Aneirin
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From: Tamaris
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The British Empire as it was, no longer exists except for a sphere of influence in some former colonies, colonies no doubt where there are still people who stand to gain from involvement with the UK hierachy. The British Empire as the workshop of the world died due to increased American and manufacture, so that explains a lot of the physical aspects of the empire as we see it today, we have no manufacturing to speak of. China and Japan has taken the American manufacturing base, we lost it, so have you, it just stands to wonder which country will take it from the Chineese and Japaneese, as the future history of the world moves on. Empires have grown and died, it is the nature of the world, nothing lasts forever.
So the British Empire no longer existing, we don't recognise it, us, Britons, aside from tha sad legacy it left in the world, something especially the English feel when they travel abroad, past 'hatreds' for what the elite did in our name.To understand, at the time Britain was conquering the world, most Britons the working class was in near slavery in the industrial centres or starving out in the fields, hence emigration to other countries where there was hope. The British Empire, the Victorian British Empire likened itself to the Roman Empire, same ideals and the same aims. Thank fuck that has gone, and long may it continue to go, we like you in America just have to find new ways of living.
As to Ireland, the yoke of the past is now no more than a past nightmare, we are moving on, as are they except for a few retarded individuals it seems. What taxes are taken from Northern Ireland are also taken from England Wales and Scotland, where investment is needed, aid is aportioned from the taxation, to give an example, as far as health care is concerned, for every pound spent on English healthcare, twelve pounds is spent on Scottish healthcare, extra funding is needed there due to their prevalence for bronchial problems, I guess it rains a lot there. If extra funding is needed in Northern Ireland, it is available and spent there, as can be seen by the enviromental improvements over the last twelve years. Maybe it is the majority of the Northern Irish see themselves as Irish not English or British, much as many ex Britons now see themselves as Scottish, Welsh or English due to devolved government, the United Kingdom, is in reality just a name, we are devolving into seperate countries again with our own seperate prides and identities.
The whatever people that want a return to the past, are not wanted by the majority, and maybe it is that the majority will this time win.
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