Originally posted by _V_
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Nothing here about the British sending warships to the former French channel islands?
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Originally posted by SueEllen View Post
Helps if they had been part of the EU in the first place......
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Originally posted by _V_ View PostMaybe the EU could bribe every Channel Islander into voting to join France and the EU?Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.Comment
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Originally posted by vetran View Post
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Originally posted by Whorty View Post
I beg to differAlways forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.Comment
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Originally posted by vetran View Post
Or you could say it was stolen from the migrating Africans via Spain. Who arrived 950,000 years ago.
Or the Angles that give England its name.
Or the Romans?
Maybe the Dinosaurs have a claim?
Key thing is what do the current population want to be (in my opinion).
The Falklands want to be British as do those on Jersey.
All this pouting about the Malvinas is like the UK suggesting we recapture India.
*My point wasn’t about self-determination. I pinched that comment from a Jersey person who pointed that out when I went on holiday there."I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
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Originally posted by cojak View Post
Now that’s a rather stupid rebuttal of a simple statement*. The Conquest altered the course of the English nation. Lizzie still has the title Duke of Normandy.
*My point wasn’t about self-determination. I pinched that comment from a Jersey person who pointed that out when I went on holiday there.
All of the changes altered the course of the nation, we could be talking Norse, Italian, Spanish or French now and Larry Grayson could have the title of Grand Inquisitor.
By the way my joke about Calais was a nod to the ownership going back & forth.Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.Comment
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