Although I am an Anglophile, I think that the act of cutting off Australian recourse to the Privy Council was a good thing. It was an insult to Australia. I would need more information on the Falklands claim before I commented on it.

ttbn, I don't get how in one side of the debate we all agree that the pollies are low lives. Yet you write you are happy we can no longer seek redress from the Privy Council or England. (should our pollies step out of line again. eg; Whitlam) I find it re-assuring and comforting knowing we have a strong overseer to watch over us in the event we ever get bullied. Although in the last war Churchill, the prick, was prepared to throw us to the wolves and deny us his assistance or troops. No I'm afraid the left is pushing on with a road to nowhere. More and more I hear the push away from Mother England. The left needs to get a reality check. I can't believe how stupid and gullible people are. We are a NOTHING country with the biggest chip on our shoulder. We are the little yapping dog to countries like the USA. We are all these things because we are too small and insignificant on the world stage. We are of the financial stature we are because of our resources and exporting of our non-value added goods. At 25 million we pretty much are amongst the bottom most smallest countries, because of such a small population. Forget the land mass. Not relevant. Indonesia is very small compared to us and yet they support many times more people. So I would much prefer the security of knowing 'Mummy' had my back. The plebs on the left keep pushing for a Republic. Why? Where are the benefits over what we have now? None. I can however tell you these scumbag pollies can't wait to get their hands on this country so they can really get fat off our backs and at our expense.

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Amazing that you think the British uppercrust and royalty even care for us..

You are correct that old bulldog face Churchill was trying to keep our troops over in the European theatre when our homeland was in direct threat from the Japanese. Australia meant nothing to him and others.

Our long serving Traitor Menzies who continually kissed Royal backside didn't worry about Aussies copping the fallout from the nuclear bombs dropped at Maralinga. Yippee said the Brits those Aussie are so uninformed...

Many of us are probably still walking around with a glowing ember from that little excursion into crimes against humanity. The sad part is we are the humanity that the crime was committed against.

The mess still hasn't been cleaned up properly and they afforded no protection to our staff who participated or the aboriginal peoples that were exposed.

The Brits budgeted for 50% casualties getting our troops away from Gallipoli so we took responsibility for ourselves and departed that massive error losing no troops in the evacuation whatsoever.

What about the disgusting hiring of the model to kiss Charles on the cheek at the beach to get him accepted by us Aussies. What a disgrace!

When will Aussie wake up that the British Government and Royalty don't care about us! There is no protection for us sticking with them.

I like British people but I totally can't abide their masters.

I can't abide our pollies either so I am at least consistent and correct...lmao

As for the sheep argument...If you have only voted one way all your life - You are a sheep!

If you align yourself either left or right and not middle - You are a sheep!

If you think we shouldn't be self governing - You are sheep!

If you believe the news... You are sheep!

Baa! to most of you...lmao

Op2.

Thank you for that most insightful contribution; no doubt many of us are now more enlightened.

Well Issy,

I only come here to educate you on history, religion, the Bible, Science and every other topic possible.

I accept your sarcastic TY and look forward to educating you further...lmao

Did you actually go to school?...lol

If you didn't, I may have been a little tough on you...lmao

I do notice though that you run away sulking every time I prove you wrong. Your posts become short like this one that I am replying to.

The less you type the better for us all! It's a win/win...

You don't make a fool of yourself and we don't have to watch you making a fool of yourself! lol

You're not even very good at sarcasm...lmao

Keep smiling!

WOW! I just re-read your post Issy and because of our diagreements on nearly everything I treated it as sarcasm...I hope I was right!

If I was wrong though, and it wasn't sarcasm, then I was totally out of line with my comments even though they were sarcasm said as jest.

If I was out of line I apologise...

If I was wrong I can only improve from eher...

Feel free to kick my butt!