Talking of soaps, as we were earlier, we never watch then nowadays. But there was a time when we did... And the YouTube clip below reminds us of when we did... back in a time when politics mattered to people, and you could watch a soap with the kids sitting beside you without worrying...
Come on back to 1980. The year Ronald Reagan was elected, thus setting the decade truly on track (we weren't keen), the year unrest flared in inner London - a foretaste of the traumas to come in '81, and the year when, just before Christmas, we met (if we were lucky/unlucky) the awesome Rubik's Cube...
And a year when Annie was at the Aga...
Friday, October 31, 2008
WE Live In UK/Europe/The World - But Some People Live In "Bonnie Scotland"
Neice No 1 came to us last night having been reading about her favourite soaps on a soap chat site. Why is it, she asked, some people list their homes as being "bonnie Scotland" but ignore England? She pointed out a small example of this regarding the location of the ITV1 soap Coronation Street - a "Bonnie Scotlander" lists it as being in "UK/Europe/The World".
It's a small example of a much wider problem. Perhaps it's more surprising when Scots living in Scotland do it, but it's actually far more prevelant in England itself!
England - the land that people ignore... but at least one person on the thread seemed aware of the old homeland...
This one by Drew and Fiona
It's a small example of a much wider problem. Perhaps it's more surprising when Scots living in Scotland do it, but it's actually far more prevelant in England itself!
England - the land that people ignore... but at least one person on the thread seemed aware of the old homeland...
This one by Drew and Fiona
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Scottish-Biased Tesco Comes Out Of The Closet...
With all the recent revelations about the attempts of Tesco supermarkets to ethnically cleanse the English and erase the country of England from the UK, it comes as no surprise that secret plans are afoot at Tesco to rebrand itself.
The Public Is Outraged At The BBC Over Russell Brand/Jonathan Ross Trivial Nonsense. The BBC's Anti-English Bile Is Ignored...
"The Last Man In Europe" was apparently a title favoured for 1984 by George Orwell (who was initially going to set his masterpiece in 1980, then in 1982!). By this, he obviously meant last thinking man in Europe. It seems there are very few thinking people left in England in 2008. As the BBC wastes no opportunity to ignore or cast slurs on the English and England, the public is up in arms. Over a storm in a teacup. Our sympathies to Andrew Sachs - but good grief this moral outage from Joe Bloggs, Gordon Brown, Jack Straw and so on makes us bilious:
Radio 2 Controller Lesley Douglas has resigned over the Andrew Sachs row and Jonathan Ross has been suspended for three months without pay, the BBC said.
The row has already claimed the scalp of Russell Brand.
BBC Director-General Mark Thompson said he accepted the decision of Lesley Douglas with "real sadness".
Mr Thompson also announced Ross, said to earn £6 million a year, had been suspended for three months - without pay. The BBC said he would "be suspended from all broadcasting for the BBC for a 12-week period, ending in mid-January 2009.
"He will not be paid by the BBC during this period. The fees that would have been paid will be deducted from his BBC contract."
Mr Thompson said: "Jonathan Ross's contribution to this edition of the Russell Brand show was utterly unacceptable and cannot be allowed to go uncensored or without sanction.
"A 12-week suspension is an exceptional step, but I believe it is a proportionate response to Jonathan's role in this unhappy affair.
"Jonathan Ross has already made a comprehensive and unreserved personal apology to Andrew Sachs and his granddaughter. I believe that he fully understands the seriousness of what has happened.
"I have made very clear to him the central importance of the clause in his contract about not bringing the BBC into disrepute.
"We agree that nothing like this must ever happen again and that tight discipline will be required for the future."
Bloomin' 'eck - a load of hypocritical, sanctimonious twits twitter over a couple of gobby overpaid BBC no-marks whilst the BBC shafts the majority of its licence payers, the people of England. Yes, they'll ignore us! Yes, Jana Bennett will ensure that the BBC makes a disproportionate amount of programmes in Scotland and Wales! Yes, Jana Bennett will move popular English programmes to production centres in Scotland and Wales.
But it's schoolboy antics on Radio 2 which enrage the public.
What on earth does this say about us?
Radio 2 Controller Lesley Douglas has resigned over the Andrew Sachs row and Jonathan Ross has been suspended for three months without pay, the BBC said.
The row has already claimed the scalp of Russell Brand.
BBC Director-General Mark Thompson said he accepted the decision of Lesley Douglas with "real sadness".
Mr Thompson also announced Ross, said to earn £6 million a year, had been suspended for three months - without pay. The BBC said he would "be suspended from all broadcasting for the BBC for a 12-week period, ending in mid-January 2009.
"He will not be paid by the BBC during this period. The fees that would have been paid will be deducted from his BBC contract."
Mr Thompson said: "Jonathan Ross's contribution to this edition of the Russell Brand show was utterly unacceptable and cannot be allowed to go uncensored or without sanction.
"A 12-week suspension is an exceptional step, but I believe it is a proportionate response to Jonathan's role in this unhappy affair.
"Jonathan Ross has already made a comprehensive and unreserved personal apology to Andrew Sachs and his granddaughter. I believe that he fully understands the seriousness of what has happened.
"I have made very clear to him the central importance of the clause in his contract about not bringing the BBC into disrepute.
"We agree that nothing like this must ever happen again and that tight discipline will be required for the future."
Bloomin' 'eck - a load of hypocritical, sanctimonious twits twitter over a couple of gobby overpaid BBC no-marks whilst the BBC shafts the majority of its licence payers, the people of England. Yes, they'll ignore us! Yes, Jana Bennett will ensure that the BBC makes a disproportionate amount of programmes in Scotland and Wales! Yes, Jana Bennett will move popular English programmes to production centres in Scotland and Wales.
But it's schoolboy antics on Radio 2 which enrage the public.
What on earth does this say about us?
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Tom Griffin, Our Kingdom, Leanne Wood and Welsh and British Nationalism
Every so often, we wonder over to Our Kingdom. Basically, we find it a tosspot, full of itself, PC, middleclass, anti-English project.
Popping over today, we found Tom Griffin flagging up the views of Plaid Cymru Assembly member Leanne Woods:
Labour and many of the left parties have argued that Scottish and Welsh nationalism is regressive – a diversion that undermines British working class unity, which should be opposed. They refuse to acknowledge the inevitability of both countries becoming, at some point in the future, independent.
And when we leave the union, what will England then do? The loudest expressions of English national identity have until recently come from the far right. Often confusing Britishness and Englishness, theirs has been an imperialist, exclusive and racist nationalism, one that progressives rightly abhor.
But there are growing signs of progressive voices in England who are seriously addressing the issue of post-devolution English identity.
My God - think of the injustices visited upon the English by racist Little Waleans, many of whom believe themselves to be ethnically pure "Celts". Think of the fact that the British National Party Leader IS WELSH. Think of the current state of health apartheid, the West Lothian Question, which none of our non-racist, touchy feely Welsh neighbours see any need to mention. Because it only affects the English.
But it was big of Leanne Woods to drop a few encouraging words our way.
And nice of Tom Griffin to flag it up on OK. All fantasy pure bred "Celts" together, is it?
Popping over today, we found Tom Griffin flagging up the views of Plaid Cymru Assembly member Leanne Woods:
Labour and many of the left parties have argued that Scottish and Welsh nationalism is regressive – a diversion that undermines British working class unity, which should be opposed. They refuse to acknowledge the inevitability of both countries becoming, at some point in the future, independent.
And when we leave the union, what will England then do? The loudest expressions of English national identity have until recently come from the far right. Often confusing Britishness and Englishness, theirs has been an imperialist, exclusive and racist nationalism, one that progressives rightly abhor.
But there are growing signs of progressive voices in England who are seriously addressing the issue of post-devolution English identity.
My God - think of the injustices visited upon the English by racist Little Waleans, many of whom believe themselves to be ethnically pure "Celts". Think of the fact that the British National Party Leader IS WELSH. Think of the current state of health apartheid, the West Lothian Question, which none of our non-racist, touchy feely Welsh neighbours see any need to mention. Because it only affects the English.
But it was big of Leanne Woods to drop a few encouraging words our way.
And nice of Tom Griffin to flag it up on OK. All fantasy pure bred "Celts" together, is it?
Monday, October 27, 2008
Jack Straw Is "Driven Nuts" By Jargon -The English Are Driven Nuts By Anti-English Bigot Jack Straw...
Oh dear! Jack Straw is "driven nuts" by jargon! What a tragedy!
This is the same thoroughly bigoted Jack Straw who besmirched the English as "violent" and rewrote UK history, casting England as a violent villain.
From the BBC:
Home Secretary Jack Straw says the English had used their "propensity to violence to subjugate Ireland, Wales and Scotland" on the Radio 4 programme Brits.
When evil bigots like Straw start spouting off in outrage about anything, no matter how trivial, it's often good to remind them that perhaps they really shouldn't be in a position to shout about anything on the political stage.
Whenever we hear big bigot Jack Straw spouting off in his sanctominous "I am God" manner, we want to be very ill indeed.
And as it turns out, his own department is guilty of the "jargon" he bleats about, as is the rest of the UK Government. That's just typical!
This is the same thoroughly bigoted Jack Straw who besmirched the English as "violent" and rewrote UK history, casting England as a violent villain.
From the BBC:
Home Secretary Jack Straw says the English had used their "propensity to violence to subjugate Ireland, Wales and Scotland" on the Radio 4 programme Brits.
When evil bigots like Straw start spouting off in outrage about anything, no matter how trivial, it's often good to remind them that perhaps they really shouldn't be in a position to shout about anything on the political stage.
Whenever we hear big bigot Jack Straw spouting off in his sanctominous "I am God" manner, we want to be very ill indeed.
And as it turns out, his own department is guilty of the "jargon" he bleats about, as is the rest of the UK Government. That's just typical!
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Tesco Bias - Scottish And Welsh Suppliers
Not only is Tesco determinedly anti-England/anti-English in refusing to label English produce as English or to use the English flag on labelling, it also favours Scottish and Welsh suppliers over English.From the Tesco site:
Meet Our Suppliers - Regional Produce
East England: 9 suppliers
East Midlands: 2 suppliers
North East England: 1 supplier
Northern Ireland - 6 suppliers
North West England - 2 suppliers
South East England - 4 suppliers
South West England (includes "Cornish" bias): 6 suppliers
Wales: 14 suppliers
West Midlands: 2 suppliers
Yorkshire: 3 suppliers
Scotland: 25 suppliers
You have to delve into the regional list to reveal the facts, but tot it all up, work out the size and population of each country, and you will see that Tesco is spectacularly biased towards Scottish suppliers, with Wales a close second. England with a population of over 50 million has 29 suppliers. Scotland, with a population of around 5 million has 25 suppliers, Wales with a population of around 3 million has 14 suppliers.
Here's a few other interesting facts from the Tesco site (the emphasis are ours):
"In Scotland, over 1200 Scottish farmers supply Tesco with fresh quality beef."
"In Kent, we have worked with British strawberry growers to increase the quality and quantity of their strawberries and grow them for longer."
"Already we sell more than 500 Welsh products - for example, all milk sold in Welsh stores is Welsh and 1,361 Welsh farmers supply us with beef and lamb. And we are always working to bring new Welsh products into stores across Wales and the rest of the UK."
See, Welsh, Scottish, British - but no English. Gobbleydook as British means English, Scottish or Welsh - and solid evidence of the anti-English/anti-England organisation Tesco is.
Boycott Tesco. Start Today. Every Little Helps.
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Agincourt - The Bigoted French Attack The English Again...
It has always seemed to me that the anti-English French are rather like the anti-English Scots - small minded, bigoted, bitter and bitchy. Today's news of French attempts to rewrite Agincourt and cast the English as "war criminals" is just more evidence of the petty minded, twisted Little Frenchy types across the Channel.
They are wrong. They annoy me. And yet I feel sorry for them. French jealousy of the English is written in letters ten feet tall every time they start bitching about us.
More here.
And here.
And a big hat tip to the Wonderful Witters.
This one by Chris
They are wrong. They annoy me. And yet I feel sorry for them. French jealousy of the English is written in letters ten feet tall every time they start bitching about us.
More here.
And here.
And a big hat tip to the Wonderful Witters.
This one by Chris
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Tricky - Glad To Be English - And Andrew Marr On "Taming England"
Two very different features have been drawn to our attention via the excellent Witanagemot Club today. One is on the young celebrity Tricky - proclaiming that he is very happy indeed to be English:England knows how to integrate
Yesterday I was on the bus and saw a young Chinese girl talking to a 67 year old black woman, and by my hotel I’ve seen a black man and white woman arm in arm, walking to work. I just don’t see that anywhere else, and I’d notice it. At the end of the day, the thing with England is that I’m a black guy, but I’m English. If you’re an Arabic guy in France you could be born in France, but if you’re parents are Arabic, you’re still Arabic, they don’t look as you as being French. When I was growing up, people always saw me as an English kid. I’ve grown up here, so I’m English. I’ve got a British passport, no-one can look at me and tell me I’m not English. So the racism might be against black people, but it’s never that you’re not English.
Well, our knowledge of popular music stops circa 1989 (Pump Up The Jam, Fool's Gold and Jive Bunny!) so we can give no opinion on Tricky's work. But we like his attitude towards his homeland.
Meanwhile, Toque comes up with a snippet from Prospect Magazine, July, 1998. Here's Andrew Marr, telling us just why he feels free to wander around England so arrogantly:
“British” is a political term, not an ethnic one. There are no ethnic British. For millions of non-English island dwellers that makes it useful and reassuring. “Britain” may have imperial connotations, but it also represents the authority of treaty and ethnic compromise. For many black, Asian, European and Irish people here, who will never be English, Britishness is a useful badge of belonging. For you, in Edinburgh, Britain may seem a flag of convenience for Greater England. From where I sit, “British” surmounts and tames England. During the World Cup the cross of St George fluttered on every street; not everyone enjoyed that…
England has absorbed a lot of immigration over a long time without the rise of ethnic nationalism on the French or German model; this has something to do with the separation between the ethnic (Englishness) and the civic or political (Britishness). Asian people and black people can declare: I am British; and know that the assertion is irrefutable. But they don’t feel English, any more than I do. There is no such thing as an ethnic Briton, just as there isn’t an ethnic American. I like that.
So, rather than having an inclusive civic English identity, which would make us all English and equal, regardless of our origins, we have been "tamed" by Britishness. That's why we are ruled by Britishness - why we have health apartheid, the West Lothian Question, the Barnett Formula... why the people of England are not cared for anywhere near as well as their Scots/Welsh counterparts.
And of course that proud Scot Andrew Marr, happy to see England "tamed" and subsumed by Britishness, was all for Scottishness being recognised politically - he fully supported the establishment of the Scottish Parliament.
So, good news from Tricky, but a glimpse of what keeps us under the cosh of the Scottish Raj from Andrew Marr.
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
The English were so thick - it always took newcomers to innovate...
I get sick of articles like this.
But hang on, historians will cry. Hasn't Englishness always been like that? Isn't it true that much of what people imagine to be the quintessence of our national identity - from fish and chips (originally a Huguenot dish), Handel's Messiah and the Great Western Railway to Marks & Spencer, ITV and the House of Windsor - was created by immigrants or the sons of immigrants?
Fish n' chips aren't even English, according to the writer. Well, if the Huguenots were tucking into fried battered fish, lovely crisp chips, mushy peas, salt, vinegar and white bread and butter I'd be surprised! It gets on my nerves the way Englishness has to be dismantled all the while - unlike other nationalities. Surely everywhere has foreign influences? After all, wasn't the haggis originally Greek and didn't an Englishman invent the modern kilt?
It always seem faintly racist to me to read the scribblings of some PC folk: "All the good English stuff came from abroad. Because the English folk already living in England were thick and completely uninspired.... When one good thing had happened we had to wait ages for the next immigrant to arrive and invent the next..."
And if the writer of the article linked to here imagines that the "sons of immigrants" cannot be English, well, that's a very odd attitude.
Diverse influences in national cultures should be highlighted, celebrated, but not piously flagged up in this way.
Big hat-tip to the lovely Witanagemot Club.
But hang on, historians will cry. Hasn't Englishness always been like that? Isn't it true that much of what people imagine to be the quintessence of our national identity - from fish and chips (originally a Huguenot dish), Handel's Messiah and the Great Western Railway to Marks & Spencer, ITV and the House of Windsor - was created by immigrants or the sons of immigrants?
Fish n' chips aren't even English, according to the writer. Well, if the Huguenots were tucking into fried battered fish, lovely crisp chips, mushy peas, salt, vinegar and white bread and butter I'd be surprised! It gets on my nerves the way Englishness has to be dismantled all the while - unlike other nationalities. Surely everywhere has foreign influences? After all, wasn't the haggis originally Greek and didn't an Englishman invent the modern kilt?
It always seem faintly racist to me to read the scribblings of some PC folk: "All the good English stuff came from abroad. Because the English folk already living in England were thick and completely uninspired.... When one good thing had happened we had to wait ages for the next immigrant to arrive and invent the next..."
And if the writer of the article linked to here imagines that the "sons of immigrants" cannot be English, well, that's a very odd attitude.
Diverse influences in national cultures should be highlighted, celebrated, but not piously flagged up in this way.
Big hat-tip to the lovely Witanagemot Club.
Monday, October 20, 2008
1984: I'm On A Ride And I Wanna Get Off...
646 copies of 1984 needed for "our" MPs... Will you send just one copy? Details here.Did you know that George Orwell's original manuscript shows that he originally intended to set his masterpiece in 1980? Then 1982?
Thus, the famous opening originally began, 'April 4th, 1980. I am opening this diary because ' but Orwell crossed out 1980 and wrote over it '1982'; later he overwrote '4' on to the '2'.
Click on red text for more.
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Dairy Crest: Country Life British Butter - For Yobs And Wrinkly Old Punks?
Interestingly, Dairy Crest believes that the British Union Flag, the flag used for the odious British National Party logo, "has a more positive association with consumers than the English flag." What type of consumers are they seeking?Good grief, Dairy Crest turned up its nose at the English flag and Englishness before adopting the British flag (the flag of the racist British National Party) and Britishness and then made a commercial that would thrill every British fascist from Scotland to Wales to Cornwall!
I mean - yuck! John Lydon was and is a twit. He once famously said that the Punks put an end to the '70s - "somebody 'ad to!" - and I think he had a point. But apart from that the bloke was a gob on a stick. The amount of snarling brutality Mr Lydon and his like encouraged at the comprehensive school I attended in the late 1970s and early 1980s had to be seen to be believed.
Okay, perhaps your average teenage council estate yob was too young to appreciate the finer points of Punk "back in the day", but there was no doubt that exhortations were being made to stamp on our own worthless generation and we knew that Sid's girlfriend Nancy had a brutal end. One of my charming classmates used to specialise in pulling a Johny Rotten face at terrified lower school kids before flushing their heads in the bog in the main teaching block. They had to pay to be set free.
It's rotten to see Johnny back again. It's rotten to see that bloody awful ad, with its British Empire style jingoism, horribly outdated "Great Britain" spiel and trapping off.
It's an ad that undoubtedly has high yob appeal.
And for that, Englishness and our old English yokel pals from the 1980s have been dispatched forever.
Okay, in reality they were nauseating, but nostalgia makes them seem lovely. Doesn't it?Dairy Crest, like our old mate Gordon, you're a moron!
Boycott Dairy Crest - the anti-England/anti-English brand. NO FUTURE!!
This 'un written by Chris
Friday, October 17, 2008
The Ministry of Justice Has No Sense Of Justice When It Comes To England's Plight... After All, Jack Straw Hates The English...
According to the Ministry of Justice, it is fine to have two tiers of MPs at Westminster - those who are accountable to their constituents (in England) - and those who are not - those MPs from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland voting on legislation for England. Like Top Up Fees. And Foundation Hospitals.
Good heavens - Jack Straw is Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State For Justice. Well, fancy that! Shiver me timbers!
What a just man he is! Mind you, he doesn't like the English. He's been known to make incredibly bigoted comments about the English and warped statements about British history.
Remember this one from the BBC (click on text for link)?
Home Secretary Jack Straw says the English had used their "propensity to violence to subjugate Ireland, Wales and Scotland"
Perhaps Mr Straw's skewed and biased views on the English might explain why, when English people like Gareth Young write to the Ministry Of Justice, they get piffle and bunkum like this in return:
Your first concern is on the voting rights of non-English MPs in Westminster. The Government is against discrimination of any kind and would not consider the introduction of any legislation intended to prevent any British citizen from becoming a member of the UK Parliament solely on the basis of where they were born. More specifically, you referred to Gordon Brown being an MP for a constituency in Scotland. Under our electoral system the public does not elect a Prime Minister. Voters elect a single political party representative within a specified constituency. Gordon Brown, the member for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath, has been elected to represent his constituents and therefore legitimately holds a seat in the UK Parliament. Gordon Brown is also leader of the Labour Party. As leader of the party with the majority of seats in the House of Commons, Gordon Brown is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
Gareth's point was, of course, about democratic accountability. The Ministry Of Justice (!) deliberately ignores that fact.
Seems very twisted indeed.
And remember, if you're English, its leader, Jack Straw, has you marked down as a nasty piece of work - much nastier than any of those lovely Scots, Welsh and Irish folk - you're a subjugator, no less!
Talk about projection!
Good heavens - Jack Straw is Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State For Justice. Well, fancy that! Shiver me timbers!
What a just man he is! Mind you, he doesn't like the English. He's been known to make incredibly bigoted comments about the English and warped statements about British history.
Remember this one from the BBC (click on text for link)?
Home Secretary Jack Straw says the English had used their "propensity to violence to subjugate Ireland, Wales and Scotland"
Perhaps Mr Straw's skewed and biased views on the English might explain why, when English people like Gareth Young write to the Ministry Of Justice, they get piffle and bunkum like this in return:
Your first concern is on the voting rights of non-English MPs in Westminster. The Government is against discrimination of any kind and would not consider the introduction of any legislation intended to prevent any British citizen from becoming a member of the UK Parliament solely on the basis of where they were born. More specifically, you referred to Gordon Brown being an MP for a constituency in Scotland. Under our electoral system the public does not elect a Prime Minister. Voters elect a single political party representative within a specified constituency. Gordon Brown, the member for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath, has been elected to represent his constituents and therefore legitimately holds a seat in the UK Parliament. Gordon Brown is also leader of the Labour Party. As leader of the party with the majority of seats in the House of Commons, Gordon Brown is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
Gareth's point was, of course, about democratic accountability. The Ministry Of Justice (!) deliberately ignores that fact.
Seems very twisted indeed.
And remember, if you're English, its leader, Jack Straw, has you marked down as a nasty piece of work - much nastier than any of those lovely Scots, Welsh and Irish folk - you're a subjugator, no less!
Talk about projection!
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Jana Bennett: The Anti-English BBC Is At It Again...
Left: yet another anti-English/anti-England racist from the BBC - this one is Jana Bennett - what a twisted little smile! Right: Delia, evidently Jana's style guru, on the cover of her best selling "Cookery Course", 1982.When Dr Who was moved to BBC Wales we were a little surprised. But OK, it turned out fine. Until the anti-English slurs we initially dreaded started turning up in the scripts. Remember this?
Now, Jana Bennett, Director of BBC Vision (what?!!) who in some photographs looks a dead ringer for a twisty-smiled version of Delia Smith in the early 1980s, has decided that Wales will become a centre of excellence for drama - so other high profile dramas, hand grown in England, will be produced there, including Casualty - based in Bristol since its inception in 1986.
Meanwhile, Scotland gets Newsnight (there is already a Scottish Newsnight, but the London version will now move to Scotland too), The Weakest Link and other high profile factual and entertainment shows.
But wait! Salford gets CBBC! And Birmingham gets Chelsea and Hampton Court Flower Show - thus becoming the centre for horticultural excellence!
OH PURLEESE!!
The BBC Press Office has all the facts:
The BBC Trust has set the Executive a new target for Out of London of 50% by 2016. The plan involves growth in Nations from the 2007 figure of 6% of network spend to 17% by 2016, with an interim target of 12% by 2012, and in English Regions the growth will be from 26% now to 33% by 2016.
Note Nations (Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland) and English regions - England is apparently not a nation, although 78% of those polled in the North East, the only area allowed a referendum, voted against regionalisation. Like the UK Government, the BBC doesn't listen to the people of England.
The so-called nations should account for 17% of the BBC's "network spend" by 2016, whilst the so-called English regions (of course mentioned second, there is no English nation, of course) rise from 26% to 33% by 2016. But there are lots and lots more people in the so-called English regions than in the so-called nations. So the BBC is being grossly unfair.
England pays the lion's share of the enforced licence fee and the BBC then craps all over us, playing racist favourites with the inaccurately named "Celtic fringe".
And remember lots of high profile stuff looks to be heading to the nations whilst the regions (formerly known as "England") lose some more of their home grown stuff (like Casualty) and get a load of low profile crap in return.
Jana Bennett and the like take their money from us. But they don't serve us.
But hopefully the likes of thoroughly anti-English Jana will have a rude awakening soon as the thoroughly anti-English BBC ceases to exist.
This cannot go on for much longer.
Sir Kenneth Calman Tells Us We Musn't Think Of England As A Country - We Must Think Of It As A Collection Of Regions...
"It depends where you live in England. It's quite important you don't think about England as a single place - you can break down the regions quite nicely. If you look at London for example, you would see London does pretty well."
London does not do pretty well out of the Barnett Formula - the Formula does not apply to London.
And many things - like health apartheid - are felt across the country by the people of England.
What the hell are you talking about, Sir Kenneth? The North East, the only area of England allowed a referendum, voted 78% NO to regionalisation. So why are you trying to insist that's how we look at England, not as a single place, a united country, but as "regions"?
Do we really need another Scots dictator and divider and ruler doing the rounds in England? Because that's clearly what Calman is.
Hat-tip to the glorious Witanagemot.
London does not do pretty well out of the Barnett Formula - the Formula does not apply to London.
And many things - like health apartheid - are felt across the country by the people of England.
What the hell are you talking about, Sir Kenneth? The North East, the only area of England allowed a referendum, voted 78% NO to regionalisation. So why are you trying to insist that's how we look at England, not as a single place, a united country, but as "regions"?
Do we really need another Scots dictator and divider and ruler doing the rounds in England? Because that's clearly what Calman is.
Hat-tip to the glorious Witanagemot.
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Boycott Dairy Crest
The Fair Flags Campaign have received a reply from Dairy Crest regarding the re-branding of Country Life ENGLISH Butter to Country Life BRITISH Butter - and the Fair Flags people have their own comments to make:The justification for the move from “English” to “British” butter is that some small but unspecified portion of of the milk used in production comes from outside England and therefore it makes more sense to label the product as British. To describe it as “made in England with British milk” would be too confusing for the tiny minds of the public at large.
Personally I’d be happy with just “made in England”.
And remember Dairy Crest's assertion that the Union Flag, the flag of the odious British National Party, has more positive associations than the English flag:
A British claim enables us to credibly use the British flag within communications without causing confusion. The British flag has a more positive association with consumers than the English flag.
Boycott anti-English/anti-England Dairy Crest - here's some more of their products to avoid:
Cathedral City Cheese range, Vitalite margarine, St Ivel spread range, Willow, Golden Churn, Clover, Utterly Butterly, Frijj milkshakes.
The British Retail Consortium - The Missing Link In England's Supermarkets' Anti-England Attitude?
You know what it's like. You've written to Tesco, Sainsbury's, Morrison's, Asda, Marks and Spencer and the Co-op about their refusal to label English products as English, nonsensically labelling them "British" whilst excluding the Scots and Welsh from that by marking them with Scots and Welsh flags. You've signed petitions, you've screamed, you've been ignored.
All of the major supermarkets in England seem determined to ignore England's existence whilst merrily displaying Scots and Welsh flags on their product packaging and slogans like "Morrison's - Proud To Serve Scotland".
Lately, there has been some hope that Sainsbury's may be about to launch a few clearly flagged English lines, but Tesco has hardened its face against England, proclaiming that "English inhabitants" feel more British than English, and using this dubious finding as an even more dubious reason to delete those very few lines they do have that are marked "English".
Alfie discovered the facts, and Fair Flags ran the story, along with several other sites, including this one. Maria discovered an interesting comment in the Fair Flags comments thread, pointing at a possible factor for this anti-English attitude in supermarkets across England. It's an organisation called The British Retail Consortium. The comment states that Alistair Darling has a finger firmly stuck in this pie, and a little investigation by Maria has thrown up the fact that the Consortium has British, Brussels, Scottish (of course) and London departments, but no English department - nor yet a Welsh one - although the Welsh Assembly does have input, as does the Northern Ireland Office.
Is this the missing link - the organisation orchestrating our supermarkets' and English food producers' growing anti-England bias (think Dairy Crest)?
Because something certainly is.
All of the major supermarkets in England seem determined to ignore England's existence whilst merrily displaying Scots and Welsh flags on their product packaging and slogans like "Morrison's - Proud To Serve Scotland".
Lately, there has been some hope that Sainsbury's may be about to launch a few clearly flagged English lines, but Tesco has hardened its face against England, proclaiming that "English inhabitants" feel more British than English, and using this dubious finding as an even more dubious reason to delete those very few lines they do have that are marked "English".
Alfie discovered the facts, and Fair Flags ran the story, along with several other sites, including this one. Maria discovered an interesting comment in the Fair Flags comments thread, pointing at a possible factor for this anti-English attitude in supermarkets across England. It's an organisation called The British Retail Consortium. The comment states that Alistair Darling has a finger firmly stuck in this pie, and a little investigation by Maria has thrown up the fact that the Consortium has British, Brussels, Scottish (of course) and London departments, but no English department - nor yet a Welsh one - although the Welsh Assembly does have input, as does the Northern Ireland Office.
Is this the missing link - the organisation orchestrating our supermarkets' and English food producers' growing anti-England bias (think Dairy Crest)?
Because something certainly is.
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Tesco's Hatred of England Approaches Its Peak...
Despite all our protestations, apparently Tesco "Customer Focus Groups" have decided that all English products must in future be marked "British" - whilst Scots and Welsh products continue to be marked as "Scots" and "Welsh". The "focus groups" stuff is all my eye and Betty Martin - there is obviously a great deal of feeling in England that English products should be labelled as... er... English. Kinda makes sense, doesn't it?
Tesco - your contempt for us is breathtaking!
Alfie on the blower to a trucculent Scot about anti-English labelling at Tesco:
“But we are changing it to make it more consistent”
“Well that’s bloody great!”
“Yes, in the very near future, our butter will be labelled as British butter – and of course we will keep the Union flag to make it all consistent”....
“WHAT?”...
Click on text to read the full story.
Tesco - your contempt for us is breathtaking!
Alfie on the blower to a trucculent Scot about anti-English labelling at Tesco:
“But we are changing it to make it more consistent”
“Well that’s bloody great!”
“Yes, in the very near future, our butter will be labelled as British butter – and of course we will keep the Union flag to make it all consistent”....
“WHAT?”...
Click on text to read the full story.
Monday, October 13, 2008
Let's Blame Thatcher And 1979 - But What About 1980 (Reagan), 1983 ("Falklands Factor"), 1987 (Rampant Yuppiedom) And 1997 (New Labour Elected)?
With all the bad financial news lapping around us, it seems absolutely scurrilous to us that some people are trying to say that the fault lies with Thatcherism and that the we were irrevocably set on this cause in 1979.
Socialists nowadays have a vehement dislike of mentioning the 1980s, believing the 70s to be the last time anything significant happened, but that's surely a grossly childish and over simplified view?
Two of us were ardent Socialists in the 1980s. So it might be interesting if we share our views of what happened during the Thatcher era.
Firstly, the pivotal 1979 myth. Thatcher was elected twice after that for reasons thrown up by the turbulent decade, the 1980s. In 1979, the election of Thatcher made us personally, Drew and me, despair. But those we heard talking around us in our good old working class ghetto who were going over to the "other side" were not backing a long-term free market economy. The misery of the Winter of Discontent was a major contributory factor for those everyday folk around our way. Plus the fact that Thatcher was a woman. Would a woman be different to your average Tory git - more sensitive?
Fast forward to 1983 and the first instalment of breakfast telly station TV-am was telling us that the "World Wide Recession" was, well, pretty darned shit. People round my way were getting pissed off with Thatcher in the early 1980s. But 1982 changed all that for many. The "Falklands Factor" was a major contributory factor to Thatcher getting re-elected in 1983.
It was at this point, given confidence and we assume added arrogance, that Mrs T really started sticking the boot into the unions.
Next time round was 1987. The world had changed. The election of Ronald Reagan as American president in 1980 (he was inaugurated in 1981) had Had a major impact on the world economy. And Mrs T had (metaphorically speaking) climbed into bed with him.
1979 and 1982 seemed a very long way away. Ironically, 1987 was the year that saw the 1980s yuppie cult peak - and begin melt down with Black Monday in October of that year.
So, apart from these elections, what were the 1980s like? We remember the marches for the miners, and against Clause 28. We remember Red Wedge...
It was a messed up, turbulent decade of tremendous change - Thatcher's reign was in no way set in stone in 1979.
In 1990, Thatcher was deposed and we celebrated. Then began the long, grey Major era, followed by the election of Tony Blair in 1997. He actually said "We cannot negate the achievements of the 1980s". We were stunned. He wasn't talking about the invention of the World Wide Web. He was talking about Thatcher. He was talking politics.
Now, with the Credit Crunch wreaking havoc, it pleases many Socialists to say "It's all Thatcher's fault and it was all cast in stone in 1979!" Rubbish. A priggish, childish view of events which negates progress because it so muddies the truth.
Thatcher had integrity. Horribly misguided though we believe she was, she believed that she was acting for the best. Many of our modern day politicians are horribly corrupt. And Gordon Brown must be held accountable for his actions.
Far more change has taken place in worldwide political attitudes since the inauguration of Ronald Reagan as American President in 1981.
Socialists just like to witter on about the 1970s (they hate to even mention the 1980s!) and blame Thatcher. They love to write any year from 1970-1979 on their blogs/websites and pretend those years were it. The BBC is the same. But Thatcher's reign was fully organic, fully part of the 1980s, and her re-elections influenced by 1980s events which we couldn't even have guessed at in '79.
Back to now, and the fact is Nulabour has been in power long enough to make changes. And it has. Blaming Thatcher is a huge cop-out. Rewriting history is a huge cop out.
And the most wonderful thing about the 1980s? No health apartheid. No West Lothian Question. Although sadly the Barnett Formula was rampant.
The other thing about the 1980s was a sense of living in now. True, some Tories blamed the 1960s for the an apparent drop in standards, but in the main no mass scapegoating of the past went on. There was no "1979" to fall back on.
In the 1980s, people had the guts to own their actions. What a shame the hypocritical, smug 1990s never went away.
And what a shame people are so frightened of referring to the 1980s and telling the truth about Thatcher.
And telling the truth about Gordon Brown, Tony Blair, and so on.
Socialists nowadays have a vehement dislike of mentioning the 1980s, believing the 70s to be the last time anything significant happened, but that's surely a grossly childish and over simplified view?
Two of us were ardent Socialists in the 1980s. So it might be interesting if we share our views of what happened during the Thatcher era.
Firstly, the pivotal 1979 myth. Thatcher was elected twice after that for reasons thrown up by the turbulent decade, the 1980s. In 1979, the election of Thatcher made us personally, Drew and me, despair. But those we heard talking around us in our good old working class ghetto who were going over to the "other side" were not backing a long-term free market economy. The misery of the Winter of Discontent was a major contributory factor for those everyday folk around our way. Plus the fact that Thatcher was a woman. Would a woman be different to your average Tory git - more sensitive?
Fast forward to 1983 and the first instalment of breakfast telly station TV-am was telling us that the "World Wide Recession" was, well, pretty darned shit. People round my way were getting pissed off with Thatcher in the early 1980s. But 1982 changed all that for many. The "Falklands Factor" was a major contributory factor to Thatcher getting re-elected in 1983.
It was at this point, given confidence and we assume added arrogance, that Mrs T really started sticking the boot into the unions.
Next time round was 1987. The world had changed. The election of Ronald Reagan as American president in 1980 (he was inaugurated in 1981) had Had a major impact on the world economy. And Mrs T had (metaphorically speaking) climbed into bed with him.
1979 and 1982 seemed a very long way away. Ironically, 1987 was the year that saw the 1980s yuppie cult peak - and begin melt down with Black Monday in October of that year.
So, apart from these elections, what were the 1980s like? We remember the marches for the miners, and against Clause 28. We remember Red Wedge...
It was a messed up, turbulent decade of tremendous change - Thatcher's reign was in no way set in stone in 1979.
In 1990, Thatcher was deposed and we celebrated. Then began the long, grey Major era, followed by the election of Tony Blair in 1997. He actually said "We cannot negate the achievements of the 1980s". We were stunned. He wasn't talking about the invention of the World Wide Web. He was talking about Thatcher. He was talking politics.
Now, with the Credit Crunch wreaking havoc, it pleases many Socialists to say "It's all Thatcher's fault and it was all cast in stone in 1979!" Rubbish. A priggish, childish view of events which negates progress because it so muddies the truth.
Thatcher had integrity. Horribly misguided though we believe she was, she believed that she was acting for the best. Many of our modern day politicians are horribly corrupt. And Gordon Brown must be held accountable for his actions.
Far more change has taken place in worldwide political attitudes since the inauguration of Ronald Reagan as American President in 1981.
Socialists just like to witter on about the 1970s (they hate to even mention the 1980s!) and blame Thatcher. They love to write any year from 1970-1979 on their blogs/websites and pretend those years were it. The BBC is the same. But Thatcher's reign was fully organic, fully part of the 1980s, and her re-elections influenced by 1980s events which we couldn't even have guessed at in '79.
Back to now, and the fact is Nulabour has been in power long enough to make changes. And it has. Blaming Thatcher is a huge cop-out. Rewriting history is a huge cop out.
And the most wonderful thing about the 1980s? No health apartheid. No West Lothian Question. Although sadly the Barnett Formula was rampant.
The other thing about the 1980s was a sense of living in now. True, some Tories blamed the 1960s for the an apparent drop in standards, but in the main no mass scapegoating of the past went on. There was no "1979" to fall back on.
In the 1980s, people had the guts to own their actions. What a shame the hypocritical, smug 1990s never went away.
And what a shame people are so frightened of referring to the 1980s and telling the truth about Thatcher.
And telling the truth about Gordon Brown, Tony Blair, and so on.
CAMPAIGN FOR AN ENGLISH PARLIAMENT: The benefits to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland at ENGLAND'S expense just get bigger and bigger
Over the last two weeks an incredible list of extra benefits for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland has been declared, none of which will be available in England but all of which English taxpayers will pay for. At present what Scotland alone pays into the UK Exchequer falls £11 billion short of the amount they receive from it to pay for services. The extra benefits will all be paid for in their entirety by the people of England.
It has been announced by the Scottish Executive that all Scotland's infant pupils are to get free school meals as from August 2010 costing between £30 and £40 million. The Review Committee set up by the Welsh Assembly is recommending that all Welsh university students pay only £1200 per annum in fees while England's pay £3000 (Scottish university students do not pay tuition fees as it is, not even when they are at English universities) and that Welsh students from poorer backgrounds should receive grants up to £6000pa. In Northern Ireland prescription charges, already scrapped in Wales and about to be scrapped in Scotland, will be scrapped in 2010.
The Scottish Executive has now come up with a demand for its own national high quality TV digital channel costing £75 million and asking for broadcasting powers independent of the BBC and responsible just to the Scottish Parliament. Scotland already has its own BBC Scotland, Wales its own BBC Wales, NI its own BBC NI and British citizens of Asian origin have their own Asian Network. England in contrast has no BBC England at all; and while all three countries have their representatives on the Board of BBC Trustees, England does not. All it has is a representative of 9 separate BBC English regions -just one for a population which amounts to 80% of the whole UK population.
Gordon Brown, the Scottish UK Prime Minister, has also appointed a new Secretary of State for Scotland with a seat in the UK Parliament. He is Jim Murphy MP for Rendrewshire. Wales and NI likewise both have a Secretary of State with seats in the Cabinet. England, however, has no Secretary of State, no one at all to represent its interests in the Cabinet..
Mr Brown has also set up the Calman Commission to investigate ways and means of improving what is on offer to Scotland since devolution and how to improve its processes. Lord Calman has already announced his commission will be considering providing more financial powers to the Scottish Parliament.
'The total situation beggars belief,' Mrs Scilla Cullen, CEP Chairman. 'It simply is impossible even to attempt to justify, let alone quantify, the degree of discrimination being imposed upon the people of England by the Union government. Just one statistical fact might show it for it is. Birmingham has the highest child poverty rate in the whole of the UK. That alone is enough to illustrate how utterly unfair it all is. One would think at least one English MP would rise up and demand justice and equality for England.'
End of Press Release.
Contact:
Michael Knowles
Head of CEP Media Unit. Tel: 01260 271139 Email: michael-knowles@tiscali.co.uk
It has been announced by the Scottish Executive that all Scotland's infant pupils are to get free school meals as from August 2010 costing between £30 and £40 million. The Review Committee set up by the Welsh Assembly is recommending that all Welsh university students pay only £1200 per annum in fees while England's pay £3000 (Scottish university students do not pay tuition fees as it is, not even when they are at English universities) and that Welsh students from poorer backgrounds should receive grants up to £6000pa. In Northern Ireland prescription charges, already scrapped in Wales and about to be scrapped in Scotland, will be scrapped in 2010.
The Scottish Executive has now come up with a demand for its own national high quality TV digital channel costing £75 million and asking for broadcasting powers independent of the BBC and responsible just to the Scottish Parliament. Scotland already has its own BBC Scotland, Wales its own BBC Wales, NI its own BBC NI and British citizens of Asian origin have their own Asian Network. England in contrast has no BBC England at all; and while all three countries have their representatives on the Board of BBC Trustees, England does not. All it has is a representative of 9 separate BBC English regions -just one for a population which amounts to 80% of the whole UK population.
Gordon Brown, the Scottish UK Prime Minister, has also appointed a new Secretary of State for Scotland with a seat in the UK Parliament. He is Jim Murphy MP for Rendrewshire. Wales and NI likewise both have a Secretary of State with seats in the Cabinet. England, however, has no Secretary of State, no one at all to represent its interests in the Cabinet..
Mr Brown has also set up the Calman Commission to investigate ways and means of improving what is on offer to Scotland since devolution and how to improve its processes. Lord Calman has already announced his commission will be considering providing more financial powers to the Scottish Parliament.
'The total situation beggars belief,' Mrs Scilla Cullen, CEP Chairman. 'It simply is impossible even to attempt to justify, let alone quantify, the degree of discrimination being imposed upon the people of England by the Union government. Just one statistical fact might show it for it is. Birmingham has the highest child poverty rate in the whole of the UK. That alone is enough to illustrate how utterly unfair it all is. One would think at least one English MP would rise up and demand justice and equality for England.'
End of Press Release.
Contact:
Michael Knowles
Head of CEP Media Unit. Tel: 01260 271139 Email: michael-knowles@tiscali.co.uk
Thursday, October 09, 2008
Andrew O'Hagan - Anti-English Racist First To Speak On BBC Radio 4 "Made In England" Series...
Where on earth does the BBC's anti-English bias stop? A series of programmes on BBC Radio 4 called Made In England kicked off with the anti-English poison of a Scot called Andrew O'Hagan. Oddly enough, both Chris and Maria have met Mr O'Hagan and comments he made to them on the subject of the English and England and on the BBC Radio 4 programme would probably have landed him under police investigation if he'd uttered the same about any other race or nationality.
An anti-English racist and egotist, terribly young both in physical fact and mentality, Mr O'Hagan is one of those people who gives bigots a bad name - hideous generalisations and absolute contempt for the chosen punch bag - in Mr O'Hagan's case, the English. During the course of the programme, Mr O'Hagan displayed the most appalling arrogance and ignorance - he didn't even know that Tony Blair was Scottish!
The BBC and Arts Council England - another of those evil regionalised ventures of the UK Government, should hang their heads in shame for letting this pathetic young bigot have air time. But of course they won't. And you have to pay for it out of your Government funding and BBC licence fee.
“England is dead and gone - it’s with George Orwell in the grave.” says Andrew O'Hagan. Wrong. Mr O'Hagan is doing the image of the Scots and the future of the UK no good at all.
We're sorry on the first count. But so glad on the second!
Big hat-tip to For England.
UPDATE
We've had a couple of e-mails asking where Chris and Maria met Mr O'Hagan and what anti-English comments he made to us. We happened upon him in Glasgow, about a year ago, when we were visiting Chris' uncle. Mr O'Hagan was conducting various interviews, and we spoke to him. We can't recount his exact words, but basically he told us that the English were lazy, bigoted, arrogant, smug and violent - and that the only good thing about England was incomers. when we mentioned the England Parliament issue, he said that England was finished. A lot of what he said on "Made In England" struck us as a reheating of things he'd said to us last year!
An anti-English racist and egotist, terribly young both in physical fact and mentality, Mr O'Hagan is one of those people who gives bigots a bad name - hideous generalisations and absolute contempt for the chosen punch bag - in Mr O'Hagan's case, the English. During the course of the programme, Mr O'Hagan displayed the most appalling arrogance and ignorance - he didn't even know that Tony Blair was Scottish!
The BBC and Arts Council England - another of those evil regionalised ventures of the UK Government, should hang their heads in shame for letting this pathetic young bigot have air time. But of course they won't. And you have to pay for it out of your Government funding and BBC licence fee.
“England is dead and gone - it’s with George Orwell in the grave.” says Andrew O'Hagan. Wrong. Mr O'Hagan is doing the image of the Scots and the future of the UK no good at all.
We're sorry on the first count. But so glad on the second!
Big hat-tip to For England.
UPDATE
We've had a couple of e-mails asking where Chris and Maria met Mr O'Hagan and what anti-English comments he made to us. We happened upon him in Glasgow, about a year ago, when we were visiting Chris' uncle. Mr O'Hagan was conducting various interviews, and we spoke to him. We can't recount his exact words, but basically he told us that the English were lazy, bigoted, arrogant, smug and violent - and that the only good thing about England was incomers. when we mentioned the England Parliament issue, he said that England was finished. A lot of what he said on "Made In England" struck us as a reheating of things he'd said to us last year!
Wednesday, October 08, 2008
Coronation Street - Anti-English To The Core!
1960s heyday - Coronation Street before it turned against the English and began licking Scots' bottoms.We published a post on here a few days ago about the furore surrounding a Scots character slagging off a Scots football team in the ITV1 soap opera Coronation Street. A few Scots football fans complained, and Granada took out the offending words. However, Granada kept in other offensive words about the Scots character hating the "English" national anthem (in reality the British national anthem, there is no English national anthem).
From our original post:
Of course there is NO English national anthem. Officially, God Save The Queen is the national anthem of Britain - which includes Scotland and Wales.
However, Scotland and Wales sing their own anthems at football matches, leaving the English teams with the British anthem - which is absurd. But some English people do perceive God Save The Queen as being the English national anthem. When hoary old ITV Granada soap Coronation Street recently scripted a character as commenting that he hated "warm beer, the English national anthem, and Glasgow Rangers" the line was edited out. Not out of any respect for English monarchists or beer lovers, you understand, but because the show simply did not want to offend Scots football fans.
But now we know that only the comment which was offensive to Glasgow Rangers fans was removed. The racist, anti-English comment was left in. Imagine a Corrie character stating that he/she hated the national anthem of any other country. Can you imagine the uproar? One of the sickest shows on the box for some years, Corrie now turns on its own country of origin.
Still, it's heyday was the 1960s and it's been in decline ever since. Now it's apparently in its dotage. But are people really upset about crumbly old Corrie allowing anti-English bile in its episodes?
After the episode was broadcast tonight, we almost immediately received this comment from Alfie:
"I BLOODY KNEW IT!!!!
They kept the reference to 'The English national anthem in!!!!
Fascist bastards!!!"
The reference to the Scottish football team was certainly less offensive than the anti-English comment. And yet in deference to a few whingers Granada took out the words. The feelings of English viewers were ignored.
Coronation Street is now very sick indeed - apparently encouraging hatred against its own home nation, and casting Scots in a bad light too for making such bigoted comments.
Surely it's time to pull the plug on this rambling, bigoted, mess?
Cornwall Is Not A Country - But Anti-English Tesco Says It Is...
Cornwall is a county of England. Despite the racist cries of those fancying themselves as "pure blooded Celts" (no such thing) and others simply concerned that Cornwall should be independent, it is still a county of England. And should remain one until a referendum decides otherwise. Until the people have spoken.
We have friends born in Cornwall who firmly believe they are English and that Cornwall is an English county. But Tesco, rabidly anti-English, have decided to butter up the racist fantasy "Celtic" clique in Cornwall by slapping a Cornish flag on their "finest" range.
This makes no sense at all. Cornwall is not a nation. And county flags are missing from all other Tesco produce.
What on earth is Tesco playing at?
Read the whole tale at Waking Hereward.
We have friends born in Cornwall who firmly believe they are English and that Cornwall is an English county. But Tesco, rabidly anti-English, have decided to butter up the racist fantasy "Celtic" clique in Cornwall by slapping a Cornish flag on their "finest" range.
This makes no sense at all. Cornwall is not a nation. And county flags are missing from all other Tesco produce.
What on earth is Tesco playing at?
Read the whole tale at Waking Hereward.
Ed Balls, Bigot, Would Rather Mislead The Public Than Mention England...
Ed Balls - anti-English/anti-England racist bigot.From the BBC:
Schools are being given advice on how to prevent pupils becoming drawn to violent extremism and terrorism.
Guidelines are being made available to primary and secondary schools in England to help them discuss the issues surrounding extremist views.
Schools Secretary Ed Balls said schools could play a "key role" in getting young people to reject extremism.
And from BT Yahoo news:
Ed Balls: "Dealing with violent extremism is nothing new for the UK and we have learnt from past experience that a security response is not enough."
"For the UK"? But your remit does not cover the UK, Mr Balls - only England. Should a man who obviously hates England and the English so much he can't even bring himself to mention the words when they are strictly relevant to the subject being discussed be allowed to co-ordinate policy to help steer young minds away from bigotry, hatred and extremism?
Tuesday, October 07, 2008
Jim Murphy - Another Smug Scots Parasite - Feeding Off The English...
Jim Murphy: Scotland is a proud, historic nation... I'll do all I can for Scotland... I love Scotland... Scotland is the most wonderful place on earth... we Scots are so great I could wee myself, etc, etc...How do we afford all these MPs? And how come so many are for Scotland only? There's Scots over-representation at Westminster, MSPs, Euro MPs, and now a new full-time Scottish Secretary of State - the un-admirable Jim "Gob" Murphy. The admirable Secret Person points out that Scotland, on top of all this, also has a regional minister - like the ones forced on England to ensure our country's break-up by the Scottish Raj at Westminster.
So, we know that these Scots MPs are out to further Scotland's interests and couldn't give a hang about England or its people, and it's good that Jim Murphy should immediately reveal his Little Scotlander personality on his new blog:
"I will work with anyone who wants to advance our interests. In Europe I worked with centre-right and centre-left governments, with conservative and nationalist. I even enjoyed working with the Communist President of Cyprus. I know from experience the importance of building alliance to achieve real progress. But I will also vigorously oppose ideas and actions that will damage Scotland and her people. I love Scotland. I am passionate about its past and optimistic about its future. No political party has a monopoly on patriotism and I will challenge anyone who says otherwise. We have a great diversity in Scotland but we can all be united by the Saltire."
Not the Union Flag, rammed down our throats in England, you understand, but the saltire. Much as we admire the Scots Parliament's work on encouraging an inclusive non-Celtic-myth Scottishness, Jim Murphy, as a UK Minister, completely ignores the UK angle and makes it plain that Scotland is simply in it for what it can get out:
"As Secretary of State I will be relentless in my pursuit in the interests of Scotland. I will be out and about, criss-crossing the country. Travelling from north to south, to cities, towns and villages to meet businesses and voluntary groups, to visit workplaces and factories, to host round-tables and hold debates. I will listen, learn and act. I will passionately put the case for our current constitutional settlement. Ours is a great nation, with a proud history and a great future. I look forward to meeting you and talking to you – and most of all hearing from you. This is the first of what will be a regular blog."
Jim Murphy, like so many in so-called UK politics, you are a smug, exclusive and unscrupulous git with your hand in English pockets and a determination to make your fellow countrymen into even more of an elite than ever.
Health apartheid, the West Lothian Question, the Barnett Formula is not enough, is it? Like it or not, this is all about the UK being run primarily for the benefit of an elite - the people of Scotland.
Gordon Brown, "our" non-representative PM, may have appointed this man to try and shut Salmond's gob a bit. But from the sound of Jim Murphy's fairly constant flow of smug, exclusive Scots nationalist verbal diarrhea so far, Gordy may have picked a dud.
Monday, October 06, 2008
Jim Murphy - Scottish Secretary Of State - Snout In The Trough As Gordon Brown Honours His Pledge To Put Scotland First...
In recent years, the UK Government post of Scottish Secretary was cut down to part-time. Why should Scotland have a Secretary of State at all, some of us asked? 75% of legislation passed by the UK Government no longer affects Scotland, and England doesn't have a Secretary of State and NOBODY speaks for England as a nation - MPs supposedly representing English constituencies are too busy guzzling at the trough to speak up on issues like the West Lothian Question, the Barnett Formula, health apartheid, etc.
And now, not content with having its own parliament and part-time Secretary of State, Scotland has a full-time Secretary again - thanks of course to English revenue and Scots greed.
From the CEP News Blog:
Jim McMurphy, the new Secretary of State for Scotland, has got off to a flying start.
He apparently told Gordon McBrown that he would only take the job on the condition that it was full time and not combined with another cabinet position like it was with Des McBrowne. At a time when the British government has the least relevance to the people of Scotland as it has for over 300 years, appointing a full-time minister for Scotland is quite bizarre. Especially when taking into account that there is no Secretary of State for England and no England Office despite the British government having absolute control over England.
And now, not content with having its own parliament and part-time Secretary of State, Scotland has a full-time Secretary again - thanks of course to English revenue and Scots greed.
From the CEP News Blog:
Jim McMurphy, the new Secretary of State for Scotland, has got off to a flying start.
He apparently told Gordon McBrown that he would only take the job on the condition that it was full time and not combined with another cabinet position like it was with Des McBrowne. At a time when the British government has the least relevance to the people of Scotland as it has for over 300 years, appointing a full-time minister for Scotland is quite bizarre. Especially when taking into account that there is no Secretary of State for England and no England Office despite the British government having absolute control over England.
Gordon Brown, you really are honouring the 1989 Scottish Claim Of Right that you signed way back then, aren't you? You really are putting Scotland ahead of the rest of the UK in all you do?
And stick your snout in the trough, Jim Murphy - join the rest of the pigs!
Sunday, October 05, 2008
Country Life Butter Attacks The English!
Illustration from the Fair Flags Campaign site.We have some old VHS video cassettes taped from TV in the early 1980s, and one of the most oft-repeated advertisements is that for Country Life English Butter.
Remember the cartoon yokels?
"Oh we are the lads from Country Life and you'll never put a better bit of butter on your knife, if you 'aven't any in 'ave a word with the wife and spread it on your toast in the morning! Oh it's English, fresh and creamy too..."
English? Not any more it isn't. Country Life Butter is now "British":
A British claim enables us to credibly use the British flag within communications without causing confusion. The British flag has a more positive association with consumers than the English flag.
Eh? But the British flag is the chosen flag of the odious and highly racist BNP!!
See? This is their logo.
And how dare Dairy Crest, manufacturers of Country Life, suggest that England's national flag, the Cross of St George, is not as positive as the Union Flag, with all its imperialistic/racist connotations?
A couple of us here were partial to a bit of Country Life.
Not any more. We strongly recommend that this anti-England/anti-English product is now boycotted. It is not enough for the company to remove the "English" tag from the product - it also casts slurs upon our national flag and opines that the flag used by a racist organisation is superior.
Huge hat- tip to The Fair Flags Campaign.
Happy days - 1981 newspaper ad for Country Life English Butter.
"Keep Celts Onside, Seb!" Says Angharad Mair Of Wales On Sunday - What A Racist Notion!
It always makes us smile when we witness the rampant double standards and mythology perpetrated by certain individuals from our neighbouring countries. In today's Wales On Sunday, Angharad Mair advises Lord Seb Coe to "Keep The Celts Onside"!
But the Celts were an ancient white tribe and nothing to do with modern day Scotland and Wales. Indeed, there are doubts that the Celts ever reached these islands en-masse! So, what's she on about?
Wales and Scotland are not Celtic, and are most certainly not all white nations, which, carried to its logical conclusion is what Ms Mair is saying. There is a feeling of some kind of exclusive club comprised of Scotland and Wales to the exclusion of all others in this kind of racist cosying up. The origins of the Scots nationality are not the same as those of the Welsh.
Indeed, up until a few hundred years ago, the Scots and Welsh were never even called "Celts"!
Angharad Mair you are in our opinion, perhaps unknowingly, a racist. But in these days of devolution and a Scots and Welsh elite, your type are going to be challenged more and more.
But the Celts were an ancient white tribe and nothing to do with modern day Scotland and Wales. Indeed, there are doubts that the Celts ever reached these islands en-masse! So, what's she on about?
Wales and Scotland are not Celtic, and are most certainly not all white nations, which, carried to its logical conclusion is what Ms Mair is saying. There is a feeling of some kind of exclusive club comprised of Scotland and Wales to the exclusion of all others in this kind of racist cosying up. The origins of the Scots nationality are not the same as those of the Welsh.
Indeed, up until a few hundred years ago, the Scots and Welsh were never even called "Celts"!
Angharad Mair you are in our opinion, perhaps unknowingly, a racist. But in these days of devolution and a Scots and Welsh elite, your type are going to be challenged more and more.
Council House Sales - Not All Thatcher's Fault...
Norfolk Blogger writes about Margaret Thatcher and the Right To Buy. The Credit Crunch is all her fault, he reckons. But the Right to Buy issue is more complex than that - and sales of council houses did not begin under Thatcher...
Most secure tenants of local authority houses in England and Wales gained the Right to Buy their homes at a discount with the enactment of the Housing Act 1980 (in Scotland the relevant legislation was the Tenants' Rights, Etc (Scotland) Act 1980). Local authorities had been able to sell their homes before this; indeed, permission to sell houses with Ministerial consent was granted in the Housing Act 1936 and in the 1950s a general consent was given enabling councils to notify the Minister on completion of a sale.Between 1957 and 1964 some 16,000 council houses were sold in England. In 1968 a circular was issued imposing a limit on the proportion of stock to be sold annually in the major conurbations and the general consent was replaced with a quota system. The restrictions imposed in 1968 were overturned by the incoming Conservative Government in 1970. In the 1970s the issue of council house sales grew in political prominence as theConservative Party was increasingly identified with policies designed to encourage council tenants to purchase their homes. The number of council houses sold in England grew from under 7,000 in 1970 to almost 46,000 in 1972. The February 1974 Conservative Manifesto made a commitment to introduce the Right to Buy, subject to an appeal on specified grounds. In October 1974 the Manifesto promised legislation to give secure tenants of three or more years' standing the Right to Buy at one third less than market values with a five-year pre-emption clause.
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Most secure tenants of local authority houses in England and Wales gained the Right to Buy their homes at a discount with the enactment of the Housing Act 1980 (in Scotland the relevant legislation was the Tenants' Rights, Etc (Scotland) Act 1980). Local authorities had been able to sell their homes before this; indeed, permission to sell houses with Ministerial consent was granted in the Housing Act 1936 and in the 1950s a general consent was given enabling councils to notify the Minister on completion of a sale.Between 1957 and 1964 some 16,000 council houses were sold in England. In 1968 a circular was issued imposing a limit on the proportion of stock to be sold annually in the major conurbations and the general consent was replaced with a quota system. The restrictions imposed in 1968 were overturned by the incoming Conservative Government in 1970. In the 1970s the issue of council house sales grew in political prominence as theConservative Party was increasingly identified with policies designed to encourage council tenants to purchase their homes. The number of council houses sold in England grew from under 7,000 in 1970 to almost 46,000 in 1972. The February 1974 Conservative Manifesto made a commitment to introduce the Right to Buy, subject to an appeal on specified grounds. In October 1974 the Manifesto promised legislation to give secure tenants of three or more years' standing the Right to Buy at one third less than market values with a five-year pre-emption clause.
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Saturday, October 04, 2008
Anti-English Coronation Street - Happy To Offend The English, Whilst Crawling To The Scots...
Of course there is NO English national anthem. Officially, God Save The Queen is the national anthem of Britain - which includes Scotland and Wales.
However, Scotland and Wales sing their own anthems at football matches, leaving the English teams with the British anthem - which is absurd. But some English people do perceive God Save The Queen as being the English national anthem. When hoary old ITV Granada soap Coronation Street recently scripted a character as commenting that he hated "warm beer, the English national anthem, and Glasgow Rangers" the line was edited out. Not out of any respect for English monarchists or beer lovers, you understand, but because the show simply did not want to offend Scots football fans.
From the BBC:
Coronation Street bosses have changed the script for an episode of the soap after complaints from Rangers fans.
Supporters complained after the character Tony Gordon - played by Scottish actor Gray O'Brien - made a jibe about the Glasgow club.
O'Brien's character had said: "I could no more be interested in Rosie Webster than I could support Glasgow Rangers."
An ITV spokeswoman confirmed that after "dozens" of complaints, the script for a forthcoming episode had been changed.
ITV said that line seemed "to have caused some upset".
One of the character's lines in a future episode - reported to be a remark that he was allergic to "warm beer, the English national anthem and Glasgow Rangers" - has now been dropped.
The spokewoman said: "Both comments were in keeping with the character of Tony Gordon.
"But we have to bear in mind that it does seem to have caused some upset so the decision was made to take the line out.
"It doesn't compromise the drama of the episode and if it did then the line definitely wouldn't have been taken out."
She added: "We also felt in the absence of a character balancing things up on the other side of the Old Firm, it was a line not worth repeating."
The complaints from the Scots football fans are typically selfish and immature.
There's far too much kow-towing to the Scots and crapping on the English going on. "Our" PM represents a Scots constituency, and around 75% of legislation his government passes does not affect his own constituents. You can now die in England for want of medication available on the NHS in Scotland. And MPs representing Scots constituencies force legislation onto England. Prescriptions are free to all in Wales and soon to be in Scotland and Northern Ireland. In England, they rise and rise in price.
And let's not forget that England subsidises Scotland and Wales via the Barnett Formula, which even its creator, Lord Joel Barnett, has declared as being unfair to England.
Or that Gordon Brown signed The Scottish Claim of Right in 1989, vowing to always put Scotland's interests first. This is surely bizarre for a UK PM, who should be treating each UK nation equally.
And now Corrie is kow-towing to gobby Scots, whilst ignoring English sensitivities?
Personally, we thought the show, which was in its heyday in the 1960s, went completely down the pan in the early 1990s. But it seems new lows are still possible.
Oh, and if you think the ignorance of the Coronation Street scriptwriters' is a little beyond the pale and that there should actually be a national anthem for England, take a look here.
However, Scotland and Wales sing their own anthems at football matches, leaving the English teams with the British anthem - which is absurd. But some English people do perceive God Save The Queen as being the English national anthem. When hoary old ITV Granada soap Coronation Street recently scripted a character as commenting that he hated "warm beer, the English national anthem, and Glasgow Rangers" the line was edited out. Not out of any respect for English monarchists or beer lovers, you understand, but because the show simply did not want to offend Scots football fans.
From the BBC:
Coronation Street bosses have changed the script for an episode of the soap after complaints from Rangers fans.
Supporters complained after the character Tony Gordon - played by Scottish actor Gray O'Brien - made a jibe about the Glasgow club.
O'Brien's character had said: "I could no more be interested in Rosie Webster than I could support Glasgow Rangers."
An ITV spokeswoman confirmed that after "dozens" of complaints, the script for a forthcoming episode had been changed.
ITV said that line seemed "to have caused some upset".
One of the character's lines in a future episode - reported to be a remark that he was allergic to "warm beer, the English national anthem and Glasgow Rangers" - has now been dropped.
The spokewoman said: "Both comments were in keeping with the character of Tony Gordon.
"But we have to bear in mind that it does seem to have caused some upset so the decision was made to take the line out.
"It doesn't compromise the drama of the episode and if it did then the line definitely wouldn't have been taken out."
She added: "We also felt in the absence of a character balancing things up on the other side of the Old Firm, it was a line not worth repeating."
The complaints from the Scots football fans are typically selfish and immature.
There's far too much kow-towing to the Scots and crapping on the English going on. "Our" PM represents a Scots constituency, and around 75% of legislation his government passes does not affect his own constituents. You can now die in England for want of medication available on the NHS in Scotland. And MPs representing Scots constituencies force legislation onto England. Prescriptions are free to all in Wales and soon to be in Scotland and Northern Ireland. In England, they rise and rise in price.
And let's not forget that England subsidises Scotland and Wales via the Barnett Formula, which even its creator, Lord Joel Barnett, has declared as being unfair to England.
Or that Gordon Brown signed The Scottish Claim of Right in 1989, vowing to always put Scotland's interests first. This is surely bizarre for a UK PM, who should be treating each UK nation equally.
And now Corrie is kow-towing to gobby Scots, whilst ignoring English sensitivities?
Personally, we thought the show, which was in its heyday in the 1960s, went completely down the pan in the early 1990s. But it seems new lows are still possible.
Oh, and if you think the ignorance of the Coronation Street scriptwriters' is a little beyond the pale and that there should actually be a national anthem for England, take a look here.
Thursday, October 02, 2008
Thought Crime
Spooky times! Surely nobody in their right mind would agree with Frederick Toben's claims was our immediate reaction. But to arrest him for them? What sort of precedent is being created here?
Forgive me if I'm wrong, but Holocaust denial is not a crime in this country. So why are we arresting people for denying the holocaust? Laugh at them and poke them with sticks I understand, arrest?
Since when did Germany decide what was a crime in this country? Since when did people think that thought crimes should exist? I know Tory MP Theresa Villiers does because I watched Question Time a few years ago where she said so. But does the average person think someone should be arrested for questioning what is generally perceived to be true? That is straight out of a dictatorship and I do not want to live in a country where what you think and what you say must fit in with some pre decided list.
Forgive me if I'm wrong, but Holocaust denial is not a crime in this country. So why are we arresting people for denying the holocaust? Laugh at them and poke them with sticks I understand, arrest?
Since when did Germany decide what was a crime in this country? Since when did people think that thought crimes should exist? I know Tory MP Theresa Villiers does because I watched Question Time a few years ago where she said so. But does the average person think someone should be arrested for questioning what is generally perceived to be true? That is straight out of a dictatorship and I do not want to live in a country where what you think and what you say must fit in with some pre decided list.
Read it all here.
Wednesday, October 01, 2008
Campaign For An English Parliament: Gordon Brown's Claim To Fairness Must Be Accounted Sheer Hypocrisy
'40 times Gordon Brown made the claim to fairness in his speech to the Labour Party conference. No less than 40 times in one speech he used the word. Now that has to be counted as sheer unadulterated hypocrisy, nothing less, when it is applied to England.' That is the message Michael Knowles, media spokesman for the Campaign for an English Parliament, has sent out to all CEP members and supporters, and to all the people of England. 'His claim isn't just untrue. Coming from the Scotsman who was the driving force behind Scottish devolution and who had made a public pledge to put the interests of Scotland before everything else in everything he did, it simply beggars belief. What is possibly even worse, it must be seen as Brown's way of hiding the truth, the very unpleasant truth, of how as Chancellor of the Excehquer and now as the Prime Minister, he is treating England. He is using his office to exploit the English people to benefit his own Scottish people. He is a disgrace.
'How can anyone claim to be a fair Prime Minister of the United Kingdom when he gets for the Scottish people, his own Scottish nation, free university tuition, free hospital parking, free personal care for the elderly, free eyetests, free water piped to every home, all of which in England people have to pay for? How can he claim to be fair when in Scotland there is a freeze on council tax while council tax in England increases year in year out more than inflation? How can he claim to be fair when his own Scottish nation, precisely as he engineered in the 1998 devolution legislation, which he took through the UK parliament, is 70% independent of the rest of the UK, independent in every single matter internal to Scotland like education, health care, the legal system, agriculture and and fisheries? How can he claim to be fair when he operates a legislative system in Westminister that enables Scottish MPs to legislate for England and be ministers for England while no English MP can be a minister in the Scottish parliament or take part in any legislation that affects Scotland's devolved matters which make up 75% of actual government? Gordon Brown's conference claims must be accounted sheer hypocrisy. And it isn't as if he doesn't know the score. He knows it all too well. He engineered it. The situation is grotesquely unjust and unfair to the people fo England.
'How can anyone claim to be a fair Prime Minister for the United Kingdom when to pay for all these benefits which the Scots receive he maintains a taxation system in which each English taxpayer pays an extra £281 per annum; and when each Scottish man, woman and child receive in expenditure on health and education etc £1600 more than people in England receive, thanks to the Barnett Formula. The Scottish people has been given formal constitutional recognition as a distinct nation by getting its own parliament, so has the Welsh through getting its own national assembly. While Brown openly and adamantly refuses to consider a parliament for England. The injustice, the unfairness, the discrimination is outrageous.
'And it is not as if somehow it is all an oversight affecting just a few people. The injustice, the unfairness, the discrimination is imposed upon 80% of the UK population, which is what the people of England are. Gordon Brown is using all the levers and powers of his position as UK Prime Minister to put the people of Scotland first and make their interests paramount precisely as he pledged he would when on March 30 1989 he signed what he and his fellow Scottish MPs and MEPs called the Scottish Claim of Right.
'Brown's repeated claim on fairness must be recognised as grotesquely wrong and untrue. It is nothing less than outright hypocrisy.
Contact:
Michael Knowles
Head of the CEP Media Unit.
tel. 01260 271139
Email: michael-knowles@ tiscali.co.uk
'How can anyone claim to be a fair Prime Minister of the United Kingdom when he gets for the Scottish people, his own Scottish nation, free university tuition, free hospital parking, free personal care for the elderly, free eyetests, free water piped to every home, all of which in England people have to pay for? How can he claim to be fair when in Scotland there is a freeze on council tax while council tax in England increases year in year out more than inflation? How can he claim to be fair when his own Scottish nation, precisely as he engineered in the 1998 devolution legislation, which he took through the UK parliament, is 70% independent of the rest of the UK, independent in every single matter internal to Scotland like education, health care, the legal system, agriculture and and fisheries? How can he claim to be fair when he operates a legislative system in Westminister that enables Scottish MPs to legislate for England and be ministers for England while no English MP can be a minister in the Scottish parliament or take part in any legislation that affects Scotland's devolved matters which make up 75% of actual government? Gordon Brown's conference claims must be accounted sheer hypocrisy. And it isn't as if he doesn't know the score. He knows it all too well. He engineered it. The situation is grotesquely unjust and unfair to the people fo England.
'How can anyone claim to be a fair Prime Minister for the United Kingdom when to pay for all these benefits which the Scots receive he maintains a taxation system in which each English taxpayer pays an extra £281 per annum; and when each Scottish man, woman and child receive in expenditure on health and education etc £1600 more than people in England receive, thanks to the Barnett Formula. The Scottish people has been given formal constitutional recognition as a distinct nation by getting its own parliament, so has the Welsh through getting its own national assembly. While Brown openly and adamantly refuses to consider a parliament for England. The injustice, the unfairness, the discrimination is outrageous.
'And it is not as if somehow it is all an oversight affecting just a few people. The injustice, the unfairness, the discrimination is imposed upon 80% of the UK population, which is what the people of England are. Gordon Brown is using all the levers and powers of his position as UK Prime Minister to put the people of Scotland first and make their interests paramount precisely as he pledged he would when on March 30 1989 he signed what he and his fellow Scottish MPs and MEPs called the Scottish Claim of Right.
'Brown's repeated claim on fairness must be recognised as grotesquely wrong and untrue. It is nothing less than outright hypocrisy.
Contact:
Michael Knowles
Head of the CEP Media Unit.
tel. 01260 271139
Email: michael-knowles@ tiscali.co.uk
"Fuck 'Em!" - Seb Coe On The Scots And Welsh, And Gordon Brown's Fellow Countryman To Head 2012 Olympics Football Team...
We're staggered that the squeaky clean geek runner from the 1980s, Seb Coe, knows language like this but in his arrogant determination to ignore the Scots, Welsh and Northern Irish football associations' rejection of a British football team at the 2012 Olympics, he has announced such a team will go ahead anyway. And what of the un-English objectors? "Fuck 'em!" was unexpectedly foul-mouthed Sebby's alleged response.
Good grief! Didn't this man advertise wholesome Horlicks back in the 1980s? Wasn't he the man many little sporty types wanted to be? Our idol has feet of clay, chaps and chappesses! What a swizz!
So, once again, the English are to be submerged by the "British" tag - and our sheep-like Nivea boys will be mincing for Britain.
And, thanks to Gordon Brown and Sebby, the said mincers will be managed by a Scot - Alex Ferguson, no less! Said Gordy:
"We will see who wants to be part of this and then we will get a manager that everybody will be happy with.
"And I know Alex Ferguson has been approached by Seb Coe, and I have spoken to him about it."
And Gordy also said: "Britain is the home of football, which we gave to the world, and people will be surprised if there is an Olympic tournament in football and we are not part of it."
Wrong, you arrogant, anti-English git, ENGLAND is the home of the football!
And as somebody wrote on the comments thread for the Sky News article linked to:
Ferguson? Brown has got to be joking! Remember how Ferguson coached foreign teams in order to get England knocked out of the World Cup!
As the CEP News Blog points out: A British football team is to be created consisting only of English players with a Scottish manager. Sport truly is a microcosm of society.
Staying with the CEP News Blog, we discovered the following:
‘What that means,’ stated Mrs Newman, ‘is that multi-million-pound refit work on a West Country warship has been switched from Devonport to Scotland. It is the first time that a refit of any Type 22 frigate has been undertaken outside Devonport since the ships entered service in the 1980s; and what it means is more employment for Scottish naval shipyards and, as the GMB convenors in the Devonport dockyards have said, a loss of work for those in England.
‘It isn’t an accident that this has happened. It is all taking place under the watchful eye of the UK Scottish Secretary of State for Defence, Des Browne MP for Kilmarnock. It is his department, and specifically his department’s Surface Ship Supports arrangements section, that has agreed with Babcock Marine this switch of work from England to Scotland. Babock Marine has been responsible for warship upkeep since it took over Devonport Management Ltd (DML)’. It paid £350 million for DML in July 2007 but then in February of this year announced plans to axe up to 600 posts – more than 10 per cent of its Plymouth workforce.
‘Mr Browne’s decisions are all part of a pattern’, stated Mrs Newman. ‘There is growing evidence of preference for employment in the Scottish naval shipyards over those of England, even though historically it has been the English navy over centuries which has defended these islands and English sailors who have been among the greatest naval explorers and sea captains in world history. England had a navy under Alfred the Great when Scotland was still just a country of scattered clans. Only in July of this year Mr Browne’s ministry announced that Scotland will get 64% of the work on the two new giant aircraft carriers while England, with 80% of the UK population, will get a mere 34%.
Good grief! Didn't this man advertise wholesome Horlicks back in the 1980s? Wasn't he the man many little sporty types wanted to be? Our idol has feet of clay, chaps and chappesses! What a swizz!
So, once again, the English are to be submerged by the "British" tag - and our sheep-like Nivea boys will be mincing for Britain.
And, thanks to Gordon Brown and Sebby, the said mincers will be managed by a Scot - Alex Ferguson, no less! Said Gordy:
"We will see who wants to be part of this and then we will get a manager that everybody will be happy with.
"And I know Alex Ferguson has been approached by Seb Coe, and I have spoken to him about it."
And Gordy also said: "Britain is the home of football, which we gave to the world, and people will be surprised if there is an Olympic tournament in football and we are not part of it."
Wrong, you arrogant, anti-English git, ENGLAND is the home of the football!
And as somebody wrote on the comments thread for the Sky News article linked to:
Ferguson? Brown has got to be joking! Remember how Ferguson coached foreign teams in order to get England knocked out of the World Cup!
As the CEP News Blog points out: A British football team is to be created consisting only of English players with a Scottish manager. Sport truly is a microcosm of society.
Staying with the CEP News Blog, we discovered the following:
The MoD press notice last Friday sounded sweet and innocent enough: ‘The Royal Navy frigate HMS Campbeltown left her base port in Plymouth last week for exercises off the Scottish coast’, until, as CEP Secretary and West Country organiser Veronica Newman pointed out to her Devon members, one read the next line: ‘The ship is currently heading into Rosyth for a 12-month overhaul.’
‘What that means,’ stated Mrs Newman, ‘is that multi-million-pound refit work on a West Country warship has been switched from Devonport to Scotland. It is the first time that a refit of any Type 22 frigate has been undertaken outside Devonport since the ships entered service in the 1980s; and what it means is more employment for Scottish naval shipyards and, as the GMB convenors in the Devonport dockyards have said, a loss of work for those in England.
‘It isn’t an accident that this has happened. It is all taking place under the watchful eye of the UK Scottish Secretary of State for Defence, Des Browne MP for Kilmarnock. It is his department, and specifically his department’s Surface Ship Supports arrangements section, that has agreed with Babcock Marine this switch of work from England to Scotland. Babock Marine has been responsible for warship upkeep since it took over Devonport Management Ltd (DML)’. It paid £350 million for DML in July 2007 but then in February of this year announced plans to axe up to 600 posts – more than 10 per cent of its Plymouth workforce.
‘Mr Browne’s decisions are all part of a pattern’, stated Mrs Newman. ‘There is growing evidence of preference for employment in the Scottish naval shipyards over those of England, even though historically it has been the English navy over centuries which has defended these islands and English sailors who have been among the greatest naval explorers and sea captains in world history. England had a navy under Alfred the Great when Scotland was still just a country of scattered clans. Only in July of this year Mr Browne’s ministry announced that Scotland will get 64% of the work on the two new giant aircraft carriers while England, with 80% of the UK population, will get a mere 34%.
It's like a nightmare. But as The Jam said, back in 1980: "The Public Gets What The Public Wants". Until people are willing to stand up to these arrogant anti-English/anti-England swines infesting Westminster, we're going to get a lot more of the same - Scots MPs feathering Scotland's nest at the expense of every man, woman and child in England.
Whilst MPs supposedly representing English constituencies stick their snouts in the trough and don't give a damn.
Well, to (allegedly) quote Lord Coe - "fuck 'em!" and fuck him, too. But may we suggest a very long barge pole for the job?
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