baboon

1 minute ago, BarraMarra said:

Armed Guards mmmm remind us Brits what the beast is and what it is used for ??

Bit early in the day to be starting on the hard stuff, isn't it?

2 minutes ago, youreavinalaff said:

Oh dear.

 

You really do take the biscuit.

 

If it wasn't so funny it would be sad.

Was what I said incorrect? Or do you mean they need defending from thoughts and opinions?

8 minutes ago, puchooay said:

I'd like to see the proof of that, without taking Covid19 and the war in Ukraine into account.

 

That's the thing here. Remainers cannot actually show any true figures because of what else has gone on. 

 

To say the country is poorer and a joke solely because of Brexit is impossible.

 

It will take a few more years to gauge the benefits/downside of leaving the EU.

We became poorer on the night of the referendum when the pound crashed, years before Covid and Ukraine. Today we are poorer still.

9 minutes ago, puchooay said:

Johnson won a landslide victory in an election. You forgot to mention that.

 

Why did he win? Because the opposition parties were faffing about with democracy. Labour wanted to do a deal, then another referendum, then a new deal..........................

 

LibDems  wanted to cancel the whole thing.

 

The electorate decided, overwhelmingly, what they wanted.

Which was to be made poorer and their country turned into a joke worldwide. Yes! Result!

6 minutes ago, transam said:

????........................Well, get in touch with this forum owners to not allow threads like this.............????

PS. Now, I did ask you to post something sensible....

You asked my opinion and I gave it to you. That you don't like it is no concern of mine.

8 minutes ago, youreavinalaff said:

A patriot..... "a person who supports their country and is prepared to defend it."

 

That would include defending King/Queen also. Something you are not doing.

 

Aren't they surrounded by armed guards? How much more defence do they need?

11 minutes ago, transam said:

No reply to my previous post then, oh well...????

 

So in your opinion, Brits should not retire to a place of their choice for whatever reason....?

 

PS. Perhaps this time you could reply to me with something sensible....

In my opinion, Brits should not choose to live abroad and harp on about how wonderful Britain is to all and sundry. It makes them look foolish.

1 hour ago, jak2002003 said:

Thanks for your educated  comment which adds so the debate. 

 

Nothing like this place of late for weighty political analysis....

14 minutes ago, billd766 said:

7 hours ago, baboon said:

My argument is that for a country supposedly modelling itself on the life and teachings of Christ, it could never have been right.

Would that also apply to virtually EVERY country in Europe and not just the UK.

 

Yes of course it would. I thought I had made that clear.

3 minutes ago, jak2002003 said:

Why do I have to pay to see my own things?!!!  Oh, I am even more for getting rid of them now.  I even found out they are not British...it's some German family that changed their name because they were worried British people would not like them because of the war.

 

So, these people who love the royal family as they are a British tradition are wrong.  They are a European family ruling over us...yet many of their supporters wanted to leave Europe as they did not want unelected Europeans telling is what to do?  But they like this unelected German family doing that? The world is mad. 

'Take a look at the average person on the street. Then remember half the population are even stupider than they are...'

4 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

It would not be "right" in today's world, and such does not happen, to my knowledge.

The list of things that were not "right" by today's standards would take several pages to detail, so I'll leave such in the past where it belongs.

My argument is that for a country supposedly modelling itself on the life and teachings of Christ, it could never have been right.

10 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Imperialism was the norm back then, but of course every thing done by our ancestors was bad, according to some ( perhaps those with a guilt complex ).

I wasn't alive back then and I feel no personal responsibility for what happened, especially given my forebears lived in a colonized country.

I certainly do not feel any need to apologize for anything that happened hundreds of years ago when every country behaved the same way. Some were just more successful than others.

Imperialism was the norm, but hanging children for stealing bread was also once the norm. That doesn't make it right.

It is interesting that while a country would march its troops into somebody else's territory, subjugate the people and steal their sh!t, back at home there were strict laws and penalties against theft.

And in the case of 'Christian' countries, just where did Christ give the OK for it?

I am inclined to agree with the second part of what you wrote. I have German pals who feel they have no need to apologise to me for the third reich and I in turn feel I have no right to demand any such apology. What happened was nothing to do with us.

^^

Can somebody interpret the above gibberish for me? Thanks in advance. 

1 hour ago, SunsetT said:

Yes and the rapist was a railway staff member working on the train.

And drugged out of his mind, if I recall correctly.