Englands Greatest Export - IMO

[mikeymike]

Just having a think about englands greatest export

It has to be war - we are the only country in the world that has an unbroken record - we have been in a war every single day from 1700 to the present date.

If not to be admired it is definitely an impressive statistic and will probably continue for a long time to come

[kukushkin88]

Just having a think about englands greatest export

It has to be war - we are the only country in the world that has an unbroken record - we have been in a war every single day from 1700 to the present date.

If not to be admired it is definitely an impressive statistic and will probably continue for a long time to come

You´ve got confused here. You´ll want to look up definition of export, definition of war.

[mikeymike]

no not really

export means goods or services sold abroad

we have often entered wars for financial gains from the countries we have fought

with perhaps the exception of the 1st and 2nd ww

otherwise you could argue that in the early years we entered wars to protect the rulers rights for financial favours, iraq we were protecting oil interests.

Oh and before anybody says i am dissing those who fought in wars - i am an ex soldier and have seen and served in several places

[MintTrav]

Hardly the only country.

I know about Ireland, which was at war with France continuously from 1744 and with Denmark from 1666 until both wars finished in 2014.

It would be surprising if there aren't others.

[kukushkin88]

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/export

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_Great_Britain

5 gaps since 1700 of something that isn´t an export and is the worst thing humanity has to endure. Terrible post.

[TightEnd]

The Magna Carta, Britsain's greatest export

"People sometimes question why we are commemorating Magna Carta this year. Is a medieval document, written in Latin, still relevant today? The simple answer is that Magna Carta has had widespread influence over the past 800 years, particularly in the English-speaking world. It has influenced politicians and campaigners worldwide, including Thomas Jefferson, Winston Churchill and Nelson Mandela, and certain of its values are echoed in later constitutional texts, such as the United States Bill of Rights (ratified in 1791) and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948). Just three clauses of Magna Carta remain valid in English law, but the most significant and influential one, never repealed, is this:

‘No man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his rights or possessions, or outlawed or exiled, or deprived of his standing in any other way, nor will we proceed with force against him, or send others to do so, except by the lawful judgment of his equals or by the law of the land. To no one will we sell, to no one deny or delay right or justice.’"

[Tal]

The English language.

Arguably formed when a load of Frenchies hopped across La Manche and asked the resident Vikings if they wouldn't mind using some of their words when they spoke, we have spent the next thousand years refining, growing and finessing it, while teaching folk in all four corners of this planet how to communicate with each other. We've even blasted it into space.

It's a by-product of the wars we've been involved in, but it's a commodity we have exported and sold to good effect.

[kinboshi]

The way some people are going on, you'd think it was Top Gear and Clarkson.