Union Jacks

**lopez** · 26/02/2006, 8:28 PM

Originally Posted by p_o_r

The flag of NI, which like (Wales, England and Scotland) is part of GB,.

WRONG! Even our Northern friends would concede that NI isn't Britain, but part of the United Kingdom.

Originally Posted by p_o_r

is a St. Patrick's cross with a emblem in the center, therefore it should be part of the Union Flag.

WRONG! It's a red cross with the hand of Ulster in the centre. St Pat's cross is a 'saltire'. Like it or not, this (and the German lady's Harp on her flag) is irredentism. Not surprising really as the Brits look on Ireland as a prodigal son waiting to come home. Look at the support we get in the British media in 1994 when the British teams all failed to get there.

Thanks to the the EU, he's gone for good. We might laugh at Americans not knowing where any other country is on the map, but there is an embarrassing number of Britons that I've personally met that think British troops still trudge around Dublin. The widow of Christopher Ewart Biggs spoke out years back that Britain's irredentism of Ireland should stop and Irish citizens should not being given automatic rights in Britain that no non-Commonwealth country's citizens would get, like the vote. She was right.

Originally Posted by Jerry The Saint

Not everyone in the world "hates the Brits" as much as our proud little nation.

You need to travel a bit more, son! They hate the 'Brits' in Spain far more than the Irish will ever do. And to prove the point they don't fly over in droves every fortnight to England to watch football or walk about in Scum U or A*sehole shirts. Nor pad their national TV station with soaps of 'life' in Manchester and Borehemwood.

**Dodge** · 26/02/2006, 11:02 PM

Originally Posted by lopez

You need to travel a bit more, son! They hate the 'Brits' in Spain far more than the Irish will ever do. And to prove the point they don't fly over in droves every fortnight to England to watch football or walk about in Scum U or A*sehole shirts. Nor pad their national TV station with soaps of 'life' in Manchester and Borehemwood.

Could be bacause of the standard of their own football or indeed the language barrier, but you can believe what you like.

**lopez** · 27/02/2006, 9:29 AM

Originally Posted by Dodge

Could be bacause of the standard of their own football or indeed the language barrier, but you can believe what you like.

And then there are the ammount of British newspapers in the newsagents, often - as a correspondent in the Irish Post wrote last week - stocked in place of Irish newspapers. And that the indigenous papers like the Sunday Independent allow a self-loathing Biddy like Ruth Dudley Edwards slag off her country while waxing lyrical about Britain and her favourite bunch of misunderstood people, the Orange Order. Yeah, no-one hates the Brits like the Irish.

Oh and by the way, they have dubbing in Spain for foreign films and programmes, so language isn't the obstacle to the Spanish enjoying Albert Square. You are of course correct about the standard of football.