What Donald Trump means for Britain and the EU - Byline Interviews EP #3 | Mike Galsworthy

[@radarlockeify]

A convicted felon is not allowed by law to enter the UK. Please use the law.

[@treyquattro]

we're in an age of de facto, not de jure. The despots and oligarchs have shat all over international law and "the rules based system". Who's going to stop Trump, other than God? (Who doesn't exist, and if he did, is probably on Trump's side anyway. He's certainly on Netanyahu's. Allegedly...)

[@alanhat5252]

Which law?

[@alanhat5252]

​@@treyquattrogods very rarely stop people digging their own graves.

[@allandavies1642]

Our children and grandchildren need a future without war. The up and coming generations Need Peaceful Cooperation between governments and it's administrators.

[@paulgilbert9346]

Why are you spouting Russian talking points?

[@allandavies1642]

@@paulgilbert9346 It is my personal view.

[@paulgilbert9346]

@ so you want to hand everything to Putin? He will just come back for more.

[@tarquinmerryweather4929]

Brexit promised Unicorns and Sunlit Uplands. The first is a fable and the next.... just kept raining!

[@treyquattro]

Wright on Edgar! Oops, not Edgar Wright. Next!

[@eblita3698]

Well, for the cultural thing: We understand and speak English in most EU countries. English is a total mix of Celtic, Roman and other languages ​​on the Continent, -why don't the British honour their ancestors learning some of their languages? I think that in countries where you don't learn foreign languages ​​​​from a young age, you are very dismissive and feel a little intimidated by other languages. Make fun of them even. If you speak English, people understand you, but you don't understand what others are saying. In a way, it seems to have an impact on inferiority complexes. An easy start: 30% of the English vocabulary are borrowed French words. Or your grammar: English is a West-Germanic language, although you have the North-Germanic (same as Scandinavian grammar). Probably from the Frisian languages ​​arriving with the Angles, the Saxons and the Jutes. The Old English grammar is Proto Norse from 500 years before the Vikings came speaking Old Norse, the successor of Proto Norse. Well, why bother to learn languages ​​when most speak English anyway? Answer: widens your horizon on many levels and there are perfectly many places in the world where people speak ie French or Spanish. In other countries, kids learn languages ​​from an early age when it's easier and then they find it even easier to learn 2-3 more later on. It really doesn't take away your skills from maths and science. We handle all subjects pretty well in Scandinavia where we learn 3 foreign languages ​​before leaving school.

[@alanhat5252]

We do learn foreign languages at school but they're taught as an academic subject not as a usable tool so we leave school knowing very little, so little that it's embarrassing to even try.

[@gracian2425]

@@alanhat5252 But that must also have been lacking in some geography teaching... Do you just learn about the old English colonies at school? I'm Danish and have lived many years in Germany, where they are very geographically aware of Europe, north, south, east and west, after which I lived in Dublin for a few years. There were broadcasts and conversations where it dawned on me that on the British Isles and in Ireland they talk about all the other countries in Europe as one country called the Continent. After all, the continent is not one country, but many different cultures, languages, topography and climates. But the average citizen on these Isles knew virtually nothing. Well, well. Britain is facing a turning point. Becoming no. 51. American state or being European. Empire is gone and the old European countries were sovereign and never subject to that empire. But I actually think that you keep more of your identity staying European, -the Americans are too busy being slaves for their corporates and the US corporates have their own agenda. At least we prefer British English to American English in Europe :)