As early as 1814 British MP's were saying, in private, that the British Empire could not afford another war with the US.
First of all, I've noticed you positing
quite a few nonsense claims as if they were facts, over the last few days. In this thread alone, you seem to have totally made up a story about Lincoln being enthousiastically in favour of threatening war with Britain. The opposite was true. I explained that. Suddenly, you stop talking about that.
Then, you seem to have totally made up the story that if
either Britain or France intervened on the Confederate side, the USA would declare war on
both. This is patently false, and also makes no historical sense. Suddenly, you stop talking about that, too.
In another discussion, you mistakenly conflated a poll tax and an eligibility test. I explained that mistake to you, and you (apparently deliberately and maliciously) tried to side-track the discussion to avoid having to admit even this minor error. When I repeated my explanation, you... guess what... suddenly stopped talking about it.
There's a pattern here. You post bullshit. That's okay. Lots of people post bullshit. But you post bullshit while loudly claiming that it's a concrete fact. And when confronted about it, instead of admitting to an error, you quickly duck away, avoid the line of discussion, and try to continue arguing about other points. All while
never admitting you were wrong.
This makes discussion with you pretty pointless, at least until you decide to be a bit more honest. It doesn't look like it, because right now, you're citing nebulous British MPs that you
claim had an opinion agreeing with yours. For starters, since you're demonstrably a bullshitter, I don't believe you unless you provide evidence. But on the off chance that you're actually telling the truth this time: British MPs at the time included radicals who believed all sorts of nonsense. So even if it's hypothetically accurate, your argument here is like saying "
this is true because Jeremy Corbyn said it once, drunk, at a private dinner party".
Which is, as I'm sure you can understand, not an argument.
Now, if you intend to still debate these points with me, please start by admitting you were positing falsehoods (we'll assume unwittingly) on the three points I've referenced above, and then either provide direct sources about those claims by MPs you talk about, or admit you were wrong about that, too. If you can't or won't manage these things, please don't try to continue a discussion with me. I deal with enough bullshit at work. I don't want to spend my free time sifting through it, too.