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Along with the Rural myth that the UK has the highest standards in the world and everyone else is inferior.It's an urban myth the UK would import hormone beef etc , people are fussy buggers here .
Along with the Rural myth that the UK has the highest standards in the world and everyone else is inferior.It's an urban myth the UK would import hormone beef etc , people are fussy buggers here .
Seems to me that a hell of lot people are happy to travel to the states stuff themselves on their food without a care in the world, whatever is said there is far more crap eaten in the EU than in the states.
Talk of chlorinated chicken etc is useful when negotiating but doesn't really mean a bloody thing in reality!
And what do you think?“I today seriously say to America: You attend to your own affairs and we will attend to ours. You look after your own questions at home and we will look after ours. We will not brook interference in our own affairs by any country, however powerful.
“What right had the American mission to come to this country? To come here in a breach of hospitality on one nation toward another–to attempt to stir up strife in matters in which they were not connected?”
Edward Carson, 12th July 1919
“I today seriously say to America: You attend to your own affairs and we will attend to ours. You look after your own questions at home and we will look after ours. We will not brook interference in our own affairs by any country, however powerful.
“What right had the American mission to come to this country? To come here in a breach of hospitality on one nation toward another–to attempt to stir up strife in matters in which they were not connected?”
Edward Carson, 12th July 1919
I would think that there are many Irish that would ask that question of Uk“I today seriously say to America: You attend to your own affairs and we will attend to ours. You look after your own questions at home and we will look after ours. We will not brook interference in our own affairs by any country, however powerful.
“What right had the American mission to come to this country? To come here in a breach of hospitality on one nation toward another–to attempt to stir up strife in matters in which they were not connected?”
Edward Carson, 12th July 1919
Depends on whether one believes "irishness" is the sole property of the nationalist and republican tradition.I would think that there are many Irish that would ask that question of Uk
I suppose soDepends on whether one believes "irishness" is the sole property of the nationalist and republican tradition.
The American administration would be better focusing on the issues within their own territory, while leaving the UK government to deal with its own territory.And what do you think?
The American administration would be better focusing on the issues within their own territory, while leaving the UK government to deal with its own territory.
Because despite his bombast/retheoric etc he didn't actually try to dictate to another government what it should do in its's territory.You didn’t post those kinds of thoughts, when Trump was boss in USA, and he encouraged Brexit.
The English, Welsh and Scots are like blood brothers.
Ulstermen and ROI men aren't.
The English, Welsh and Scots are like blood brothers.
Ulstermen and ROI men aren't.
Charles de Gaulle said something similar when he made the comment that he wanted to see all Amercan troops off French soil, the reply he received was “does that include those in the cemeteries ““I today seriously say to America: You attend to your own affairs and we will attend to ours. You look after your own questions at home and we will look after ours. We will not brook interference in our own affairs by any country, however powerful.
“What right had the American mission to come to this country? To come here in a breach of hospitality on one nation toward another–to attempt to stir up strife in matters in which they were not connected?”
Edward Carson, 12th July 1919
That's no shock to me.You don’t even know the definition of an Ulsterman?
Context is always key.Charles de Gaulle said something similar when he made the comment that he wanted to see all Amercan troops off French soil, the reply he received was “does that include those in the cemeteries “
Because despite his bombast/retheoric etc he didn't actually try to dictate to another government what it should do in its's territory.