The Delusion of the 'Special Relationship'

Lord Heseltine speaks on the BBC's Question Time.

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[593OLYMPUS]

@IAspire2010 You may well be right regarding GB being potentially defeated by Nazi Germany if you had not supplied additional materials ( we will never know ) - but the USA was keeping way out of WW2 then as opposed to your new idea of starting most wars so you can be the first there. You should be ashamed of yourselves looking back on history and doing sod all for 2 years until the Japs blew your fat arses out of the water at Pearl Harbour.

[Churchx77]

No its not. The americans look down at the UK or Europe in general. And the brits do at the americans. Its an all out lie that everybody and nobody believes.

[Redcarpet01]

@593OLYMPUS Yeah all they did was send money & arms to China in Asia & Britain. Wanted US shed the blood until forced to intervene at the last moment. ROFL!

[dezboss]

@TheLiberalKnight It occured to me that if the Irish were attacked by Al Quaeda, they would go out of their way to blame us for it.

Honestly, like the Americans, the Irish have got the most extraordinary ability to blame us for several things in their history that was nothing to do with it.

[TheLiberalKnight]

@dezboss Exactly.

[dezboss]

@TheLiberalKnight That is so true, I'm not particularly anti-Irish but I do think that regardless of their EU membership they are rather insignificant in the modern world.

I'm not saying that the UK is a world leader (world power yes but not leader), but we are a member of NATO, the G7, G8 and G20, we have a seat on the UN security council, we are a nuclear power and our EU membership is clearly prominent. We obviously count for something in the world.

Nobody can say the same for Ireland.

[GedKelly1999]

There are no secret Courts in England and Wales (which I assume is what you mean by "the UK", Scotland being a separate jurisdiction). I don't need to Google conspiracy-theorist nutjob websites, thanks. I'm not really sure why you're complaining that YOU have cost the taxpayers at least £100K, it seems like it should be us complaining about that.

And if you don't know or understand the difference between secret and private, then that's your problem.

[realzoomy]

@GedKelly1999 Don't you realise there are secret courts in the UK? I was dragged through the secret family courts for 7 years, it cost the taxpayers at least £100,000. This is why Ken Clarke has made it harder for people to get legal aid, he's trying to stop thye gravy train of professional loser secret family court solicitors. Google secret family court for more info. John Hemming MP is a double crossing bleep, he pretends to help people who are being persecuted in those courts.

[GedKelly1999]

@realzoomy Secret Family Courts? What are you talking about?

[realzoomy]

He is so sneaky. Ask him about the Secret Family Courts. I would if ever I met him. He would not want me asking him questions about his relationship with Ian Josephs!

[thedukeofpotato]

There's no such thing as special relationship, only national interests.