalent to about £56 billion in today’s prices (although it’s worth noting that property values have risen far faster than the underlying rate of inflation in the post-war period). To be explicit—this is not the same thing as the total cost of all war damage to the UK.
The UK did get some reparations from Germany in the form of industrial assets
After the Second World War, the UK didn’t get direct payments from Germany as reparations. But in 1946, the Inter-Allied Reparations Agency was set up to distribute reparations to certain countries, in the form of industrial assets. According to the book ‘The Price of War’ by economist Alec Cairncross, the UK received around $106 million’s worth of assets through the IARA, although there’s a possibility that was underestimated. Other things that were taken included gold, raw materials and research equipment, but we don’t know the value of these and they are unlikely to be included in the above figure.
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The only reason why the English and the Americans helped rebuild the German economy in 1948 is because west Germany was months away from a communist revolution. The Germans were starving and deprived of basic necessities and many were starting to favor the idea of Soviet occupation over American and English occupation under the brutal rule of Morgenthau. Thankfully for Europe, cooler heads in the State Department prevailed and the Americans helped revive the German economy and turn west Germany into a bulwark against the east.
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Yes it's terrible my ancestors made my ancestors emigrate to Montserrat. That is the Hussey part of my family.
Still I don't consider myself a victim or my people. Even the ones who didn't know to cut away the blight.
Black Irish Jew English German Russian Indian motherfuker I am
P.s. Irish slave gangs were operating in England long before the English did any thing under Cromwell...
We would have had a Saint Patrick if you're light fingerd types didn't come over here and carry him back Ireland to enslave him...
Still I don't consider myself a victim or my people. Even the ones who didn't know to cut away the blight.
Black Irish Jew English German Russian Indian motherfuker I am
P.s. Irish slave gangs were operating in England long before the English did any thing under Cromwell...
We would have had a Saint Patrick if you're light fingerd types didn't come over here and carry him back Ireland to enslave him...
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Yes, my great-grandfather was a captain in the Royal Dublin Fusiliers. He served in both Boer Wars and on the western front in WWI. Later he was in the Free State Army but died soon after as a result of mustard gas poisoning in St Stephen's Green in Dublin. There's a commemorative arch for the regiment at the gate of the park.Fred Edwards wrote: ↑Tue Oct 12, 2021 4:05 pmRoyal Dublin Fusiliers, Connaught Rangers and Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
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The reason I mentioned them is because Hanno was saying about concentration camps in South Africa at the same time talking about English hardships on the Irish and I knew those regiments served there so I threw their names in the pot.Lucky Lucan wrote: ↑Tue Oct 12, 2021 6:35 pmYes, my great-grandfather was a captain in the Royal Dublin Fusiliers. He served in both Boer Wars and on the western front in WWI. Later he was in the Free State Army but died soon after as a result of mustard gas poisoning in St Stephen's Green in Dublin. There's a commemorative arch for the regiment at the gate of the park.Fred Edwards wrote: ↑Tue Oct 12, 2021 4:05 pmRoyal Dublin Fusiliers, Connaught Rangers and Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
I think I've proved my point that there's lots of people out there are who have for their own reasons whatever they are are, a little bit of pleasure out of watching the misfortune of the United Kingdom and brexit.
Amen.
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