Quote Originally Posted by Furunculus View Post
are you sure of that? i am not so sure because there is no evidence that britain would have acted differently were circumstances different.
IIRC support of the death penalty is almost always high when it is abolished, and then gradually declines over time. I don't know about the others, to be fair.

Quote Originally Posted by Furunculus View Post
you may get a shock when you realise that the majority of your compatriots disagree with you
Funnily enough, people always get a shock when I tell them I'm pro-EU. The very idea is alien to many of them, since they have been force-fed for years this concept of all-incompetent, all-useless Union.

Quote Originally Posted by Furunculus View Post
you can hold whatever opinion you wish, i just find it slightly tyrannical that you are willing to justify the imposition of your liberal (in the modern sense) opinion on every one else, whether they want it or not.
Well, that's the great paradox of liberalism, isn't it? Is it illiberal to force other people to be liberal?

Quote Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat View Post
Fight the tyranny, Furunculus! That's two Britons on this very page who refuse to bow to the Will of the British People! Fight, fight and resist them - lest there be people who stand in the way of Britain's One and Indivisible Will!
England Prevails!