What Was It Kipling Said About Danegeld?

[sandyRoe]

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/11/eu-seeks-deal-turkey-curb-refugee-crisis-151129152134803.html

[Baldric]

It was exceedingly fine?

[ToraToraTora]

the chinese emperor's rat problems springs to mind.

[sandyRoe]

I thought it was something like: You'll never get rid of the Danes.

[Togo]

The Danegeld was a tax raised to pay tribute to the Viking raiders to save a land from being ravaged. We call it blackmail now.

[jourdain2]

II'll check, but it didn't work then and only made matters worse when they came back for more......

[Togo]

"We never pay any-one Dane-geld,
No matter how trifling the cost;
For the end of that game is oppression and shame,
And the nation that plays it is lost!"

That is the last verse.

http://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poems_danegeld.htm

[jourdain2]

I've just been researching that, Togo! You beat me to it. The last line says everything.

[douglas9401]

Turkey seems to have voted for Christmas.

[douglas9401]

Thanks, Sandy. :-)

[anotheoldgit]

/// German Chancellor Angela Merkel said ahead of the meeting that the EU deal with Turkey would help put the flow of refugees in a legal framework, instead of the current uncontrollable influx. ///

Wasn't it her who welcomed this uncontrollable influx?

What international support is the EU receiving from the rest of the world, the Mega rich Arab states for example?

[janbee]

... but he does bake exceedingly good cakes !