Sorry, I meant to sat are you his son, as you seem so keen, just keeping it lighthearted

Mike Yarwood did dozens of impersonations of people nobody remembers now. Eddie was well known I grant you, but to me, he was far from our greatest advert. And don't get me wrong I'm not one of those inverted snobs embarrassed by his northerness I just don't think he was.

Well I got that wrong, I didn't think you were around at the time, if you think he was good for the game then fair do's I didn't, tbf though the likes of Eddie Waring were tailor made for Mike Yarwood, don't remember his most famous quote about us is though.

Might be 'The poor lad he's missed it' when Don missed the goal in that final against the Winos!
IMO Eddie Waring did spread nationally the game of RL over the media with his comments, some of them plain daft but , again IMO he did seem blinkered towards some clubs.
Keith Macklin was a better RL commentator.

The thing is with Eddie is that he went too long. He was ill at the end and people probably remember that.
I can remember thinking French was going to raise things intellectually but I think he showed how good Waring was at his best.

Don't get me wrong, he wasn't Bill McClaren who could make a really boring game sound like a classic Greek epic adventure but he was a character that was well known so helped the game a lot.

I'm 53, just young at heart.

Does that include the hundreds and thousand of slaves transported from African nations to toil in the cotton and sugar plantations of the new world and other regions?

Ps I bet you've never got 23 questions correct on University Challenge as I have.

I thought it was modern day Haiti who banned slavery first or are we using size as the defining factor.
That is all good if we lived in the 19th century luckily in some respects we don’t despite the best attempts of Jacob.
We may have been considered Great but unfortunately it is now 2021 and our position in the world is much diminished. We can all look back but it is today and now that defines a country not what it was over 200 years ago. The Roman Empire could have been considered as one of the great dynasties but would you still apply the same to Italy in 2021, what about the Egyptians and modern day Egypt.

The "ending" of slavery in Haiti, was done by an act of rebellion and uprising.

The British abolition was a universal act of legislature.

BTW - the "Great" in GB, means "big" - it's the big island.

It's a matter of coincidence that the British Empire was so successful and wide-reaching. Nothing to do with the name "Great Britain".

I know but those on here use the word Great to mean something different to big don’t you think. It’s fine to study the past but not to assume the same applies to modern day Britain.

We are getting way off the C4 discussion though.
Let's get back on track.

I seem to be correcting you again but the Farage fact is wrong because they are not financially motivated immigrants 91% are in fact refugees escaping persecution and war zones for example. I admire that you still believe that we actively allow legal immigration because the government have closed down several schemes to allow people to apply. This even includes those Afghanistan we left behind leaving them no option than to do what they do.
It was suggested that if there were ways to legally apply then the need for the smugglers would decrease.