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  115. The advantaged white middle class were also the people who drew up various 'Race discrimination Act' . Yet these Acts were only to protect only ethnic minorities, you can be as racist as you like to the white working class. Just look at the racist grooming gangs targeting exclusively white working class children who have been allowed to operate for decades and their activities covered up by the white middles classes. Or what about the discrimination at the BBC ? Where they advertise for black only need apply for vacancies. Also in Schools black pupils are singled out for extra help, but not the white counterparts who desperately need this help. It doesn't just end there either, at Universities entrance exams are lowered for black pupils, but not there underprivileged white counterparts. Also a black footballer recently financed scholarships exclusively for fellow black pupils, again Whites are not allowed to benefit. These are all in breach of the 'Race descrimination Act' introduced by middle class whites but of course it only applies to the white working class, not the black beneficiaries of this discrimination. Instead the white working class are denigrated and called 'Gammons' in a derogatory reference to their skin colour, yet it's an imprisonable offence to refer to a black person in the similar devisive term N*gger, which if I even spelt it out here would result in my comment being deleted. Yet you can abuse the white working class all day with 'gammon' and all written in full.
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  819. I think Patton is greatly overrated, mostly due to the inaccurate, but very entertaining, Hollywood film about him starring the great George. C. Scott. In reality Patton first comes to notice in 1942 in North Afica where he takes over from Fredandall after the debacle of the Kaserine pass. However, even with Patton in command he still didn't achieve any of his objectives. Later in Sicily he is charged with protecting Montgomery's left flank while Montys 8th Army pushes the Nazis up the west coast. Yet right at the time Monty sees an opportunity for Patton to advance behind the retreating Germans and cut them off, Patton decides to go in the completely opposite direction while wilfully ignoring all Montys messages. He then captures Palermo on the opposite side of the island far away from the action. Palermo is of no strategic importance and even US General Bradley admitted it was a just waste of time taking it. After allowing the Germans to escape Patton then goes up the only good road on the island to Massina the German embarkation point, but by the time he gets there they have all gone. Though Patton claims he won the 'Race to Messina', despite there being no race. In fact Monty had asked him to take the faster less defended road to Messina in order to get there quicker. While in Sicily Patton had also ordered his soldiers not to take any prisoners and many POW were shot in cold blood. He also attacked two of his own soldiers in a Hostpital who he claimed were cowards. Patton had to be restrained by doctors and other medical staff. After the successful conquest of Sicily, Montgomery was awarded the highest award Eisenhower could bestow on a foreign soldier. While Patton was releaved of his command and put on humdrum duties away from the conflict.
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  1006. The EEC/EU was always a German Nazi plan first put forward in the 1930s as a pan European dictatorship. It was discussed in Rome with Mussolini the fascist leader in 1938 and a conference was held in Berlin in 1941 afterwhich a glossy booklet was produced with a forward by Walter Funk head of the Nazi Reichsbank. The name on the front of this booklet was The Eurospaisch Wirtschafts Gemeinschaft which means European Economic Community. This is exactly the same original name that was used when the EEC came into being in 1957 as are all its aims as laid down in 1941. One of the signatures on the document in Rome in 1957 was none other than Walter Hallstein who had also been in Rome with Hitler in 1938 for the original discussions on establishing the EEC. Hallstein went on to became the EECs first President and in 1973 wrote a book called 'Europe in the Making'. In this book he complains about the vestiges of the democratic process that hindered the development of the EEC and he also suggests using underhand methods of removing them. The current Germany government has now revealed how democracy will be finally abandoned in the current EU and they will take over, just as they have always planned since the 1930s. Lets not forget the Nazi's nor the Fascists were 'right wing' as the Left like to claim, the Nazis were National Socialist and Hitler even stated in his bigraphy Mein Kampt: ' I am a Socialist ' while Mussolini was the former leader of the Italian socialist party, a socialist Politician and also editor of their newspaper Avanti. However, even with all the available evidence you can never convince a fool and meanwhile Britain is no longer the world power it was, thanks to 50 years of EU membership, so unlike before in 1914 or 1938 it could no longer stop them.
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  1286.  @redaug4212  I think you greatly over exaggerate your own knowledge of this subject. Pattons performance in Sicily was pretty abysmal, it was Montgomery's Eighth Amy that did all the hard fighting, fighting the Nazis crack troops, while Patton was engaged in his 'Triumphal Procession' . This is what the Historian John Ellis wrote in: 'Allied Strategy And Tactics WW2' Where he described Pattons march through Sicily as more of a "triumphal procession than an actualy military offensive" he also calls him: "much overated" US Government foreign affairs analyst, and Military Historian Harry Yeide was also highly critical of Pattons invented race to Messina as "risky and bloody" especially the unnecessary amphibious operation at Brolo which he described as Pattons thirst for personal glory. Writing in: Fighting Patton, chapter 8 "Sicily Empty Glory". He wrote that : Leading elements of US troops entered Messina at 7am and escorted the Mayor to a nearby ridge where he official surrender to US General Trusscott ( who unlike Patton was actually a great US Commander). However, Trusscott was instructed to stop any other troops entering. This was just so that Patton could orchestrate his own triumphal entry into the Town later at 10am just as British troops were also arriving. However Omar Bradley who unlike Patton had actually fought all the way there was conspicuous by his absence, why ? Because he was incensed by Pattons un soldierly behaviour, more concerned with feeding his own over inflated ego than the safety of his subordinates. After Sicily, Patton was forced to appologise to the while US first Division, but tried to end it on a high note which fell flat. Colonel Dickson wrote later: "Not a man applauded and the division was dismissed. It faded away in silence to the great embarrassment of its commander and the total chagrin of Patton" Therefore, it seems to me you have watched George C Scott's portrayal in the film 'Patton' so many times you are now convinced that it's a documentary, rather than a very entertaining work of fiction, based loosely on facts.
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  1467. Monty was a great General, the Desert Lion who destroyed the Desert Fox ! Just look at the evidence: After Monty first arrived in North Africa he fought Rommel at the battle of Alam Halfa. However, Monty had not been re-supplied, where as Rommel had. Therefore, when Rommel attacked he had 6 divisions to Monty's 4 but Monty still won. The reason he didn't immediately pursue Rommel was that after the battle he needed re-supplying even more than he did before it. My father served with Monty both in 1939 and the Battle of France as well as North Africa, Sicily and Italy. He had nothing but praise for Monty's leadership, as did all who served under him, in fact his men worshipped him. The American troops and officers arriving in North Africa were green with no combat experience. That's why they were so decisively beaten at the Kasserine pass and why Fredendall was replaced by Patton, who to be frank, wasn't that much better. Montgomery inspired his men, while the vulgar bellicose Patton just bullied them. That's why in Sicily Montgomerys 8th Army did all the fighting against the experienced German defenders and Patton was tasked with defending their left flank. However, when Montgomery saw an opportunity for Patton to advance and encircle the enemy, Patton ignored his messages and instead left the field and retreating to the western coast to attack the lighty defended capital city Palermo, which was of no strategic value what so ever. In this move the possibility to encircle the enemy was lost, as was the possibility to stop their evacuation. Patton later claimed that he had won the 'race to Messina' the demarcation point to italy. However, there was never a race to Messina, there were only two roads and Montgomery was attacking the retreating Nazi's on the eastern coastal road and so he told Patton to take the virtually undefended Western coastal road to Messina. After the victory Montogomery was awarded the highest medal Eisenhower could give him, while Patton was relieved of his command. You asked was Monty overrated ? Not according to those who served with him or indeed his Nazi foes. General Major Von Mellenthin commander of the 9th Panzers Division wrote in his memoirs : 'Montogomerys conduct of the battle can be assessed as...... in the best traditions of British Generalship and strongly reminiscent of Wellingtons Victories' Even Von Ribbentrops chief press spokesman and propagandist Paul Schmidt wrote: 'Rommel lost', above all to a new military commander, who, even as a newcomer was confident of Victory..... Montgomery.'
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  1685.  @frankmueller2781  'Rommels victory in France' ??????? What are you on about? Rommel was only a Panzer tank commander in France in 1940. Gerd Von Rundstedt was the Army Commander who ordered the break through at the Ardennes . Rommel was under his command , but disobeyed orders and out ran his lines and backup. This made him very vulnerable and he nearly got caught by the British at Arras when they attacked and broke through his formations and almost caught him. but they didnt even know who he was and didnt have enough tanks to finish them off. Thats because the Brits were not as well supplied as you claim, in fact the Army had been so underfunded many of their vehicles were commandeered civilian vehicles. Also, if Rommel was such a great General how come Montgomery beat him every time they met ? The first time was at Alam el Halfa when Rommel had 6 division to Montgomery 4 but Montgomery still beat him and Rommel was beaten every single time they met afterwards. Also the British attack at Arras in France 1940 is why the Nazis stopped their advance to the coast, because after Arras they realised being too far ahead of their infantry and supply lines made them vulnerable. It was Von Rundstedt who ordered the halt order and that is what allowed the British to evacuate their troops from Dunkirk. Also in 1940 It was actually the French who were well supplied, but they had been infiltrated and betrayed. Many French believed in Nazism and collaborated with them. In fact, right at the end of the war it was French SS soldiers who were fighting to protect Hitler in the Reichstag. This was just before the Nazis unconditional surrender to Montgomery at Lünburg Heath in 1945. So no, Montgomery couldn't walk on water no one can, that's a Myth. However, he was one of the finest Commander in WW2 as his many triumphs and victories testify.
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  1710. For a start, their is no record of Churchill ever actually saying The 'Soft Underbelly of Europe' Also General Clark was a desk general with no combat experience only organising logictics, but he was a friend of Eisenhower. During the North African campaign he tried to turn the French against the British but to his credit, once Eisenhower found out he removed him from the theatre. Sicily was then invaded and captured in record time, leading to Hitlers main ally Mussolini being deposed a great achievement in itself. Then italy was invaded by Montgomery and the Eighth army in the toe of Italy and he rapidly advanced up the adriatic coast capturing ports and airfields. Then Clarke who had been made Commander if the 5th army landed at Salerno. Unfortunately, Clark decided not to have the normal Naval bombardment and indtead land without one, therefore when the troops landed they were pinned onto the beach and at times it looked like it would fail. Eventually after more reinforcements he did manage to break free and head in land but at a high cost. The Rome debarcle was also Clarks fault, if he had followed Alexanders battle plan, the German 10th Army would have been captured. Instead, he diverted his troops to Rome just for his own personal glory, leaving the 10th Army to escape and live to fight the Eighth army later. He later claimed that he told Alexander he would shoot any 8th Army soldier who tried to enter Rome. This is rather rediculous as about half his 5th Army was made up of Eighth army troops and they actually entered Rome with him. Was he so removed from the actual battle field that he didn't even know what troops he was commanding ? At the end of the day , Italy was a British planned offensive but the troops and equipment were all taken at crucial times of the operation to be used in Normandy, so much so, that the British considers leaving the Americans to fight Normandy on their own and turn Italy into a completely British battle. However, in the end it was decided that it would sour Anglo American relations and so the plan was dropped. Nevertheless, if italy had been a totaly British battle and all the equipment had not been taken at crucial times it would have not only ended the war sooner, but it would have stopped the Russians from expanding their realm if influence so far across Europe and that was exactly why Churchill had planned it. The Americans soon realised that he was right and had to resurrect the Nazis 'Eurospaisch Wirtschafts Gemeinschaft' proposal as a bulwark to contain the Soviets, you will know it better as the European Union.
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  1994. Why do the BBC only seem to give a platform to so many ignorant black 'Historians' instead of the intelligent ones? As well as not understanding the difference between an Army Corps and a corpse, she also states many lies as facts. First/ The British army first recruited black regiment in WW1? Not true! Eight black regiments were recruited in 1794, my ancestor recieved his first commission in one of them, the 8th West Indian regiment in 1798. 2nd/ She claims they were not highly regarded, another lie. General Trigge the Commander in Chief of all West Indian forces, black and white said of the 8th West Indian Regiment: "I have particular satisfaction in being able to add that the 8th West Indian Regiment formed within the last three years..... engaged with a degree of gallantry, and behaved in a manner, that would do honour to any troops" High praise indeed ? 3rd/ She claimed they were not paid the same? Yet In fact, even way back in 1794 they recieved exactly the same wages, clothing and rations as their white counterparts. 4th/ She also claimed none recieved higher rank than Sergeant? So what about Lieutenant Walter Tully of the Middlesex Regiment who was commended for his "gallantry and coolness" by Major General Lawford. He was killed at Bapaume in 1918 and despite the efforts of a white soldier Private Billigham to recover his body, even while under fire, his body was lost. His white commanding officer also wrote to his family a letter of condolence and said his name had been put forward for the Military Cross. Why don't these black BBC 'historians' tell the true story of black history, instead of anti British racist propaganda?
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  2071. @The Wandering Ronin Yes, of course there were far more French soldiers defending France, it was after all their country they were fighting for. The British expeditionary force was only 390,00 strong sent to assist not only France, but Belgium and Holland too, yet all had far larger forces. The French regular army at the time was just under 1million strong with another 5million trained men in reserve. It was considered to be the best European army, and was the largest and best equipped. However, it was very badly run by officers who were either too old or just incompetent, trying to fight the WW2 using outdated WW1 principles. France also suffered from political activists who undermined armament manufacturing by purposefully leaving vital parts missing from equipment including planes and tanks. Therefore, the French were at a disadvantage before a single bullet was fired. I don't understand your accusation of inflating numbers though, I always quote the official figures? If I have used any that you dispute, please alert me to the correct ones. Also Churchill instructed those responsible for the evacuation not to favour British troops, but to take as many French as possible. And let's not forget the troops evacuated further south who were separated from their comrades in the BEF by the German advance. After fighting alongside the French a further 144 171 British, 18,246 French 24,352 Polish, 1,039 Czechs and 163 Belgians were evacuated from Cherbourge etc. However, 68,000 British soldiers died and over 40,000 were still taken prisoner.
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  2725. An Israeli state in Palestine was a long held Zionist plan, not a British one. In 1917 during WWI the British were trying to gain Jewish funding for their war effort and so Lord Balfour wrote a letter to Lord Rothchild a prominent British Jew declairing vaguely British 'favour' for this creation. The actual wording was as follows : 'His Majesties Government will view with favour the establisment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people' However, it also went on to stress that : ' It being clearly understood that nothing will be done to prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non Jewish communities in Palestine.' The Jewish Population in Palestine at this time was tiny, however after WW2 European jewish immigration increased dramatically which the British tried to stop. However, they soon began to realise that now these proposals would never work and after three seperate inquiries concluded that partition was now unfortunately the only solution. The Zionists didn't like this and so zionist terrorists started to attack and murder British troops. After the British mandate ended in 1948 and the UN took over and came to the same conclusions that the British had done. The zionist terrorists attacked hundreds of Palestinian homes and villages murdering men , woman and children. This was the Nakba which created the terrorist state of Isreal. Therefore, It was not the British as is claimed, it was the zionists and when partition was suggested by the UN they attacked the Palestinians before it could be implemented and took over Palestine illegaly, which they have expanded ever since.
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  2991.  @judewarner1536  I have answered your question continuously, and I will answer your latest ones as well. 1/ You can always find people in the past who have held all sorts of opinions. However, in a democracy it's the opinions of the majority that count. 2nd/ the SNP are supposed to be politicians and when politicians agree to abide by rules they can't then change those rules when the result wasn't the one they hoped for. 3/ SNP support is falling so they don't even represent the majority opinion. 4/ In Spain when the Catonians wanted a Referendum on independence it was refused by the Spanish government. The Catolonian Parliament held one anyway and they voted to Leave. The Spanish government then refused to accept the result and hunted down the officials who organised it and jailed them. How different to the way we do things in Britain. 5/ The reason Indepence Referendums are held so far apart it because the political and economic fallout takes decades or more to repair, so it's never a situation to be taken lightly. Especially when the country you want to separate from is so close in so many ways, by cultural, Kinship, economically and historically. There are over 1million Scots living in England alone and many many more who have Scottish ancestry. So a change of Government is no where as much of a change as separating your self from not only your kith and kin, but also your largest trading partner. 6/ However, I believe in Democracy and if the Scots really wanted to leave and not just the SNP , I certainly wouldn't stop them. Though which ever way the vote went, there would still be around 50% of Scots who hated the result.
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  2992.  @judewarner1536  1/ what recent plebecite is this that you are referring to ? 2/ we were taken into the EU illegally by Tory PM Edward Heath in 1972 breaking both his word and our Constitution. We then had to wait 50 years for a vote. In Britian the electorate are the Sovereign power, no PM could refuse to act on their stated opinion. 3/ Yes it is, and in 2014 their opinion was to remain in the UK, so why do you not respect their opinion ? 4/ No, what happened in Biafra, the famine ? 5/ Scots didn't vote to remain in the EU? If you are referring to the Brexit Referendum every single vote counted equaly from all over the UK and the over 1million Scots Brexit votes pushed Brexit over the line . 5/ It's based on the observation of countries that have been devided from their former partners. Ireland joined the EU at the same time as the UK and there flourishing GDP is down to their low business tax rate, which has attracted many huge multinationals to locate there. Nevertheless, it's not as rosy as it seems. First the EU is forcing Ireland to harmonise their rates, will these multinationals remain ? Also Irelands GDP is very deceptive as it's all based on the income of these multinationals and though it does provide good jobs for a few, it also inflates property prices making them too expensive for the average Irish citizen. If these companies were to leave , ireland would be back were it started as prosperity there is an illusion. 6/ the leave vote did not seperate anyone from any thing. Europe is still where it was and we are free to visit it anytime we want to. My own wife is French and often visits her family there. We also travel to many countries in Europe, those in, and those outside the EU dictatorship. Brexit hasn't separated us from our largest trading partner, our largest trading country is the US. However, since Brexit UK trade with the EU is now larger than at at anytime we were members.
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  3116. @Chitown Livingston Patton was a crude, vulgar and violent Nazi sympathiser. Even American General Omar Bradley accused Patton of this as well as "treating his subordinates like morons". But it wasn't just his own men who he treated with such contempt, he did the same with Jewish concentration camp victims who he claimed were sub human and preferred living together in filthy one room accommodation and defecating everywhere they are lower than animals he claimed. This is all revealed in "Patton, the man behind the legend" which was written by an admirer who was shocked by what he discovered. Patton was also implemented in the Biscari massacre, when troops responsible told the court he had ordered them not to take prisoners, this was backed up by the soldiers commanding officer Colonel Cookson who agreed, and went into more detail as to what Patton had told the troops. There was also other cases where the soldier responsible made the same claims, but not against other officers, all against Patton. As to Market Garden Wars are won by the brave and the bold and daring decisions are often necessary and Market garden was a very bold and daring operation the largest airborne assault in history. If it had succeeded it would have ended the war earlier and prevented the Soviets taking Berlin and changing the course of history, saving many lives in the process. Unfortunately, everything that could go wrong, did go wrong. The troops were dropped in 3 stages instead of one due to lack of available planes. The weather was bad, the radios didnt work...... Yet Montgomery is well known for his detailed planning to protect his soldiers as far as possible, but he couldn't control fate. However, dispite this it still achieved 90% of its goals and liberated much of the Netherlands enabling it to be used in the final push to defeat Nazi Germany. As I said previously, both men had bad parts to their character, but for me, Montgomery is by far the better of the two, both as a Commanding officer, and as a man.
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  3426.  @nickdanger3802  In the battle of France the BEF was only playing a supporting role to the French and was the smallest army involved. Yet the Dutch, Belgiums and French were all defeated in rapid time despite all armies being far larger than Britain's small expeditionary force. In fact at the time, France was considered Europes finest and best equipped army, yet they collapsed in weeks. Yes Britains army was machanicalised but only by comandeering tradesmen lorries and other such vehicles. One newly conscripted soldier even found his bakery van in France being used by the Royal Engineers and it even had his delivery notes still hidden under the seat. However, though the British army had been starved of funds and equipment and even though many in France hadn't recieved much training the Germans were still impressed with their performance. After Dunkirk and the planned invasion of Britain a report was drawn up by the IV corps in Bocks 6th Army who had fought the BEF from the Dyle to the coast, it manly concerns technical details and fighting methods but the general verdict it produced informed by it's own experience was that: 'The English soldier was in excellent physical condition. He bore his own wounds with stoical calm. The losses of his own troops he discussed with complete equanimity. He did not complain of hardships. In battle he was tough and dogged, his conviction that England would conquer in the end was unshakable. The English solder has always shown himself to be a fighter of high value. Certainly the Territorial divisions are inferior to the regular troops in training, but where morale is concerned they are their equal. The Englishman took any punishment that came his way. During the fighting IV corps took relatively fewer English prisoners than in engagements with the French or Belgians. On the other hand, casualties on both sides were high.' So the enemy certainly considered the British soldier a tough adversary though when they talk about the 'English' soldier, they of course mean British. Which includes Scots, Welsh and Irish who also fought, though the English are by far the largest country, so made up the majority. As the war progressed the Empire was also involved and soldiers from around the world also joined the fighting .
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  3779. The dark forces of the EU have a history of intrigue and coercion to force Britain to join, and now again to rejoin. In 1972 public opinion was 62% against joining, so Heath, took us in illegally and broke not only his word, but also our Constitution. Many believed Heath was blackmailed into this, due to being a paedophile. Yet only 3 years later in 1975 Harold Wilson held our first ever Referendum to legalise EU membership which was won on a 67% vote to remain. How did public opinion which was so anti EEC/EU in 72 change so far so quickly in only 3 years ? Two reasons have been put forward, first that this massive reversal was only after a massive publicity campaign by all the News papers running pro EU campaigns. Secondly, that all the votes were unusually, not counted locally but centrally, so was their voter fraud to guarantee a yes victory? It would seem there was. We had to wait 50 years for another poll, though all Party's promised one to get votes, but never delivered. The Brexit Referendum was only delivered after the rise of UKIP and this was run democratically, and was the largest vote ever recorded and the result was Brexit ! This stunned the establishment and they did all they could to stop it being delivered, but finally it was, in part at least, but not fully. Now we hear that the dark EU forces are at it again ! Now again championed by many dubious politicians as well as the LBC employed EU stooge O'Bigot as well as our 'popular' anti British Mayor, they must not be allowed to succeed again !
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  5299.  @afrinaut3094  I suppose because you are a black American you only think in terms of black slavery, but all peoples have suffered slavery throughout history, not just black Africans Though the Greeks, Roman's and Egyptions also had black slaves, they like all slave owners, didnt give a hoot what colour they were, as long as they worked hard. Also all slave owners looked down on their slaves what ever their colour, they werent particularly 'anti black'. You could hardly have a slave who you considered to be your equal, even if they were. You would soon find a way to feel superior, just to justify enslaving them. Slavery itself was banned in England in the 12th century. This is the reason that during the American Revolutionary war, black Americans fought on the British side. After the war was lost, these former slaves were taken to Sierra Leon and freed, in what is now the capital city, still called Freetown. Lieutenant Clarkson of the Royal Navy who was instrumental in this, is still today honoured as their Moses, who led them to freedom in the promised land. In 1807 Britain banned the slave trade throughout their Empire. They even had the Royal Navy patrolling the Atlantic to free any slaves found onboard ships crossing from Africa. In the US you had to wait another 60 years, for abolition, though descrimination was still rife in the 1960s. Perhaps this is the reason that you consider slavery to begin and end primarily with black skinned people. Though the white skinned Slavic people might think differently.
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  5421.  @haroldpotter5911  Oh dear Harold, another Remoaner who thinks Brexiteers are so stupid they have to be led and instructed how to vote. However, my opinions on the EU are based on sound facts not hysterical propaganda like you have obviously swallowed. The EU dictatorship was never just a Trading Block, it was designed as a pan European dictatorship by the Nazis in the 1930s. After WW2 and it was finally realised in 1957, we in Britain were told it was 'Common Market' and just a Trading Block, yet this is a provable lie. If you read the Treaty of Rome that set the EEC/EU into motion you will soon realise it was never 'just a trading block'. And though the traitor Heath lied through his teeth telling the electorate that he would never take Britain in against the will of the Sovereign electorate, and that joining would not dilute their Sovereignty, in both cases they were also a lies ! Nevertheless, at the time the electorate were 3 to 1 against joining, so Heath took us in without the approval of the Sovereign electorate and in breach of our Constitution. And after we joined prices rose, not fell because It's just another EU myth that food was cheaper, it most certainly was not. Also there are no food shortages in British supermarkets yet another EU lie. Though goods driver shortages are all over Europe not just in the UK. Do you know why this Is Harold ? It's because the EU makes HGV drivers sit a regular and expensive re- test that they have to pay for themselves. Many of the testers are not half as experienced as the HGV drivers themselves, so many dont bother and so have left the trade. Another example of EU rule making crippling a once thriving industry.
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  5547.  @emcc8598  Mr Draper is not the only person to make these claims, there are others, including Simon Webb the well know author of historical books, who has also doubted the signs authenticity. I explained in my last comment the difference between Provenance and Authenticity and therefore it seems it's you, not Mr Draper who still doesn't seem to know the difference. The London Metropolitan University confirmed it received the photograph in the 1980s, so whether the mocked up, allegation is right or not is irrelevant as there is still no proof it is a genuine photograph of an actual sign. However, it can't be proved catagorically one way or the other its merely anecdotal. I can offer my own personal anecdotal evidence, I was born in London in 1950 and lived much of my life there and I never saw any such sign and so always disputed their existence. Therefore, my own personal experience is probably as valid as the anecdotal case you are pursuing, and its my first hand recollection. I'm am of course fully aware that the Race Equalty report isn't a photograph ????? What I said, is that they used it as part of their evidence, despite it not being proved as ever existing. Also, it is impossible to deny that there are countless examples of people inventing stories to denigrate and destroy British culture and History. Because there are so many and unlike the photograph we are discussing, they are very easy to prove. King Offa is merely one example that can be catagorically proved, that he was not a black African.
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  5563.  @emcc8598  Life was brutal for everyone that wasn't rich in the past all over the world, including in Britain itself the worlds richest country in the world at the time. However, Irish officials destroyed the census data in order to protect privacy and hide personal details from prying eyes so the population for Ireland is not so easy to find. However, by using birth and death records a consensus of the population of Ireland can be gleaned and they do not support your claims. The population of Ireland has remained pretty consistent for centuries. In the 17th century the population was around 3million. After that it rose to around 4.5 million in 1800 and has remained around that figure right up untill today. Though the claim is often made that the population has never recovered from the famine that raged across Europe in the 1840s. It is claimed that the population in 1844 was 8 million yet as I have said the figures are not reliable. Nevertheless, let's accept this figure for the pupose of this debate. If true, the 8million figure is an outlier which has never been achieved before or since. The claim is made that this is because of the brutal treatment by the British, yet after 50 years membership of the EU which many claim to be beneficial to Ireland this figure has never been equalled. So either the British were dreadful brutes, or under their control Irelands population doubled, a feat never to be repeated. Add to this the fact that the Irish have always had the right to live and work in anywhere in Britain and still do to this day. If the British really hated them, would they really grant them such a privaledge ? In the 2011 British census over 6 million Brits claimed Irish descent, would Irish people really move to the country of their oppressor ? You tried to compare the Brits to the Nazi's, but the Jews didn't rush to live in Germany after their brutal treatment, they ran the other way. Yet many Irish have sought refuge in Britain for centuries and are now proud Brits themselves. Therefore, the narrative you are trying to promote is not supported by the facts.
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  5564.  @emcc8598  My detailed reply seems to have disappeared, strangely ????? However, let's try again, the population of Ireland has stood around 4.5 million from the late 18th century onwards and has never fallen as drastically as you claim. Though In 1844 it is claimed the population was 8million, and it is this figure that is used to justify the claim. Yet this figure is an outlier and if true it has only been achived during Brtish administration and yet despite 50 years of EU membership it's never been equalled. Does this mean the EU has been a disaster for Ireland and only under British rule Ireland had its golden era ? You can't have it both ways. Also the plantation of Ulster was under the Scottish Stuart king and most of those who arrived there were Scots, not English. The Scoti people of course, originally came from Ireland and invaded Alba and colonised the whole country even changing its name to Scot- land. Also this brutal image you like to propagate about England is not supported by the facts. The Irish have always had the right to live and work anywhere in Britain which many Irish people have taken the opportunity to do. In the 2011 census over 6 million Brits claim Irish descent, that's around the same as the current Irish population. Would these Irish men and women really go and live in the land of their brutal oppressors and even become Brits themselves? I sincerely doubt it, I certainly cant image a certain persecuted religion setting up home in Germany after they really were brutalised there in the 1930-40s. Yet you have been trying to equate their treatment by the Germans to the Irish treatment by the Brits. But again the actual facts don't support your claims .
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  5700.  @petertrebilco9430  In any democracy you will never get anywhere near 100% voting, or 100% voting on any one subject such as in any one question Referendum. However, it's the majority opinion that wins which is far more democratic than when we joined the EU in 1972. Why? Because Edward Heath promised he would never take the UK into the EEC/EU against the expressed will of the electorate. However, public opinion was 3 to 1 against joining and so the slimy Heath did take us in, against the will of the electorate and breaking our Constitution, he even lied to them about the purpose of the EEC/EU. Claiming that it was only a trading block, a Common Market, and there was no threat to our Sovereignty, again he knowingly lied ! The EEC/EU was always planned to be a pan European dictatorship when it first come to light in 1930s Nazi Germany. Hitler's official visit to Fascist Rome in 1938 contained a delegation who disgussed implementing it with their Italian Fascist counterparts, and back in Berlin in 1941 a conference of leading Nazi academics was established called the Eurospaisch Wirtschafts Gemeinschaft, or European Economic Community in English. Later a glossy booklet was published containing all the speeches and proposals with an enthusiastic forward by Nazi economics minister Walther Funk. Even losing the war did not stop its foundation, as in 1957 when the Treaty of Rome was officially signed to establish the EEC. One of the signatures of this treaty was non other that Nazi lawman Walter Hallstein, who was also at the 1938 Nazi - Fascist conference that first proposed it. Hallstein later went on to become its first President. What was established contained all the Nazi proposal of the 1941 conference and even kept the Nazi name, the EEC. In the 2005 a Referendum was held to decide if the now EU could move on to the next stage of its development, with it's own Constitution, to be a state in it's own right. This Referendum was not held in all EEC countries but of those that did participate, France, Holland and Ireland rejected the treaty, Britain didn't vote. Was this finally a halt to an EU superstar? Oh no, the EU were never going to allow democracy to halt their dreams, so they shuffled the papers around and renamed it the Lisbon Treaty. For conveniently, a mere Treaty doesn't require the publics approval. And so it was finally signed in Rome in 2007, the British Priminister Gordon Brown turned up late hoping to sign it off camera but he was caught sheepishly signing it in a back room, the Nazi plans now seemed unstoppable. Nevertheless, eversince we had been taken in illegally by PM Heath in 1972, their had been a rising demand by the electorate to have a Referendum on our membership and with the rising influence of the anti EU party UKIP, PM David Cameron finally conceded and allowed a EU Referendum to take place. The result was Brexit, though it took 5 years after the Referendum before it was implemented, with many MPs trying to stop it. This subtifuge was again blocked by the electorate, who elected Boris Johnson in 2019 and giving him a commanding majority to finally deliver in 2021 what we had voted for back in 2016. Therefore, you might sniff at our Democracy here in Britain, but at the end of the day, it's the will of the electorate that triumps, not traitorous MPs or lying politicians.
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  5703.  @petertrebilco9430  Yes indeed Peter, 'Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely' That's why we had a civil war and beheaded our king in 1648. However, we still needed a head, so his son was later allowed to return as King, but with greatly reduced powers. Professor Dicey a leading expert on the British Constitution declared that afterwards the electorate became Sovereign, not the King or Parliament, who are only lent Sovereignty by the electorate for five years to govern the Kingdom when it is then returned to the electorate to elect another to govern in their place. Therefore, the term the Crown versus X is merely a tradition term as the Crown is not really involved in the proceedings at all, it's in fact the state that is, and the Crown is only nominally the head of state. Also in England we don't have our own Parliament and haven't since the Scottish King James became King of England uniting the two Crowns in one in 1603 and later in 1707 his son Charles united the two Kingdoms into one state of Great Britain. 'Great' Britain just means the largest or greatest island of the 600 islands that make up the British isles. In fact one of the many problems created by our joining the EU dictatorship, has been devolution, which created seperate Parliaments in Scotland and Wales, but not in England. So we now have a United Kingdom Parliament in England with Scottish, Welsh and Northen Irish MPs all voting on UK wide issues and even some that only effect England. Yet they all have their own Parliament as well, where they have a completely seperate set of MPs exclusively from their own countries passing laws that only affect them. While the largest nation, the English, don't have their own Parliament, it's a crazy situation. In conclusion, though we still have a monarch, she is only a figure head, though a much loved and respected one. And if our Government hides behind her, perhaps it's time to sharpen our axe again and remind them who is really Sovereign, the Electorate!
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  5709.  @FATHOLLYWOODB123  Unfortunately, your comment is very misleading. This is because Irish people themselves are not wealthy as you claim. Irish GDP is only high because you lowered your corporate tax rate and attracted many multinational companies to relocate to Ireland. So it is not owned by the Irish population, it's all in the hands of a few foreign multinationals. However, the EU has now forced the Irish government to harmonise their tax rates by next year, 2023. After which, will these multinationals even remain in Ireland ? Also the Irish language is only spoken regularly by 1.7% of the Irish Republic's population, compared to 99% speaking English. In Northern Ireland, the Irish language is recognised and is spoken by 0.2% of the population as well as 2% speaking Ulster Scots. Therefore none are not recognised as you claimed, in fact a bill to make both official languages on par with English was due to pass through the NI assembly but was held up due to it being suspended. The NI Secretary in Westminster said : if after the elections there was still no Assembly sitting, he would push the bill through the Westminster Parliament instead. Yet in the mainland UK, Gaelic is spoken by 0.5% of Scots in Scotland and even in Cornwall their are around 2,000 speakers of Kernewek and Welsh is spoken by a over 28% of the Welsh population far more than speak Irish in the Irish Republic itself. Yet you claim regional languages are not recognised in the UK where they are thriving, but recognised in Ireland where they are not ?
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  6544.  @cymro6537  England is the largest country by far in Great Britain and when the Germans were planning to invade they planned to invade England first, not Wales or Scotland. There are more people living in London than in the whole of Scotland and Wales combined and that's just one city in England. Therefore of course they had England written on the map, that's where the Germans were invading. Also Vera Lynn was an English singer, singing about her own country. Just as Welsh singers sang about about Wales, and Scottish singers sang about Scotland. But there were also many British patriotic songs sang for us all combined. Of course a family talking about their currency called it English currency it says it's from the Bank of England on the notes. But again if they had been Welsh or Scots they would have called it after their own country where they use it. In fact Scottish money has it written on it too, just as it does on English money. Nevertheless, the term Sterling is also English and comes from the Old English word 'Stiere' which means, Strong, Firm, Immovable. Also the St George's flag was introduced by the Norman's it's hardly English. We don't even have Saints in the Anglican religion even when that religion was dominant. The original pre Norman English flag was more like the Welsh flag but consisted of a white dragon on a red background and was flown by King Harold when he defeated the Norse army at the battle of Stanford Bridge in 1066 before the battle of Hastings.
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  6556.  @bigwoody4704  You've been watching too many Hollywood films Woody ! That's where the Patton myth was made, not on the battlefield, where the reality was far different. Palermo was of no strategic importance at all and Patton was supposed to be protecting Montys Left flank. But instead he was off on a romp to Palermo and when Monty saw an opportunity for Patton to trap the retreating Germans he was fighting, Patton ignored the message and went in the opposite direction instead, setting him self up in the Norman palace in Palermo and the opportunity was lost. As to Messina Patton forces were on the east coast where the only open road to Messina ran. While Monty was on the opposite coast fighting the crack German troops who were destroying the Bridges and roads as they retreated. So again, Monty told Patton to take the clear road and get to Messina quickly which the Americans did, but Patton halted them outside the town and told them not to enter untill he got there, he then arrived and made his triumphant entry and proclaimed he had had 'won the race to Messina'. However, there was no race, Monty had told him to take it, because he had the only clear road with no opposition and yet despite that he only entered Messina 20mins before the Brits who had fought a hard fight all up the coast against the crack German troops. Pattons fame is built on a myth that doesn't fit the actualy facts, Truscott was a far better American General, but then no one made a Hollywood film about him. At the end of the Sicily campaign Eisenhower awarded Montgomery the highest American military award that can be stowed upon a foreign soldier, while Patton was relieved of duty and sent back behind the lines in disgrace. Therefore, the actual facts paint a far different story than Hollywood. George. C. Scott was a far better actor than Patton was a General.
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  6886. @UCxDy_sKBWsPGjW2PaB7EdCA Perhaps you should take your own advice and not base you own view of history all on the song: 'The Fields of Athenry,' as good a song as it may be. Sir Charles Trevelyan was a cornish man therefore from the same stock as the Irish themselves, so it's hard to judge him as an anti Irish racist, and there is no evidence to suggest he was. He was also the son of a clergyman. Therefore, in a time of god fearing reverence a clergymans son would attribute many natural phenomena to 'Gods Will'. However, Trevelyan was not a politician he was a civil servant who saw his role as reducing corruption from those claiming famine relief. These rules had been instigated by Trevelyan after he had uncovered corruption amongst his superiors in India while serving there. Therefore he felt it was his duty to observe his new procedures very rigidly so that this sort of corruption could not be be repeated. However, once he realised the severity of the situation he showed impressive leadership organising soup kitchens that fed up to 3million people and was rightly praised at the time. Especially for his impressive work ethic, working from very early in the morning, conducting not only his regular duties but devoting much more time dealing with what he called and was aware was an 'Irish crisis' . Therefore, as a civil servant Trevelyan can't be held totally responsible for the measures instigated by the Whig government and what he did do to help the starving was certainly praiseworthy, but unfortunately, it wasn't enough. However, the famine was unprecedented and the British Government just like their European counterparts who all lacked an adequate response, particularly in the early days. Nevertheless, all this is forgotten, and it becomes solely an Irish famine, no doubt so that the British can be held responsible.
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  6961. Some Irish nationalist have a rather racist attitude to the English who they blame for all their problems despite being a free self governing country for over 100 years. Yet these same 'Englishmen' who they complain owned all the landed estates in Ireland also owned most of the land in England and were in fact descended from the Norman Invaders there. In fact 75% of land in England is STILL owned by them even today. Though many of the great landed estates in Ireland owned by Protestant absentees were in Ulster and the east of Ireland and not all of these men were grasping landlords. For example, the Marquess of Rockingham who owned vast estates in Wicklow - was a caring man who did his best for his Irish tenants. However, in contrast the Norman's who invaded England really did commit genocide, during the 'Harrowing of the North' they murdered all males, including male children and destroyed their homes and villages, burnt their crops and salted the land making it infertile. This led to the remaining 25% left alive now homeless and starving desperatly searching for food and shelter during a bitter winter. Contemporary writer, John of Worcester, reported that food was so scarce that people were reduced to eating not just horses, dogs and cats but also the human flesh or their dying countrymen. Nothing like this happened in Ireland, in contrast they were given £millions by both the British Government and by British Charities. While in England in the 12th century there was no help at all and this led to hundreds of thousands of deaths of the remaining families in a larger proportion of the total English population of only 2million than in Ireland during the Hungry Forties. This left the North of England in particular a desolate unpopulated wilderness which took generations to recover. Yet despite such brutality and a real intended genocide you don't hear the English still whingeing about it hundreds of years later.
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  7264.  @chrissmith2114  Honda began making motorcycles in 1949 and cars in 1963 and over the years gained a very good reputation in engine design and manufacturing. In 1959 they became the worlds largest motorcycle manufacturer eclipsing the British BSA company. Rover began making bicycles in 1885 when they invented the worlds first modern bicycle. That design is still universally copied all over the world. So synonymous is the name Rover to the bicycle that we know today, that it is the word for bicycle in many countries across the world. In 1899 they fitted a small combustion engine to one of their bicycles and created the first Rover motorcycle selling over 10,000 before production ceased to concentrate on car production which began in 1888 with a prototype for an electric car. A two seater Rover 8 followed in 1901. In early 1940s Frank Whittle the inventor of the jet engine approached Rover to build his engines which they did but after developing there own handed over the Whittle jet designs to Rolls Royce in exchange for RR Meteor tank engine manufacturing. Later in 1950 Rover produced Jet1 the world first jet powered car, which later went onto become the BRM jet powered racing car. In the late 1940s they designed the Land Rover and this became their biggest selling vehicle and is still manufactured today. In 1967 Rover became part of British Leyland and this was the start of a downhill spiral for all the companies involved including Rover. British Leylands first venture with Honda was the Triumph acclaim in 1981 when the began manufacturing the Honda Ballade under the Triumph name. In 1990 after being taken under the ownership of the Government Rover took a 20% share in Honda and Honda a 20% share in Rover and together they designed and developed the 200 for Rover and the Concerto for Honda. The 200 also was used as a basis for the Rover 400. All these cars including the Hondas were build by Rover at their plant at Longbridge. This deal worked well for both companies. However after Rover was sold by the Government to British Airspace they were asset stripped and then sold on to BMW who did the same before breaking up the company and leaving the rump of Rover to struggle on into bankruptcy. I've owned many Rovers including those with the award winning Rover K series engines and I've never had a head gasket go in any of them. Many other manufacturers fitted Rover K series engines to their cars including Lotus who approached BMW asking if they could developed the engine further yet BMW surprisingly refused. This was a stark indication of BMWs malign intentions towards Rover.
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  7375.  Richard Harrold  The R30 was not based on a scaled down 75 it was a completely new design produced at Gaydon headed by Richard Woolley. You are confusing the R30 with the plans of the later Pheonix 4 MG Rover company trying to produce a new model cheaply by using parts they already had. However, the R30 was before this and under BMW ownership. It was to be produced at Longbridge after a £2billion investment which the British government contributed £152million. Also it was to be fitted with a new generation NG 4 cylinder engine to be built at Hams Hall Birmingham not the front wheel drive K series. Rover had also been experimenting with designing a crash structure for this car for an inline engine as they had with the 75 previously. The Pheonix 4 even produced an inline MG on the Rover 75 platform. Lets not forget many Rovers from the past had been inline, front wheel drive was a fairly new innovation for Rover probably carried over from Austin. The R30 project was also very advanced and approaching production when BMW split Rover apart and sold the company in seperate pieces. The R30 was offered to other manufactures including the Chinese but no deal materialised. There was even a prototype produced that disappeared into BMWs headquarters in Munich and if you look at the R30 and the Series 1 they are the same from the A post backwards. BMW have never confirmed the two cars are related but it's very likely that they are. BMW would certainly not have wanted to waste all the development costs on an excellent design that was up and running.
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  7378.  Richard Harrold  No they were not all badge engineered Honda's, only the earlier cars under Austin Rover. Starting with the Triumph acclaim in 1981 leading to the 1st 200 series 1984-89. The later 200 series was based on a platform jointly developed with Honda and all cars Honda and Rovers were built at Rovers plant at Longbridge. Also after 1986 the company had become the Rover group and had designed the 800 series in a joint venture with Honda, designing completely distinct Rover and Honda versions. Followed by the 400 series in 1990 on the same jointly developed R8 platform. Unfortunately, after BMW took over Rover, Honda understandably, no longer wanted to fully collaborate and so the 400 second series became more Honda with Rover only able to tweak the design. Though they did create the successful 4 door saloon version seperately. The BMW takeover of Rover ended a very fruitful collaboration for both companies and would lead to Rovers eventual demise. Nevertheless, the Rover 75 was already in its fully engineered design stages and BMW did envisage building it on there 5series platform but reverted to Rovers own front wheel drive platform called the R40 though they insisted it was positioned between existing BMW models so as not to be competition to them. The only BMW legacy was a version of their Z axle tear suspension. The Rover 75 was all designed in house at Rovers and this was confirmed by the BMW CEO, Bernd Pischetsrieder, though you seem to think you know more than he did ! The design was started by Rovers in house designers Gordon Skeg and finalised by Geoff Upex.
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  7383.  @yermanoffthetelly  Unionist parties have by far the largest share of the votes in NI, and they are all against the protocol. Therefore, you would have thought that the anti democratic EU zealots there, would have got that memo by now. Treason May first negotiated the backstop as part of the EU Withdrawal Treaty but it was rejected three times by our elected Parliament. When Boris became MP in July 2019 he tried to address the main concerns of MPs and remove the controversial Backstop, however the EU refused. In October 2019 he put forward yet another solution but this was also rejected by the EU. Later in October Boris opened discussions with Irish PM Leo Varadkar to solve the problems which resulted in the talks resuming with the EU. These new talks with the EU finally led to an agreement and Britain was finally able to implement the wishes of their Sovereign electorate and leave the EU. Therefore, this protocol was more about the EU getting it's own way than Boris. Nevertheless, it is also subject to the continued acceptance of the NI electorate and this can only be obtained by the votes of the NI Assemble. Unfortunately, the largest parties, the Unionists will not reconvene the Assembly with the protocol in place. Therefore, it is our new Government under Lizz Truss to sort out the problem before the Assembly can sit and proper democracy can resume there, and the MPs can vote. When this EU imposed protocol is finally voted on, it looks very likely it will be rejected by NI MPs.
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