On August 11, the surging network reported a solemn statement from the Chinese Embassy in the UK, refuting the British side's so-called concerns about the Chinese side's Naval exercise in Taiwan and expressing its resolute opposition to and strong condemnation of the British side's irresponsible remarks.
Not only that, in the British prime ministerial election, candidates frequently hype China as a topic in the hope of increasing their support rate, and the British political circles have used China-related issues as a tool to gain political capital! Since Cameron stepped down, banning Huawei products, canceling the Hinkley Point C nuclear power project, participating in the AUKUS alliance, etc., have gone farther and farther on the road to trying to contain China, is the UK itself really invulnerable?
The Northern Ireland problem: A bunch of shit in the UK can't be wiped clean
For the Falklands, Argentina and the United Kingdom have gambled on national fortunes, but in fact, the loss of the Falklands has almost no impact on the British mainland, and the British have really little impact in addition to losing face, but the nature of the Northern Ireland problem is completely different!
Northern Ireland: An undercurrent of peace
In 1603, England completely controlled Ireland for the first time through a 9-year war, followed by the plundering of land and large-scale immigration, hoping to achieve true integration into Britain through national assimilation, but at this time, the Irish population base was relatively large, immigration did not dilute the Irish, but the Irish land was fertile, the grain harvest was abundant every year, and the people's anti-British sentiment was not very high.
The root of the problem came from the Great Famine of Northern Ireland in 1845, when the potato was introduced to Europe in the seventeenth century, because of its extremely high production, it quickly became the ration for the Irish, resulting in a population explosion, although the English continued to plunder the Irish, but as long as they could eat enough, all the problems were not very big. In 1845, a fungus infecting potatoes led to an outbreak of late blight, almost all of which withered and decayed, causing more than 1 million Irish who fed potatoes to starve to death, almost 1/4 of the Irish population.
At this time, the British did not lend a helping hand but continued to plunder, because the British originally only regarded Ireland as a colony, and it was Innagar who lived when needed, and the Irish themselves when they were in trouble! The Irish independence movement was also planted from this, and after decades of development, the Irish independence movement finally rose to the right track:
- In 1902, Sinn Féin (meaning "ourselves") was founded;
- In 1913 the armed organization Irish Volunteer Army was formed, later the Irish Republican Army;
The famine led to a large number of Irish immigrants to North America, but the nationally cohesive Irish still supported the Irish in many ways, so there are still a large number of forces in the United States to support the Irish independence movement.
On 21 January 1919, Sinn Féin declared the independence of the Republic of Ireland, followed by a war between the Irish people and the United Kingdom for independence, and in December 1921, the United Kingdom signed a treaty with Ireland allowing the 26 southern counties of Ireland to form a "free state" and enjoy self-government, which is now Ireland, and the northern 6 counties were assigned to the United Kingdom, that is, Northern Ireland.
The IRA did not agree to this plan and continued to fight with the British, and by 1937, the IRA declared war for the reunification of the North and the South and began violent activities for reunification, after which the IRA launched a military operation against the British government for more than half a century, during which the organization was divided and even disintegrated, but the bloody struggle has always accompanied the course of history.
On the issue of Northern Ireland, Hollywood has made a Harrison Ford and Brad Pitt starring in the "Walking with the Devil" drama film, shaping a republican soldier for Northern Ireland independence World War II the mental journey, the British government as a terrorist organization of republican soldiers portrayed flesh and blood, may be difficult for many friends to understand why the United States wants to dismantle the British station, but in fact, there are only interests between the United States and Britain, if the United Kingdom does not act in accordance with the direction of the United States' will, then "Walking with the Devil" Such tactics are one of the means to knock on the British government.
Since 1968, the death toll in the clashes over Northern Ireland has reached more than 3,500, and in 1998 Labour agreed to sign the Northern Ireland Peace Agreement (Belfast Agreement), which formed a home rule government in Northern Ireland;
On 28 July 2005, after years of mediation and good offices by the international community, the IRA formally ordered an end to the armed struggle. On May 8, 2007, after the DAL and Sinn Fein party reached an agreement, a four-party coalition government was sworn in, which meant that Northern Ireland officially restored a decentralized autonomous government, but the good times did not last long, and in March 2009 there were two more attacks!
Brexit: Northern Ireland remains in the EU, and the fact that division has taken place
The northern Ireland problem still exists, but the current peace agreement has become an undercurrent, but the emergence of an event may completely break this balance, that is, Brexit, originally wanted to show that democracy has played away, it has really become Brexit, and the EUROPEAN Union has also let the United Kingdom start the Brexit process at a glance, and millions of unwilling British people have finally twisted and pinched to start the Brexit process after several rounds of prime ministership changes.
The British want to leave the EU, but Northern Ireland still wants to stay in the EU, which is fun, the EU has many quarantine regulations that require a ban on agricultural products entering the EU, so it seems that there has been a de facto split between the UK and Northern Ireland, of course, this is caused by the UK itself.
Another problem is that Brexit has added a series of cumbersome approval procedures to trade between the UK and the EU, while also shutting out the EU labor force that many industries rely on, exacerbating the supply chain crisis in the UK, which is another dimension of analysis, which is to seriously affect the UK economy, which is reflected in the violence:
- On 18 April 2019, riots broke out in Londonderry, Northern Ireland's second-largest city, with protesters throwing fifty incendiary bombs, burning two cars and shooting at police.
- Since the end of March 2021, there has been a spate of riots in Northern Ireland, largely due to pro-British youth dissatisfaction with the Brexit deal.
In the 2022 Russian-Ukrainian conflict, the United Kingdom firmly sided with the United States, which brought serious instability to the British energy supply, and the current CPI index of the United Kingdom has reached 9.4%, although it is better than those who have abandoned treatment such as Turkey, but Turkey is only a developing country, while the United Kingdom is a developed country.
We believe that there will be a wave of turmoil waiting for the United Kingdom in the future, how can the northern ireland problem be solved so easily? The self-conscious Britain has less mouth cannons and really does something practical for the peace of Northern Ireland! Blessed to last night, the misfortune is not only today, it is the United Kingdom, because in addition to the problem of Northern Ireland, the United Kingdom also has an equally devastating Scottish problem.
Scottish referendum: it will definitely happen again
The British Isles is a common name for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, which includes England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, of which Scotland was historically an independent country, although King Edward I of England occupied all of Scotland in 1296!
But Scotland regained de facto independence after the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314, a status recognized in the Edinburgh-Northampton Accords with England in 1328, and the Hollywood blockbuster Braveheart tells the story of that period.
Queen Elizabeth I of England was unmarried all her life and no one succeeded to the throne after her death, and on March 25, 1603, James VI of Scotland entered England to inherit the throne, because Queen Elizabeth had concluded a co-lordship union with James VI during her lifetime, so after Queen Elizabeth's death, James VI unified Scotland and England into the United Kingdom.
Queen Elizabeth I
But the two sides are not very close, Scotland has always had a tendency to independence, the Scottish National Party (SNP) founded in 1934 is committed to this, but the SNP has not been a climate, until the 1960s major success, but the Communist Party's promotion of Scottish autonomy also makes the SNP helpless.
The SNP defeated the Communist Party in the Scottish elections in 2007 to win a majority of seats in the Scottish Parliament, forming a minority government, and has been pushing for a referendum bill since then, and the referendum was finally held in September 2014, but if the SNP is allowed to choose again, they will regret this referendum very much, if it is postponed for 2 to 3 years, then the SNP's referendum will be successful.
As everyone expected, the referendum was not successful, and what the SNP did not expect was that in 2016, the black swan-level Brexit event occurred:
In the 2014 referendum, the British government set a lot of preconditions, such as only two options, and only one referendum, so the Scottish Democratic Party (SNP) really regretted it, because the British people's referendum happily sent the United Kingdom out of the European Union, and Scotland is not willing to withdraw, they hope to refer to the referendum as an independent country to rejoin the European Union.
Scotland referendum again: a result britain cannot afford
In the 2016 Uk referendum in favour of leaving the European Union, Scottish National Party leader Sturgeon immediately called for a second Scottish independence referendum (indyref2), because in the Brexit referendum, 62% of Scottish voters opposed Brexit, and only 38% of voters were in favor.
Proponents of Scottish independence argue that Scotland should decide its own future and should not be tied to the united kingdom as a whole. They see Scotland's "Brexit" as a prime example.
But in the 2017 UK general election, Sturgeon's Scottish National Party (SNP) lost 21 seats, and Sturgeon had to postpone plans for an independence referendum. However, after a landslide victory in Scotland's 2019 Uk General Election, the SNP won 48 seats, so Sturgeon again asked for a referendum, but coincidentally encountered the new crown epidemic.
Sturgeon has unveiled plans to continue pushing for a scottish independence referendum, and will take a legal approach to fight for it if the British central government does not agree to Scotland's re-election of independence. Scotland's local government has issued a referendum bill proposing an independence referendum on 19 October 2023.
If Scotland were independent, britain would lose about 78,000 square kilometers of land directly, and the Territory of the United Kingdom would be 244,100 square kilometers, of which England would be 130,400 square kilometers, Wales 20,800 square kilometers, and Northern Ireland 14,100 square kilometers.
Scotland has a population of just over 5 million, which has a relatively small impact on the UK, but the greater is the resource, because Scotland has a large area of the north sea and the atlantic economic waters, the north sea oil resources, the Atlantic fishery resources, and mineral resources and so on.
Of course, the greater impact is at the strategic level, the United Kingdom will have to face a neighbor, lose control of the European "sea outlet" North Sea, the value of the United Kingdom to the United States, may drop by an order of magnitude, of course, the United Kingdom will also be from the de facto second-rate developed countries to the global strategy of the country is not in the flow, the future will be the same level as Finland and Norway.
You may have a very big question, the British ass shit is not clean, why do you have to point fingers at the Taiwan Strait in the far East, the author estimates that this is a problem left over from the imperial era when the sun does not set, but the empire has gone away, leaving the British people with only chai rice oil salt sauce vinegar tea, the energy problem since the Russian-Ukrainian conflict has been scorched, the independence tendency of Northern Ireland and Scotland has made the British government tired of running, the flower grower advises, and cherishes!
Extended reading: Wang Wenbin directly mentioned Scotland
Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin presided over a regular press conference on August 11, and when he responded to British Foreign Secretary Tres's claim that "China's actions undermine regional peace and stability," Wang Wenbin first reiterated China's position on the Taiwan issue. Then the conversation turned and asked the British side a question:
That is, if the internal and external collusion and division of the territory occurred in Scotland, would the British authorities be able to maintain the so-called "calm" and "restraint"? In addition, Wang Wenbin also pointed out:
If Britain continues to turn black and white and violate justice in this way, then creating a so-called "globalized" Britain is nothing more than a delusion. Today's Britain, only the United States is in the lead, and its credibility as an independent country has long since collapsed. ”
I believe that so far this is just a warning! (End)