Why are English people always waffling on about our special relationship with the USA when they heavily funded

Question

the IRA?

Dear Popbang

Why dont you go and go popbang in glasgow Airport like some of your other chums?

By the way I am English!

Answer 1

Us English do like the Yank people, but youd never hear the man in the street going on about our "special friendship".
We do however realise that in Democracy's like ours, we can still have a Population Dumb enough to vote in War-mongering Dick-weeds ! (I.E Blair and Bush) We dont like Bush, but we do like Americans. Its just some of the stoooopider people in this country cant differentiate between the people and their so called leaders.
Thank God we've got the Queen at the top and the Politicians havent got full control with no restrictions !
The Aussies and Kiwis are our Brothers... The Americans are our Cousins.

Answer 2

So what! Many Americans saw in the IRA what they think of as themselves in the 18th century, fighting the British.

America is a long way off and many Americans, esp. of Irish descent, have no real concept of what life is like in Eire then or now. They have a mind picture of a white cottage somewhere in Ireland, with a large bog in the background and folk working hard on the land.

I only know this, that the Irish people were kicked around and subjugated by the British for generations and only really began to get on top of the situation from about 1916 during the Easter [Dublin] Uprising. It was a start.

Why shouldn't the Irish have a dream of a united Eire? What's wrong with that? It's going to happen anyway.

Take note that the Celtic dominated government of UK have already put in place the very source of that strength and enabled and encouraged Sin Fein to have power in Ulster. It's political aim is a united Eire.

Just get used to it and lay back and think of England as you are slowly shagged to death.

The Irish also have race and tribal memories of the potato famine - an act of nature, for which they blame the British, as though somehow the Brits caused the potato harvest to fail by sending continuous rain storms throughout that dreadful summer.

Whatever the reason, and whatever the history, it's over. We are now faced with a new situation. We can stop squabbling for a bit and get on with the task in hand.

Irish Americans can be of any opinion they like concerning whether they like the Brits or not. Right now, we're on the same side. Maybe things will change later, who knows. It's our history and there's damn all we can do about it.

Just remember this; History is a Foreign Place. We were not there, so how the hell should we know?

As for the "Special Relationship" it's all to do with an old English saying that "blood is thicker than water". Many millions of Americans are of British and Irish descent. This does not make them total fools in respect of our relationship[s]. They know it's more than mere history and that we've had to take our share of the blame for a lot of things in the world but somehow we have managed to pull off some surprising successes. Like WW2 for example. In Europe anyway.

Why not continue the 'relationship?'

Why not encourage American enterprise to set up in UK? Once established, they will be seen as British [in all but name] and can trade freely with the EU. Clever trick?
Same thing as a Welsh sheep farmer selling Welsh lambs on the hoof to an English sheep farmer down the road, who a couple of weeks later can call them English lambs. Why not?

Answer 3

people that I know do not waffle about a special relationship with the USA, in fact alot of the people I know are upset at the americanisation of our country, language, spelling ect. This so called special relationship(which is largely spoken about by sycophantic politicians) is a huge bone of contention for many british people, especially in the current climate.
As for the IRA misguided Irish americans who supported terrorism is not a government or a whole country.

Answer 4

There is a special relationship with the USA because of our ancestry. The majority of Americans are descended from English, scots and Irish who emigrated there in the 17th, 18th and 19th century. They are our distant cousins. If most people in this country were to go back in their family tree, they would find a relative who emigrated there.

Answer 5

The USA did not fund the IRA a few half wits of Irish descent with silly romantic ideas about their motherland did just has the box was passed roiund in Irish clubs in the UK to supprt 'the boys'.

Answer 6

The IRA are a bunch of criminal mafia wannabes. The americans that are dumb enough to fund them are fools.

We have sided with america because they are the biggest fish in the pond. Its just cowardice which is what the majority of britains are now soft cowards who let others walk all over them.

Answer 7

We Americans do like the English, but only the upper class ones. The rest are a bunch of uneducated smelly rats with bad breath and Horrible teeth(all full of cavities and never brushed)

Answer 8

It's not the people, it's the successive governments. Special relationships with the USA, as far as I'm concerned, are personal relationships with individuals from the USA who don't always agree with their own government.

Answer 9

You really are a first class tosser!

This may surprise your minute brain but the general global population (yes there are other countries outside of the US of A) do not actually like you people from the US of A.

We generally squirm at the thought of a 'special relationship' with a country that is full of retards, you being a fine example and representation of such retards.

I reiterate the general perception of the US of A:

Big cars, big houses, big mouths, big egos, big $, big military.........but

TINY BRAINS

Answer 10

The USA and the Brits do have a special relationship, I personally feel closer to the Brits than any other race.I feel I can identify with them,