reply to post by IAF101
Apologies to Rich23, I should know better but I can not just let IAF101 spout his lies and anti-UK nonsense without reply.
Have you never heard of the Industrial Revolution?
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The Industrial Revolution is generally regarded as one the most significant events in man's evolution.
You talk of slavery.
Slavery is a very old practice and has been practiced in amny sultures and societies through the centuries, particularly in Africa where it it was
common place.
The slave trade to the US relied on Americans wanting to exploit black people by owning them and paying them nothing and just providing survival
amounts of sustinence.
If Americans had not been so unscrupulous then maybe it would not have been such a common practice.
Your refusal to accept any responsibility for it yourselves is wuite pitiful.
In fact the UK took the lead in abolishing slavery and was considered quite liberal and forward thinking by the morals and standards of the day.
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Your own form of government and your legal system is based on English and French democracy and UK Law.
A good guide on The British Constitution and our electoral and government process is here;
www.historylearningsite.co.uk...
You will see that since 1201 the British monarchy lost more and more power until they became what they are today, a ceremonial decadence with no power
and little influence.
As for pledging allegiance to our Queen.
Only upon joining The Armed Forces.
Those of us born here need never pledge allegiance to the monarchy if we choose; I personally have never done so and have never even been asked to.
Of course new citizens pledge allegiance to something, so why not our traditional figurehead, because that's all she is.
American's pledge allegiance to a flag, an inaminate object!
How bizarre is that in the 21st Century??
And to quote a terrorist as supporting evidence of people refusing to pledge allegiance????
They are MP's.
It is merely traditional and ceremonial.
The Queen has no power whatsover and so little influence it is laughable.
Television.
John Logie Baird, Scotsman, London, 1925.
en.wikipedia.org...
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Internet.
Tim Berners-Lee turned the WorldWideWeb into reality.
An Englishman...in America.
The airplane.
Definately American.
We could probably bandy inventions to each other all day long, the truth is that most technological advancements are a development from other
inventions or new adaptions.
Britain has contributed massively to the technological development of mankind, so has the US, to suggest anything other is ridiculous and the
arguement is slightly juvenile to be perfectly honest!
You express disgust at the achievements of The British Empire.
Yes, some horrific things occurred, but no worse than what other countries committed.
You judge yesterday's actions using today's morals, a terrible mistake.
The British advanced their Empire to such an extent because they exported structure and order.
Some colonies desire a return to such days instead of the inherent corruption and poltical repression they now have to endure.
And let's compare The British Empire with one of their biggest foe's of the day...The Spanish Empire.
Let's look at how they treat their subjects in Central and Southern America.
They decimated whole cultures and peoples.
The British tried to involve and utilise local peoples, they knew they could not administer an empire of that size without local involvement.
So why the singling out of Britain?
And as for Americans.
Your treatment of Native Americans can hardly be described as benevolent and honourable.
Let he without sin and people in glasshouses springs to mind.
Social inequalities.
Oh yes we have quite a few.
But no more than the US where the extremes are probably worse.
The US is as class cultured as the UK, maybe even more so.
The British Royal family are an outdated phenomonon but they do no harm, have absolutely no power whatsoever and very little influence.
Why foreign nationals should get so wound up over them and their role is quite beyond me.
They are quaint reminders of days of yore and a perfect example of the dangers of inter-breeding.
There are much bigger fish to fry than these idiots.
The enemy we all face, and always, are sly and devious and would never be so public as a royal family in this day and age.
They have retreated into the shadows but the strings that they pull in their efforts to control each and everyone of us are long and tangled.
They are the people we should root out and vent our spleen at.
Trading 'we are better than you' insults over the internet simply detracts from them and their activities and is, well, quite frankly pretty
pathetic!
