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Originally Posted by Niamh.
By you lot I meant Britain as a country, what i said was factual,Britain as a country contributed to people in Ireland dying because of lack of food, there was no actual food shortage in Ireland when people starved to death here, Tony Blair even issued an apology about it a few years back. the comment about "starving" us now also came from a british Politician? Is it Bigoted to say British people are British? If so then maybe I am a bigot?
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You can't lay all the blame at the hands of the British when Ireland was exporting vast quantities of food during the famine..calf and pig exporting actually went up during the famine.