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Re: You do realize Britain is pretty much the envy of the Western world at the moment? Camilla Send a noteboard - 23/01/2011 06:34:47 PM
Britain...

Don't get me started.

Well, okay, that may be a bit exaggerated, but the Brits are managing a coalition government, which they're not even used to, with remarkable success, and successfully cleaning up their finances besides. Surely you have to say their government is doing better than anyone would have expected before or immediately after the elections.


Did you see the protests?
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So the Irish government has basically imploded. Stephen - 23/01/2011 04:47:10 PM 1766 Views
I am now confused Camilla - 23/01/2011 05:34:31 PM 1130 Views
You won't be the only person Stephen - 23/01/2011 06:21:23 PM 1027 Views
You do realize Britain is pretty much the envy of the Western world at the moment? Legolas - 23/01/2011 06:27:05 PM 1159 Views
Re: You do realize Britain is pretty much the envy of the Western world at the moment? Camilla - 23/01/2011 06:34:47 PM 1096 Views
I did. There was more violence than in ours, that's true (ours have none so far, knock on wood). Legolas - 23/01/2011 06:41:34 PM 1059 Views
Re: I did. There was more violence than in ours, that's true (ours have none so far, knock on wood). Camilla - 23/01/2011 06:43:41 PM 1013 Views
Those protests were only violent by British standards. Tim - 23/01/2011 11:54:15 PM 1188 Views
Really? Camilla - 24/01/2011 12:03:38 AM 992 Views
But... Wibble - 24/01/2011 07:28:17 PM 1053 Views
Re: But... Camilla - 24/01/2011 07:30:39 PM 1298 Views
What protests? Wibble - 24/01/2011 07:26:49 PM 1135 Views
Re: What protests? Camilla - 24/01/2011 07:28:40 PM 990 Views
Re: What protests? Nebhead - 25/01/2011 09:23:17 AM 1127 Views
There's a new objection Camilla - 25/01/2011 11:38:25 AM 1041 Views
I didn't object... Nebhead - 25/01/2011 11:47:11 AM 938 Views
Re: I didn't object... Camilla - 25/01/2011 11:49:36 AM 913 Views
If you look at the bottom of that list... Nebhead - 25/01/2011 11:58:24 AM 988 Views
And Britain had to live with the Conservative Wilderness for 15 years before it could get there *NM* Roland00 - 24/01/2011 02:43:16 AM 530 Views
Should I start chiming in on Norwegian politics now that I'm here...? Joel - 24/01/2011 12:42:03 AM 1025 Views
Why not? Camilla - 24/01/2011 08:49:07 AM 1085 Views
'Cos I doubt you'll like what I have to say, for one thing. Joel - 26/01/2011 01:55:13 AM 1118 Views
Re: 'Cos I doubt you'll like what I have to say, for one thing. Camilla - 26/01/2011 08:42:04 AM 1136 Views
I misconstrued your sarcasm, sorry. Joel - 26/01/2011 10:23:40 AM 1281 Views
That's been a while coming, hasn't it? Cowen seems to be losing it. Legolas - 23/01/2011 05:48:30 PM 1066 Views
Certainly. he's been on dodgy ground for a couple months. Stephen - 23/01/2011 06:27:27 PM 1132 Views
Re: Certainly. he's been on dodgy ground for a couple months. Legolas - 23/01/2011 06:33:26 PM 1069 Views
Re: Certainly. he's been on dodgy ground for a couple months. Stephen - 23/01/2011 07:19:03 PM 1175 Views
Re: Certainly. he's been on dodgy ground for a couple months. Legolas - 23/01/2011 07:57:05 PM 1019 Views
Re: Certainly. he's been on dodgy ground for a couple months. Stephen - 23/01/2011 09:29:03 PM 1137 Views
Re: Certainly. he's been on dodgy ground for a couple months. Legolas - 23/01/2011 09:46:20 PM 1095 Views
I think Adams is an Irish citizen, and not a British one. Tim - 23/01/2011 11:45:34 PM 1054 Views
Re: I think Adams is an Irish citizen, and not a British one. Stephen - 23/01/2011 11:53:12 PM 1043 Views
The part that I find strange is... Tim - 23/01/2011 11:58:27 PM 1021 Views
Re: Certainly. he's been on dodgy ground for a couple months. Stephen - 23/01/2011 11:45:39 PM 926 Views
I found out something else today which makes it even better. Tim - 24/01/2011 10:37:45 PM 1239 Views
I was reading your post and going "what about the Chiltern Hundreds"? Legolas - 24/01/2011 10:44:32 PM 1036 Views
Today's news: it got better again! Tim - 26/01/2011 07:51:51 PM 1104 Views
Oh, alternatively we could elevate him to the House of Lords. Tim - 26/01/2011 11:08:44 PM 1068 Views
Awesome idea. Something like "Baron Adams of Londonderry", I'm thinking. *NM* Legolas - 27/01/2011 07:54:26 PM 513 Views
We made his arch-rival a Lord, after all, so it would only be fair. Tim - 28/01/2011 08:26:15 AM 1011 Views
"This is the voice of a life peer" Michael - 28/01/2011 02:18:04 PM 1139 Views
Here you go Elaine - 25/01/2011 12:55:33 PM 1160 Views
That's the site I found too. Tim - 25/01/2011 01:25:56 PM 992 Views
Right. Elaine - 25/01/2011 01:42:49 PM 1230 Views
well, the only interesting thing in swedish politics is a wikileaks document and the reactions... jh - 23/01/2011 06:21:00 PM 1108 Views
That's interesting Stephen - 23/01/2011 06:32:05 PM 1072 Views
What is inappropriate about trying to keep out barbaric unskilled people? Tom - 23/01/2011 10:59:53 PM 1084 Views
The inappropriateness is the generalisation in the claim Camilla - 23/01/2011 11:16:52 PM 1078 Views
Generalizations are inappropriate when they are disproven by statistics, and appropriate when proven Tom - 24/01/2011 07:33:14 PM 1015 Views
I've looked into the statistics a bit more. Tom - 24/01/2011 09:11:52 PM 1021 Views
I take it you're talking about the Middle East in its most narrow sense here. Legolas - 24/01/2011 09:56:22 PM 1066 Views
... the fact that they are asylum seekers, and their skill certainly shouldn't matter in that case. jh - 24/01/2011 07:08:14 PM 947 Views
Schweden schafft sich ab, eh? Tom - 24/01/2011 07:31:33 PM 1213 Views
Not to mention... ßelals Girl - 26/01/2011 07:55:26 PM 940 Views
ßelals Girl - 26/01/2011 07:46:19 PM 1058 Views
Hopefully they'll stop using Irish officially as a way to cut down on unnecessary costs. Tom - 23/01/2011 10:57:08 PM 1015 Views
I'd support that Stephen - 23/01/2011 11:26:20 PM 1082 Views
Ironically, if you de-officialised Irish you could get EU money to help preserve it. Tim - 23/01/2011 11:48:14 PM 982 Views
I never realised that Stephen - 23/01/2011 11:54:43 PM 1013 Views
But why, why? Tom - 24/01/2011 08:35:43 PM 966 Views
Because it's the only thing justifying their insistence they're not British? Legolas - 24/01/2011 10:03:54 PM 1023 Views
But all language learning should be purely voluntary (after what parents teach their children). Tom - 25/01/2011 03:05:28 AM 1000 Views
What, so you don't think students in high school should be taught foreign languages? Legolas - 25/01/2011 06:34:21 PM 1032 Views
Irish is the mother tongue of about 7,000-15,000 people at most. Tom - 26/01/2011 05:04:00 AM 1058 Views
Wikipedia says it's more like 40k-80k. Legolas - 26/01/2011 06:41:41 PM 1424 Views
And Elaine, Stephen, or any other Irish people here: do feel free to comment. *NM* Legolas - 26/01/2011 06:42:36 PM 513 Views
Inflated statistics from what I've read. Tom - 26/01/2011 09:45:51 PM 968 Views
They might be, indeed. Elaine - 27/01/2011 01:08:09 PM 1214 Views
More to the point, are YOU interested in learning Irish? Tom - 26/01/2011 05:15:18 AM 972 Views
Calling Ireland the new Sodom and Gomorrah, are you? Legolas - 26/01/2011 06:02:05 PM 1119 Views
I don't think it's as fun as Sodom and Gomorrah, at least not post-crisis. Tom - 26/01/2011 09:48:54 PM 1068 Views
Re: I don't think it's as fun as Sodom and Gomorrah, at least not post-crisis. Legolas - 27/01/2011 08:42:21 PM 956 Views
Presumably because they agree with J.R.R. Tolkien and Tómas Sæmundsson about language's importance. Tim - 24/01/2011 10:16:05 PM 1111 Views
So Australians and New Zealanders are really English then? Austrians are just Germans? Tom - 25/01/2011 03:01:14 AM 1068 Views
I never said I agreed . Tim - 25/01/2011 08:19:11 AM 1033 Views
I would suggest that a distinct dialect does the job just as well majander - 25/01/2011 02:23:59 PM 1077 Views
That's a very good point. Tom - 26/01/2011 05:06:32 AM 1048 Views
Indeed. Legolas - 26/01/2011 06:06:00 PM 1089 Views
The thing is, people who feel really strongly about that usually insist it's a separate language. Tim - 28/01/2011 04:20:57 PM 916 Views
It's really more about having a unique silly costume to wear at Miss Universe pageants. Tom - 26/01/2011 05:09:10 AM 907 Views
You're confusing what we sell to gullible American tourists with what we actually value . *NM* Tim - 28/01/2011 04:15:01 PM 459 Views
What the hell happened to the Celtic Tiger Country? *NM* Blaine - 24/01/2011 05:47:12 AM 587 Views
Thrown away on bling and tat, unfortunately. Elaine - 24/01/2011 01:01:27 PM 947 Views
The Celtic Tiger is dead, Ireland had a GDP contraction of 14% in the last two years. Roland00 - 24/01/2011 01:47:06 PM 1022 Views
It's still there, but it aimed a bit too high and got a bit scorched. Legolas - 24/01/2011 10:07:36 PM 915 Views
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