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Perhaps a bit of info of the Irish-British/english relation will help those to understand that are of neither of the 2 nationalities. According to this info english racism against irish has a 800 year history.
1. The Irish Perspective
https://www.joe.ie/life-style/main-thin ... ish-645614
2. British perspective
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/iris ... 42976.html
1. The Irish Perspective
https://www.joe.ie/life-style/main-thin ... ish-645614
2. British perspective
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/iris ... 42976.html
Hibernophobia definitely remains an issue in the 21st century. I have heard dozens of Englishmen contemptuously refer to the Irish as "potato naggers" and "bog trotters." I have never understood the Englishman's intense racial hatred of the Irishman as they are both Celtics and they look the same. Is it their thick Irish brogue that is off putting to the average Englishman? Is it their Catholic faith?
Understandable, if you do have to do and redo on your own, all that paperwork regulations stuff, the EU normally does for you.
Yeah, the mines and the steam-loc factories, but automobile and others were also nearly dead, due to the Unions, before Thatcher sent them into their Commi-caves.Hanno wrote: ↑Sun Oct 10, 2021 8:07 pmCommi-caves? Anyway, the unions lost and mines disappeared rapidly. But not because of the EU. Coal mines disappeared all across the EU as well as countries were unable to compete with cheap coal from abroad.v12 wrote: ↑Sun Oct 10, 2021 6:58 pmActually, that decline came up before Thatcher and she managed to chase the unions back into their commi-caves, saving the day for the UK.Hanno wrote: ↑Sun Oct 10, 2021 6:08 pmExcuse me? Coal and heavy industry was in a rapid decline by the 80's under Thatcher, absolutely nothing to do with the EU. And the car industry started faltering in the 50's. Lousy quality, overpriced, and not adaptable.Fred Edwards wrote: ↑Sun Oct 10, 2021 11:13 am
Europe played a smart game. Sucked the UK in and then asset stripped it.
Before we joined we had a car industry , steel coal etc
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After what Thatcher did to the once-proud UK manufacturing industry, I'm amazed she actually found a bucket to kick
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That's pre-Brexit you moron. Brexit happened on the 31st of January 2020.
In fact the IMF are predicting UK growth to be 7% for 2021 and 4.6% for the Euro Area.
Report can be downloaded here: https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WEO ... -july-2021
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I've never really felt any anti English feeling in the Republic. I'm sure it exists, but it aint in yer face, and its not big city/leave me alone mentality like London, where you are more likely to get the finger than a hello.
Although i'm not really bothered if people dont want to know me, anyway.
It's when people want something from me i start to worry.
Although i'm not really bothered if people dont want to know me, anyway.
It's when people want something from me i start to worry.
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Anti English feeling is generally against the UK government policies of the past rather than any private individual. I lived in England for almost 15 years and rarely if ever encountered "Hibernophobia" (new word for me!).spitthedog wrote: ↑Mon Oct 11, 2021 7:42 pmI've never really felt any anti English feeling in the Republic.
Romantic Cambodia is dead and gone. It's with McKinley in the grave.
Lucky Lucan wrote: ↑Mon Oct 11, 2021 7:50 pmAnti English feeling is generally against the UK government policies of the past rather than any private individual. I lived in England for almost 15 years and rarely if ever encountered "Hibernophobia" (new word for me!).spitthedog wrote: ↑Mon Oct 11, 2021 7:42 pmI've never really felt any anti English feeling in the Republic.
Excuse me, but I think Harold, a Native American Injun living in Cambodia who has likely never been anywhere near the U.K. is a much better judge of English attitudes to the Irish than you.
He has heard several bullnecked, tattood, wifebeater wearer thugs say offensive shit in Cambodian bars after all. That’s always a good barometer of social mores.
It is possible that an Irishman like Lucan has rarely encountered hibernophobia because the English, at least when they are sober, try to avoid confrontation. I have heard many Englishmen badmouth groups as diverse as the Jews, aborigines, Poles, Lithuanians, Dutchmen, Germans, East Asians, South Asians, and even Welshmen and the Scottish but I have never heard them say anything bad about Native Americans in person. However I often times encounter anti-Native American bigotry and abuse from Englishmen online like the above guest poster using racial epithets.
The UK is a deeply conservative and reactionary country. Many Britishers still believe it is a God given right and even gentlemanly to release a pack of vicious hounds on a harmless little red fox for sport.
The UK is a deeply conservative and reactionary country. Many Britishers still believe it is a God given right and even gentlemanly to release a pack of vicious hounds on a harmless little red fox for sport.
Are you referring to the British officials who issue passports to English patrons of a certain bar on St. 136?
XMAS FEARS Empty shelves at supermarkets as Heinz boss tells shoppers to get used to soaring prices
The END is NIGH !!
EMPTY shelves have been spotted at supermarkets again after shoppers have been warned about soaring food prices.
As supply chain problems continue to hit stores, Brits could see less essentials on the shelves and a hike in prices as the end of the year nears.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/money/16386915 ... ng-prices/
The END is NIGH !!
EMPTY shelves have been spotted at supermarkets again after shoppers have been warned about soaring food prices.
As supply chain problems continue to hit stores, Brits could see less essentials on the shelves and a hike in prices as the end of the year nears.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/money/16386915 ... ng-prices/
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Harold,Harold wrote: ↑Mon Oct 11, 2021 11:35 pmI have heard many Englishmen badmouth groups as diverse as the Jews, aborigines, Poles, Lithuanians, Dutchmen, Germans, East Asians, South Asians, and even Welshmen and the Scottish but I have never heard them say anything bad about Native Americans in person. However I often times encounter anti-Native American bigotry and abuse from Englishmen online like the above guest poster using racial epithets.
The UK is a deeply conservative and reactionary country. Many Britishers still believe it is a God given right and even gentlemanly to release a pack of vicious hounds on a harmless little red fox for sport.
I really would like to get my tool boxes over to Ireland, from England, but costs too much to post, so the other alternative would be to drive over, but that would mean travelling through Wales, not once, but twice...
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If you do, please drive through Caerphilly!spitthedog wrote: ↑Tue Oct 12, 2021 4:15 amI really would like to get my tool boxes over to Ireland, from England, but costs too much to post, so the other alternative would be to drive over, but that would mean travelling through Wales, not once, but twice...