@KeskinensBigToe it was not "needless", our soveriegn territory was invaded by a military government who sought to ethnically cleanse the people living there and many Scots valiantly lost their lives defending it.
lately i've been seeing a lot of people acting like the British Empire was actually just the English Empire and ireland scotland and wales just had nothing to do with any of it
Yes, violence like this in the past prompted legislation that now forms a fundamental part of the constitution of two nation states. We should not shirk from enacting similar wide-sweeping action to prevent it again.
the reform voting troglodytes really out here trying to sell the narrative that belfast, of all fucking places, was a peaceful city before those damn foreigners came over here and ruined it. it's hard to decide whether or not to laugh or bang your head against a wall.
When the police heard the word racism they immediately identified why he should be presumed guilty without any knowledge of the country his grandfather arrived from.
This Henry Novak issue is crazy because actively both of these children are children of migration, but we’re flying flags of ‘Britain’ because he was white killed by someone brown.
This just shows it’s never been about your country, and just about your race.
We have a minuscule Arab population, and that is not our relationship with Spain or Argentina, both of whom treat us as a great satan while they barely figure in our national consciousness.
- schizophrenic electorate
- long coastline
- right-wing 80s leader
- valorizes native resistance to the empire that founded it
- Irish national heroes
- large Arab and Slavic communities
- claims on Antarctica
- hates Spain, LOATHES Argentina
Is Britain the Chile of Europe?
The British public have always wanted to less immigration, they have never wanted anything but less immigration. No one in 2016 was begging for more Pakistanis.
None of these international politics accounts have a very good read on Britain but this is new low in wanting something to be true that is completely out of step with reality.
Britain in 2016: We fucking hate Poles. Deport them all and replace them with Pakistanis
Britain in 2026: We fucking hate Pakistanis. Deport them all and replace them with Poles