Hold on ... that means you ow the Irish ...Clinton Huxley wrote:Apparently, some trouble-maker in the Indian parliament (which we bloody invented) has said that this Sceptred Isle (tm) should pony up something like $3 trillion as compensation for bringing the benefits of civilization (cricket, warm beer, mechanically-augmented slaughter etc. etc. ) to the subcontinent. It's a rum do, if you ask me and rather a long shot.


And Spain and France are going to be bankrupted by all of the claims from Latin America, most of Africa, French Indochina ...