Yes and No nemesis. Stalin was as guilty of genocide as hitler was and history records this also. yes he was on our side but only because it suited him then and he was more worried about being invaded by Germany than anything else. There have plenty dictators afterwards who have gone the same way but I can say with a certain amount of ...

No need for the history lesson John, it was a rhetorical question. I find it incredible that you are harking back to wars from hundereds of years ago as a reason why we should still oppose unity and common policies with our neighbours. It's like refusing to speak to someone you went to school with 50 years ago because he was a bully and nicked ...

john e: raging: Admire the Australians Rosie? A whole country who are forced to have a National Day of Apology for their treatment of the Aborigines? A day where everyoe reflects on how sorry they are for something their government did to the indigenous people of that country. Should we have a ''sorry day'' then? when we mope about and reflect ...

rosiet2008: Yes you're quite right Susanna. In fact why stop there why not celebrate the Battle of Hastings, the Battle of Waterloo and all the other blood that's been shed over the years.  Yep people getting killed is really something to celebrate all right! It's exactly this kind of attitude that is the problem. It is not a ...

john e: raging: Well said Rosie and thanks fro bringing this back on topic, it saddens me how a thread on Rememberance Sunday can be dragged down to party political nonsense.   Lest we forget. I trust you will all be wearing a poppy and at 11am on the 11th, stop and remember those who died.   Of course I did...frankly I am ...

john e: raging: Well said Rosie and thanks fro bringing this back on topic, it saddens me how a thread on Rememberance Sunday can be dragged down to party political nonsense.   Lest we forget. I trust you will all be wearing a poppy and at 11am on the 11th, stop and remember those who died.   Of course I did...frankly I am ...

lol How long ago did we fight the Dutch and French John? erm were they not our allies in the last major world conflict? But now it all becomes clear to me.......after we defeated the nazi's they scurried away and hatched a plan that would see them form a European Superstate in 50 years time......and of course Blair is so obviously a National ...

john e:In this Country we have, it is sad to say, long experience of  'The enemy within', it is one of the risks of our freedoms of speach, religion and politics.   The people of the USA are just awaking to this fact of life.   A balance must be struck, we do not want to live in a 'Police State', but we need to feel ...

kendra1:agree,  when i am abrooad i tend to hide the fact that i am british and revert to my swedish ancestry.  brits cannot handle the booze..   Well I am more than delighted to let everyone know I am Scottish Kendra. We have been tarred with the brush of heavy drinking (as have the Irish) for many a year but we have not ...

Admire the Australians Rosie? A whole country who are forced to have a National Day of Apology for their treatment of the Aborigines? A day where everyoe reflects on how sorry they are for something their government did to the indigenous people of that country. Should we have a ''sorry day'' then? when we mope about and reflect on Britains ...