Quote Originally Posted by Burney View Post
Mo doesn't seem to get that the British have done the slaughtering everyone thing several times before and it's proved remarkably ineffective at stamping out violent Irish nationalism.

t also rather like the idea that you can occupy/run a country for 900 years, treat it as part of the union, have untold familial, cultural and business ties develop over centuries and then treat its citizens as complete strangers the moment they get independence.
They definitely shouldn't be treated as strangers, because we know them only too well.

They should be treated as our bitterest, sworn enemies, but 70 years of socialism has rendered us physically and morally weak, so we pander to them. Do you know they are allowed to enter this country without showing identification? There should be, at the very least, a period of quarantine to keep their diseases out.

(I don't like them much.)