Posted on 02/02/2020 4:37:18 AM PST by C19fan
Does Edmund Burke, the father of conservatism, count? He’s Irish but he pursued most of his political and academic career after moving to England.
Well done Nigel! Well done!
“Nigel Farage’s Mic Cut Off for Waving British Flag (Video)”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3812689/posts
PING
BBC presenter Nish Kumar
Let me guess... native of Wales?
“The BBC is the British CNN- albeit with folks who can actually speak the language.”
I don’t know about that... They have a weird accent.
The BBC should not be sold, it should merely be closed down and shut off.
And what greatness hails from Nish Kumar’s ancestral home?
And what greatness hails from Nish Kumar’s ancestral home? And comparatively, how impactful to the world?
What has India given the world independent of British colonialism, other than wallowing in filth and half their population regarded as subhuman, Mr. Kumar?
I think you left out dentistry...or maybe not.
I beg to differ.
Churchill!
It is just they have no idea what to serve for dinner so stuff yourself at tea.
Young Greg Lake had a matchless set of pipes.
Democracy was invented in Athens, c 600 BC, not in England.
Common Law is English yes - it arose as a way of merging the Saxon laws with the Norman laws. Note - Scotland is not purely common law - it has it’s own law, “Scots law” which is a blend of common law and civil law
And yes, it gave us the practical science and engineering setting the stage for the industrial revolution.
Saying it hasn’t produce anything of note is veering too much to one side and as hysterically false as the other side which over-glorifies England. There is a balance between the two that is accurate
He’s from south London. I believe his parents are also born in the UK
As I pointed out above, Nish is born in England.
As to what India has given the world - well of course the number 0 :) but besides that ploughs and domesticated jungle fowl (what we call chickens), yoga, chess etc.
Sorry but bringing up his ancestral home doesn’t make any sense when Nish considers himself British.
That kind of democracy - the democracy you see on display in your typical HOA collapsed pretty quickly and pretty much for the same reasons, and wasn't started again for a couple of millenia. That kind of democracy fails because there are no institutional restraints [e.g. the US Senate] to restrain the passions of the moment or the rise of demagogues like Schifface.
Our system of government grew out of the British system, which was pretty much sui generis evolving over 1000 years from the collapse of Rome to the American Revolution. That system survived because it continued to evolve and grow in order to survive.
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