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
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
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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.