They want 500,000 pounds From Me!
I think you can say that this website is unique. Us Brits (a technicality there which I'll come back to) are singlehandedly blamed for most of the world's woes. Therefore this website, owned by the unknown Carrie Carnegie is either a very good windup or as we Brits would say "Stark Raving Bonkers!". She would like us to cough up (ahem) £31,000,000,000,000. Now as there are roughly 60,000,000 of us in the UK, that is by my reckoning half a million each. Will you take used £5 notes Carrie?
British is a strange term anyway. Never mind modern day politics where the Union of Great Britain is 300+ years old and showing signs of creaking if not falling apart, for most of the period that this website cites, it was the English not the British invading etc. Also we haven't had one continuous monarchy- it was made up of various different families and at one time, no monarchy but a Lord Protector – Oliver Cromwell.
Apologising for the past is a somewhat pointless gesture that is more about gesture politics than anything really solid. (Except say for compensating people who are still alive for misdeeds done to them but that is different). But good windup all the same. Now which nation should Carrie pick on next?
Posted: August 11th, 2010 under UK, bizarre, internet.
Tags: bizarre, internet, UK
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