Brexit.

Innula Zenovka

Nasty Brit
VVO Supporter 🍦🎈👾❤
Joined
Sep 20, 2018
Messages
24,231
SLU Posts
18459
They won. They should just accept the referendum result and get over it.

Honestly, at every step of the way, they were told by so many people that, by inevitable process of law, various consequences would follow, and to their horror, it turns out that reality doesn't care much about the will of the people.

 

Innula Zenovka

Nasty Brit
VVO Supporter 🍦🎈👾❤
Joined
Sep 20, 2018
Messages
24,231
SLU Posts
18459
Shouldn't India be tossed in as well?
Maybe there is a nice diamond left for in a royal crown when Charles takes over.
No, it's the old imperial dominions, or what I'm old enough to remember was once called "the White Commonwealth" (I'm also old enough to remember Enoch Powell's "rivers of blood" speech, and a lot more besides).

They are the colonies that didn't rebel, I guess.

ETA: This has got me thinking about definitions and history. They're the colonies the Britain actually settled with British (so white and anglophone) colonists rather than simply governed as colonies. Formal slavery was prohibited, though bonded labour had always been a feature of British colonialism (it was how most settlers arrived, at least initially, and continued as a major engine of migration from Britain's possessions in the Indian subcontinent and east Asia to other parts of the Empire). They're also the colonies in which, as in the US, the original population was actually displaced (whether by being forced off the land or killed outright) so that the colonists became the majority.
 
Last edited:
  • 2Thanks
Reactions: Ashiri and Sid

Sid

Lord of the plywood cubes.
VVO Supporter 🍦🎈👾❤
Joined
Sep 20, 2018
Messages
7,074
So Brexit turns out to be mainly about selling 102,000 GBP worth of cheese to Japan under better conditions than while a member of the EU.
Jolly good job. That will teach the French with their Roquefort cheese.
 

Innula Zenovka

Nasty Brit
VVO Supporter 🍦🎈👾❤
Joined
Sep 20, 2018
Messages
24,231
SLU Posts
18459
So Brexit turns out to be mainly about selling 102,000 GBP worth of cheese to Japan under better conditions than while a member of the EU.
Jolly good job. That will teach the French with their Roquefort cheese.
This is her addressing the Conservative Party Annual Conference in 2014, a lifetime ago. It really is worth listening to, to give you an idea of what she's like.

 
  • 1Thanks
  • 1Like
Reactions: Sid and Arkady Arkright

Fionalein

an old grumpy cat
Joined
Jul 30, 2019
Messages
1,849
SL Rez
2017
This is her addressing the Conservative Party Annual Conference in 2014, a lifetime ago. It really is worth listening to, to give you an idea of what she's like.

"we import 2/3rd of our cheese"
...
After having the "honour" of tasting British cheese I am not surpised =^.^=
She also has a hard time understanding this new "variety" concept, doesn't
she? People like having a choice...
 

Innula Zenovka

Nasty Brit
VVO Supporter 🍦🎈👾❤
Joined
Sep 20, 2018
Messages
24,231
SLU Posts
18459
"we import 2/3rd of our cheese"
...
After having the "honour" of tasting British cheese I am not surpised =^.^=
She also has a hard time understanding this new "variety" concept, doesn't
she? People like having a choice...
Some British regional and traditional cheeses are very good indeed. Generic supermarket Cheddar is best for left for cooking, to my mind, and "Cathedral City," which was invented 25 years ago, is best left well alone, but don't knock our local varieties.
 

detrius

Well-known member
Joined
Sep 20, 2018
Messages
2,572
Location
Land of bread, beer and BMW.
Joined SLU
09-30-2007
SLU Posts
10065
Some British regional and traditional cheeses are very good indeed. Generic supermarket Cheddar is best for left for cooking, to my mind, and "Cathedral City," which was invented 25 years ago, is best left well alone, but don't knock our local varieties.
Chicken Parm with ricotta and cheddar cheese instead of mozzarella:


Made this for my parents a couple of times - they love it.

The tomato sauce is also brilliant: Tomato Sauce – Your Wish is Eventually My Command
 
Last edited: