Can Remainers explain this?

[orgmatdane]

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?

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

@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.

That was rather a long time ago mate

Haha!

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

The OP probably gores on club 1832 holidays.

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

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

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

Content warning: swearing

Ottoman Empire was big and strong.

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.

Slavery
empire

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