I've been tweeting Berlusconi for years demanding an apology for the Roman occupation but he's having none of it.

is that because it's f'c all to do with Italy?

I refuse to apologise for things that happened before I was born.

I can regret them but I can not apologise in any meaningful way.



As I had to explain to an Irish colleague once, I had nothing to do with the potato famine.

a) I wasn't around at the time.

b) At that time, my ancestors were being oppressed by the same establishment as his were.



To his credit, he "got it" immediately.

IIRC Italy didn't exist until a chap named after a biscuit united it.

sounds about right to me, hence asking Italy to apologise for what Rome did in nonsense.



better off asking the Vatican to apologise for giving the world Catholicism! (child abuse, opression of women and homphobia)

No sh*t Sherlock. That's the whole f*cking point.





Apologising for the actions of people from another time, from another culture with completely different limitations (only a year after using chemical weapons in WW1), is pointless. Britain today has about as much responsibility for those colonial troops as Italians do with Roman outrages, apart from being from the same piece of mud as the power base in charge at the time.



In fact, seeing as General Dyer was born in India and the troops who fired where all Gurkha and Baloch (Indian), shouldn't they be apologising to themselves?

Ah, I must be dim too, I didn't get it.

Never mind.

Don't be too hard on yourself.

Signore Custard Cream?

Did I hear correctly this morning that the Overseas Aid Budget that Cameron has been vociferously defending is now to be shared with the MoD?



So if we don't send tents and food and stuff, we can just send bombs and guns & bullets?

Yeah him.

Don't say Garibaldi, a certain poster could take that as an insult.

Its started growing again