Friday, 6 September 2013

Notes From A Small Island

What's wrong with being a small island?

Small islands are very loyal to Britain (not only the United Kingdom, but all except one of the remaining British Overseas Territories and all of the Crown Dependencies; the other Overseas Territory is also small, and is bounded on three sides by the sea) and to the Queen (all but three of the remaining Commonwealth Realms, one of which is a very big island, while the other two also have lots of coast).

Small islands get left alone, and they get to leave everywhere else alone. What's wrong with that?

2 comments:

  1. Nothing at all wrong with it.

    It wasn't our size but our lack of international significance (particularly since the New Labour years) that he was rightly referring to.

    Thanks to the 5 million or so people Blair let in over a decade (how on Earth did we not protest over this?) we are not even a British island any more.

    And, as Andrew Neather says, that was precisely the point.

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  2. Anyone who mentions Andrew Neather has lost the argument. He was the tea boy.

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