Jim Carroll - Date: 08 May 14 - 03:52 AM

Complete and utter bollocks as usual Christmas

This imposition of culture in years gone by - evidenced of course by the fact that we can walk down any town or village in India or Pakistan and find chip shops and pubs selling "Bitter" on the corner of every street.

Those former tourist days, you referred to were those the ones that brought and introduced democracy to the world? The ones that all but eliminated piracy and slavery throughout the world? The ones that raised the fight to eliminate diseases that previously had killed millions? Ah yes I remember them well.

The abandonment of the former British Empire is known as having been the most peaceful end of any Empire in history. And after all that destruction and hate you imply and refer to how on earth would it have been possible to create the second largest international organisation in the world - namely - The Commonwealth of Nations?

I would love to hear more about this "Bounty on Heads" paid to British Troops during the Greek Civil War Christmas? Who was it offered and paid by? But I don't expect to hear any more about it from anyone, especially not you Christmas.

"Religion became a feature because the British made it so by facilitating the creation of a Protestant State - that has been their stance ever since"

First England and then separately Scotland and then the rest of the United Kingdom became a Protestant country for very good reasons:

1: Rampant abuses and corruption within the Church of Rome
2: Serious and persistent attempts by the Catholic European super-powers of the day Spain and France to conquer and destroy Britain.

Hence the Act of Settlement 1701 and other Acts restricting the ability and opportunity for Catholics of exercising power within the realm.

Today only the Act of Settlement remains all other restraining acts against Catholics have been repealed.

1766 the Papacy recognises the Hanoverian Succession and Hanoverian dynasty as the lawful rulers of Great Britain and Ireland.

1774 - The Quebec Act ended restrictions on Roman Catholics in Canada

1778 - First Roman Catholic Relief Act

1791 - Second Roman Catholic Relief Act

1828 - Repeal of the Test Acts

1829 - Third Roman Catholic Relief Act

1832 - The Reform Acts

So Christmas things DID NOT just stay the same, quite the reverse in fact.