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  1. Its like we are being ruled by people from where the British empire used to be today. Rishi from india all the politicians from all around the world and Europe who all seem to have forgotten what the uk was like 30 years ago and why there elders came to the uk in thr first place today.
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  2. That's the history of ww1 and ww2 gone and what happend in-between
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  3. I really don't care just everything about the UK song and Europe over the last 30 years is so wrong.
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  4. And yet there is veterans walking around the uk with no legs homeless keft with p.t.s.d. actually wondering why and what they have been doing all over the world since ww2. Im pretty sure most serving soldiers in the brirish military didn't serve all over the world or even when the British empire existed to watch the uk and Europe become the mess it has today.
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  5. Within 80 years we gone from the remains of the biggest empire in recorded history to this in a nation and Europe that is nothing like it was 30 years ago while politicians from all over the world from varying ethnicity and religions seem to have forgotten what the UK was like before the European union and why there elders came here in the first place.
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  6. During the nineteenth century, Great Britain and Russia engaged in what was termed the 'Great Game', which were confrontations in Central Asia and particularly on the north-west frontier of India. At the same time, they confronted each other over the 'Eastern Question' in the Mediterranean region, which was largely concerned with a declining Ottoman Empire. This lecture looks at the conflict between the two expanding empires.
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  7. As a villa fan please start with Watkins
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  8. I don't actually care I'm British we had the biggest empire in recorded history not so long ago all the problems in eastern Europe and Ukraine have not been our problem for centuries but Moscow's since ukrainans and Jews first started coming here before ww1. All we have turned into now is a nation of migrants and refugees whose politicians from where they come from don't take responsibility for there own people today or actions. Hard to imagine the UK 80 years ago had the remains of the biggest empire in history that stretched from America to Australia places in Africa India and all over Asia and they have actually better nations to live in now then us in the UK. Stop bringing the world's problems to western Europe the problems in eastern Europe are nothing to do with us the European Union is not good for us and neither is ex soviet nations joining the EU unless it is done more honestly then it's been done today ànd. migration into the UK is dealt with better now. They can try and bury the history of eastern Europe and the soviet union and how eastern Europe changed after ww1 and ww2 that won't do them any good anymore and in western Europe it won't do us any good now because they won't bury our colonial history here which stretches from north and south America to Australia and pretty much everywhere outside of Russia. People still live in the past but refuse around the world today to see what they because of us Brits and french today and western Europe today how western Europe and eastern Europe changed 30 years ago and the wzy the world has changed since ww2 is hurting us here ukrainans Jews and people need to speak out why they are here now. The UK as a nation that had the biggest empire in recorded history can't pander to migrants and refugees and those coming here and those that are born here in the UK anymore. Time has caught up for everyone historically here now..
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  9. Just think if migrants and refugees never came here there would not be these problems simple as that and it's not about skin colour or religion look at the problems in Palestine and what they are bringing here. People used to call Enoch Powell a racist and a fascist seems he was right. Never a bright idea to invite people from all around what used to be the British empire here to live which still remained lots of it after ww2 and then Invite a lot of eastern Europeans here to live after the collapse of the soviet Union and the creation of the European Union 30 years ago not that brightest of momentsg.
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  10.  @thirdeyeblinking3173  I can remember the days I served all over the world and how we had the remains of biggest empire in recorded history 80 years ago and London controlled that empire. But after ww2 the world changed and they forgot to tell everyone about it specially us Brits and in western Europe and it was the same where Europe changed 30 years ago and the UK today is nothing like it was back then.
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  11.  @m78991234  the trouble is America is involved with this. The federal system is different from when nations used to deal with there own economy. it's basically easy to put we went from a public sector where money would go back to government to a private sector where the money used to go back to government goes straight to CEOs and shareholders . The global world has become bigger then the nations and the empires it stems from now and we are not benefiting in Europe now because how we was 30 years ago is totally different from today.
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  12. Its like we are being ruled by people from where the British empire used to be today. Rishi from india all the politicians from all around the world and Europe who all seem to have forgotten what the uk was like 30 years ago and why there elders came to the uk in thr first place today.
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  13. Should have been more honest after ww2 and all them politicians in Westminster today from different religions and ethnic backgrounds who are happy to watch the UK like this and Europe and have forgotten what the UK was like before the European union and why there elders came here in the first place.
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  14.  @KingsguardX  full of eastern Europeans and nations and people who don't understand each other reminds me of why I never lived in Tel Aviv
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  15. Was thinking about Europe before ww1 we was a continent of empires and great kingdoms in Britain's anc France caee lots of thst dtill existed after ww2. Now what was great about the uk and France 30 years ago has turned into this mess here today and all over Europe. I wonder what has caused that.
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  16. Western Europe has similar history to us and Russia how did we go from this since ww2 to what we are living today Also the UK and London is nothing like it was 30 years ago we never used to have any trouble with anyone living here untill Brexit and diversity came along The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates, and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states. It began with the overseas possessions and trading posts established by England in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. At its height in the 19th and early 20th centuries, it was the largest empire in history and, for a century, was the foremost global power.[1] By 1913, the British Empire held sway over 412 million people, 23 percent of the world population at the time,[2] and by 1920, it covered 35.5 million km2 (13.7 million sq mi),[3] 24 per cent of the Earth's total land area. As a result, its constitutional, legal, linguistic, and cultural legacy is widespread. At the peak of its power, it was described as "the empire on which the sun never sets", as the sun was always shining on at least one of its territories.[4] British Empire   Left: Flag of Great Britain (1707–1801) Right: Flag of the United Kingdom (1801–present)  Areas of the world that were part of the British Empire with current British Overseas Territories underlined in red. Mandates and protected states are shown in a lighter shade. During the Age of Discovery in the 15th and 16th centuries, Portugal and Spain pioneered European exploration of the globe, and in the process established large overseas empires. Envious of the great wealth these empires generated,[5] England, France, and the Netherlands began to establish colonies and trade networks of their own in the Americas and Asia. A series of wars in the 17th and 18th centuries with the Netherlands and France left England (Britain, following the 1707 Act of Union with Scotland) the dominant colonial power in North America. Britain became a major power in the Indian subcontinent after the East India Company's conquest of Mughal Bengal at the Battle of Plassey in 1757. The American War of Independence resulted in Britain losing some of its oldest and most populous colonies in North America by 1783. While retaining control of British North America (now Canada) and territories in and near the Caribbean in the British West Indies, British colonial expansion turned towards Asia, Africa, and the Pacific. After the defeat of France in the Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815), Britain emerged as the principal naval and imperial power of the 19th century and expanded its imperial holdings. It pursued trade concessions in China and Japan, and territory in Southeast Asia. The "Great Game" and "Scramble for Africa" also ensued. The period of relative peace (1815–1914) during which the British Empire became the global hegemon was later described as Pax Britannica (Latin for "British Peace"). Alongside the formal control that Britain exerted over its colonies, its dominance of much of world trade, and of its oceans, meant that it effectively controlled the economies of, and readily enforced its interests in, many regions, such as Asia and Latin America.[6] It also came to dominate the Middle East. Increasing degrees of autonomy were granted to its white settler colonies, some of which were formally reclassified as Dominions by the 1920s. By the start of the 20th century, Germany and the United States had begun to challenge Britain's economic lead. Military, economic and colonial tensions between Britain and Germany were major causes of the First World War, during which Britain relied heavily on its empire. The conflict placed enormous strain on its military, financial, and manpower resources. Although the empire achieved its largest territorial extent immediately after the First World War, Britain was no longer the world's preeminent industrial or military power. In the Second World War, Britain's colonies in East Asia and Southeast Asia were occupied by the Empire of Japan. Despite the final victory of Britain and its allies, the damage to British prestige and the British economy helped accelerate the decline of the empire. India, Britain's most valuable and populous possession, achieved independence in 1947 as part of a larger decolonisation movement, in which Britain granted independence to most territories of the empire. The Suez Crisis of 1956 confirmed Britain's decline as a global power, and the handover of Hong Kong to China on 1 July 1997 symbolised for many the end of the British Empire,[7] though fourteen overseas territories that are remnants of the empire remain under British sovereignty. After independence, many former British colonies, along with most of the dominions, joined the Commonwealth of Nations, a free association of independent states. Fifteen of these, including the United Kingdom, retain the same person as monarch, currently King Charles III.
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  17. Interesting fact about Lebanon it wouldn't exist today if it was not for France and America
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  18. I don't actually care I'm British we had the biggest empire in recorded history not so long ago all the problems in eastern Europe and Ukraine have not been our problem for centuries but Moscow's since ukrainans and Jews first started coming here before ww1. All we have turned into now is a nation of migrants and refugees whose politicians from where they come from don't take responsibility for there own people today or actions. Hard to imagine the UK 80 years ago had the remains of the biggest empire in history that stretched from America to Australia places in Africa India and all over Asia and they have actually better nations to live in now then us in the UK. Stop bringing the world's problems to western Europe the problems in eastern Europe are nothing to do with us the European Union is not good for us and neither is ex soviet nations joining the EU unless it is done more honestly then it's been done today ànd. migration into the UK is dealt with better now. They can try and bury the history of eastern Europe and the soviet union and how eastern Europe changed after ww1 and ww2 that won't do them any good anymore and in western Europe it won't do us any good now because they won't bury our colonial history here which stretches from north and south America to Australia and pretty much everywhere outside of Russia. People still live in the past but refuse around the world today to see what they because of us Brits and french today and western Europe today how western Europe and eastern Europe changed 30 years ago and the wzy the world has changed since ww2 is hurting us here ukrainans Jews and people need to speak out why they are here now. The UK as a nation that had the biggest empire in recorded history can't pander to migrants and refugees and those coming here and those that are born here in the UK anymore. Time has caught up for everyone historically here now.
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  19. Maybe people look at the UK today all them race riots and the way migrants and refugees are treated had something to do with it that's left huge questions on multiculturalism in the UK today.
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  20. Western Europe has similar history to us and Russia how did we go from this since ww2 to what we are living today Also the UK and London is nothing like it was 30 years ago we never used to have any trouble with anyone living here untill Brexit and diversity came along The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates, and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states. It began with the overseas possessions and trading posts established by England in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. At its height in the 19th and early 20th centuries, it was the largest empire in history and, for a century, was the foremost global power.[1] By 1913, the British Empire held sway over 412 million people, 23 percent of the world population at the time,[2] and by 1920, it covered 35.5 million km2 (13.7 million sq mi),[3] 24 per cent of the Earth's total land area. As a result, its constitutional, legal, linguistic, and cultural legacy is widespread. At the peak of its power, it was described as "the empire on which the sun never sets", as the sun was always shining on at least one of its territories.[4] British Empire   Left: Flag of Great Britain (1707–1801) Right: Flag of the United Kingdom (1801–present)  Areas of the world that were part of the British Empire with current British Overseas Territories underlined in red. Mandates and protected states are shown in a lighter shade. During the Age of Discovery in the 15th and 16th centuries, Portugal and Spain pioneered European exploration of the globe, and in the process established large overseas empires. Envious of the great wealth these empires generated,[5] England, France, and the Netherlands began to establish colonies and trade networks of their own in the Americas and Asia. A series of wars in the 17th and 18th centuries with the Netherlands and France left England (Britain, following the 1707 Act of Union with Scotland) the dominant colonial power in North America. Britain became a major power in the Indian subcontinent after the East India Company's conquest of Mughal Bengal at the Battle of Plassey in 1757. The American War of Independence resulted in Britain losing some of its oldest and most populous colonies in North America by 1783. While retaining control of British North America (now Canada) and territories in and near the Caribbean in the British West Indies, British colonial expansion turned towards Asia, Africa, and the Pacific. After the defeat of France in the Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815), Britain emerged as the principal naval and imperial power of the 19th century and expanded its imperial holdings. It pursued trade concessions in China and Japan, and territory in Southeast Asia. The "Great Game" and "Scramble for Africa" also ensued. The period of relative peace (1815–1914) during which the British Empire became the global hegemon was later described as Pax Britannica (Latin for "British Peace"). Alongside the formal control that Britain exerted over its colonies, its dominance of much of world trade, and of its oceans, meant that it effectively controlled the economies of, and readily enforced its interests in, many regions, such as Asia and Latin America.[6] It also came to dominate the Middle East. Increasing degrees of autonomy were granted to its white settler colonies, some of which were formally reclassified as Dominions by the 1920s. By the start of the 20th century, Germany and the United States had begun to challenge Britain's economic lead. Military, economic and colonial tensions between Britain and Germany were major causes of the First World War, during which Britain relied heavily on its empire. The conflict placed enormous strain on its military, financial, and manpower resources. Although the empire achieved its largest territorial extent immediately after the First World War, Britain was no longer the world's preeminent industrial or military power. In the Second World War, Britain's colonies in East Asia and Southeast Asia were occupied by the Empire of Japan. Despite the final victory of Britain and its allies, the damage to British prestige and the British economy helped accelerate the decline of the empire. India, Britain's most valuable and populous possession, achieved independence in 1947 as part of a larger decolonisation movement, in which Britain granted independence to most territories of the empire. The Suez Crisis of 1956 confirmed Britain's decline as a global power, and the handover of Hong Kong to China on 1 July 1997 symbolised for many the end of the British Empire,[7] though fourteen overseas territories that are remnants of the empire remain under British sovereignty. After independence, many former British colonies, along with most of the dominions, joined the Commonwealth of Nations, a free association of independent states. Fifteen of these, including the United Kingdom, retain the same person as monarch, currently King Charles III.
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  21. There to dumb in this country to realise people from all over the world live here but things that ultimately should be good have become bad now and highlighted should have never have come to the UK with so many different communities because people of the UK are not causing this
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  22.  @Randomguy-kz7sk  there not British.
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  23. French Indochina (previously spelled as French Indo-China),[a][b] officially known as the Indochinese Union[c][d] and after 1941 as the Indochinese Federation,[e] was a grouping of French colonial territories in Mainland Southeast Asia until its end in 1954. It comprised Cambodia, Laos (from 1899), the Chinese territory of Guangzhouwan (from 1898 until 1945), and the Vietnamese regions of Tonkin in the north, Annam in the centre, and Cochinchina in the south. The capital from 1902 to 1945 was Hanoi, Saigon was the capital from 1887 to 1902 and again from 1945 to 1954.
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  24.  @RichardGilbey  shouldn't be still affecting the world today though should it or Europe. Simple truth is all that is needed today the world has changed to much since ww1 and ww2 and over the last 30 years in Europe. Does anyone actually consider that our history is always going to have an effect us on here unless this modern day cycle is broken.
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  25.  @elefsis7474  someone's used our past against us in western Europe and living in multicultural societies against us in Europe we do this for a reason western Europe is not the world's problems and since ww2 America has done ultimately good things but Europe and Russia changing 30 years ago was not done with as much openness as it should have been and when the Berlin wall came down the soviet Union collapsed and Yugoslavia that was the end of problems that have gone on since ww1 that effect other areas in the world including the middle east and north Africa it should have all been done differently the way the world is today.
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  26. People around the world are happy to call us racists and fascists today in the UK and western Europe the land of empires that in the UKs case the biggest empire in recorded history and France still remained after ww2. The problem is they need to move forward better then this in the UK and Europe now because where our empires used to be are actually better places to live then here now or places we go in holiday to get away from problems here or to live like I spend more time in the former British colony of Cyprus today or America then living here now. the world has changed to much due what they want today and with the technology around today unless they change there ways now whoever is in charge of this planet today then we don't stand a chance. They can live in our past like they have in this article but if we live in ours educate people in western Europes and the UKs colonial history which happened in a world completely different from today in a world and Europe that was completely different before ww1 and ww2 they don't like that.
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  27. Western Europe has similar history to us and Russia how did we go from this since ww2 to what we are living today Also the UK and London is nothing like it was 30 years ago we never used to have any trouble with anyone living here untill Brexit and diversity came along The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates, and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states. It began with the overseas possessions and trading posts established by England in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. At its height in the 19th and early 20th centuries, it was the largest empire in history and, for a century, was the foremost global power.[1] By 1913, the British Empire held sway over 412 million people, 23 percent of the world population at the time,[2] and by 1920, it covered 35.5 million km2 (13.7 million sq mi),[3] 24 per cent of the Earth's total land area. As a result, its constitutional, legal, linguistic, and cultural legacy is widespread. At the peak of its power, it was described as "the empire on which the sun never sets", as the sun was always shining on at least one of its territories.[4] British Empire   Left: Flag of Great Britain (1707–1801) Right: Flag of the United Kingdom (1801–present)  Areas of the world that were part of the British Empire with current British Overseas Territories underlined in red. Mandates and protected states are shown in a lighter shade. During the Age of Discovery in the 15th and 16th centuries, Portugal and Spain pioneered European exploration of the globe, and in the process established large overseas empires. Envious of the great wealth these empires generated,[5] England, France, and the Netherlands began to establish colonies and trade networks of their own in the Americas and Asia. A series of wars in the 17th and 18th centuries with the Netherlands and France left England (Britain, following the 1707 Act of Union with Scotland) the dominant colonial power in North America. Britain became a major power in the Indian subcontinent after the East India Company's conquest of Mughal Bengal at the Battle of Plassey in 1757. The American War of Independence resulted in Britain losing some of its oldest and most populous colonies in North America by 1783. While retaining control of British North America (now Canada) and territories in and near the Caribbean in the British West Indies, British colonial expansion turned towards Asia, Africa, and the Pacific. After the defeat of France in the Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815), Britain emerged as the principal naval and imperial power of the 19th century and expanded its imperial holdings. It pursued trade concessions in China and Japan, and territory in Southeast Asia. The "Great Game" and "Scramble for Africa" also ensued. The period of relative peace (1815–1914) during which the British Empire became the global hegemon was later described as Pax Britannica (Latin for "British Peace"). Alongside the formal control that Britain exerted over its colonies, its dominance of much of world trade, and of its oceans, meant that it effectively controlled the economies of, and readily enforced its interests in, many regions, such as Asia and Latin America.[6] It also came to dominate the Middle East. Increasing degrees of autonomy were granted to its white settler colonies, some of which were formally reclassified as Dominions by the 1920s. By the start of the 20th century, Germany and the United States had begun to challenge Britain's economic lead. Military, economic and colonial tensions between Britain and Germany were major causes of the First World War, during which Britain relied heavily on its empire. The conflict placed enormous strain on its military, financial, and manpower resources. Although the empire achieved its largest territorial extent immediately after the First World War, Britain was no longer the world's preeminent industrial or military power. In the Second World War, Britain's colonies in East Asia and Southeast Asia were occupied by the Empire of Japan. Despite the final victory of Britain and its allies, the damage to British prestige and the British economy helped accelerate the decline of the empire. India, Britain's most valuable and populous possession, achieved independence in 1947 as part of a larger decolonisation movement, in which Britain granted independence to most territories of the empire. The Suez Crisis of 1956 confirmed Britain's decline as a global power, and the handover of Hong Kong to China on 1 July 1997 symbolised for many the end of the British Empire,[7] though fourteen overseas territories that are remnants of the empire remain under British sovereignty. After independence, many former British colonies, along with most of the dominions, joined the Commonwealth of Nations, a free association of independent states. Fifteen of these, including the United Kingdom, retain the same person as monarch, currently King Charles III.
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  28. This is why democracy has been destroyed because of the internet and a bad education in the modern world and how it's changed since ww2 I grew up in the UK where the only place politics was discussed is down the pub. Now we have turned into the same political circus as America and Russia but the difference is people from all over the world and Europe live here now with different opinions of the European union which no one has been educated in since it's conception since the Soviet union collapsed in 1991 and the European union was created in 1992
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  29.  @diorocks5858  exactly and most arab nations today a few where created in British mandated Palestine but most didn't exist untill after ww2 and where British or french protocerates created with help by us . We didn't Colonise the middle East and Arab lands it's important to understand how the modern world and modern day middle east was created specially after ww2 and in Palestine today. A lot of what actually exists in Palestine today is actually British.
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  30. The history of Syria covers events which occurred on the territory of the present Syrian Arab Republic and events which occurred in the region of Syria. Throughout ancient times the territory of present Syrian Arab Republic was occupied and ruled by several empires, including the Sumerians, Mitanni, Assyrians, Babylonians, Egyptians, Hittites, Canaanites, Phoenicians, Arameans, Amorites, Persians, Greeks and Romans.[1] Syria is considered to have emerged as an independent country for the first time on 24 October 1945, upon the signing of the United Nations Charter by the Syrian government, effectively ending France's mandate by the League of Nations to "render administrative advice and assistance to the population" of Syria, which came in effect in April 1946.
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  31. Funny how no one questioned how a migrant and refugee from Kenya like rishi whose family is Indian become prime minister of the UK and all them other politicians in Westminster from around the world sitting in our government who all seem to have forgotten what the UK was like 30 years ago and why there elders came to the UK in first place now it's not going away. Things should have been done differently after ww2 here and the way they world is today they could be more truthful about the future moving forward here now because we need it not a progressive multicultrual society turning into this mess today.
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  32. I will explain Rishi's family history and ours at the same time the world was completely different before ww1 and ww2. The British empire was British and the people there in a world that was completely different. Like America in the Colonies people travelled between different colonies and areas. We can do this for every person living in the UK today... Kenya was a British colony so was India and Uganda became a British protocerate we never Colonised Uganda but helped the people there create Uganda to what it is today most areas in the world don't stem from colonies After the got independence in 1960 from us in 1960 Kenyans and Ugandans didn't want the Indians there nothing bad happened because they came here they need to be more honest about why they are here people where never introduced properly and if they want it to work today they have to deal with thing's better today. western Europe can never pander to the modern world or anything from Moscow today now. We are supposed to be a united Europe today.
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  33. Western Europe has similar history to us and Russia how did we go from this since ww2 to what we are living today Also the UK and London is nothing like it was 30 years ago we never used to have any trouble with anyone living here untill Brexit and diversity came along The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates, and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states. It began with the overseas possessions and trading posts established by England in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. At its height in the 19th and early 20th centuries, it was the largest empire in history and, for a century, was the foremost global power.[1] By 1913, the British Empire held sway over 412 million people, 23 percent of the world population at the time,[2] and by 1920, it covered 35.5 million km2 (13.7 million sq mi),[3] 24 per cent of the Earth's total land area. As a result, its constitutional, legal, linguistic, and cultural legacy is widespread. At the peak of its power, it was described as "the empire on which the sun never sets", as the sun was always shining on at least one of its territories.[4] British Empire   Left: Flag of Great Britain (1707–1801) Right: Flag of the United Kingdom (1801–present)  Areas of the world that were part of the British Empire with current British Overseas Territories underlined in red. Mandates and protected states are shown in a lighter shade. During the Age of Discovery in the 15th and 16th centuries, Portugal and Spain pioneered European exploration of the globe, and in the process established large overseas empires. Envious of the great wealth these empires generated,[5] England, France, and the Netherlands began to establish colonies and trade networks of their own in the Americas and Asia. A series of wars in the 17th and 18th centuries with the Netherlands and France left England (Britain, following the 1707 Act of Union with Scotland) the dominant colonial power in North America. Britain became a major power in the Indian subcontinent after the East India Company's conquest of Mughal Bengal at the Battle of Plassey in 1757. The American War of Independence resulted in Britain losing some of its oldest and most populous colonies in North America by 1783. While retaining control of British North America (now Canada) and territories in and near the Caribbean in the British West Indies, British colonial expansion turned towards Asia, Africa, and the Pacific. After the defeat of France in the Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815), Britain emerged as the principal naval and imperial power of the 19th century and expanded its imperial holdings. It pursued trade concessions in China and Japan, and territory in Southeast Asia. The "Great Game" and "Scramble for Africa" also ensued. The period of relative peace (1815–1914) during which the British Empire became the global hegemon was later described as Pax Britannica (Latin for "British Peace"). Alongside the formal control that Britain exerted over its colonies, its dominance of much of world trade, and of its oceans, meant that it effectively controlled the economies of, and readily enforced its interests in, many regions, such as Asia and Latin America.[6] It also came to dominate the Middle East. Increasing degrees of autonomy were granted to its white settler colonies, some of which were formally reclassified as Dominions by the 1920s. By the start of the 20th century, Germany and the United States had begun to challenge Britain's economic lead. Military, economic and colonial tensions between Britain and Germany were major causes of the First World War, during which Britain relied heavily on its empire. The conflict placed enormous strain on its military, financial, and manpower resources. Although the empire achieved its largest territorial extent immediately after the First World War, Britain was no longer the world's preeminent industrial or military power. In the Second World War, Britain's colonies in East Asia and Southeast Asia were occupied by the Empire of Japan. Despite the final victory of Britain and its allies, the damage to British prestige and the British economy helped accelerate the decline of the empire. India, Britain's most valuable and populous possession, achieved independence in 1947 as part of a larger decolonisation movement, in which Britain granted independence to most territories of the empire. The Suez Crisis of 1956 confirmed Britain's decline as a global power, and the handover of Hong Kong to China on 1 July 1997 symbolised for many the end of the British Empire,[7] though fourteen overseas territories that are remnants of the empire remain under British sovereignty. After independence, many former British colonies, along with most of the dominions, joined the Commonwealth of Nations, a free association of independent states. Fifteen of these, including the United Kingdom, retain the same person as monarch, currently King Charles III.
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  34. Nice to know the British empire had turned into some global euro vision that can't work here now because better of bringing the British empire back but openly modernising that..
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  35.  @clivewilliams3661  time and technology that didn't exist 30 years ago and Europe needs looking at now and the UK itself things we argue over today like free health care affordable homes and services and industry we have given the world since thr first industrial revolution if changing needs to be done more openly the European union can't work they only care about Europe it was not done right from day one and European history since ww1 and ww2 is not good here.
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  36. Make Britain great again make America great again bring back rhe British empire. Last time America was great was in 1775 before some silly European colonials started a revolution and dumped our tea in Boston harbour. America like the rest of the world outside Russia from America to Australia has just become a good case study of bringing our empires back in western Europe today and taking Europe back before ww1 and ww2 when our empires existed in Europe now..
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  37. That's an insult to the people who are here and come from the British commonwealth and nations connected to the British commonwealth who really should have been introduced as British after ww2 when they came here because People living in our empire or colonies where actually British and fought alongside us in world wars things like that.
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  38.  @user-uv6nz9dd6o  that's my point any nation today that got independence stems from us and most of the world today was not created from colonies anyway but mandate's and protocerates also after ww1.
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  39. @slackerbarny  yes really . We was a land of empires in Europe before ww1 we are not today but what the world has today outside of Europe exists because our empires don't here anymore.
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  40.  @slackerbarny  The problems in Ukraine didn't start yesterday they started before Ukraine was a nation to and they where under the control of the russian empire but Europe has changed constantly since ww1 really even Europe today is not the same as 30 years ago.
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  41.  @thirdeyeblinking3173  then I would ask how did the world and Europe start changing because of that specially when it comes to eastern Europe the middle east and north Africa the world was totally different then and even Europe was not the same then The First World War saw the Entente Powers, led by France, Russia, the British Empire, and later Italy (from 1915) and the United States (from 1917), defeat the Central Powers, led by the German, Austro-Hungarian, Bulgarian and Ottoman Empires.
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  42. The real shame is not one person in Westminster can remember how good the UK was and us arguing over free health care today affordable housing even services we have given the world since the first industrial revolution with technology around us like the internet that can do such good we didn't have 30 years ago there's something so wrong that's why normal people hurt me at times.
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  43. As a Brit I'm not watching youngsters from all over the world living here or in France growing up like we did the world and Europe even from 30 years ago is to different today for them to be doing things this way today with the technology we have today.
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  44. Just think if migrants and refugees never came here there would not be these problems simple as that and it's not about skin colour or religion look at the problems in Palestine and what they are bringing here. People used to call Enoch Powell a racist and a fascist seems he was right. Never a bright idea to invite people from all around what used to be the British empire here to live which still remained lots of it after ww2 and then Invite a lot of eastern Europeans here to live after the collapse of the soviet Union and the creation of the European Union 30 years ago not that brightest of momentsg
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  45. ​ @edmit2001 even more of an interesting fact laos Cambodia Vietnam all before ww2 was part of the french empire but Thailand never was. Funnily enough the kingdom of Thailand only ended a few years back and has now become a supposed democracy.
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  46.  @jlpetley  that's the thing with the UK I will be honest from our side a lot of that and the french empire still existed after ww2. I don't even like bringing up the history in Europe from ww1 and ww2 but the world has changed since then it's the , 21 st century Moscow and America the European union just need to tell people what's happening what we are going through have turned into over the last 39 years is to soon here today.
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  47.  @elefsis7474  Serbia is another place like that time and history in Europe is to recent for some to forget or history thru want buried only the bad bits remaining without the whole world living here Europe today has its own problems we are to different for thr European union to work
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  48.  @elefsis7474  The aftermath of World War I saw far-reaching and wide-ranging cultural, economic, and social change across Europe, Asia, Africa, and even in areas outside those that were directly involved. Four empires collapsed due to the war, old countries were abolished, new ones were formed, boundaries were redrawn, international organizations were established, and many new and old ideologies took a firm hold in people's minds. Additionally, culture in the nations involved was greatly changed. World War I also had the effect of bringing political transformation to most of the principal parties involved in the conflict,
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  49.  @elefsis7474  I served in Bosnia and Sarajevo and Kosovo what happened in Sarajevo in 1996 was really the end of ww1 that's how crazy it is because it started there one of the reasons
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  50.  @elefsis7474  it's as simple as this of they want to bring peace to Europe now then people need explaining to how the world has changed over the last 100 years now and certainly since ww2 otherwise we carry on empires don't exist anymore but what the world has today does we want an end to these simple problems that can be sorted in Europe now and for people to understand who we beat in ww1 what they have today is because of that specially in the middle east . As for north Africa there views on the west are totally wrong and they are different from the rest of Africa they will have there own reasons for buying history and for people to stop living in the past .this can't ever happen what we are going through again.
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  51. How to cut immigration in the UK send home rishi sinuk and every politician from around the world in Westminster. Let British People represent the UK. We had great big empire 80 years ago look at the mess the UK has become today. Politics has turned into American politics now and a freaky sideshow. We need politicians in Westminster today to tell the world and every migrant and refugee what the UK has given the world today stop People living in a past they have never lived and for people to remember what the UK was like 30 years ago and for people to remember why there elders came to the UK in the first place now
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  52. Why does the government control the past in 1984? The Party wants to control the past because by controlling history and memories, they are able to control their citizens and gain power. At first sight, controlling the past might not seem too important since most people do not think history is crucial to their everyday lives.
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  53. Hard to think rhat America today stems from 13 British colonies that we gave independence 248 years ago on thw Fourth of July in 1776. Just another nation created out of us Brits and western Europeans nations history. If i had a time machine i would stop that revoloutionary war today. All America has become today ànd nations where the British empire used be and those ij western Europe today is a good advert for bringing them back specially the British empire the biggest empire in recorded history.
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  54. We are now arguing about free health care affordable housing things like railways we have given the world since the first industrial Revolution here in the UK. We can't move forward like this in Europe the continent outside of Russia today where the modern world stems from us.
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  55. At least we know whose behind this in the UK now. It's funny America wouldn't even exist without us Brits or in Europe.
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  56. How to cut immigration in the UK send home rishi sinuk and every politician from around the world in Westminster. Let British People represent the UK. We had great big empire 80 years ago look at the mess the UK has become today. Politics has turned into American politics now and a freaky sideshow. We need politicians in Westminster today to tell the world and every migrant and refugee what the UK has given the world today stop People living in a past they have never lived and for people to remember what the UK was like 30 years ago and for people to remember why there elders came to the UK in the first place now
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  57. Make Britain great again make America great again bring back rhe British empire. Last time America was great was in 1775 before some silly European colonials started a revolution and dumped our tea in Boston harbour. America like the rest of the world outside Russia from America to Australia has just become a good case study of bringing our empires back in western Europe today and taking Europe back before ww1 and ww2 when our empires existed in Europe now.
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  58. I love the way migrant's and refugees are running the UK of varying ethnicities and religions all forgetting what the UK was like before the European union and Thatcher and what brought there elders to the UK in the first place while they throw diversity at us true Brits and call us racist and fascist love living in the UK now
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  59. How to cut immigration in the UK send home rishi sinuk and every politician from around the world in Westminster. Let British People represent the UK. We had great big empire 80 years ago look at the mess the UK has become today. Politics has turned into American politics now and a freaky sideshow. We need politicians in Westminster today to tell the world and every migrant and refugee what the UK has given the world today stop People living in a past they have never lived and for people to remember what the UK was like 30 years ago and for people to remember why there elders came to the UK in the first place now
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  60. I love the way migrant's and refugees are running the UK of varying ethnicities and religions all forgetting what the UK was like before the European union and Thatcher and what brought there elders to the UK in the first place while they throw diversity at us true Brits and call us racist and fascist love living in the UK now
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  61. I love the way migrant's and refugees are running the UK of varying ethnicities and religions all forgetting what the UK was like before the European union and Thatcher and what brought there elders to the UK in the first place while they throw diversity at us true Brits and call us racist and fascist love living in the UK now
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  62. Basically all boils down to the UK being privatised since thatched ironically everyone we have voted for since didn't reverse it that's why the healthcare service is in trouble we don't have affordable housing anymore and services like water railway's and industry we have given the world since the first industrial revolution has all been ran into the ground now. I can remember us being asked to give 5 pound a month so they could have water in Africa the world wants to hate on us around the world not to quick to admitt what we have given the world today outside of Russia since ww2 today. Only virus in this world is greed now and people who had nothing not so long ago even living in the UK today suffer from that to now.
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  63. Basically all boils down to the UK being privatised since Thatcher ironically everyone we have voted for since didn't reverse it that's why the healthcare service is in trouble we don't have affordable housing anymore and services like water railway's and industry we have given the world since the first industrial revolution has all been ran into the ground now. I can remember us being asked to give 5 pound a month so they could have water in Africa the world wants to hate on us around the world not to quick to admitt what we have given the world today outside of Russia since ww2 today. Only virus in this world is greed now and people who had nothing not so long ago even living in the UK today suffer from that to now.
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  64.  @m78991234  basically Russia and Europe today is more like America now and going the American way it won't work here in western Europe where it can work across the rest of the world because of things they have taken away from us that actually we gave to the rest of the world today things like water and railways.
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  65.  @m78991234  it's easier to take housing in the UK before 1990 we had council housing we would pay rent to councils government would build them then we would pay rent to councils that was all sold off or people told to take mortgages and got huge discounts on the property now council housing is owned by corporations or built along side housing it's hard explaining the UK to People in Westminster and politicians from all over the world who know what the UK was like not so long ago while we argue over free health care affordable housing even migration none of that was a problem 30 years ago now it all is and anyone over the age of 50 talking about how the UK was or about the British empire today which people are badly educated are just told to shut up now.if they deal with the past right here they will he able to deal with the future better now.
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  66. Why do Brits have to leave Lebanon Lebanon as it is today was created with the help of the French.
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  67. Stop blaming the British and Europe and America for what's happening in Palestine the middle East the Arab world and Islamic nations in the world today and the modern Day middle East wouldn't even exist had we not won ww1. We didn't even Colonise the middle East those we beat in ww1 did.
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  68.  @userNKg11  i literally couldn't care anymore it feels like the nations around the world as new as most of them are can't even take responsibility for there own actions now I shouldn't even be arguing with people all over the world about the UK and western Europe now or the bs here all caused from a past they should have been more honest about after ww2 and how the world is today it's a complete joke where these people from around the world and Europe come from today.
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  69. I mean if it doesn't cure it but only stops the decline what's the point of the drug anyway. Alzheimer's is a cruel disease for the people and carers that need to be treated as full time carers for people in there old age and paid accordingly not money given to nursing homes and people who don't care. It's like prolonging suffering this article is saying and people and big pharma profiting it from again. We have literally turned into America in the UK and Europe with People from all around the world living here and from Europe who don't understand each other now.
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  70. All I want to know is the law system and military really supporting this because this is your nation to that's nothing like it was today 30' years ago now. This is how we should be talking in the UK not watching nations with the greatest history in Europe go down the toilet because of the European union today and people who can't deal with the past right to deal with the future better.
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  71. I'm not a Tommy Robinson I'm a true patriot and that includes everyone living here we need people we can trust in that government and a building that ruled vasts areas of the planet not so long ago to do the right things here now because the world around Europe is better then us now.
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  72. 80 years ago before ww2 the uk had the remains of rhe biggest empire in recorded history. The uk and Europe is nothing like it was 30 years ago. Simple question how has the uk become this mess in 80 year's. London used to be a city that controlled the biggest empire in recorded history including America what have we turned into today.😂😂80 years ago before ww2 the uk had the remains of rhe biggest empire in recorded history. The uk and Europe is nothing like it was 30 years ago. Simple question how has the uk become this mess in 80 year's.
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  73. Even more alarming for Europe before ww1 we was a land of empires we are not today but what the world has today outside of Europe exists instead and millions of people living in Europe and billions across the world have what rhey have today because our empires in Europe don't exist anymore m
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  74. 80 years ago the British had the remains of the biggest empire in recorded history London controlled that empire and people within that empire where all British.
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  75. Can't talk about the British empire today or the empire of Europe. The European union can't work here and won't bury the history of Europe or the middle east over the last 100 years now we don't even talk to Israelis now just Muslims and Arabs .
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  76. Rule Britannia Britannia rules the waves Britain's never never never shall be slaves to the global systems we actually helped create after ww1 and no more our history is going nowhere in the UK .
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  77. The real sad thing is people from British commonwealth nations living here should have been introduced as British and where actually British coming here and did lots for us after ww2 and up to the European union that worked and we was a great nation it's literally like someone has forgotten what the UK was like 30 years ago and even before Brexit and COVID now a great multicultural society.
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  78. I love the way migrant's and refugees are running the UK of varying ethnicities and religions all forgetting what the UK was like before the European union and Thatcher and what brought there elders to the UK in the first place while they throw diversity at us true Brits and call us racist and fascist love living in the UK now
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  79. The European union is no good for no one it's that causing the problems and with many Europeans living here now with different histories when it comes to empire specially in eastern and central Europe it's becoming a mess people don't understand people in the UK from all over the world and we are all guilty of that.
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  80. We talk for everyone not like Tommy Robinson we need to understand each other the world changed Europe changed 30 years ago and we are all different with certainly different views on the European union good people here from all over the world but even without the whole world living here Europe is the problem now they can't expect a united Europe to work this way it all needs honesty they are worried about the past because things have not been done so good over the last 30 years and migration has never been done good into the UK no matter of skin colour and religion we don't know anything about each other.
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  81. Slowly we are becoming the new Israel people from all over the world who came from the British empire and commonwealth are telling me they don't understand what's happening
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  82. I don't even know what's representing the UK anymore all I know is if they had done things differently after ww2 the way the world is today and how far we have come and if the EU was never created we wouldn't be living like this today.
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  83.  @lw1zfog  exactly we need to become United in Europe our own way now put our past and history to bed let nations deal with there own problems here and address the history of Europe here now specially as for some lots of that still existed 30 years ago now..
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  84.  @lw1zfog     exactly we need to become United in Europe our own way now put our past and history to bed let nations deal with there own problems here and address the history of Europe here now specially as for some lots of that still existed 30 years ago now.
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  85. Stop blocking our comments in the UK please. We had the biggest empire in recorded history and the world when empires existed in western Europe is completely different today from what it was before ww1 and ww2.
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  86. I need a voice and very quickly in this country. The world is to different today and people are badly educated when it comes to the creation of the modern world now specially after ww2 my age group I wouldn't trust with a barge poll today and youngster's deserve better then growing up in this.v If they would have been more honest after ww2 the way the world is today if they dealt with the past better they would even be able to deal with the future better today specially here in western Europe. The world was completely different before ww1 and ww2 we have come far we have more in common today then this and people are educated badly in European colonial history and Europe itself in how it's changed over the last 100 years and with technology we have today and a world that can communicate now we shouldn't be moving forward like this.
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  87.  @diorocks5858  exactly but from that kind of past is what people have today because of it and why we have been keeping an eye on the situation. It needs a better education plus Europe has changed to we live in multicultrual societies today to.
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  88.  @diorocks5858  but that effected eastern Europe the middle East north Africa plus we took over the empires we defeated after ww2 just don't go back that far it's a completely different world and after ww2 people where never introduced properly and not everyone is the same or was against us
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  89.  @Sa-lf2ym  don't live in pasts like that if the Moore's where Arabs and not Africans they were colonisers but north Africa is different from the rest of Africa. Not everyone in the ottoman world was against us specially 100 years ago
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  90.  @Sa-lf2ym we have more in common today
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  91. I doubt with a name like gerskovich he's American he even looks like Putins twin brother just stop this cold war b.s. growing up in the UK in the 70s and 80s we have lived this bs before.ett3
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  92. And remember for all these problems around the world them people live here to skin colour religion doesn't define people your not all the same unlike Muslims today like to think they are because of the internet.
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  93.  @KingsguardX  we have turned into the new Israel.
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  94.  @KingsguardX  the great divergence can't be done like this not at the expense of Europe today
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  95.  @KingsguardX  we can't pander to the modern world or anyone living here is true Brits simple as that we don't care about your skin colour and religions we do care after what we have given the world since the first industrial revolution and millions of people living here and billions around the world today simple as that.
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  96. We have had enough of the bs from the middle east after the last 100 years in eueope now It's the 21 st century people in the middle east today all they need to realise they wouldn't have what they have today if it was not for western Europe and America today..
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  97. How to cut immigration in the UK send home rishi sinuk and every politician from around the world in Westminster. Let British People represent the UK. We had great big empire 80 years ago look at the mess the UK has become today. Politics has turned into American politics now and a freaky sideshow. We need politicians in Westminster today to tell the world and every migrant and refugee what the UK has given the world today stop People living in a past they have never lived and for people to remember what the UK was like 30 years ago and for people to remember why there elders came to the UK in the first place now
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  98. This story should read ww2 veteran trys to commit suicide because he can't believe the mess the UK and Europe he fought for has become. On the other hand Israeli politicians with people the same age are trying to keep them alive for the next 600 year's so we can remember the holocaust forever.😂😂😂😂
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  99. I need to know as a brit what we are going through today we are not even allowed to say anything. I apologise for my rants but come on this is no good for anyone
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  100. We had the biggest empire in recorded history given billions of people around the world what they have today even people we beat in ww1 which had a significant effect on the world after and still continues 100 years later in the middle east . We just want peace we can bring it but it needs the truth now I don't want tommy Robinson speaking for us here Nigel farrage is ok we don't need the EU and there screwed up policies but people need educating properly now in how the world has changed since ww1 and ww2 now
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  101.  @Muppet.master  remind Putin and Moscow they are a tiny nation in Europe dealing with a united Europe and a federation that will probably like the west more than them now. As for America remind them who gave them independence and was the revolutionary war the American civil war and the Napoleonic wars really worth it today.
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  102.  @Muppet.master  as a Brit I'm even thinking of going back to America start the British colonial party with the slogan make America great again
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  103.  @Muppet.master  some good European diversity is needed we have had that taken away from us but the world is to different today I'm not against normal people. As for the European union it was a bad idea with our history the way it's not transparent everyone in Europe has a different view open borders what we have turned into in 30: year's and since breixt none of that can work.
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  104.  @Muppet.master  I like America and they have done a lot for the world since ww2 and with help from people from all over the world this interference into Europe and how we changed here after ww2 and across the world needs better education now I would give it it would help deal with the future better here now my age group wherever they come from in the world I don't care for but let's not leave a mess with future generations to deal with later and youngsters today.
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  105.  @Muppet.master  The term "British subject" has several different meanings depending on the time period. Before 1949, it referred to almost all subjects of the British Empire (including the United Kingdom, Dominions, and colonies, but excluding protectorates and protected states). Between 1949 and 1983, the term was synonymous with Commonwealth citizen. Currently, it refers to people possessing a class of British nationality largely granted under limited circumstances to those connected with Ireland or British India born before 1949. Individuals with this nationality are British nationals and Commonwealth citizens, but not British citizens. The status under the current definition does not automatically grant the holder right of abode in the United Kingdom but almost all British subjects do have this entitlement. As of 2024, about 22,700 British subjects hold valid British passports with this status and enjoy consular protection when travelling abroad; fewer than 700 do not have right of abode in the UK.[1] Nationals of this class without right of abode are subject to immigration controls when entering the UK. If they hold no other citizenship, British subjects without right of abode in the UK are effectively stateless, as they are not guaranteed the right to enter the country in which they are nationals.
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  106.  @Muppet.master  plus the world changed after ww1 where who we beat in ww1 that included areas in the middle east but all over the world to had a huge effect on the world at that time but they still have what they have today because of that.
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  107.  @susanboucher2116  I believe consolour protection has to stop it's fine on the internet that's all part of a different system. I believe the truth help's there about Embassy's to its a system that needs explaining but some Embassy's are assholes and it's those not connected to our empire that help refugees mainly ate terrible.
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  108. The UK had the biggest empire in recorded history and lots of that remained after ww2.they need to start educating people on how the world has changed over the last 100 years and how the world was completely different before ww1 and ww2 otherwise the UK and western Europe is creating a future not good for anyone. The people in higher places now have to start listening to this and give some transparency to the world and Europe today.
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  109. That's as simple as that the UK can change all it wants throw people from all around the world to live here they won't escape the fact 80 years ago now the British had the remains of the biggest empire in recorded history that America and Canada was a part of at one stage now.
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  110. Why does the government control the past in 1984? The Party wants to control the past because by controlling history and memories, they are able to control their citizens and gain power. At first sight, controlling the past might not seem too important since most people do not think history is crucial to their everyday lives.
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  111.  @b62boom1  whoever brought these problems to the UK and nations that have been good to people from all over the world and billions of people across the world today in western Europe should have thought twice now the world is totally from before ww1 and ww2 in Europe 30 years ago and a nation like ours that has given the world what it has today since the first industrial revolution They should have done things different after ww2 and making the same mistakes for youngsters today living in the UK and Europe where the modern world around us is in some cases better then us now because they do thing's different needs looking at now.
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  112. What's lizz truss being booed of stage for she only had 56 days in office I don't think she's to blame. I think our problems started after ww2 and then with Thatcher then the European union that no one wants to face has destroyed sovereign nations in Europe 30 years ago for some global/euro vision that has no chance of working now considering our history here now.
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  113.  @clivewilliams3661  the modern world needs more truth things where done badly into Europe after ww2 with the Marshall plan then Europe changed drastically 30 years ago with the collapse of the soviet Union the creation of the European union the collapse of Yugoslavia and the Berlin wall coming down. Plus the world today is nothing like it was before ww2 outside of Europe now it's been to cloak and dagger and this id unfair on everyone living in Europe and the UK now specially with the demographic of the UK and London today a city that controlled the empire which was British all over the world in the colonies and the people there.
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  114.  @neilgodwin6531  well just read it the European union can't speak for everyone here in Europe with our own history let alone the whole world living here to before the European union each nation used to deal with it's own migration mainly from there own regions of where there empires used to be because they are British and french to
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  115.  @neilgodwin6531  what works America and works across Russia can't work here Europe alone is the most diverse continent on the planet and in western Europe the modern world stems from us which people refuse today to see what they have because of It including those living here.
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  116.  @neilgodwin6531  the land of empires that's Europe with the British and french lots of that still existed after ww2
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  117.  @neilgodwin6531  Until 1949, nearly everyone with a close connection to the United Kingdom was called a ‘British subject’. All citizens of Commonwealth countries were collectively referred to as ‘British subjects’ until January 1983. However, this was not an official status for most of them. Since 1983, very few people have qualified as British subjects. But as more nations got created out of what was our empire and those that didn't join the commonwealth that got taken away they need to be more honest with refugees and stop loopholes there a lot of adults my age from around the world where born here to keep them here
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  118.  @neilgodwin6531  I have never been able to get a voice about this and I always knew and know today how the world was charging I could have taken a different path in life but I have nothing today but the UK my home history who we are as people means so much to me and it didn't do me any favours in life plus o have my own personal reasons for doing this now
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  119.  @neilgodwin6531  Israel is a big problem because they are not all the same and come as refugees lots before ww1 those are the problem that stem from that others come from the soviet Union what was happening in eastern Europe they need to speak out.
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  120. The history of Syria covers events which occurred on the territory of the present Syrian Arab Republic and events which occurred in the region of Syria. Throughout ancient times the territory of present Syrian Arab Republic was occupied and ruled by several empires, including the Sumerians, Mitanni, Assyrians, Babylonians, Egyptians, Hittites, Canaanites, Phoenicians, Arameans, Amorites, Persians, Greeks and Romans.[1] Syria is considered to have emerged as an independent country for the first time on 24 October 1945, upon the signing of the United Nations Charter by the Syrian government, effectively ending France's mandate by the League of Nations to "render administrative advice and assistance to the population" of Syria, which came in effect in April 1946.
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  121.  @Check85  and that my friend goes to the whole Islamic and Arab world and anyone else living here who have the cheek to not say anything while we are witnessing race riots here and problems we shouldn't ever be facing in Europe today not with our history alone in Europe let alone with people from all over the world living here today who are allowed to live in the past but when we do no one likes that or what the UK and western Europe has become over the last 30 years Learn from 1930s Germany what happens to nations who are in decline that have empires.
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  122.  @devyanilimaye8560  don't worry the globalists control us now and every politican sat in Westminster including all those from around the world no matter of skin colour or religion are about to feel are wrath they all seem to have forgotten what the UK was like 30 years ago and why there elders came to the UK in the first place. We are not pandering anymore to the modern world that's created out of western European history anymore. Some people need a harsh lesson in what it's like to live here now not diversity and bs being thrown at us and millionaire politicians sat in our government who had nothing not so long ago hiding behind freedoms and liberties we gave them.
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  123.  @marchudson1693  as for Tommy Robinson we are not him we will just give factual accurate history on how the world and Europe has changed since before ww1 and ww2 and us 30 years ago now we can't move forward like this
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  124.  @devyanilimaye8560  there's communities living here specially now eastern Europeans live here I could turn against each other before anyone got to us Brits
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  125.  @devyanilimaye8560  look at the problems in Palestine today they think every Jew Arab and Muslim is the same after 100 years that's why the problems still exist not because what we have done and given people in the middle east today
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  126. People mention ww1 and ww2 well let us Brits mention ww1 when we where allies with Moscow and beat the German empire ottoman empire and central powers in Europe we was called the triple entente and when we carved up there empires to give them what they have today.
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  127. How about we talk about how the world changed after ww1 and ww2 I won't even talk about russian history and how our empires after ww2 have turned into places we go on holiday today or to live like America Australia and Canada to escape the b.s. of living in western Europe we even deal with problems in western Europe that where never created by us and get dragged into your bs today the European union can never work here the world is literally scared of western Europe and the people living here and they come from holocaust and the russian empire and places if crap in eastern Europe to come here and live hahaha yet the world outside of Russia they have today what they have because of us.😂😂😂😂
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  128. Let's keep bringing up ww1 and ww2 our colonial history problems in Palestine which effect eastern Europe a world that was completely different before ww1 and ww2 let Europeans who don't understand each other let alone the whole world living here and with our history alone people like Putin and people in the European union think that's going to magically work in Western Europe 😂😂😂
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  129. I think everyone living here in Europe needs a good education on how the world has changed since ww1 and ww2 now and how Europe changed 30 years ago now otherwise this will carry on and on here.
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  130. We don't want to live in the UK anymore full of people from Eastern Europe and around the world who we don't know anything about and they don't know anything about us anymore. It's Europe that's the problem the land of empire but in western Europe we don't need to bury our history where they come from there problems where always nothing to do with us.
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  131. The strays of Russia and Moscow don't belong here anymore or there problems we have been good to that region of the world for a long time and like everyone else living here today we get no appreciation.
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  132. We don't answer to the EU in Europe anymore or this bs it's the 21 st century we never asked for any of this in Western Europe or what we have turned into in the last 50 years it's gone on centuries here.
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  133. Foitball that was privitised like the rest of the UK then sold of to anyone From around the world who wanted to buy our clubs the nhs nationalised industry affordable housing and anything else that used to make the UK. Football is nothing more then a reflection of whst the uk all over has turned into in the last 30 years which is a corporate driven nation rsn by greed. Its a shame considering we had the remains of a grwat big empire 80 years ago in the uk today and 30 years ago was one of the greatest nations on earth to turn into this mess today and a nation ran by greed and the European Union that duesht care sbout it's own people now or in western Europe. Owned by the globalists.
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  134. The British empire our colonies the people living there where actually British even when they came here a few refugees where here before ww1 but mostly if they came from the British commonwealth before 1983 they should have been introduced as British including Muslim not everyone is the same. Do what we do take away there freedom's and liberties skin colour and religion that makes them look all the same make people assimilate properly now matter of skin colour and religion tell they are British we will get the chameleons out of society now and In Westminster who allowed this now.
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  135. We will get the poison out of our society so they can't use that against us British people from all around the world living here have not caused that it wasn't even this bad in the 70s and 80s
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  136. So we all want to start talking learning about each other and why people from all over the world since before ww1 and ww2 have come here simple as that we know always known
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  137. I love the way migrant's and refugees are running the UK of varying ethnicities and religions all forgetting what the UK was like before the European union and Thatcher and what brought there elders to the UK in the first place while they throw diversity at us true Brits and call us racist and fascist love living in the UK now
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  138. Indian prime minister Pakistani lord mayor of London loads of people from all over the world of different ethnicities running the country and religions still after Brexit COVID the climate crisis migration crisis and everything else going off in the UK song Europe and everyone having there life's impacted by this b.s. everyone thinks this is still normal
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  139.  @slackerbarny  take the problems in the middle easy today that's why we have been there we are not there now and the areas we didn't deal have had warrants issued for there arrest issued by the i.c.c. we was never the problems in the modern world but changing from empire to how ghe world is today if done more honestly after ww2 wouldn't have left the scars itnhas today. It's not my future but seeing the sake mistakes being made and leaving Europe like this now and the UK is ridiculous.
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  140. @slackerbarny  yes and it's true that first sentence. We argue over free health care now affordable housing services industry and institutions we have given the world since the first industrial revolution and get abused for a past the world has benefited from today while the loss of empire in Europe has resulted in the modern world around us today and a history they can throw at us anytime that most people here and around the world have never lived. we was never told we hy the whole world was coming here or how the world was changing or Europe 30 years ago and we are moving forward the same way. I hope someone sees it's wrong now in Westminster now the UK Europe and the world is totally different today and the European union is a big mistake here we need separate nations in Europe making there own decisions now.
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  141. I love the way migrant's and refugees are running the UK of varying ethnicities and religions all forgetting what the UK was like before the European union and Thatcher and what brought there elders to the UK in the first place while they throw diversity at us true Brits and call us racist and fascist love living in the UK now
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  142. Funny how most nations on earth did not exist 100 years ago and most of them didn't exist untill after ww2 when migrants and refugees from all over the world first started coming here and the UK smh Europe and Russia is nothing like it was 30 years ago and none of this technology where we can all communicate across the world today didn't exist either. Our history our colonial history even our history since ww1 and how Europe changed after ww1 and ww2 itself is going no where today it's not about our empires anymore our colonial history even the far left or far right anymore it's about honesty and truth dealing with the past better to deal with the future better here today now.
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  143.  @thirdeyeblinking3173  see it's not about that today and western Europe has similar history and in this world where the British empire was and our colonies they where actually British and the people living there. My point is where did it go to and this wasn't the height of our empire a lot of it had changed before ww1 the British Empire In 1913, 412 million people lived under the control of the British Empire, 23 percent of the world's population at that time. It remains the largest empire in human history and at the peak of its power in 1920, it covered an astonishing 13.71 million square miles - that's close to a quarter of the world's land area.
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  144. How to cut immigration in the UK send home rishi sinuk and every politician from around the world in Westminster. Let British People represent the UK. We had great big empire 80 years ago look at the mess the UK has become today. Politics has turned into American politics now and a freaky sideshow. We need politicians in Westminster today to tell the world and every migrant and refugee what the UK has given the world today stop People living in a past they have never lived and for people to remember what the UK was like 30 years ago and for people to remember why there elders came to the UK in the first place now.
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  145. Hard to think rhat America today stems from 13 British colonies that we gave independence 248 years ago on thw Fourth of July in 1776. Just another nation created out of us Brits and western Europeans nations history. If i had a time machine i would stop that revoloutionary war today. All America has become today ànd nations where the British empire used be and those ij western Europe today is a good advert for bringing them back specially the British empire the biggest empire in recorded history.
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  146. I have plenty to thank the people who came here after ww2 brave people but migration was never done right we was pushed into separate communities British communities and British people true Brits got segregated as we all did and this is the result all the UK and London has become is a nicer version of south Africa now and no wants to face it multiculturalism was supposed to be like this ending up in communities and cities where we don't know about each other.
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  147. Make Britain great again make America great again bring back rhe British empire. Last time America was great was in 1775 before some silly European colonials started a revolution and dumped our tea in Boston harbour. America like the rest of the world outside Russia from America to Australia has just become a good case study of bringing our empires back in western Europe today and taking Europe back before ww1 and ww2 when our empires existed in Europe now.
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  148. I think we should bring back British mandated Palestine and french mandated Syria and Lebanon probably less problems back then before ww2
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  149. Hard to think rhat America today stems from 13 British colonies that we gave independence 248 years ago on thw Fourth of July in 1776. Just another nation created out of us Brits and western Europeans nations history. If i had a time machine i would stop that revoloutionary war today. All America has become today ànd nations where the British empire used be and those ij western Europe today is a good advert for bringing them back specially the British empire the biggest empire in recorded history.
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  150.  @jaydub2546  people need a good education in how the world has changed now it's the 21st century and like it or not the modern world stems from us in western Europe and the world has changed drastically since ww2 and Europe. It's not normal people causing these problems and what was good with multicultural living has highlighted many flaws and things like migration that have been done badly since ww2 alongside education in our colonial history. Time has caught up with everyone.
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  151.  @jaydub2546  it's not just people of colour who have been migrants and refugees lots come here from when nations didn't exist in Europe but empires and kingdoms did and who we beat in ww1 Hasan effect on Europe itself untill 1990 it's the way they do things here that's the problem now not outside of Europe and Russia there life's what they have today even nations to call home now is all ok we want to educate People properly here now because we have more in common today and colonial history to how the world is today needs updating.
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  152. It would be all coming from Israel to if it comes here they have drugged us up enough through mental health failing and the NHS crisis now.
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  153. We don't want migrants and refugees here anymore the world is so different even the reasons for them coming here are not the same and people here need a good education here about how the world has changed since ww1 and ww2 now and about our colonial history and empire in the UK that all over the world was British in a world that was completely different and about the middle East today which would be nothing like it is today had we not won ww1.
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  154. What's the point of the Olympics if your British today. So the world can show us today how better they are then us today at the sports we gave them along with everything else us and western Europe had given the world since the first industrial Revolution..
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  155. How to cut immigration in the UK send home rishi sinuk and every politician from around the world in Westminster. Let British People represent the UK. We had great big empire 80 years ago look at the mess the UK has become today. Politics has turned into American politics now and a freaky sideshow. We need politicians in Westminster today to tell the world and every migrant and refugee what the UK has given the world today stop People living in a past they have never lived and for people to remember what the UK was like 30 years ago and for people to remember why there elders came to the UK in the first place now
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  156. Hard to think America didn't exist untill 1876 and 250 years ago they had a revolution against us Brits which turned our 13 British colonies into America on July 4th 1776 and them 13 British colonies became the 13 original states of America. Canada didn't even exist until 1867 and remained a dominion of the UK untill 1982 I think we should bring back the British empire and the empires of Europe because since they have gone we have left some right numptys in charge of this planet and Europe and they never seem to get on it's the 21st century 😂😂😂..
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  157. Basically all boils down to the UK being privatised since Thatcher ironically everyone we have voted for since didn't reverse it that's why the healthcare service is in trouble we don't have affordable housing anymore and services like water railway's and industry we have given the world since the first industrial revolution has all been ran into the ground now. I can remember us being asked to give 5 pound a month so they could have water in Africa the world wants to hate on us around the world not to quick to admitt what we have given the world today outside of Russia since ww2 today. Only virus in this world is greed now and people who had nothing not so long ago even living in the UK today suffer from that to now.
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  158. So is talking about the British empire and how the world has changed since ww2 and answering people's concerns over the partioning of the middle east Africa India the 13 colonies in America colonisation in Australia and pretty much anywhere else in the world. Deemed as far right because the Austrian painter used to do the same then used migrants from Eastern Europe and that didn't end up good. Just asking because lots of people talk sbout that with us today and now we live in a society full of people from around the world and Europe who don't understand each other or the European union and how Europe changed 30 years ago i think it would be s good time to do so.
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  159. China is not in debt because of it the trouble is the West has invested trillions of dollars into china in the past 30 years it effects us more then them if they want china to work they will have to turn into social housing and make property much cheaper. They need more honesty between east and west now and how the world has changed since ww2 speically outside of Russia and China where our empires in western Europe Today.
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  160. It's well documented the whole of Stonehenge doesn't come from Salisbury it was moved to align with other monuments around the world from our empire
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  161. What's the point of the Olympics if your British today. So the world can show us today how better they are then us today at the sports we gave them along with everything else us and western Europe had given the world since the first industrial Revolution.
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  162.  @Randomguy-kz7sk  we want that stopped being British this British that now and then calling people British when it just to suite things. Some freedoms and liberties we gave people need looking at now because I agree she is British but so was the British empire and the commonwealth and the people living there even before they came here and lots supported us to even under empire specially amongst white Europeans.
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  163. Yes we know your from the USA and in this country and been in Europe since 1950 with Russia. Not probably that best moment America has ever had bringing these problems to Europe with Russia since ww2 thr land of your founding fathers.
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  164. Don't need to work that out the amount of news we see ot Putin and trump in our media.
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  165. But we are so pleased whoever has brought all these problems to the UK it gives us a real good opportunity to talk about how the world has changed since ww2 and Europe over the last 30 years with the collapse of the soviet Union and the creation of the European Union today and the way we went from the biggest empire in recorded history in 80 years or the remains of it to what we are today. See what works in America and Russia will never work here.
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