The amazing power of the British commonwealth over the world

i gave u that link---u dont believe any of it..thats fine
its possible they might have more power than we realise...my opinion

Without backing evidence, which that article does nopt present in any notable fashion, that blief has no real value. If you go around believing things with no support, then there can never be any rationality or credibility to what you say.

im not saying it...the link is....what I said was just opinion
im not believing everything said
im just sayin that britain MIGHT have more power than we realise..my opinion

Saying 'my opinion' doesn't actually improve your case any, nor anyone's respect. You can have the opinion the moon is made of cheese if you wish, that it is your opinion does not make such a belief any less silly.

Any belief you hold without a presentable reason to back it up is evidence of a lack of wisdom- mind you, the statement 'Britain might have more power that we realise' in itself is incredibly vague.

conspiracy theories based soley on opinion?
sure this is the case with most conspiracy theorist...
just never heard one outright admit it before.

Originally posted by Ushgarak
WD- no luck for you guys I am afraid. To be in the Commonwealth you had to have been part of the Empire before its break up- it succeeded the Empire. The States kind of ruled itself out of that.

It had a fair few mighty nations- the UK, Canada, Austraila, New Zealand, India, Pakistan, Nigeria- and lots of smaller ones, all of whom have the Queen as their Head of State and have the right to have royal appointments etc. (hence Australian ships being HMAS (Her Majesty's Australian Ship) and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police being actually Royal etc. but just as in the UK itself, her actual power is non-existant; it is all for show); we have trade meetings and four-yearly games similar to the Olympics which Britain still mostly loses at and occasiononally we throw out the odd member that we think is being abusive, like Nigeria (who changed and came back in), but sometimes that doesn't quite work properly, like with Zimbabwe (who called it a British neo-colonial attmept to interfere in the running of their country, which was a pitifful statement from their totally corrupt Government).

Ah man, what a pitty. We shoulda stick to the Empire a bit longer back in the colonial days. 😛

There was actually a bit of a furore once back in '83, when the US invaded Grenada.

The UK was seriously pissed by that-we were like "HEY! That's a COMMONWEALTH country... will you kindly TELL us before you invade somewhere that technically derives sovereign power from our own Head of State, please?"

Amusingly, one of the things they went in to do (it was during a communist uprising, the extent of which they had vastly overestimated) was to rescue the British High Commissioner there. Certainly a surprise to him when they came to rescue him from his captors- he was quietly having dinner in his Embassy at the time, perfectly safe.

Ugh! AS-IF! schmoll

The British haven't ruled the world since like 1997!
When the Spice Girls broke up!

That's a Conspiracy. They are still together in secret and have control of Belgium already.

Ush are the Falkland Islands part of the Commonwealth? 😕

Yes! They are even part of the UK, same way Hawaii is part of the US; they are an overseas territory and when Argentina invaded they were actually invading our land.

Are the Argentinian Goverment still appealing to the UN regarding the issue of territory? Last time I heard Blair was there to settle the issue.

You must be thinking of Gibraltar. They don't even have a shadow of a case with the Falklands.

Thanks for clearing that up. 😄

Ush is quite good at that, isn't he?

He sure is.

Thankyou! I also do tax returns and kid's parties; book now!

Unfortunately I don't have the finances available for your services anymore. Tex is the only person I can afford these days, since he's so cheap and all 😛

Originally posted by PVS
conspiracy theories based soley on opinion?
sure this is the case with most conspiracy theorist...
just never heard one outright admit it before.

im not a conspiracy theorist
try and read the previous posts before replying

Originally posted by Ushgarak
Saying 'my opinion' doesn't actually improve your case any, nor anyone's respect. You can have the opinion the moon is made of cheese if you wish, that it is your opinion does not make such a belief any less silly.

Any belief you hold without a presentable reason to back it up is evidence of a lack of wisdom- mind you, the statement 'Britain might have more power that we realise' in itself is incredibly vague.

saying the moon is made out of cheese is silly...no one would say that...your missing the point
wheres your evidence ush