Poor kid was getting their hopes up for finally getting a father figure.

I’m only playing if I get my photo taken after.

And I hope the EU court throws it straight back at him.

Bloody hell on both counts, my speccy died years ago.

Aren’t a large proportion of the people in Monmouthshire descendants of all the English (and others) who migrated there from the mid/early 1800s?

I’m sure when I was doing the family tree that I read somewhere there was a point where the Welsh considered Monmouthshire more English than Welsh.

That VHS could be blank and I doubt anyone would ever know!

Its right there in what you typed, its giving them time off. That's what inventivizes them.

No it isn’t. I speak from personal experience. Twice.

How is giving fathers a bit of extra time off incentivising increasing the population??? They were going to have the child anyway!

It’s not reaching into your wallet, it’s everyone’s. And the cost is far offset by the taxes levied on that child when it starts work anyway.

They are trying to do something about those badgers though.

Ok. I did say “Britishness as it is today”, I never mentioned the far past.

You’re absolutely right, you did. Blame my dodgy eyesight!

You mean one fourth. They don’t use quarters, too French.

About 3 and one eighth cups or something.

I think most of the items on that list are more a result of societal changes more recent than the creation of Britain as an entity, and the concept of Britishness has changed much and continues to do so.

We cant’t blame everything on the far past, otherwise we’d be pointing the finger at the formation of the eukaryotes.

Eh?

There are too many people, I’ll agree.

However you can’t take away peoples biological rights to reproduce.

But you can give fathers a bit more time off early on to help with looking after their family. A few weeks of extra paternity leave funding would probably work out cheaper in the long run for the treasury vs all the alternatives.

Plus you need a constantly supply to refresh the workers who are getting older and cluttering up the top of the population pyramid.

This is like the Netflix “top 10 in your country right now” list.

Never have I felt more alienated from my fellow country people than by reading this list.

We shouldn't be forced to support someone else's family.

I hope you’ll remember that should you or your family ever need state hand outs.

I wouldn’t know, I don’t follow it or know much of its history. All I know is it dates back to the Middle Ages. Lots of history. And culture of our own.

I’m not sure what to suggest, you’ve had a few hundred years to catch up :-P

Yeah, but that only works in countries where you mispronounce any word beginning with ‘pae’.

Speedophiles.