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Re: Is Brexit a religion?

I'm sure it's a religion to some folk on this forum. They talk about nothing else with their preaching!
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16-04-2019, 05:54 PM
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Re: Is Brexit a religion?

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If religion is opium for the people, brexit certainly fits the bill.

You certainly seem to be addicted.
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16-04-2019, 07:02 PM
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You certainly seem to be addicted.
I dread the day you leave. Say, in a year or two?
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22-04-2019, 06:47 PM
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Re: Is Brexit a religion?

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I'm sure it's a religion to some folk on this forum. They talk about nothing else with their preaching!
Just watching reports from sri lanka, where religion was at work. Brought back to memory scenes from northern ireland, but also of london. Wondering whether the return of such things really is a price worth to pay for brexit.
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25-04-2019, 06:01 PM
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Re: Is Brexit a religion?

Originally Posted by Solasch ->
Just watching reports from sri lanka, where religion was at work. Brought back to memory scenes from northern ireland, but also of london. Wondering whether the return of such things really is a price worth to pay for brexit.
You are conflating many unrelated issues .

You seem a bit confused by it all !!
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25-04-2019, 07:14 PM
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You are conflating many unrelated issues .

You seem a bit confused by it all !!
Death does that. I also watched a funeral yesterday somewhere in norther ireland. Unrelated to brexit of course, but it does give a foreboding.
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25-04-2019, 08:53 PM
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Re: Is Brexit a religion?

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Death does that. I also watched a funeral yesterday somewhere in norther ireland. Unrelated to brexit of course, but it does give a foreboding.
Not really...........the Neanderthals were always there.

They never went anywhere.

The EU should stop meddling in situations it is ill prepared for and understands even less ........... like NI, like Ukraine!
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25-04-2019, 09:21 PM
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It's interesting there was a historical tv series about the Normans on last night. It blamed the problems we have in Scotland, Wales and Ireland on the Normans.

It's the Normans who apparently created the first propaganda campaign about the Irish being a lesser class. They also denigrated Anglo-Saxon English language to lower society and introduced French words to represent higher status objects and actions.

The Scots sucked up to them and invited them in, it took them years to conquer Wales, and as for Ireland it was ongoing troubles and negotiations.
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25-04-2019, 10:25 PM
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Re: Is Brexit a religion?

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It's interesting there was a historical tv series about the Normans on last night. It blamed the problems we have in Scotland, Wales and Ireland on the Normans.

It's the Normans who apparently created the first propaganda campaign about the Irish being a lesser class. They also denigrated Anglo-Saxon English language to lower society and introduced French words to represent higher status objects and actions.

The Scots sucked up to them and invited them in, it took them years to conquer Wales, and as for Ireland it was ongoing troubles and negotiations.

That was quite a long time ago and I'm not sure what you are trying to say.

I don't know anyone who thinks the Irish are a lesser class.

I also know of no-one around here that speaks French as a first language..........still Anglo Saxon with a large smattering of Scots, which is a dialect of Olde English.

Obviously The Norman Conquest had the most fundamental and far reaching consequences that still affects us today but probably not as overtly in day to day attitudes as it sounds the programme makers were claiming.
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It was an interesting perspective. It's not that long ago that the Irish were regarded as second class citizens in Britain. The programme was simply saying that all started with the Norman invasions.
 
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