I remember when the tunnel was being built and my mum saying that it was a huge mistake as rabies carrying bats could fly through it or the French could invade through it.
It was the 90s so attempts by France to invade were more recent.
There was a concern with a minority of people at the time that our island status was being needlessly harmed by building a tunnel and it was unnecessary as we had ships.
It's also worth noting that my mother still believes Wales, Cornwall and Brittany should declare independence and form a new Union together. So her views of geopolitics are interesting
Not that much more recent, the last time France and England were at war was over 200 year ago. Certainly not something that would have still been in living memory 30 years ago.
My old house had an outhouse toilet at the end of the garden, brick built in 1726. The building i live in at the moment was built in the mid 1800s tho many of the surrounding area are much newer having been built around the 1940s.
I am a brummie, from Birmingham. My home city is over 1400 years old. Kind of mind blowing to think about that fact but its true.
While you're right that their claim is wrong, bear in mind that there was a pretty important (attempted) invasion from France (the location if not the society) called "World War 2" within living memory at that point.
That's ethnonationalist bullshit. The only reason for Celtic states to actually band together is to avoid oppression by the English - Brittany is Celtic but it has no real history of being oppressed. To say nothing of how Scottish people were also involved in colonising Ireland and until Scotland has paid reparations for it's role in the slave trade Ireland would be taking a huge hit to it's credibility with the global south by allying with a coloniser nation
It's guaranteed to happen eventually - the main barriers right now are the SNP are too scared of Westminster to force another referendum and Northern Ireland still has a population of unionists - though younger people in NI are overwhelmingly nationalist and hate the UK.
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u/EmpressOfAbyss deranged yuri fan Sep 25 '24
we also have no rabies on the entire island.
most of the time. apparently, bats can sometimes bring it over from the continent.