I suppose it's the price you pay for stealing the marble frieze from the Parthenon and putting it on display in the British Museum as if you had anything to do with it.
No. I don't see the link here, to be honest.
But if the British Museum were to hand back the Elgin Marbles "because they are Greek" then it should logically follow that every one of the 55,000 or so museums in the entire world should also hand the many foreign artefacts that they have (all the Greek, Roman, Egyptian etc treasures in museums all over the globe) back to their country of origin - because, let's face it, the British Museum is hardly the only museum on God's Earth to have foreign treasures on display - and that would be literally every museum all around the globe almost emptied of many, or most, of their artefacts overnight and lead to people having to travel abroad to look at ancient Greek, Roman or Egyptian treasures.
And I don't think that's a precedent the British Museum should set.
Well, I can see that. You're like the French, still ingrateful after 70 years for the fact that the British bailed them out in WWII.
Still, the fact remains that Canada owes its existence to the British Empire, and there's nothing you can do about it. It'll never change.
At its inception the EU was constructed as a great centripetal machine that would smash borders and eradicate national sovereingnty. It is failing catastrophically.. crashing in from its perimeters of Greece, Ireland, Spain, Italy. The U.K would be very wise to take itself out of a rotten structure.. which will inevitably founder.
Now that Britain has had the balls to host an EU in/out referendum - a British woman who works as a teacher in Germany was saying on BBC Radio Five Live the other night that the British are being seen there by many Germans as "plucky" in doing this and that many Germans have told her that they wish they could have an EU in/out referendum in their own country to give them the opportunity to get Germany out of the EU - it's VERY important that Britain votes to leave the EU on 23rd June. Because, if Britain votes to remain in the EU, then the sh*t is going to hit the fan and the EU (this "big, friendly thing that is so beneficial to Britain", as the Europhiles tell us) will come down on Britain like a tonne of breeze blocks as punishment for us having the audacity to let the people vote democratically whether or not they want to leave the EU (the EU doesn't like democracy). It'll be the equivalent of a naughty schoolchild receiving a caning on their bare buttocks. And that's not something I'm looking forward to. But you could argue that, when that happens, it will only turn many of those who voted to remain in the EU in this referendum into eurosceptics, and euroscepticism will increase dramatically in Britain and more people will turn to Ukip and Ukip will, once again, force another EU in/out referendum - a second referendum - and, that second time around, I think the British people will vote to leave.
So I think the British people will vote to leave the EU eventually, either in this referendum on 23rd June or, if not, a second referendum which I'm sure will end up taking place. Because, if the people vote to remain in the EU in this upcoming referendum, I'm almost certain it will NOT be the end of matters - just as the pro-Scottish independence SNP surged after they LOST the independence referendum.
