Brown loses Gurkha vote

[AtW]

Roman legionaries had to complete 25 years' service to get Roman citizenship, back in the day.

Pillaging was one of the tax free job perks back then...

[Turion]

We're gonna get the blame for global warming (We started the industrial revolution, and if we'd not done such a silly thing as to advance mankind in this way, there would be no problem as we'd all (the world) still be living in cess pits lit by candles).

All the affected nations will use that as another excuse for trying to come here.

[AtW]

We're gonna get the blame for global warming

Look, stop playing idiot - opium wars and stuff like that was totally dishonourable bordering on war crime thing, and it wasn't just some rogue officer who did it, it was Govt policy - just how many Chinese got killed by it, millions?

It is great fortune that China is not at war with UK over such events.

The least this country can do is let in natives who helped sustain British empire for so long - it would not have lasted that long without their help.

[swamp]

Pillaging was one of the tax free job perks back then...

True. Legionnaires made a lot of money from selling British slaves.

[Turion]

Look, stop playing idiot - opium wars and stuff like that was totally dishonourable bordering on war crime thing, and it wasn't just some rogue officer who did it, it was Govt policy - just how many Chinese got killed by it, millions?

It is great fortune that China is not at war with UK over such events.

The least this country can do is let in natives who helped sustain British empire for so long - it would not have lasted that long without their help.

The Chinese were complicit in these events. Don't tell me that the locals bigwigs didn't profit. China was weak at the time and all the world p!ssed on them. That was their fault for being weak and corrupt. As for some dying - well it's not stopped their population ballooning to 1.2bill. As for them coming here, why bother when there's large tracts of underpopulated prime land right next to them in Russia for the taking.

[swamp]

The Chinese were complicit in these events. Don't tell me that the locals bigwigs didn't profit. China was weak at the time and all the world p!ssed on them. That was their fault for being weak and corrupt. As for some dying - well it's not stopped their population ballooning to 1.2bill. As for them coming here, why bother when there's large tracts of underpopulated prime land right next to them in Russia for the taking.

Chinese are too scared of the Russians. The Russians won WW2 (in Europe).

[AtW]

The Chinese were complicit in these events.

Excuse me? All the chinese people were taking part in it or just bribed elite?

Feck off - it's one thing to invade country in a fair fight and totally another to use drugs to control the population, that was totally underhand.

why bother when there's large tracts of underpopulated prime land right next to them in Russia for the taking.

That's true, but that's land issue - in terms of revenge they have got pretty big claim here, so STFU and be grateful that former colonies were nice enough to defend British Empire in the time of need.

[AtW]

Chinese are too scared of the Russians. The Russians won WW2 (in Europe).

No they ain't, USSR (Russia) won WW2 in war of attrition by losing more men - this won't work with china since they have like 10 times more men there

[TimberWolf]

A Downing Street spokesman later added: "We've put the country £1.4 trillion in debt, government ministers are chin-deep in sleaze and the cops are beating merry hell out of everyone. We just felt that the obvious next step was to tell thousands of heroic soldiers to go **** themselves."
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/politi...-200904301735/

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[Menelaus]

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Classic.