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Nigel Farage in a nutshell

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    rooch 3 Well-Known Member

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    If I knew what that meant I would agree or disagree.
     
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    It's known in mythology as 'to open Pandora's box', meaning to start something, with the noblest intentions or good faith, that will cause many unforeseen problems.

    You might otherwise refer to it as ' opening a can of worms'.

    That's what we did when we went around the world robbing the inhabitants, forcing them to obey our rules and imposing English.

    As with slavery it was a tiny percentage, of the hugely wealthy, who embarked on this and reaped the benefits just as they do now.

    The working man barely benefitted from slavery yet we're all paying a hefty price now. Workers in the cotton mills, the mines and the factories were little better off than the slaves. The toffs poked their fat greedy noses into every nation's business and decided which tribes and countries to support or crush. They used poorly paid British soldiers to carry out their work and buried them wherever they fell.

    We opened Pandora's box and the plague is starting to reach us now ...

    ... there's no stopping it, read the fable and you'll see just how frightening and unstoppable it is.
     
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    rooch 3 Well-Known Member

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    Well 1 I don’t believe in Pandora’s box anymore than you believe in jinxes,
    I do think it is probably unstoppable though although it can be slowed down.
     
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    Smug in Boots Well-Known Member

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    It's mythology ffs <doh>

    'Pandora's box is a metaphor for something that brings about great troubles or misfortune.'
     
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    That’s why I don’t believe it ffs<doh>
     
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