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Originally Posted by sling
Sometimes I have to remind myself that many of the things that are so dramatic now will be blips on the radar screen when historians study them in one hundred years. The big upheavals caused by the huge number of Irish people coming in to the US, and their demonstrations against the Civil War because they feared that freed slaves would work for lower wages, and they were just barely surviving. It seems sort of strange now, the idea of Irish ethnic demonstrations and riots in America.
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Hi Sling,
Not really sure what your point is? Are you implying that we should not be bothered as in 100 years or so the situation will be simply trivial?
If so then let me put you straight! If by some miraculous stroke of luck we have not already been wiped off the face of the Earth by some disaster or other, I would like to see my children's children enjoy some of the experiences I myself enjoyed as a child. Such thing like Xmas, Easter, Silver jubilees, being English and being bloody proud of it!
At the rate of knots this country is traveling at to destroy its own identity,
I would guess 30 years will be sufficient before you are seeing such things like the abolishment of the St Gorges Cross, The removal of the Royal Family,
The election of an Asian Priminister and so on and so on!!!
Now... one might say this is paranoia and over exaggeration, others might say "well would it be such a bad thing if the above happened?"
Well let me tell you... 1/ it's not paranoia or over exaggeration, it will happen!
And 2/ It is a bad thing, in fact it's a F*****g monstrosity of a bad thing!
Embracing cultures who have no intentions of embracing you, who would turn on you like a pack of parasitic dogs given half the chance, is probably not the cleverest of ideas. Giving Sandal waiving, screaming lunatics any kind political stage to attack us from is also not the brightest of ideas. But pissing off to Spain and burying my head in the sound and letting them get on with it is probably the most stupidest idea of bleeding all!