Gordon Brown has been particularly vocal. But there is a man with ambition. He's not about to let a little thing like democracy get in his way.'British' is a very new nationality. It came about at the time of the union of the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland.
Scotland had just near-bankrupted itself with its Darien colonization attempt, and so joined England to have access to our markets. And was then disproportionately active in the British Empire. Majorly.
And that's when the 'British' nationality was born.
So, what are 'core British values'? Colonization?
And by the way, the Welsh were right in there with the Empire too. And was Wales a peaceful, united little country, before its incorporation into the Kingdom of England? No, it was riven with fierce battles and disputes.
And Celts? A 1707 linguistic label applied to a bunch of languages, not an ethnicity or history. It got romanticised and turned into a major industry and load of exclusive nonsense-pedalling in the centuries following.
To cap it all, Ireland was partitioned by a Welsh Prime Minister, with avid backing of Protestant Scots.
The BBC has run with the 'Core British Values' story, and consulted all sorts of worthies - including David Eaglesham of the SCOTTISH Secondary Teachers' Association. But the legislation won't apply in Scotland. So, why, if seeking irrelevant views, didn't the BBC consult a French or German or Russian or Australian or South African or Hungarian or Italian teaching organisation?
Because the BBC is in the government's pocket and likes to blur the facts of devolution, too.
The BBC's Scottish fixation is getting beyond a joke. Even their complaints department is based in Scotland - so people making points about this matter, and instances of anti-English bias in general, get short shrift, as I and several friends have found to our cost (one friend of mine contacted the Beeb about the lack of a national broadcasting service for England, and was ranted at by a chap called Fraser who stated that the BBC "did not want an England-only service").
Scotland, a country with a smaller population than an English county, let alone one of the undemocratic government regions we've had foisted on us (and which are shortly to replace our ancient counties), is dominating us and our national broadcasting service.
Creepy.
See the Beeb story here.
This blog is supportive of the aims of the Campaign for an English Parliament, but is in no way connected.
The BBC has run with the 'Core British Values' story, and consulted all sorts of worthies - including David Eaglesham of the SCOTTISH Secondary Teachers' Association. But the legislation won't apply in Scotland. So, why, if seeking irrelevant views, didn't the BBC consult a French or German or Russian or Australian or South African or Hungarian or Italian teaching organisation?
Because the BBC is in the government's pocket and likes to blur the facts of devolution, too.
The BBC's Scottish fixation is getting beyond a joke. Even their complaints department is based in Scotland - so people making points about this matter, and instances of anti-English bias in general, get short shrift, as I and several friends have found to our cost (one friend of mine contacted the Beeb about the lack of a national broadcasting service for England, and was ranted at by a chap called Fraser who stated that the BBC "did not want an England-only service").
Scotland, a country with a smaller population than an English county, let alone one of the undemocratic government regions we've had foisted on us (and which are shortly to replace our ancient counties), is dominating us and our national broadcasting service.
Creepy.
See the Beeb story here.
This blog is supportive of the aims of the Campaign for an English Parliament, but is in no way connected.
