“Dear Britain, we envy you”

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Dude, there’s only one ship sinking and that’s Britain.

Getting one matter correct compared to everything else wrong won’t keep you aflaot.

@ponderable said

I personally am not envious of the British.

Not even of our stiff upper lips and sturdy umbrellas?

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Why would you couch it in Brexit terms though? Brexit is done, it’s over.
It’ll be a neat trick for the tories if they can hide their monumental screw ups and corruption under the bodies of Europeans who have died but I cannot see us letting them do that.
I’m also pretty sure if we were still in the EU we would have ordered our own vaccines anyway. So it’s hardly a silver lining story for Brexit.
It’s simply the story of the EU being to big to administer without closer unification and a handing over of powers from its constituent governments, either that or a bit of honesty from those governments about what they want the EU to be.

@kevcvs57 said
Why would you couch it in Brexit terms though? Brexit is done, it’s over.
It’ll be a neat trick for the tories if they can hide their monumental screw ups and corruption under the bodies of Europeans who have died but I cannot see us letting them do that.
I’m also pretty sure if we were still in the EU we would have ordered our own vaccines anyway. So it’s hardly a silver ...[text shortened]... vernments, either that or a bit of honesty from those governments about what they want the EU to be.

Ah Kev mate, let the poms shine and have a little glory. They are a grey lot and they need a little sunshine now and again.

@kmax87 said
Ah Kev mate, let the poms shine and have a little glory. They are a grey lot and they need a little sunshine now and again.

Your spot on with your description Kmax, I am a Pom and grey and definitely need a little sunshine.
I am impressed with the vaccine roll out and the furlough scheme, I just think it’s possible to celebrate these things without blowing raspberries at neighbours who will have to wait a little longer for a life saving vaccine because someone somewhere miscalculated, we’ve all got idiots running things.

@kevcvs57 said
Your spot on with your description Kmax, I am a Pom and grey and definitely need a little sunshine.
I am impressed with the vaccine roll out and the furlough scheme, I just think it’s possible to celebrate these things without blowing raspberries at neighbours who will have to wait a little longer for a life saving vaccine because someone somewhere miscalculated, we’ve all got idiots running things.

Yes I totally understand where you are coming from. It's a dangerous game bragging in the face of another's misfortune. It tempts fate and hubris can be a very unkind master.

BTW how come I'm under the impression you were an Aussie?

@kevcvs57 said
Your spot on with your description Kmax, I am a Pom and grey and definitely need a little sunshine.
I am impressed with the vaccine roll out and the furlough scheme, I just think it’s possible to celebrate these things without blowing raspberries at neighbours who will have to wait a little longer for a life saving vaccine because someone somewhere miscalculated, we’ve all got idiots running things.

Kev,
You're right.

We have idiots running things here too.

But there is a light at the end of the tunnel now.
With 3 or 4 vaccines on the way and some already rolled out.

I await my turn and hope you have your turn also.

Let us be kind to each other and wish each other well.

We are all stronger together as decent human beings.

Forget politics.
I know there are lots here that would like to see Britain sink beneath the Irish sea.

But the wars over boys.
I cannot hold you or Divegeester responsible for taking all our food in 1845 and I can't hold you responsible for shooting our independence leaders in 1916.

We must move forward and stretch arms across the sea.

We can be better together.

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Divegeester replied to Instantkarma777.

"nobody here gives a flying f*** about the British empire."
--Divegeester

The Argentinians (Malvinas) and Spanish (Gibraltar) feel differently.

@duchess64 said
Divegeester replied to Instantkarma777.

"nobody here gives a flying f*** about the British empire."
--Divegeester

The Argentinians (Malvinas) and Spanish (Gibraltar) feel differently.

Listen Duchesses,
Do not sow the seeds of enmity.

No country has had more trouble with England than Ireland.

But the war is over. We must strive now to move forward progressively together.

It's in all our interests.

I'm pretty sure that Divegeester wasn't on that submarine that sunk the General Belgrano.

Let it go.