Reply to: EU negotiators agreed the location to sign Brexit deal - forest of Compiègne

[AtW]

Some people are too old so for them 1 year as a volunteer would do.

3 years - making ammo in a local factory...

[SueEllen]

The test was indeed stupid - basically test of memory, small book to buy and all answers there.

A better test would be to serve 1 year in the British Army.

Some people are too old so for them 1 year as a volunteer would do.

[darmstadt]

Mind you, the Swiss one sounds like a bit of a palaver: https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...resident-fails

[AtW]

The citizenship test is ludicrous.

The test was indeed stupid - basically test of memory, small book to buy and all answers there.

A better test would be to serve 1 year in the British Army.

[darmstadt]

The citizenship test is ludicrous. We should be checking that people understand our major laws and believe in our core principles, not asking daft questions about who built the Tower of London etc.

One test for all makes no sense either. They should vary according to where people come from, focusing on any major differences of laws and cultures from our own.

Bit like the German one I took then...

[AtW]

you know that was satire don't you? Very clever satire.

Yes very clever satire, which was actually saying the obvious truth.

[sasguru]

Public sector pay squeeze will continue.
Combined with negative Brexit effects, that will mean Corbyn will get in.
History will judge that the Brexit vote set off the acceleration of the end of a once great county.

HTH, BIKIW

[xoggoth]

The citizenship test is ludicrous. We should be checking that people understand our major laws and believe in our core principles, not asking daft questions about who built the Tower of London etc.

One test for all makes no sense either. They should vary according to where people come from, focusing on any major differences of laws and cultures from our own.

[shaunbhoy]

We didn't have to do that test to get British citizenship hence loads of British people know feck all about History.

Most of the older generation, you know, those that the Grauniad tells you were the majority of those that voted LEAVE, actually did compulsory history at school.

Back in those day, you see, it was not considered sacrilegious to be taught about British history, warts and all.

Once it became trendy to study "Media" and "Humanities" and "Drama" instead, all semblance of pride in our national identity began to drift away.

That also might explain why so many of the millenials voted REMAIN. Blinkered philistine pig-ignorance of their country's past.

HTH

[vetran]

This bit

you know that was satire don't you? Very clever satire.

[AtW]

We didn't have to do that test to get British citizenship hence loads of British people know feck all about History.

One of the two questions that I had wrong in the test was %-tage of Catholics in the UK

[AtW]

which bit do you think you know better?

This bit

[vetran]

Jesus Christ

First gen immigrant knows better British history

which bit do you think you know better?

[SueEllen]

Jesus Christ

First gen immigrant knows better British history

We didn't have to do that test to get British citizenship hence loads of British people know feck all about History.

[BlasterBates]

EU humiliates the UK

EU diplomats have hit out at Britain’s failure to agree it must pay a hefty financial settlement for Brexit, suggesting the controversy will “stall” the talks.