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As there is no historical record of any empire doing less than accreting power, influence and land, and the EU is an Empire that in reality is the Fourth Reich, it suggests this view of a United Ireland is probably correct. It would also suit the many Irish nationalists, e.g. Sinn Fein, who have wanted a United Ireland since 1917.
That said, what evidence reveals that the UK has become the United Kingdom of the regions under the EU, or diminishing that to Britain?
JR
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I think we should be in no doubt that Varadkar and the blue suits in Brussels with their NGO masters do want to add a United Ireland, the island of Ireland, to their Empire eventually. There are talks and manoeuvrings gong on towards the Border Poll now. Any Brexit deal agreed to will have to leave the option open for them to achieve that objective easily in the future, that is why the hard border subject is so important to the EU.
Previous power of Great Britain is broken down, under the EU we became the United Kingdom of the regions, now we are referred to as Britain.
Kate
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There's a strange amalgam in Ken's email, which I'll try to put into perspective.
The EU is an empire, led by the current emperor, Jean Claude Drunker, sorry Junker, and his council, the EU Commission, produce the policies then rubber stamped by courtiers, the EU parliament. I cannot think of any empire in history that has not attempted to increment its power and increase its land. That is why Macron et al are making Brexit so difficult.
England, is not only the oldest nation is Europe, it predates France by about 700 years, it also has the oldest Parliament. France, a nation since the C15th, but outlines of the country originated with the efforts of Louis IX, Saint Louis, to bring to heel the major barons into a united country. However, there are still significant influences that pull against the centre, i.e. Paris. In the South its the remnants of the Visigoths and Romans and, in the north, it's the Northmen.
The Northmen, as Sonya correctly observes, were Vikings, blown to France by the North Wind from Britain. In 911 Rollo the First Duke of Normandy was ceded the Cotentin Peninsula by the then Count of Paris. William of Normandy, Guillaume le Batardes in common parlance, was his descendant. William was, in fact, the mightiest of all the French Barons.
However, it is Buonaparte, who created the Academie Francaise, who created a common language and with that the homogeneity that is France today.
J
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Hi Folks. Demographics is a fascinating subject even to take a little interest in. Normandy is so named because of the Norsemen who settled there as most of you
will know. These seafarers got all over the place; Iceland, Greenland, The North American Continent into the Mediterranean and they invaded down through Russia
and the Ukraine. The peoples of Scandinavian countries as a whole were, in the past, always going off to somewhere. That may be where we Brits got our seafaring
ambitions from; it’s in our blood and psychic. Also, we Brits have many kinds of national blood groups in us.
This will surprise most of you. I have just asked Google; ‘how many North American indigenous people settled in the UK in all of history?’ Answer 177,000!
I knew some had, but I thought that it was in 15,000+ bracket. Well that answer surprised me also. Has anyone out there ever had an urge to build a totem pole or take
to living in a wigwam/tepee? Ken.
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Hello Ken et al
Yes, it says something, doesn't it, that nations have to be threatened to stay in the EU. As to the French, I remember being told by a Tower of London Guard that the 'Normans' were descendants of 'Northmen' who had intermarried with the French for 100 years, but if they had been completely French we Englishmen would have beaten them hollow at Hastings!
BTW, I recently found a large paperback book at a Charity shop entitled: '1000 Years of Annoying the French' by Stephen Clarke which I am looking forward to reading.
Sonya
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Hello Folks. The news this morning about the French President, Macron wanting to deter other countries from leaving the EU puzzles me.
‘IF’! the EU is such a wonderful set up to be a member of; Why should countries have to be deterred from leaving it??? WHY INDEED doesn’t Macron, Merkel,
Barnier, Juncker and Co wish we ‘silly British fools’ for leaving the EU, the best of our ‘Silly British Luck’ and hurry us to the ‘Proverbial Door’ and wish us bon voyage???
Am I missing something?
Anyway, French thinking in particular, always has been back to front. That is why this nation in the past for 100s of years has always beaten the French across the World,
both in empire building and on their own ground, thus preventing them from conquering Europe by force of arms. I have in mind, Henry V at Agincourt,
John Churchill, at Blenheim etc, etc and Wellington at Waterloo etc, etc. and many other historical events. All these events occurred when the French nation was 3½ times
bigger than England’s population.
The 1066 invasion was led by Norsemen and also all kinds of demographic movements of peoples were occurring after the Romans left in 410 for about 700 years and the
UK did not exist as a kingdom at that time anyway. Sorry to have digressed. Ken.
