Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2017/05/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Douglas, The response from the rest of the Commonwealth, save for New Zealand, Australia and Canada, should be a healthy (maybe not...) eye opener for the Brexit fanboys. What does the UK have to offer that we want today, anyway? Very little, even Indian Whisky is good enough nowadays, I am afraid. In fact, I can think of nothing that cannot be sourced elsewhere. After all, UK-India trade accounts for less than 2% of our imports/exports - fairly inconsequential. So much so that trade with most of the Commonwealth will sputter and stall unless the UK is willing to make some big sacrifices. It seems to me that the electorate in the West, starting with Brexit, the US and various countries in the EU are determined to hand over the baton of world leadership to Asia and disappear into the perceived safety of their cocoons. Interesting times, lets see what happens! Cheers Jayanand Cheers Jayanand On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 5:20 PM, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote: > Yes, Jayanand, there's a lot of keruffle about Shashi Tharoor's new book > "Inglorious Empire: What the British did to India" which apparently shows > that the British invasion and occupation of India did not exactly buff the > jewel in the crown, but rather gave it famine, massacre, and both > codification and enhancement of religious differences with a consequential > rise in hate. Economically, Britain's rule took India's percentile share of > global GDP down from 23% to 3% while Britain's rose from 1.8% to 9%. The > book is on my list. > > Over here in Ireland where, in 1845 under British rule and despite heavy > food production and exports at the same time, we saw profound famine, a > million deaths and heavy emigration. So we Irish would tend to echo India's > condemnation of the British "gift of stability" to the various peoples it > decided to endow. > > Of course, nowadays, any of us EU pro-remainers have to laugh at the > unseemly rush of Theresa May's Brexit Britain to restart trade with the > echoes of lost empire - starting with India. It was amusing to see Modi's > visa demand in response. However, that won't wash with little Englanders, > horrified by the dewhitification of their cities, who stuck their fingers > into the wrong hole, and voted Brexit to stop the flow of immigrants from > the EU. Of course, these were mainly white immigrants :-) > > BTW, that book list is a long one, I have little time, and being a > political wonk, with the current compulsively fascinating mess, time is > ever shorter. > > Douglas > PS on Churchill, one of my cousins is married to his second cousin, so I'm > precluded from condemnation :-) > > > On 22/04/2017 14:32, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote: > >> Nice shots, but the "Great Man" was also a racist wretch, much worse than >> anyone in the USA today. After all, he callously engineered the greatest >> genocide yet known, in the league of Stalin or Mao, diverting food and >> medicines meant for the starving millions to his own troops. Because it >> happened in the Third World, it is convenient to walk around with eyes >> wide >> shut: >> >> https://yourstory.com/2014/08/bengal-famine-genocide/ >> >> Cheers >> Jayanand >> >> On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 11:34 AM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> >> wrote: >> >> Yesterday was the 16th anniversary of my mother?s death, and as usual, I >>> am in Copenhagen for a few days at this time. My sister also has come >>> from >>> Poland, so that we could visit our mother?s grave together yesterday, >>> fulfilling a promise made to each other 16 years ago. But it is not all >>> about gloom and remembrance. I am also spending time with friends and >>> enjoying this great city. >>> So yesterday morning I went for a long walk in Langeline, the park which >>> houses the Little Mermaid, and adjacent 19th military installations known >>> as Kastellet; those fortifications were never used in war, and today they >>> form part of a great green oasis close to the centre of Copenhagen. Four >>> images from my walk. >>> >>> A morning commute that is guaranteed to give a good start to the day: >>> http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-dTtjxfT/A >>> >>> Fortification turned into jogging trail: >>> http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-C9HVJv6/A >>> >>> Next to Kastellet is Churchill Park, a place where Denmark honours its >>> fallen during World War II and expresses its gratitude to the country and >>> the leader that liberated us in 1945. This is a memorial to Danish >>> soldiers >>> killed during the war, both in Denmark and in Allied service: >>> http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-wcsBLpP/A >>> >>> And here is a quiet corner of Churchill Park, with a buste of the great >>> man, erected in 1955 for the 10th anniversary of Denmark?s liberation: >>> http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-7dNrTsw/A >>> >>> Much more to come. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Nathan >>> >>> Nathan Wajsman >>> Alicante, Spain >>> http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/> >>> http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu >>> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws < >>> http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ >>> < >>> http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/> >>> Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator < >>> http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator> >>> YNWA >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >