Well. A long time since I didn't post in this blog. In fact I did post, but I delete it afterwards, because the post was to personal to be in the web.
But now I come back with my views about a takeover. The takeover of the British mobile phone operator O2 by Telefonica, the big Spanish telecommunications operator.
And the title of the post refers to the Battle of Trafalgar. A battle fought in the Spanish sea. I think now that this is the second "British emblem company" which falls in foreign hands, the first one was Manchester United, now in the hands of Malcom Glazer, a man from the United States and the owner of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (American Football). I think the first was more important than the second one, but a second one reflects a trend, and that's an strange trend.
I must admit I kinda like the Britons. They have produce a great law system, a rich history (in such a small part of the world), a big empire, many sports, great fiction, a great playwritter (William Shakespeare), a great detective (Sherlock Holmes, is fiction, but anyway), a great news source (the BBC), great music, great humour (Monty Python and The Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy) and the language in which I'm writing now. And yes, this part of the post seems like I'm a Britons arse-licker, and I know they have done bad things too (Ireland, as an example), but I tend to think they would need to protect their country the way the French are doing it. I know the Britons are the most euro-skeptics in Europe, but they are now "in the" globalisation and they need to be ware of that and protect what they are, if not, they will be just another country in the world and there will be no more special site for them. The other countries will tend to ignore the news about their models or royal-line.
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My friend, allow me to disagree: I think the UKers should not worry about this, or at least they should not expect the amount of violence shown in the riots of France. Why? the migration patterns of continental Europe and the UK are very different, thanks to the fact the kingdom is an island, and some help from policies, too. In the island, the migration is composed esentially by people from India, Pakistan and a small from sub-saharian and saharian Africa, and the rate of jobless people is much smaller among them than in the rest of europe. What should worry England and it's Neighbors now is how their islamic base is going to react to the call maid by their fellows-in-faith in the continent. Maybe britons should remember them what is their real situation, and that they have not much in common. Or maybe, buy a stack of fire extinguishers. Who knows, maybe they're cheaper.
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