Understanding The Difference Between The UK, Great Britain and England

[elleng]

http://digg.com/video/england-great-britain-united-kingdom-commonwealth-explained?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=facebook

Got it???

[guillaumeb]

1. Understood and recommended.

And Empire is one reason for the current problem. The white xenophobes do not want to see brown people immigrating even if these brown people come from countries that were once part of the Empire.

[HeartoftheMidwest]

2. A major reason for the immigration of "foreigners";

which has nothing to do with Empire:

"Hudson sees the crisis in Europe as, in part, spawned by the U.S. intervention in the Middle East and the Ukraine.

“If there is anyone who is responsible for the Brexit, it is Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama,” he said. “They destroyed Libya. They turned over Libyan weapons to [Islamic State], al-Qaida and [Nusra Front]. It was their war in Syria, where many of these weapons ended up, which created the massive exodus of refugees into Europe. This exodus exacerbated nationalism and anti-immigrant sentiment. Clinton and Obama are also responsible for a huge exodus of Ukrainians. This is all a response to American war policy in the Middle East and the Ukraine."

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/2008_all_over_again_20160624

Fair point.

[MadLinguist]

4. rubbish

[Chakab]

5. What a load of horseshit. Britons have been xenophobes since time immemorial.

Were Hillary Clinton and Barrack Obama to blame for all of the "No Dogs, No Blacks, No Irish" signs that my father used to see in England in the when immigrated there from Barbados to attend university in the 1960s?

I'm not even going to get into to the absurd notion that the intervention in Libya was more of a catalyst for the current crisis in the Middle East than the invasion of a Iraq, which the PM of the UK sitting at the time wholeheartedly endorsed.

[HeartoftheMidwest]

10. I think the author's point is that..

...our reckless ME policies have, as unintended consequences, led to a massive exodus of people from the ME and Northern Africa. As a member of the EU, great Britain has been under pressure from other EU countries, like Germany, to take in more refugees. That prospect seems to have fed into the social turmoil in Britain.

[SunSeeker]

6. The "he" you are citing for that Trump talking point is a NY Obama-hating economist.

He is no expert on the UK nor eastern European or Middle East geopolitics.

Even if the upheavals in the Ukraine or Syria were Obama's fault, which they are not (nor are they Hillary's), Syrians make up a negligible percentage of UK immigrants.

Less than 5,000 Syrians (including dependents) have been granted asylum in the UK since the Syrian conflict began in 2011. http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-34139960

To suggest that England and Wales chose to exit the EU over what amounts to an average of 1,000 Syrian refugees a year coming into the UK is preposterous.

[busterbrown]

7. Most problems in the Middle East?

IMO... are a result of the horrible issues of Gaza and the West BanK..

[HeartoftheMidwest]

9. The flood of refugees streaming north into Central and Northern Europe is a direct result...

...of our disastrous ME policies. It's a major cause, but climate change has exacerbated the refugee problem too. Farmers dealing with a prolonged drought moved to urban areas, straining resources and heightening tensions within those ares.

[SunSeeker]

8. Very informative - especially that stuff about Crown territories.