There are times I wish they’d just ban everything- baccy and beer, burgers and bangers, and all the rest- once and for all. Instead, they creep forward one apparently tiny step at a time. It’s like being executed with a bacon slicer.
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticise.
"The purpose of a university education for Left / Liberals is to attain all the politically correct attitudes towards minorties, and the financial means to live as far away from them as possible."
The problem with a referendum is over how it is phrased. If only two options are given (a simple yes/no), then the current majority opinion (more devolved power) may lean to the outright independence option. But if it is phrased with 3 options, then the more devolution option will probably win, and create more needless bureaucracy/politiicians.
I don't believe anti-Englishness can be that bad, simply because it is a middle-class phenomenon. Something like 12% of the Scottish population is either English born or has English parents, and the number of these that report discrimination is far less than that of other 'minority' groups. Source.
At the end of the day politics is just trash compared to the Gospel.
Furunculus Maneuver: Adopt a highly logical position on a controversial subject where you cannot disagree with the merits of the proposal, only disagree with an opinion based on fundamental values. - Beskar
Yes a likely side effect of the "Were out here defending the empire from the Indians on the Frontier" Since the values of these people became intrinsically associated with symbols there cultural and political identity was at threat by its dilution at the core ie in London.Britishness is becoming increasingly associated with Orangeism and sectarianism.
Britishness is both doomed and assured at the same time for two reasons the COE is no longer the force it was and newer people have come to UK see Britishness in a differant light to a Orangeman. Until Britishness delinks from Orangeism it will be indigestible for many ordinary people in the UK it smacks of religous intolerence and that is unacceptable to most people.with these circumstances, I'm not sure what exactly the future of Britishness (or the union) is. Will it last, will it become purely a secondary identity, does it have the roots for a revival?
They slew him with poison afaid to meet him with the steel
a gallant son of eireann was Owen Roe o'Neill.
Internet is a bad place for info Gaelic Cowboy
Furunculus Maneuver: Adopt a highly logical position on a controversial subject where you cannot disagree with the merits of the proposal, only disagree with an opinion based on fundamental values. - Beskar
They slew him with poison afaid to meet him with the steel
a gallant son of eireann was Owen Roe o'Neill.
Internet is a bad place for info Gaelic Cowboy
British:
1) Stiff upper lip
2) Steely resolve in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds
3) When the chips are truly down, unity of effort among the diverse peoples - but in peacetime, loud and constant internal bickering
4) Seemingly DNA-level Inbred competition with the French
5) Quick wit
Stereotypes, I know. But I find at least 3 out of 5 applicable to every Brit I've met.
Be well. Do good. Keep in touch.
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They slew him with poison afaid to meet him with the steel
a gallant son of eireann was Owen Roe o'Neill.
Internet is a bad place for info Gaelic Cowboy
Also forgot the gift of the understating. A precious which we are losing fast thanks to sensalism tabloid press.
Where are the days when a British Gentlemen gets stabbed by a sword through the heart and says "Oh my, it appears some one has just killed me."
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Very true, and I think the fact that traditional Britishness exists now more in the regions has had the effect of leaving many feeling of the regional British feeling betrayed and sold out by London.
Indeed, although remember there are different connotations that come with different understandings of Britishness, both historically and in the present. The sense of Britishness associated with the rise of the welfare state was one aspect that played a big role in helping Scottish Catholics integrate into the British state. Also, as I understand things, in England, Britishness is seen as the more tolerant form of patriotism, due to it's idea of including the various peoples of Britain (as opposed to English nationalism which has been quite heavily associated with far-right views and racism etc)
At the end of the day politics is just trash compared to the Gospel.
When Adam delved and Eve span, Who was then the gentleman? From the beginning all men by nature were created alike, and our bondage or servitude came in by the unjust oppression of naughty men. For if God would have had any bondsmen from the beginning, he would have appointed who should be bound, and who free. And therefore I exhort you to consider that now the time is come, appointed to us by God, in which ye may (if ye will) cast off the yoke of bondage, and recover liberty. - John Ball
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