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Denzil_DC

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1. Like so many who like to flash their classical education at the drop of a top hat,

Reply to Soph0571 (Original post)

Tue Sep 18, 2018, 07:21 AM

Sep 2018

aside from the valid objections outlined in the article, Johnson's statement's historically illiterate on any number of other levels, not least because the British state didn't even exist pre-1066 - so he'd need to define "our leaders" in a particularly tortuous, and plain wrong, way for his claim to make any sense - and is a relatively recent formation in the grand sweep of history.

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1066, Hitler, the Corn Laws... Why are Brexiteers the basic bitches of history? [View all] Soph0571 Sep 2018 OP

Like so many who like to flash their classical education at the drop of a top hat, Denzil_DC Sep 2018 #1

Excellent read. Thanks! geardaddy Sep 2018 #2

One could also mention the choice of the German Hanoverians as heirs to the throne, in preference to LeftishBrit Sep 2018 #3

Robert Peel? LeftishBrit Sep 2018 #4

If Rees-Smugg had been round in the 1840's T_i_B Sep 2018 #5