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Along with the Rural myth that the UK has the highest standards in the world and everyone else is inferior.
The NI/ROI Protocol
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Not the parts I've been to.
I do agree on the chlorinated chicken though, no one seems to want their chicken washed in chlorine but seem quite happy to swill down gallons of it yearly in their drinking water.
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“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
“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
M-J-G
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And what do you think?
Let me get my head around this 1919 quote from Carson. At the time the British Empire was at it’s zenith. Lord and master of half the world.
At the same time Mr. Carson figures USA, or any other country for that matter should “butt out”!
Irony or what?
I would think that there are many Irish that would ask that question of Uk
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- Beragh, Co Tyrone, Northern Ireland
Depends on whether one believes "irishness" is the sole property of the nationalist and republican tradition.
I suppose so
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- Beragh, Co Tyrone, Northern Ireland
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.
You didn’t post those kinds of thoughts, when Trump was boss in USA, and he encouraged Brexit.
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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.
trouble is we live in a very interconnected world and things we do in our own country may have effects on other counties ,so off course will make their views known as they may not want to have to deal with said effects. and the bigger more powerful a country is the more you have to pay heed
You don’t even know the definition of an Ulsterman?
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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 “
M-J-G
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That's no shock to me.
Did you really expect him to?
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Context is always key.
How Trump undermined Theresa May | Brookings
President Trump has repeatedly interfered in the United Kingdom's domestic politics, undercut its national security, and bullied its prime minister, argues Thomas Wright.
www.brookings.edu
Watching ITV's Julia Bradbury in the Greek Islands, not sure EU food standards are being held up by goats cheese producer in the mountains, having been to mainland Greece a few times I think you can say standards are a just little casual compared with the UK, perhaps this has gone unnoticed by EU big wigs