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The part that I find strange is... Tim Send a noteboard - 23/01/2011 11:58:27 PM
...we happily give Australians, Canadians, Rwandans etc. the right to vote in our Parliamentary elections the moment they get a UK address, without even attempting to gain reciprocal benefits for our citizens in their countries. If I were PM I would tell them all to give our guys the same rights we give theirs, or lose them. It should either go both ways or not at all.
Vigilantibus non dormientibus jura subveniunt.

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—La vie ? Neutre ? C'est très joli, et surtout très logique.
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So the Irish government has basically imploded. Stephen - 23/01/2011 04:47:10 PM 1776 Views
I am now confused Camilla - 23/01/2011 05:34:31 PM 1140 Views
You won't be the only person Stephen - 23/01/2011 06:21:23 PM 1039 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 1169 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 1107 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 1069 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 1024 Views
Those protests were only violent by British standards. Tim - 23/01/2011 11:54:15 PM 1203 Views
Really? Camilla - 24/01/2011 12:03:38 AM 1002 Views
But... Wibble - 24/01/2011 07:28:17 PM 1064 Views
Re: But... Camilla - 24/01/2011 07:30:39 PM 1313 Views
What protests? Wibble - 24/01/2011 07:26:49 PM 1144 Views
Re: What protests? Camilla - 24/01/2011 07:28:40 PM 999 Views
Re: What protests? Nebhead - 25/01/2011 09:23:17 AM 1141 Views
There's a new objection Camilla - 25/01/2011 11:38:25 AM 1050 Views
I didn't object... Nebhead - 25/01/2011 11:47:11 AM 947 Views
Re: I didn't object... Camilla - 25/01/2011 11:49:36 AM 925 Views
If you look at the bottom of that list... Nebhead - 25/01/2011 11:58:24 AM 997 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 535 Views
Should I start chiming in on Norwegian politics now that I'm here...? Joel - 24/01/2011 12:42:03 AM 1036 Views
Why not? Camilla - 24/01/2011 08:49:07 AM 1097 Views
'Cos I doubt you'll like what I have to say, for one thing. Joel - 26/01/2011 01:55:13 AM 1129 Views
Re: 'Cos I doubt you'll like what I have to say, for one thing. Camilla - 26/01/2011 08:42:04 AM 1150 Views
I misconstrued your sarcasm, sorry. Joel - 26/01/2011 10:23:40 AM 1290 Views
That's been a while coming, hasn't it? Cowen seems to be losing it. Legolas - 23/01/2011 05:48:30 PM 1078 Views
Certainly. he's been on dodgy ground for a couple months. Stephen - 23/01/2011 06:27:27 PM 1142 Views
Re: Certainly. he's been on dodgy ground for a couple months. Legolas - 23/01/2011 06:33:26 PM 1080 Views
Re: Certainly. he's been on dodgy ground for a couple months. Stephen - 23/01/2011 07:19:03 PM 1187 Views
Re: Certainly. he's been on dodgy ground for a couple months. Legolas - 23/01/2011 07:57:05 PM 1030 Views
Re: Certainly. he's been on dodgy ground for a couple months. Stephen - 23/01/2011 09:29:03 PM 1149 Views
Re: Certainly. he's been on dodgy ground for a couple months. Legolas - 23/01/2011 09:46:20 PM 1105 Views
I think Adams is an Irish citizen, and not a British one. Tim - 23/01/2011 11:45:34 PM 1061 Views
Re: I think Adams is an Irish citizen, and not a British one. Stephen - 23/01/2011 11:53:12 PM 1052 Views
The part that I find strange is... Tim - 23/01/2011 11:58:27 PM 1032 Views
Re: Certainly. he's been on dodgy ground for a couple months. Stephen - 23/01/2011 11:45:39 PM 937 Views
I found out something else today which makes it even better. Tim - 24/01/2011 10:37:45 PM 1251 Views
I was reading your post and going "what about the Chiltern Hundreds"? Legolas - 24/01/2011 10:44:32 PM 1045 Views
Today's news: it got better again! Tim - 26/01/2011 07:51:51 PM 1117 Views
Oh, alternatively we could elevate him to the House of Lords. Tim - 26/01/2011 11:08:44 PM 1078 Views
Awesome idea. Something like "Baron Adams of Londonderry", I'm thinking. *NM* Legolas - 27/01/2011 07:54:26 PM 517 Views
We made his arch-rival a Lord, after all, so it would only be fair. Tim - 28/01/2011 08:26:15 AM 1019 Views
"This is the voice of a life peer" Michael - 28/01/2011 02:18:04 PM 1149 Views
Here you go Elaine - 25/01/2011 12:55:33 PM 1176 Views
That's the site I found too. Tim - 25/01/2011 01:25:56 PM 1003 Views
Right. Elaine - 25/01/2011 01:42:49 PM 1240 Views
well, the only interesting thing in swedish politics is a wikileaks document and the reactions... jh - 23/01/2011 06:21:00 PM 1118 Views
That's interesting Stephen - 23/01/2011 06:32:05 PM 1081 Views
What is inappropriate about trying to keep out barbaric unskilled people? Tom - 23/01/2011 10:59:53 PM 1093 Views
The inappropriateness is the generalisation in the claim Camilla - 23/01/2011 11:16:52 PM 1090 Views
Generalizations are inappropriate when they are disproven by statistics, and appropriate when proven Tom - 24/01/2011 07:33:14 PM 1026 Views
I've looked into the statistics a bit more. Tom - 24/01/2011 09:11:52 PM 1032 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 1075 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 958 Views
Schweden schafft sich ab, eh? Tom - 24/01/2011 07:31:33 PM 1235 Views
Not to mention... ßelals Girl - 26/01/2011 07:55:26 PM 950 Views
ßelals Girl - 26/01/2011 07:46:19 PM 1068 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 1025 Views
I'd support that Stephen - 23/01/2011 11:26:20 PM 1091 Views
Ironically, if you de-officialised Irish you could get EU money to help preserve it. Tim - 23/01/2011 11:48:14 PM 994 Views
I never realised that Stephen - 23/01/2011 11:54:43 PM 1026 Views
But why, why? Tom - 24/01/2011 08:35:43 PM 974 Views
Because it's the only thing justifying their insistence they're not British? Legolas - 24/01/2011 10:03:54 PM 1036 Views
But all language learning should be purely voluntary (after what parents teach their children). Tom - 25/01/2011 03:05:28 AM 1012 Views
What, so you don't think students in high school should be taught foreign languages? Legolas - 25/01/2011 06:34:21 PM 1043 Views
Irish is the mother tongue of about 7,000-15,000 people at most. Tom - 26/01/2011 05:04:00 AM 1069 Views
Wikipedia says it's more like 40k-80k. Legolas - 26/01/2011 06:41:41 PM 1435 Views
And Elaine, Stephen, or any other Irish people here: do feel free to comment. *NM* Legolas - 26/01/2011 06:42:36 PM 520 Views
Inflated statistics from what I've read. Tom - 26/01/2011 09:45:51 PM 977 Views
They might be, indeed. Elaine - 27/01/2011 01:08:09 PM 1224 Views
More to the point, are YOU interested in learning Irish? Tom - 26/01/2011 05:15:18 AM 983 Views
Calling Ireland the new Sodom and Gomorrah, are you? Legolas - 26/01/2011 06:02:05 PM 1129 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 1080 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 966 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 1122 Views
So Australians and New Zealanders are really English then? Austrians are just Germans? Tom - 25/01/2011 03:01:14 AM 1076 Views
I never said I agreed . Tim - 25/01/2011 08:19:11 AM 1044 Views
I would suggest that a distinct dialect does the job just as well majander - 25/01/2011 02:23:59 PM 1089 Views
That's a very good point. Tom - 26/01/2011 05:06:32 AM 1057 Views
Indeed. Legolas - 26/01/2011 06:06:00 PM 1097 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 925 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 917 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 467 Views
What the hell happened to the Celtic Tiger Country? *NM* Blaine - 24/01/2011 05:47:12 AM 591 Views
Thrown away on bling and tat, unfortunately. Elaine - 24/01/2011 01:01:27 PM 957 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 1037 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 926 Views
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