The Somme, 1916

This video gives tribute to the 58,000 British and Empire casualties of the first day of The Battle of the Somme.
**YES, THIS IS FACTUALLY INCORRECT. PLEASE JUST ENJOY THE FILM AND STOP BEING SMARTARSES. I CANT BE BOTHERED TO CHANGE THE FIGURE**

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[THthefirst]

@PATRICKEIRE If the 1.5 million in Ulster are not to be allowed to vote/control their independence from Ireland/retain links with Britain, should Scotland be allowed to do the same? Or do different rules apply?

[THthefirst]

@PATRICKEIRE Did the French blow up German children in Berlin?

[sprPee]

britains greatest victory

[PATRICKEIRE]

@TheMightOfTheEnglish and they were only interested in looking after there own greed driven bigoted way of life, and they were elected by the upperclass who were taking the queens shilling at the expesense of the rest of the nation,with exception of a handfull they were a stain on irelands history,,and ur point of german bullets and guns,,who was it that carson and the UVF bought there guns from?With the help of british officers who trained them.agian the brit empire has lot to answer for

[PATRICKEIRE]

Back stabbing?Again let me remind u that no matter how you may try to gloss over the fact that the british had no right whatever to be in ireland,i will again point out that every nation has the RIGHT to its own gov and freedom,,and not to be dicated to by anyone else,and when another nation tries to claim these rights then the people have evry right to fight for ther rights,and as for ur comment about the irish in parliment ,they were 99% prodestant landlords who were elected

[TheMightOfTheEnglish]

as for the americans who fought in war of independence, you had more rights than them, if they had what you had they would never of rebelled ,you had over 100 MPs in parliament , the colonies none,all they wanted was a voice in westminster,a say,washington and most of the other rebel leaders would of settled for that .the majority of colonists,were of english or british decent and it was more of a civil war , to begin with there was no hatred ,as such, they were us , but wanted their own voice

[TheMightOfTheEnglish]

the timing of the IRA in 1916 couldnt of been more offensive to most british , talk of backstabbing, and by the law of the land they were traitors ,, they were armed by germans ,the ira conspired with the germans , german bullets were killing irish civilians in dublin, dubliners ,ive said before poured chamber pots on the rebels heads after they surrendered . they had no sympathy until the 16 were executed , surely they couldnt of expected anything less.

[TheMightOfTheEnglish]

@PATRICKEIRE they were terrorists , just as the new irish government called the anti agreement IRA terrorists , and the catholic church threatend to excommuncate them if they didnt stop their attacks ,, their acts were unlawful ,the scenerio in 1916 , most irish were passive ,just got on with life , many thousands were serving on the western front , and at a time were we could of lost the war , the IRA decided to launch an attack on its own capital ,putting many dubliners at risk

[THthefirst]

@PATRICKEIRE I can understand that argument. Equally, do you not see the slight irony in that the 1.5 million or so people in Ulster simply do not want to be part of Ireland but want to be part of the UK. The British govt has always said, when that changes, they will leave. So did the South seek to force the people in the north to be part of Ireland against their will, and use force to do so? Whatever the historical reasons, you have to deal with the way things are now by peace, not bombs.

[PATRICKEIRE]

But i wud like to point out that i agree with u on our close links,and we have many,but it angers me so much when people call us the terriorsts for fighting for our nations freedom,as i said we done the very same as the french did in WW2,as the americans did in there war of independence,and yet they are potrayed ah heroes and rightly so,yes awful things were done by ira but my point is that when one nation holds another against its will these things will happen