Northern Ireland

[capt_buzzard]

A new site on Ulster Northern Ireland. http://www.loveulster.com

Should be renamed Hate Life,



Debate and discussions on whats on and about in Northern Ireland troubled land.

[Valerie100]

While we're on the subject of Ireland, an Irish ghost cam website that's done extremely well...

http://www.irelandseye.com/ghost/index.shtm

[chrisb84uk]

Yeah sadly NI has been going through a lot of troubling times. My last visit there was about 2 years ago, and u could tell by the reaction of people there that things were not going too smoothly.



Let's all hope and pray that things turn out well, especially for my grandparents who are living through all of this the best they can!!

[golem]

The British province of Northern Ireland which is populated by a vast majority of people who are British, who want to remain that way, and they have been subjected to years of terrorism by a foreign power – Eire.

NuLabour tried to sell the British people of the British province of Northern Ireland down the river in an attempt to surrender to the constant attacks by the foreigners presumably to save money.

I think that many US people fail to grasp that Northern Ireland is an actual part of Great Britain and NOT just a geographical part of the island Ireland.

Ireland is an island that has two countries on it. One is the sovereign nation of Eire, the other a province of another sovereign nation, the United Kingdom. Eire wants to capture a part of the UK, that is what the Northern Ireland people are fighting about. They don’t want that.

Northern Ireland, an integral part of the UK comprises of a part of historic Ulster that was formed at the time of the partition that saw the relinquishment of British rule over a part of the island and the creation of the Republic of Eire and a population the majority of which want to remain just that – a part of the UK hence the use of the term ‘Loyalists’.

[Accountable]

golem wrote: The British province of Northern Ireland which is populated by a vast majority of people who are British, who want to remain that way, and they have been subjected to years of terrorism by a foreign power – Eire.



NuLabour tried to sell the British people of the British province of Northern Ireland down the river in an attempt to surrender to the constant attacks by the foreigners presumably to save money.



I think that many US people fail to grasp that Northern Ireland is an actual part of Great Britain and NOT just a geographical part of the island Ireland.



Ireland is an island that has two countries on it. One is the sovereign nation of Eire, the other a province of another sovereign nation, the United Kingdom. Eire wants to capture a part of the UK, that is what the Northern Ireland people are fighting about. They don’t want that.



Northern Ireland, an integral part of the UK comprises of a part of historic Ulster that was formed at the time of the partition that saw the relinquishment of British rule over a part of the island and the creation of the Republic of Eire and a population the majority of which want to remain just that – a part of the UK hence the use of the term ‘Loyalists’.
No US people posted an opinion one way or the other in this thread.

[golem]

Accountable wrote: No US people posted an opinion one way or the other in this thread.


So what? A surprising number of them can read!

[Bez]

golem wrote: So what? A surprising number of them can read!


Was that rudeness necessary ?

[golem]

Bez wrote: Was that rudeness necessary ?


Trust me, that was not rude.

[golem]

Make no mistake I recognise that the standard of literacy in the US is markedly better than the standard of literacy in the UK. Take as an example the recent findings regarding the reading standards of people entering our UK universities. It’s abysmal.

Here’s part of an item on the subject that was printed in The Daily Telegraph – one of the UK’s better Newspapers (if not THE best).

“Despite Tony Blair's blethering about "education, education, education", businesses have been saying for many years that the standards of basic numeracy and literacy in Britain are going backwards.

The experience of UK companies, across a wide range of sectors, is that too many school-leavers are hoping to find jobs while having almost nothing positive to offer potential employers.

Every year thousands fall way short of minimum academic qualifications. For instance, more than half of all teenagers do not achieve A-C grades in five GCSEs, including English and mathematics. “

Today there has been a report published by the British Examination Officers Association which includes ---

“(there is) Concern over GCSE pass marks. It was possible to gain an A grade with a score of just 47 per cent in one of this year's GCSE exam papers, it has been revealed.”

That means that with a pass mark of 47% a candidate gets a TOP award in a subject. And that must be seen against falling course content and difficulty.

Our education standards have gone to pot.

Examination standards have plummeted, the equivalent to High School graduation exams can be re-taken in parts that students have failed – not SUBJECTS note, parts of subjects, and the whole University system in the UK, once set up so that only the top few percent of people COULD get access to ad based principally on ability, has been diluted so that the difficulty today is not being sufficiently qualified to gain a place, it is to leave education with INSUFFICIENT qualifications to gain a place.

Furthermore the subjects that now can result in the award of a degree include the most ludicrous things imaginable. One can even gain a master’s degree in knitting at the Royal College of Art, London.

Knitting.

I ask you.

A MASTERS in knitting.

So my observation regarding the surprising number of US folk who can read being surprising was not a ‘dig’ at the US, it was sad criticism of the UK.

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