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Can Remainers explain this?

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orgmatdane · 28/11/2025 21:16

If you are a Remainer who believes Britain needs to be part of the EU, can you just explain which country was the most powerful in the world in the 1800s?

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itsthetea · 01/12/2025 10:13

Powerful?

oh it’s you again

being powerful and strong isn’t a particular goal of mine

being happy, being honest good and fair, those are my goals for the population of this county

not strong , not powerful, but happy and healthy

so I don’t give a shiny about what countries were powerful in the past - I care about what countries have happy healthy populations now and it turns out it isn’t related to being strong and powerful -which I could phrase as being aggressive and violent. Those are not traits I admire in people or countries.

i don’t want to be stronger than my neighbours- I want us all to get along and play nicely

and oddly enough - that approach seems to be to the benefit of everyone

instead of being greedy and wanting it all - which breeds hatred and violence and destruction - we actually all end up better off if we are more cooperative as that breeds joy and growth

nightmarepickle2025 · 01/12/2025 09:56

Slavery
empire

Palourdes · 01/12/2025 09:51

jaundicedoutlook · 01/12/2025 09:39

OP - you are absolutely correct. As we return to ruling the world like it's 1800 I would also like to vote for:

  • getting the kids out to work up chimneys,
  • owning some slaves,
  • getting an operation done with only rudimentary anaesthetic,
  • looking forward to a nice case of typhus,
  • losing an arm in the factory on a 16 hour shift, and
  • not actually having a vote

Let’s not forget that the age of consent was 12 until 1875, and that you could buy a child for sex very easily and cheaply.

jaundicedoutlook · 01/12/2025 09:39

OP - you are absolutely correct. As we return to ruling the world like it's 1800 I would also like to vote for:

  • getting the kids out to work up chimneys,
  • owning some slaves,
  • getting an operation done with only rudimentary anaesthetic,
  • looking forward to a nice case of typhus,
  • losing an arm in the factory on a 16 hour shift, and
  • not actually having a vote
JillyJoy · 01/12/2025 09:15

Ottoman Empire was big and strong.

Chersfrozenface · 29/11/2025 14:47

YYYDlilah · 29/11/2025 14:38

For most of us Waterloo is an underground station or Abba's Eurovision winner.

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Can Remainers explain this?
YYYDlilah · 29/11/2025 14:38

For most of us Waterloo is an underground station or Abba's Eurovision winner.

ByQuaintAzureWasp · 29/11/2025 14:38

You are a 'not right' if you dont know the reasons people don't agree with brexit

SerendipityJane · 29/11/2025 14:34

The OP probably gores on club 1832 holidays.

And fuck York. Everybody knows the real capital of Britain is Colchester.

tripleginandtonic · 29/11/2025 13:53

orgmatdane · 28/11/2025 21:16

If you are a Remainer who believes Britain needs to be part of the EU, can you just explain which country was the most powerful in the world in the 1800s?

Bit of help for you OP, we're in the 2000s not 1800s. The world has changed.

BillieWiper · 29/11/2025 13:52

YYYDlilah · 29/11/2025 13:49

@BillieWiper , only a teensy weensy little bit. That William Pitt the Younger is bloomin' useless isn't he. Time we got a new PM. That French president has far better ideas.

Haha!

Catpiece · 29/11/2025 13:51

That was rather a long time ago mate

YYYDlilah · 29/11/2025 13:49

@BillieWiper , only a teensy weensy little bit. That William Pitt the Younger is bloomin' useless isn't he. Time we got a new PM. That French president has far better ideas.

Ormally · 29/11/2025 13:48

RainbowBagels · 29/11/2025 13:27

THE VIKINGS ARE COMIIIING !!!!!!!!
I'm in Norfolk so we'll be under Danelaw too. Might be nice!

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I'll say..
"O Sven, will we meet again? You've the endurance of ten"

BillieWiper · 29/11/2025 13:44

Anyone that bases their current political opinion on what happened in the 1800s is probably just a tiny bit old fashioned and behind the times?!

Slavery happened then too and I suppose that's fantastic as well is it?

RainbowBagels · 29/11/2025 13:27

THE VIKINGS ARE COMIIIING !!!!!!!!
I'm in Norfolk so we'll be under Danelaw too. Might be nice!

MurdoMunro · 29/11/2025 13:13

Oh lordy @RainbowBagels you’re right! But I’ll cringe inside out (again) if she paddles into Whitby wearing horns on her hat.

RainbowBagels · 29/11/2025 13:02

MurdoMunro · 29/11/2025 12:54

What about having another go at Danelaw? Any legs in that?

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The OP is using the name @orgmatdane. Maybe they are busy oiling up their Viking Longship and waiting for the sails to come out of the wash as we speak?

MurdoMunro · 29/11/2025 12:54

222days · 29/11/2025 11:45

Maybe next they’ll be campaigning for Yexit, and want to make York the capital city again… have to go back to before 1800 though. 😏

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What about having another go at Danelaw? Any legs in that?

SerendipityJane · 29/11/2025 12:21

SeaAndStars · 29/11/2025 12:18

Small technical point about the OP. If you believe Britain needs to be part of the EU are you a Rejoiner rather than a Remainer?

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Given the OPs historic slant, using the past participle would seem entirely appropriate.

SeaAndStars · 29/11/2025 12:18

Small technical point about the OP. If you believe Britain needs to be part of the EU are you a Rejoiner rather than a Remainer?

SerendipityJane · 29/11/2025 12:17

why isn’t the UK dominating the world the way it used to?

All empires fall.

SeaAndStars · 29/11/2025 12:15

CaptainMyCaptain · 29/11/2025 11:58

The same person?

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I reckon.

Palourdes · 29/11/2025 12:08

CaptainMyCaptain · 29/11/2025 11:58

The same person?

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And the same person who persistently posts on Britain’s past greatness and why it ‘gave away’ its empire and apparently allowed other countries to copy British tech advances from the Ind Rev. I gather from other posters that it’s someone contemplating a history degree, and who believes that there they will find answers to their Big Question — why isn’t the UK dominating the world the way it used to?

Im already feeling sorry for the tutors who set an essay on the Counter-Reformation or the French Revolution and get ten pages of the OP’s monomania in response.

gerispringer · 29/11/2025 12:06

Don’t forget the slave trade boosting the wealth of Britain - let’s start that up again. Someone needs to watch that Empire series or Civilisations on BBC2.

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