tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post6453416347650476748..comments2024-03-29T09:13:55.008+00:00Comments on UK Commentators: Jelly-Bellied Flag-FlappersLabanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12031578024191117985noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-56450946717176038772009-01-30T20:43:00.000+00:002009-01-30T20:43:00.000+00:00Anyway, "Britishness" surely must be a VARIABLE pr...Anyway, "Britishness" surely must be a VARIABLE product. Sort of like the All-American swindle. I mean there are greater (and lesser!) periods of historical confidence. It hasn't got anything to do with me invading your country and throwing my weight around either. In this little gag I cooked up at the weekend...<BR/><BR/>http://bodwyn.wordpress.com/2009/01/26/in-the-old-late-modern-age-on-the-london-bus/<BR/><BR/>...you can see this for yourselves. NONE of the English people in the London bus of 1950 are wearing little Union flag lapel pins! And they are all real self-confident.Bodwyn Wookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04152813177593209096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-45143345647512331832009-01-30T20:34:00.000+00:002009-01-30T20:34:00.000+00:00A great read! I wish I could get it across to the...A great read! I wish I could get it across to these turds here! Everywhere in America for TOO long we have been waving the flag and the Baby Jesus around like a couple of dead cats. Anyway though it's a damn good sign who the real p---brains around here really ARE!Bodwyn Wookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04152813177593209096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-7552052733910557172009-01-30T20:33:00.000+00:002009-01-30T20:33:00.000+00:00Support the Resistancehttp://isupporttheresistance...Support the Resistance<BR/><BR/>http://isupporttheresistance.blogspot.com/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-80403714711912119802009-01-30T11:22:00.000+00:002009-01-30T11:22:00.000+00:00Curses! Ive just noticed I wrote James IV, I meant...Curses! Ive just noticed I wrote James IV, I meant of course James VI (of Scotland).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-52111768044286489862009-01-30T11:19:00.000+00:002009-01-30T11:19:00.000+00:00Plenty of leftie/libs deride Britishness as artifi...Plenty of leftie/libs deride Britishness as artificial. That allows a nod to Scots nats etc. (not English nationalists of course). They see Britain as an artificial creation, which there is some truth in this, however it has been around quite some time.<BR/><BR/>They don't seem to grasp that if artificial Britain is not to work after 200 years (Im counting from the Act of Union here, not James IV/I) then where does that leave its multicultural replacement or the EU for that matter, only a generation old? How long did the Yugoslavian experiment last?<BR/><BR/>Seems to me that while Scots & Welsh nationalism never quite died out, one would probably only have to go back to the 60s and look forward to a time when they would be as irrelevant as Wessex or Cornish nationalists are now.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-35910125931659023752009-01-30T10:56:00.000+00:002009-01-30T10:56:00.000+00:00Once it has become meaningless, it becomes very ea...Once it has become meaningless, it becomes very easy to change it. Don't think for a moment that Labour are trying to exhume the spirit of Britishness - they still despise it, as they always did.<BR/><BR/>This is simply a change of tactic - they previously hoped that a new culture would spontaneously emerge from their sanctioned mass immigration to replace the existing one. Well of course one did, or rather many cultures, al of them hostile to each other. This is simply their ham-fisted attempt to create an artificial one to avoid the utter disaster of balkans-style conflict.<BR/><BR/>They will fail, of course, because cultures are organic, not artificial.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-46515787241842887352009-01-30T01:07:00.000+00:002009-01-30T01:07:00.000+00:00Gordon Brown, relegating Britain to the ontologica...Gordon Brown, relegating Britain to the ontologically meaningless status of "values".Homophobic Horsehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05358511824189191231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-55886853895202709382009-01-29T21:30:00.000+00:002009-01-29T21:30:00.000+00:00Ah yes - I remember them asking for 'a five word m...Ah yes - I remember them asking for 'a five word motto that sums up Britishness.<BR/>The favourites I saw were;<BR/>'No motto please, we're British', and<BR/>'Fatso, lotto, tesco, blotto, asbo'Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com