um bongo molongo
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Around the middle of January when we all thought we were on for a top 10 finish. Unfurl a banner saying ‘don’t sell Dan Burn and for god’s sake buy someone who can hit a barn door’
1997 for me.
Introduce PR and Lord’s reform and most of the constitutional nonsense we’ve endured for the last decade and a half just goes away.
Failing that 9 months before when Rupert Murdoch was born and tell his dad to just have a cold shower or use a sock that night. Should go a decent way to saving the world.
Euro 96 would be a good place to start and from there to replay the next 15 years on a loop.
Not to reset anything, just to relive the good times.
Yeah, again, I don't mean re-living your past.
Maybe it's better to ask: when did Britain start going wrong? (If you believe it has)
I guess example checkpoints would be 1979 General Election, or 2013 (?) when Cameron promised an EU referendum.
Some might pick dates before the rise or fall of the British Empire...
The period when the Romans arrived.
The Celtic Britons actually repel the Romans and then a more united Celtic nation is created which takes in the the whole of the island and Ireland.
They then repel the Germanic tribes and the Normans.
The modern version of the island has Gaelic as the native language.
The world is potentially a lot different if this happens as the Celtic Tribes would have probably -been less likely to have gone down the path of the mass colonising that occurred.
The period when the Romans arrived.
The Celtic Britons actually repel the Romans and then a more united Celtic nation is created which takes in the the whole of the island and Ireland.
They then repel the Germanic tribes and the Normans.
The modern version of the island has Gaelic as the native language.
The world is potentially a lot different if this happens as the Celtic Tribes would have probably -been less likely to have gone down the path of the mass colonising that occurred.
I'd go back to about 1976 and make sure I learned a trade and bought a house as soon as poss then upgraded and upgraded then cashed it all in and bought a place in Cornwall and retired early.
It’s genuinely an interesting idea. I quite like it. Although “The Celts” were not some combined, peacefully co-existing tribe living in harmony. There was no such thing as “Celts”, although it’s a useful term to use.
They were a large number of separate tribes across the British isles that lived a roughly similar lifestyle and had similar technology at about the same time, termed The Celts in 1700.
They did their fair share of fighting and conquering other tribes but I think I you’re right that they were less interested in colonising other countries.
It would have probably been a rather nice, spiritual existence and even with plenty of “creature comforts”. The ancient village of Chysauster in Cornwall (fascinating place) had high walled stone houses, drainage, tended gardens, food storage, and under-floor heating. And many other trappings previously thought exclusive to the Romans.
However, I fear that when the Norsemen came a viking, they would have been toast.
But yeah, I agree. I’d rather enjoy living among the Dumnonni. A simpler life.
The Battle of Clontarf in Ireland shows if tribes united they could defeat the Vikings.
If at some stage they found a leader like a Charlemagne the the Gaelic speaking tribes of Briton had a chance of being brought together. The potential of that succeeding was seen with Boudicca for a short time though she never had the full force of the island wide tribes behind her so was doomed to fail.
Boudicca also displays another feature of those Gaelic speaking cultures which is the place of women in those societies.
Ireland had it in their Brehon Laws and Boudicca's ability to take control of armies shows their was more of a shared power and responsibility in their cultures.
There'd be no need to repel the normans if there were no anglo saxons and thus no Edward the Confessor and no succession issues.
It would be fascinating to see what would have happened if the Romans hadn't won though, the country it more or less created has had an enormous effect on the world. You could equally choose 1066, the marriage of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon or even the Spanish Armada.
Is it a Captain Kirk answer to a Kobayashi Maru test scenario though ?If this was an exam, you'd get zero points for this answer.
Be a huge task, but I’d like to have seen the British manufacturing industry preserved and developed.
As a society we are an eclectic mix, but there was a large group of the population who forged lifelong careers in factories, this has now disappeared but we’ve still got a large group of school leavers who are not suited to further education but are made to attend meaningless college courses in order to tick the boxes and massage the youth unemployment figures.
You’re clueless
Too many clowns on here who know **** all about anything
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