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CXRAndy
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£230 billion in welfare costs for foreign universal credit over the next 3-4 years
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Rusty Nails
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I do now maps have been updated
Only those maps falsified by decree of the orange sex offender.
It was called the Gulf of Mexico before the US came into being.
BoldonLad
Old man on a bike. Not a member of a clique.
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Is that really so, I thought Mexico only became a Country in the early 1800s?, whereas USA came into being in late 1700s
Both physical bits of land were there before we Europeans gave them names of course.
To me, it is the Gulf of Mexico, my daughter-in-law would not speak to me if I said otherwise 😂
Ian H
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First named the Gulf of Mexico in 1550. [Wiki]
Rusty Nails
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‘We can see the name the “Gulf of Mexico” all the way back to the 16th Century, with English geographer Richard Hakluyt referencing the “Gulfe of Mexico” in The Principall Navigations, Voiages and Discoveries of the English Nation (1589).’
BoldonLad
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Before even my time, I am afraid 😂
classic33
Missen
Can I call into question the handmade part in the description?
Xipe Totec
Something nasty in the woodshed
This - believe it or not - is an actual thing you can buy. I fervently hope CWS makes these with his own hands, and not with the help of a pet, or some unmentionable part of his own physiology!
https://coldwarsteve.bigcartel.com/product/patriotic-cross-of-st-george-white-dog-shoot-bauble
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classic33
Missen
Seems as though he's had canine help in production at least.
Isn't white dog shoot a thing of the past.
Sale price of £23.00! What was the original price I wonder.
Ian H
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Michael Rosen is a wise old bird
[From Faceb00k]
Suella Braverman has announced that she's not English, she's British.
Are you up to speed with this terminology juggling?
I'm pragmatic about this stuff. I come from both England and Britain and UK. I slide around between all three words and terms and others like Londoner, Jewish, even North Londoner!
What's the deal with Braverman saying she's not English?
Well, we know, nudge nudge, don't we? She's trying to ring fence 'English' as a term to mean some kind of fixed ethnicity. So though she can be 'British Asian' she's saying she can't be an 'English Asian'.
Why not? Why can't that be like saying you're a Chinese Californian? Or a Portuguese Parisian? Or any other of these terms that we might want to say to describe our place of birth, our place of habitation, our background, our habits, our nationality, our passport(s).
The only reason why this is a big deal is for nationalist and xenophobic reasons, surely?
There is no immutable entity called 'English' that is determined by some kind of genetic count.
England is a geographical territory in part determined by what is Wales and Scotland and the seas around it. Lots of stuff has gone on in this territory, some of it restricted to a part of that territory, but most of it made up of 1000s of other bits of stuff from other parts of the UK and all over the world. As with any other chunk of territory.
And it's constantly changing. Of course it is.
Strange times.
[From Faceb00k]
Suella Braverman has announced that she's not English, she's British.
Are you up to speed with this terminology juggling?
I'm pragmatic about this stuff. I come from both England and Britain and UK. I slide around between all three words and terms and others like Londoner, Jewish, even North Londoner!
What's the deal with Braverman saying she's not English?
Well, we know, nudge nudge, don't we? She's trying to ring fence 'English' as a term to mean some kind of fixed ethnicity. So though she can be 'British Asian' she's saying she can't be an 'English Asian'.
Why not? Why can't that be like saying you're a Chinese Californian? Or a Portuguese Parisian? Or any other of these terms that we might want to say to describe our place of birth, our place of habitation, our background, our habits, our nationality, our passport(s).
The only reason why this is a big deal is for nationalist and xenophobic reasons, surely?
There is no immutable entity called 'English' that is determined by some kind of genetic count.
England is a geographical territory in part determined by what is Wales and Scotland and the seas around it. Lots of stuff has gone on in this territory, some of it restricted to a part of that territory, but most of it made up of 1000s of other bits of stuff from other parts of the UK and all over the world. As with any other chunk of territory.
And it's constantly changing. Of course it is.
Strange times.
