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Commonwealth Day message underlines “team” spirit ahead of Glasgow Games
The following is Queen Elizabeth II message on Commonwealth Day, 10 March. - In July this year, the opening of the 20th Commonwealth Games will be marked by the arrival in Glasgow of the baton that started its journey from Buckingham Palace five months ago. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesI attended a Commonwealth day celebration yesterday in Birmingham.
Mar 11th, 2014 - 06:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0It was excellent, with people from all over the Commonwealth coming together to share ideas, culture and the best of all - food! The food was excellent, with dishes from Jamaica, Nigeria, South Africa, India, Pakistan, Australia, Cameroon and dozens of others.
We all got together to eat, talk, dance (to traditional African and Indian music) and basically all had a great time.
The Commonwealth family is strong - 53 nations - all with common goals and shared principles, yet full of diversity. Brilliant.
There was a time in the early 1900s when an Argentine President suggested that Argentina was part of the British Empire such was his(and their) admiration and gratitude for the British presence in his country.
Mar 11th, 2014 - 07:05 am - Link - Report abuse 0Gordo1, please.
Mar 11th, 2014 - 10:38 am - Link - Report abuse 0We have our pride you know!
The people I talk to wish the English had won over the Spanish back when. This could be the Canada of the south.
Mar 11th, 2014 - 11:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0@3 To be fair, argieland could be a completely different place. Credibility, friends, guts, honesty, intelligence, morals, rectitude, wisdom. Argieland could have had all of these.
Mar 11th, 2014 - 01:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Instead they breed hatred, suffer from incompetence, greed, immoral thinking,
Mar 11th, 2014 - 07:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0They abuse the rights of others, and want what is clearly not theirs,
In a nutshell, they are rotten to the core..
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@4 & 5,
Mar 11th, 2014 - 10:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0l was making a rather weak joke.
But you could well be right.
Argentina has all the resources, they just need an honest capable government.
l like the idea, a Canada of the south.
With English & Spanish as the official languages.
What might have been...........
Oh! poor old Britons dreaming, and dreaming...
Mar 12th, 2014 - 10:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0The fact is that Ukistand ended up like a province of Europe leading by Germany and France...
Such irony of fate...
Or look poor DanyBerger is still spouting crap.
Mar 12th, 2014 - 04:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0But think upon this Dany.
The UK is certainly doing better than France right now, and isn't that far behind Germany (we may even overtake them).
Your beloved Argentina is devolving into a 3rd world country, then to the dark ages, then to the stone age.
A pretty impressive feat that could only be achieved by a bunch of terminally lazy and corrupt people.
You must be so proud to be number 1 - at FAILING.
JAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJA!
Meanwhile, the Commonwealth and the UK goes from strength to strength.
No wonder you sound so jealous.
@LEPWrong
Mar 12th, 2014 - 06:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Are you drunk and joking right?
“The UK is certainly doing better than France right now, and isn't that far behind Germany (we may even overtake them).”
UK GDP: $2.42 trillions
France: $2.75 trillions
How can you overtake Germany an economy of $3.7 trillions that is 55% bigger than Britain with your death economy that only produces debt and deficits?
You will have to grow during 10 years at least at 5.5% rate annually while Germany should be frozen for the same period of time.
“No wonder you sound so jealous.”
Really? About what?
Ukistand just like Malvinas
Mar 12th, 2014 - 07:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0, it just don't exist outside of deluded minds..
@Briton
Mar 12th, 2014 - 11:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Sorry for the spelling mistake is UKistan
http://es.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=UKistan
UKistan
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
UKistan is a perjorative, used in the context of the increasing influence of Islam in the UK, as a result of high levels of muslim immigration.
Christmas is now effectively outlawed in UKistan. Birmingham City Council renamed it 'Winterval', to avoid upsetting the muslims.
Wrong Again old boy,
Mar 13th, 2014 - 01:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0fact is France is the most populated Muslim country in Europe,
it stands at approx. 5 million,
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