Future Of Commonwealth After Queen Elizabeth II (how much, living)

[Dangerous-Boy]

Originally Posted by irish_bob

The commonwealth is a good idea and has no real downsides, networking is usually beneficial.

Can see Ireland rejoining some day and I'd support it personally.

the british seem to already take care Irish defense.

[irish_bob]

Originally Posted by Dangerous-Boy

the british seem to already take care Irish defense.

where did i refer to " defense " ?

AFAIK , the commonwealth has no role in defense treaties ?

[rjhowie]

Defense is the routine spelling of the word in America but here in Gt Britain where it came from we and I prefer defence..........

[Dangerous-Boy]

I prefer an english standardization between the commonwealth and the US. I hate this different spelling crap.


order from chaos

[irish_bob]

Originally Posted by rjhowie

Defense is the routine spelling of the word in America but here in Gt Britain where it came from we and I prefer defence..........

My laptop has American English so sometimes I just go with it.

American English puzzles me.

[rjhowie]

We tend to pronounce things differently from our American cousins and we are invaded by Americanisms even on the news. That clown Blair brought in a Supreme Court replacing the old Lords one then we get "law enforcement" and so on!

[dizzybint]

Originally Posted by rjhowie

We tend to pronounce things differently from our American cousins and we are invaded by Americanisms even on the news. That clown Blair brought in a Supreme Court replacing the old Lords one then we get "law enforcement" and so on!

Blair should be in jail.. never mind the circus..

[rjhowie]

Blair was a damn joke as Prime Minister and might as well have lived in the White House.

[BugsyPal]

Originally Posted by rjhowie

Blair was a damn joke as Prime Minister and might as well have lived in the White House.

Ahh but he has paid a heavy price for being GWBII's "lapdog" poodle.

[Dangerous-Boy]

I think blair talked GWB into invading with Cheney. British had more to gain and less to lose. Don't know how many oil contracts they got though.