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Possible future German Chancellor is british!

  • 16-11-2011 11:34AM
    #1
    [Deleted User]
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    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15737185
    By 2020, all the British soldiers stationed in Germany will have come back to the UK, the Ministry of Defence has announced. But the offspring of soldiers who stayed on after World War II or returned there in the years that followed are making their mark in German society, says Chris Bowlby.
    Helmut Kohl, Gerhard Schroeder, Angela Merkel.
    The roll call of recent chancellors in Berlin has a properly Germanic ring to it.
    So it would be a bit of a shock if one of the future occupants of that post was named… David McAllister.
    But that is just what could happen, as Mr McAllister, currently prime minister of the state of Lower Saxony, is one of the brightest prospects in Germany's Christian Democratic Union party.
    An Irish republicans worst nightmare! :pac:


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  • #2
    Doc Ruby
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,956 ✭✭✭Doc Ruby


    Well the queen is German so its quid pro quo really isnt it.


  • #3
    danniemcq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,163 ✭✭✭✭danniemcq


    not just the queen the whole royal family is german,

    only changed the last name after ww1... or 2

    one of them anyway


  • #4
    Thinkingaboutit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 2,356 ✭✭✭Thinkingaboutit


    Saxe-Coburg und Gotha is as British as Yorkshire Pudding.


  • #5
    problemchimp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,025 ✭✭✭problemchimp


    Deleted User wrote: »
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15737185


    An Irish republicans worst nightmare! :pac:
    Why would it be an Irish Republicans nightmare? A German republicans nightmare maybe.


  • #6
    Apanachi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 757 ✭✭✭Apanachi


    Deleted User wrote: »
    An Irish republicans worst nightmare! :pac:

    Why????


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  • #7
    CardBordWindow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,209 ✭✭✭CardBordWindow


    So once again, the British are gonna make a mess of Germany. :D


  • #8
    Saila
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,751 ✭✭✭Saila


    future british queen is german


  • #9
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,029 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    It's like an international swingers party without contraception.


  • #10
    trish23
    Closed Accounts Posts: 148 ✭✭trish23


    Wonder what Dads Army would make of it :)


  • #11
    Immaculate Pasta
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,663 ✭✭✭Immaculate Pasta


    [DERRY ACCENT]BRITS OUT![/DERRY ACCENT]

    :eek:


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  • #12
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,779 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    problemchimp wrote: »
    Why would it be an Irish Republicans nightmare? A German republicans nightmare maybe.
    Apanachi wrote: »
    Why????

    He supports Rangers (not citing this as a reason of cours, but... you know... football paranoai and all that....)

    Oh, and he's also German according to the same article. So what this boils down to is a name.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • #13
    danniemcq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,163 ✭✭✭✭danniemcq


    maybe op meant irish publicans who have bars in Germany....

    i don't know why that would make a difference but ummmm i'm sure AH could make one up


  • #14
    problemchimp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,025 ✭✭✭problemchimp


    Ikky Poo2 wrote: »
    He supports Rangers (not citing this as a reason of cours, but... you know... football paranoai and all that....)

    Oh, and he's also German according to the same article. So what this boils down to is a name.
    I don't think Irish Republicanism is about football somehow, or German christians for that matter. No connection at all.


  • #15
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,779 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    problemchimp wrote: »
    I don't think Irish Republicanism is about football somehow, or German christians for that matter. No connection at all.

    It;s always about football!! Seriously, though, it has connections (probably the football couold do without), but yeah, I know what you mean.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • #16
    foxyboxer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,528 ✭✭✭foxyboxer


    Deleted User wrote: »
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15737185


    An Irish republicans worst nightmare! :pac:

    Don't you mean wurst nightmare? :D


  • #17
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    He points out that the current German Vice-Chancellor and head of the Free Democrat Party, Philipp Rösler, is of Vietnamese origin.
    Hurry up someone, start a thread on boards.vn


  • #18
    getz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,255 ✭✭✭getz


    dont worry i bet we would never get a british irish president,would we ?


  • #19
    dsmythy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,590 ✭✭✭✭dsmythy


    problemchimp wrote: »
    Why would it be an Irish Republicans nightmare? A German republicans nightmare maybe.

    Who do you think will be pulling the strings of the Eurozone in the future?


  • #20
    Pompey Magnus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,406 ✭✭✭Pompey Magnus


    AMAZING FACT OF THE DAY:

    Apparently it may come as a shock to some people but Irish Republicans actually don't have an inbuilt blind hatred of all things British and Rangers related!


  • #21
    Killer Pigeon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,125 ✭✭✭Killer Pigeon


    trish23 wrote: »
    Wonder what Dads Army would make of it :)

    ♪♫ "Who do you think you are kidding Mr. Cameron,
    if you think old Deutschland's done?" ♪♫


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  • #22
    Hasmunch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 946 ✭✭✭Hasmunch


    Next thing the pope will turn out to be a nazi..


  • #23
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,566 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    Pompey Magnus wrote: »
    AMAZING FACT OF THE DAY:

    Apparently it may come as a shock to some people but Irish Republicans actually don't have an inbuilt blind hatred of all things British and Rangers related!

    Orly??


  • #24
    getz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,255 ✭✭✭getz


    Hasmunch wrote: »
    Next thing the pope will turn out to be a nazi..
    to republicans that hasent got the same impact,but if he was british


  • #25
    Son Of A Vidic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,370 ✭✭✭✭Son Of A Vidic


    Deleted User wrote: »
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15737185


    An Irish republicans worst nightmare! :pac:

    Are you feeling alright? How would any Irish person, never mind republican give a shít.


  • #26
    Son Of A Vidic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,370 ✭✭✭✭Son Of A Vidic


    Fratton Fred wrote: »
    Orly??

    Yes really.


  • #27
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,566 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    They love the Brits in Germany, especially Hamburg.

    http://www.stv.tv/weather/135231-celtic-greeted-with-no-surrender-banner-in-hamburg/


  • #28
    mongoman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 669 ✭✭✭mongoman


    Fratton Fred wrote: »
    They love the Brits in Germany, especially Hamburg.

    http://www.stv.tv/weather/135231-celtic-greeted-with-no-surrender-banner-in-hamburg/

    Soccer fans just merely winding up visiting supporters.

    Back in Euro 88, I remember these same German fans hunting in packs hoping to do serious harm to any England supporter they came upon.


  • #29
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,566 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    mongoman wrote: »
    Soccer fans just merely winding up visiting supporters.

    Back in Euro 88, I remember these same German fans hunting in packs hoping to do serious harm to any England supporter they came upon.

    I know (hang on, only the English have football hooligans??!!??) but with Britain, Germany, Rangers and Irish Republicans all getting a mention, I though it was an appropriate time to throw this out there.


  • #30
    mongoman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 669 ✭✭✭mongoman


    Fratton Fred wrote: »
    I know (hang on, only the English have football hooligans??!!??) but with Britain, Germany, Rangers and Irish Republicans all getting a mention, I though it was an appropriate time to throw this out there.


    I expected nothing less.


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  • #31
    getz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,255 ✭✭✭getz


    mongoman wrote: »
    I expected nothing less.
    be fair this thread was posted to do a bit of brit-bashing,only problem is that it was a own goal


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