A Modest Territorial Proposal

[pauriceenjack]

Given that we have long looked forward to a larger State beyond its current size, and having regard to the expense of travelling between Ireland and Britain, in terms of cost and time to the traveller.

The envoirnmental cost of providing planes and ferries for which there is a growing market, which is attended at the same time, with an ever increasing consumption of Carbon fuels, which is well accepted to be unsustainable in the long term.

It is readily apparent that we could increase out National Territory beyond any area previously imagined, without displacing a single soul, and secure several other benefits at a stroke.

The chief benefits devolving from such an undertaking beyond the immediate territorial extension, would include massive mineral reserves, not to mention securing several cities and dozen towns from the threat of rising sea levels.

The cost of the project would be but a fraction of the value of the benifits.

The project would merely require the construction of a wall of some 70 miles long from carnsore point to the fishguard pensinsula and from Larne to Scotland.

The irish sea would be pumped out and the land shared with our neighbour.

[FakeViking]

What would you do with all the plutonium uncovered? Sell it back to Windscale?

[rockyracoon]

Yerra, it's only half five of a Saturday evening and you're stoving drunk already.
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[pauriceenjack]

Why do you say so

A third of holland is under sea level

[KingKane]

Why do you say so

A third of holland is under sea level

Not hundreds/thousands of feet under sea level though. Have you any idea of the pressure that such a wall would have to withstand or the amount of material necessary to construct it. you would nearly need to dig up all of a couple of counties and dump them in to the sea.

[saxon]

I have thought of this myself years ago. Even researched it ! Ground too unstable for any form of construction. Better idea. As we are by far the richest of the Celtic nations why not simply take them over ? Scotland (poor) Wales ( poorer) Cornwall (poorer still) . Northern Ulsteropia. Well thats ours anyway. We will fix it.

[joel]

Given that we have long looked forward to a larger State beyond its current size, and having regard to the expense of travelling between Ireland and Britain, in terms of cost and time to the traveller.

The envoirnmental cost of providing planes and ferries for which there is a growing market, which is attended at the same time, with an ever increasing consumption of Carbon fuels, which is well accepted to be unsustainable in the long term.

It is readily apparent that we could increase out National Territory beyond any area previously imagined, without displacing a single soul, and secure several other benefits at a stroke.

The chief benefits devolving from such an undertaking beyond the immediate territorial extension, would include massive mineral reserves, not to mention securing several cities and dozen towns from the threat of rising sea levels.

The cost of the project would be but a fraction of the value of the benifits.

The project would merely require the construction of a wall of some 70 miles long from carnsore point to the fishguard pensinsula and from Larne to Scotland.

The irish sea would be pumped out and the land shared with our neighbour.

Yes, they'll share it - as History shows - and call it Britain.

[pauriceenjack]

The Irish sea is not that deep as lillte as 30meters in a lot of places



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Iris ... iefMap.jpg

No problem with the ground

[Pidge]

The Irish sea is not that deep as lillte as 30meters in a lot of places



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Iris ... iefMap.jpg

No problem with the ground

Well, that settles it.

Gentlemen, get your shovels ready...

[Riadach]

I have thought of this myself years ago. Even researched it ! Ground too unstable for any form of construction. Better idea. As we are by far the richest of the Celtic nations why not simply take them over ? Scotland (poor) Wales ( poorer) Cornwall (poorer still) . Northern Ulsteropia. Well thats ours anyway. We will fix it.

Or buy them? Another costly foreign adventure in the offing for Britain will mean she'd be fairly cashstrapped anyway.