One of the biggest causes of artificial divisions between the English, Scots and Welsh is the use of the word "Celt" or "Celtic".
It has been proven that the English were and are not Anglo Saxons, and that the Scots and Welsh were and are not Celts.
It's a myth. There may be cultural influences, but we are not separate ancient tribes - and certainly not ancient WHITE tribes.
The so-called Celts have become another group oppressed and abused by the awful English in centuries past.
The term is often used in a racist sense by Welsh, Scots and Cornish writers to imply a sense of belonging to this island far more than the people of England.
So, why do so many English bloggers and web site owners seem so happy to perpetuate the myth?
Monday, November 15, 2010
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Hundreds And Thousands Trifles With Life - And Clearly Doesn't Remember 1982...
This is great - it's from a very "clever" blog called "Hundreds And Thousands (On The Trifle Of Life)":
In fact, for those of us old enough to remember, we seem to have been here before.
In fact, for those of us old enough to remember, we seem to have been here before.
Civil unrest in Northern Ireland…
Military action in parts of the world that no-one in the UK really gives a fuck about…
Cuts in public services? Began before 1982 (or indeed the 1980s, dear).
Civil unrest in Northern Ireland?
Began before 1982 (or indeed the 1980s, dear).
Rising unemployment?
Began before 1982 (or indeed the 1980s, dear).
Isn't it interesting when somebody writes a blog post that doesn't make any sense?
Not that we'd ever do it here (er...).
But then we don't pretend to remember 1982.
Far too much Stella Artois...
And Chris was concussed by a swinging deelybopper...
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
BBC Tucks Away England To Conceal Truth About NHS Budget Cuts
We all know that the BBC is fully involved in covering up wherever possible the blatant discrimination by the UK Government against the people of England, and, in the wake of the Budget, here's another little gem:
The Department of Health says it is to make cuts of £4.35bn over three years in an "efficiency savings" drive.
The Department of Health says it is to make cuts of £4.35bn over three years in an "efficiency savings" drive.
Ah, the Department of Health! So, we're still a United Kingdom, are we? All will share the pain?
But tucked away under other Budget cuts news, five paragraphs down:
Ah, so it's only the health service in ENGLAND is it, that is making cuts of £4.35bn?
Neatly tucked away by the twisted BBC.
And I bet David "Sour Little Englanders" Cameron and Nick "Hardly Anybody Voted For Me, But Look At Me Now - LOADS OF MONEY!" Clegg are well chuffed.
I really hate the BBC.
The British Bastard Corporation, bent on deceit.
Saturday, June 19, 2010
Socialist Unity - Andy Newman Talks Trash About The '70s - And Turns The Comments Off!
We laughed like drains when we read this by Andy Newman at Socialist Unity:
The 1970s were a dangerous time, with a widespread culture of heavy drinking and violence, and the cross-dressing and androgony of glam rock bands was unsettling to a world with stultifying heterosexual conformity. This was before such statements would be considered as ironic, and were instead slightly regarded as uncomfortable and slightly threatening.
Andy Newman, do you REMEMBER the 1970s?!!
"Widespread heavy drinking and violence"? The "cross-dressing and androgony of glam rock bands was unsettling to a world with stultifying heterosexual conformity"?!!
Oh PURLEASE!
Bands like The Sweet made it absolutely plain that they were STRAIGHT, MATE at the time, these men did not dress up to make a statement about their sexuality! And they were embraced as heroes by the gobby council estate urchins where I lived, who thought it was a "right larf".
Also, we'd been quite comfortable with the likes of Danny La Rue cross-dressing well before the 1970s.
The '70s were a time of increasing violence, it's true, but there was an embedded culture of heavy drinking before that decade on the council estate where I lived, and I'm sure amongst other classes.
Boy George in the 1980s was really the first mainstream pop star to arouse feelings of discomfort amongst certain people. And that was because he wasn't heterosexual.
But THAT was in the 1980s! Musn't mention the 1980s, eh, Andy? No possibility of any move-on in attitudes in the Thatcher era in your revisionist little world?!!
If you're going to make revisionist comments about the 1970s, please do us one favour, matey - turn the comments ON!!
But we weren't so ignorant that a bit of glitter and lippy on male pop stars was going to freak us out.
The 1970s were a dangerous time, with a widespread culture of heavy drinking and violence, and the cross-dressing and androgony of glam rock bands was unsettling to a world with stultifying heterosexual conformity. This was before such statements would be considered as ironic, and were instead slightly regarded as uncomfortable and slightly threatening.
Andy Newman, do you REMEMBER the 1970s?!!
"Widespread heavy drinking and violence"? The "cross-dressing and androgony of glam rock bands was unsettling to a world with stultifying heterosexual conformity"?!!
Oh PURLEASE!
Bands like The Sweet made it absolutely plain that they were STRAIGHT, MATE at the time, these men did not dress up to make a statement about their sexuality! And they were embraced as heroes by the gobby council estate urchins where I lived, who thought it was a "right larf".
Also, we'd been quite comfortable with the likes of Danny La Rue cross-dressing well before the 1970s.
The '70s were a time of increasing violence, it's true, but there was an embedded culture of heavy drinking before that decade on the council estate where I lived, and I'm sure amongst other classes.
Boy George in the 1980s was really the first mainstream pop star to arouse feelings of discomfort amongst certain people. And that was because he wasn't heterosexual.
But THAT was in the 1980s! Musn't mention the 1980s, eh, Andy? No possibility of any move-on in attitudes in the Thatcher era in your revisionist little world?!!
If you're going to make revisionist comments about the 1970s, please do us one favour, matey - turn the comments ON!!
But we weren't so ignorant that a bit of glitter and lippy on male pop stars was going to freak us out.
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
BBC Cornwall's Graham Smith - Encouraging The Racist "Celtic" Myth
Regular readers here know that we favour recognition of Cornwall's demands to leave the UK (note - leave - not become another elitist "Celtic" nation hanger-on like Scotland and Wales - this is what some of the "Cornish" nationalists seem to be seeking), but we don't favour the Celtic myth.
This was something rather romantically applied to the Scots and Welsh in the 1700s. It's not accurate, but who cares? Well, we do because it smacks of racism (some of those charming neighbours of ours use it to assert the myth they were here first and therefore should have the right to boot the rest of us out), but however it is used it is false and racist.
The Celts were ancient WHITE tribes, and the term is frankly offensive when applied to modern day areas of the UK.
The PC crowd fawn all over it, of course, seeing an (invented) ethnicity claiming to have been treated badly by the horrid English. But that is not the truth.
Yes to us saying a fond farewell to Cornwall if its people so desire it, NO to fake and exclusive claims of "pure" ethnicity!
Worryingly, Graham Smith of BBC Radio Cornwall seems quite happy to flag up the Celtic myth.
Many thanks to my friends in the Kernow branch of the Celtic League for their press release announcing they have been granted "Roster Status" within the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) at the United Nations.
Many thanks to his friends?!
Surely he should be impartial?!
What is wrong with the BBC?!!
This was something rather romantically applied to the Scots and Welsh in the 1700s. It's not accurate, but who cares? Well, we do because it smacks of racism (some of those charming neighbours of ours use it to assert the myth they were here first and therefore should have the right to boot the rest of us out), but however it is used it is false and racist.
The Celts were ancient WHITE tribes, and the term is frankly offensive when applied to modern day areas of the UK.
The PC crowd fawn all over it, of course, seeing an (invented) ethnicity claiming to have been treated badly by the horrid English. But that is not the truth.
Yes to us saying a fond farewell to Cornwall if its people so desire it, NO to fake and exclusive claims of "pure" ethnicity!
Worryingly, Graham Smith of BBC Radio Cornwall seems quite happy to flag up the Celtic myth.
Many thanks to my friends in the Kernow branch of the Celtic League for their press release announcing they have been granted "Roster Status" within the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) at the United Nations.
Many thanks to his friends?!
Surely he should be impartial?!
What is wrong with the BBC?!!
Monday, June 14, 2010
Mark Easton Of The BBC: More Anti-English Nonsense...
On Friday, a friend joked that he didn't realise I was a BNP supporter when he saw an England flag on my car. It was a joke but also a reminder of how our national emblem was appropriated by racists during the 1970s and '80s.
Says Mark Easton of the BBC.
Excuse me, Mark, but do you actually remember the 1970s and (ugh - for a BBC type to write) '80s?
I do.
And I never even saw a St George's Flag.
Racist groups used the Union Flag as their emblem.
The BNP still does - flanked by the flags of Scotland, England and Wales.
Proceeding into the comments, we find the usual nonsense - our post-imperialist guilt (surely it was the BRITISH Empire - why don't the Scots and Welsh feel guilty?), and the reasons why the English are so disliked - arrogant swines, aren't we?
Fortunately, there were plenty of other comments pointing out that the flag of choice of racist groups in the past was the Union Flag. And that we should be able to wave the English flag. Predictably, one commenter pointed out that newcomers to Scotland and Wales feel more inclined to call themselves "Scottish" or "Welsh", but in England the term is "British".
Of course. That's because new arrivals in England have "British" stuffed down their throats.
Scotland and Wales have their own national governing bodies and the words "Scottish" and "Welsh" are well to the fore.
I think it really is time the UK broke up.
What is happening to the people of England is criminal - the manipulation to keep us under the Union cosh.
And Mark Easton - believe me, if I had any option I would not be contributing to your salary.
But in our wonderful free country, as you work for the BBC, I HAVE to.
Says Mark Easton of the BBC.
Excuse me, Mark, but do you actually remember the 1970s and (ugh - for a BBC type to write) '80s?
I do.
And I never even saw a St George's Flag.
Racist groups used the Union Flag as their emblem.
The BNP still does - flanked by the flags of Scotland, England and Wales.
Proceeding into the comments, we find the usual nonsense - our post-imperialist guilt (surely it was the BRITISH Empire - why don't the Scots and Welsh feel guilty?), and the reasons why the English are so disliked - arrogant swines, aren't we?
Fortunately, there were plenty of other comments pointing out that the flag of choice of racist groups in the past was the Union Flag. And that we should be able to wave the English flag. Predictably, one commenter pointed out that newcomers to Scotland and Wales feel more inclined to call themselves "Scottish" or "Welsh", but in England the term is "British".
Of course. That's because new arrivals in England have "British" stuffed down their throats.
Scotland and Wales have their own national governing bodies and the words "Scottish" and "Welsh" are well to the fore.
I think it really is time the UK broke up.
What is happening to the people of England is criminal - the manipulation to keep us under the Union cosh.
And Mark Easton - believe me, if I had any option I would not be contributing to your salary.
But in our wonderful free country, as you work for the BBC, I HAVE to.
What Britishness Can And Does Do That Englishness Doesn't Is To Discriminate Against All Citizens Of England
"What Englishness can't do that Britishness can do is appeal unambiguously to people of different ethnic origins," notes Janan Ganesh, political correspondent for The Economist.
It's the BBC reporting again.
But Janeh Ganesh is talking cobblers.
Britishness is not and was never intended to be a blanket nationality simply aimed at everybody living in England.
It was intended to be the blanket nationality of everybody living in England, Scotland and Wales.
With the will to do so, the word "English" could be substituted for the word "British" and an inclusive, civic English nationality be developed.
New arrivals in England have "Britishness" rammed down their threats.
Whilst the PC crowd waste no opportunity to demonise Englishness as a non-inclusive, racist mind set.
But the English have long been a "mongrel" nation.
And all the better for it.
What Britishness does is place every man, woman and child in England at a serious disadvantage when compared to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
The West Lothian Question, the Barnett Formula and devolution have seen to that.
The same BBC article also flags up the BBC's bizarre obsession with the 1970s:
In reacting against the multi-cultural and fragmented way in which history has been taught since the 1970s, there is a danger that the pendulum could swing too far the other way.
Um, my wife and others I know will vouch for the fact that British history has been taught with an anti-English bias in English schools since well before the 1970s.
And at the same time, whilst I recall the anti-Englishness rampant in history teaching at the comphrehensive school I attended from 1976-1981, I do not recall a "multi-cultural and fragemented" method of teaching.
If that has happened, I'm sure it was more a product of the PC 1980s and 1990s.
But the BBC musn't mention the 1980s.
Unless it's negative, of course.
It's the BBC reporting again.
But Janeh Ganesh is talking cobblers.
Britishness is not and was never intended to be a blanket nationality simply aimed at everybody living in England.
It was intended to be the blanket nationality of everybody living in England, Scotland and Wales.
With the will to do so, the word "English" could be substituted for the word "British" and an inclusive, civic English nationality be developed.
New arrivals in England have "Britishness" rammed down their threats.
Whilst the PC crowd waste no opportunity to demonise Englishness as a non-inclusive, racist mind set.
But the English have long been a "mongrel" nation.
And all the better for it.
What Britishness does is place every man, woman and child in England at a serious disadvantage when compared to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
The West Lothian Question, the Barnett Formula and devolution have seen to that.
The same BBC article also flags up the BBC's bizarre obsession with the 1970s:
In reacting against the multi-cultural and fragmented way in which history has been taught since the 1970s, there is a danger that the pendulum could swing too far the other way.
Um, my wife and others I know will vouch for the fact that British history has been taught with an anti-English bias in English schools since well before the 1970s.
And at the same time, whilst I recall the anti-Englishness rampant in history teaching at the comphrehensive school I attended from 1976-1981, I do not recall a "multi-cultural and fragemented" method of teaching.
If that has happened, I'm sure it was more a product of the PC 1980s and 1990s.
But the BBC musn't mention the 1980s.
Unless it's negative, of course.
Friday, June 11, 2010
Jon Kelly - Racist BBC - The "Celtic Nations"
Here's Jon Kelly writing for the BBC:
As the World Cup kicks off, many football fans from the UK's celtic nations say they will support ABE - Anyone But England. Why does this inflame so much passion on both sides?
Um, so the Scots, Welsh and Northern Irish are Celts, are they? Descendants of ancient white tribes?
Given that they weren't even called that until the 1700s, and we live in a modern day, multi-ethnic UK, I find the "Celtic" thing hard to believe.
After all, if the Scots, Welsh and Northern Irish are all of common (white) stock, why was Shirley Bassey so proud to be Welsh? If they look after each other as some kind of "brotherhood", why was Ireland partitioned by Lloyd George, a Welsh Prime Minister? Why aren't the Scots screaming that their "Celtic" cousins in Wales deserve parity with Scotland - equal spending and a parliament?
When will the BBC stop perpetrating the myth that the English are racists, unfit to lick any body's boots, whilst boosting up the populist, racist "Celtic" myth of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland?
And why do the English HAVE to pay for this dreadful organisation, so intent on doing them down?
As the World Cup kicks off, many football fans from the UK's celtic nations say they will support ABE - Anyone But England. Why does this inflame so much passion on both sides?
Um, so the Scots, Welsh and Northern Irish are Celts, are they? Descendants of ancient white tribes?
Given that they weren't even called that until the 1700s, and we live in a modern day, multi-ethnic UK, I find the "Celtic" thing hard to believe.
After all, if the Scots, Welsh and Northern Irish are all of common (white) stock, why was Shirley Bassey so proud to be Welsh? If they look after each other as some kind of "brotherhood", why was Ireland partitioned by Lloyd George, a Welsh Prime Minister? Why aren't the Scots screaming that their "Celtic" cousins in Wales deserve parity with Scotland - equal spending and a parliament?
When will the BBC stop perpetrating the myth that the English are racists, unfit to lick any body's boots, whilst boosting up the populist, racist "Celtic" myth of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland?
And why do the English HAVE to pay for this dreadful organisation, so intent on doing them down?
Tuesday, June 08, 2010
Gary Younge - Don't Mention The '80s! - "Wally Of The Week"!
Gary Younge wrote in the New Statesman:
When I was growing up in Stevenage in Hertfordshire during the 1970s, the question of who to support in the World Cup never posed much of a dilemma for my family. We backed Brazil. Nearby Hitchin may have been where I was born and, with the exception of a six-week family trip to Barbados to see relatives, England may have been the only country I knew. But when it came to my footballing allegiance, I got my kicks from a country I knew nothing about and with which I had absolutely no connection. At the time, this seemed entirely logical.
Ah, so he grew up - or did a lot of his growing-up in the 1970s, did he?
A quick check revealed he was born in 1969. So he turned ten in 1979.
How hilarious!
I am not the person I was in the 1970s
writes Gary.
No, dear, you're not a tiny little boy any more, are you?
Honestly, the lengths some people will go to to avoid mentioning the 1980s - which is also where Mr Younge did rather a lot of growing up as well, is it not?
What is it with the young PC crowd that mention of the '80s should be avoided at all costs, and claims made on the previous decade which, in reality, they can barely remember - and if they do probably found downright miserable?
Mr Younge and the rest of the enlightened PC crowd are obviously STILL in need of growing up!
In the dreaded 1980s, TV columnist Nina Myskow used to award a media personality the title "Wally Of The Week".
And just for this week we're reviving that title - Gary Younge, you are our Wally Of The Week!
Take a bow.
When I was growing up in Stevenage in Hertfordshire during the 1970s, the question of who to support in the World Cup never posed much of a dilemma for my family. We backed Brazil. Nearby Hitchin may have been where I was born and, with the exception of a six-week family trip to Barbados to see relatives, England may have been the only country I knew. But when it came to my footballing allegiance, I got my kicks from a country I knew nothing about and with which I had absolutely no connection. At the time, this seemed entirely logical.
Ah, so he grew up - or did a lot of his growing-up in the 1970s, did he?
A quick check revealed he was born in 1969. So he turned ten in 1979.
How hilarious!
I am not the person I was in the 1970s
writes Gary.
No, dear, you're not a tiny little boy any more, are you?
Honestly, the lengths some people will go to to avoid mentioning the 1980s - which is also where Mr Younge did rather a lot of growing up as well, is it not?
What is it with the young PC crowd that mention of the '80s should be avoided at all costs, and claims made on the previous decade which, in reality, they can barely remember - and if they do probably found downright miserable?
Mr Younge and the rest of the enlightened PC crowd are obviously STILL in need of growing up!
In the dreaded 1980s, TV columnist Nina Myskow used to award a media personality the title "Wally Of The Week".
And just for this week we're reviving that title - Gary Younge, you are our Wally Of The Week!
Take a bow.
Monday, April 26, 2010
Power 2010 - Home Rule For England
Power 2010 projected the image of the Cross of St George and the slogan "Home Rule" onto the Houses of Parliament...And were quickly ordered to remove it.
The act served two useful purposes:
1) To highlight the democratic deficit in England.
2) To highlight the fact that we are now living in a police state.
Oh, for the good old days of freedom.
About fifteen years ago.
Why we shouldn't support Cornwall's independence movement...
A Cornish nationalist has told us point blank that we "should support Cornish independence". We disagree. We've been bombarded by tales of the area's "Celticness", the awful past actions of the English, and other things.
But as the "Celtic" thing is actually quite recent, and the true impact of Celtic genetic material in the UK is thought to be very scant indeed, we don't think that this is grounds for supporting independence for Cornwall.
Nope, we don't need to encourage such myths about ancient white tribes.
And the "we have more right here than anybody else - we've been here much longer than you," ethos.
We've read quite a lot from "Celtic" nationalists which smacks of anti-English - and other - bigotry.
We don't want to bolster that.
What we should be doing, in our very humble opinion, is to support those in Cornwall who would like a referendum on the matter.
It's up to the people there to decide. Nobody else.
And it should be their RIGHT to decide if they wish to become a free standing country.
Anything else on the part of the rest of England is sticky beaking - and supporting something which contains elements many of us don't fully understand.
And which also contains elements some of us find disturbing - and appears to be relentlessly hostile and uncaring regarding our efforts to get a fairer deal for England as a nation.
But as the "Celtic" thing is actually quite recent, and the true impact of Celtic genetic material in the UK is thought to be very scant indeed, we don't think that this is grounds for supporting independence for Cornwall.
Nope, we don't need to encourage such myths about ancient white tribes.
And the "we have more right here than anybody else - we've been here much longer than you," ethos.
We've read quite a lot from "Celtic" nationalists which smacks of anti-English - and other - bigotry.
We don't want to bolster that.
What we should be doing, in our very humble opinion, is to support those in Cornwall who would like a referendum on the matter.
It's up to the people there to decide. Nobody else.
And it should be their RIGHT to decide if they wish to become a free standing country.
Anything else on the part of the rest of England is sticky beaking - and supporting something which contains elements many of us don't fully understand.
And which also contains elements some of us find disturbing - and appears to be relentlessly hostile and uncaring regarding our efforts to get a fairer deal for England as a nation.
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Pam Giddy: Nations and Regions
Here's Pam Giddy, Director of Power 2010:
Power 2010 has full-time organisers in every nation and region of the UK .
Nations and regions, Ms Giddy? Surely the UK is a union of nations and the province of Northern Ireland, often referred to as a nation? The only area of England allowed a referendum on regionalisation - effectively the break-up of England by the Imperialist UK Government - voted over 70% NO.
So, where is your respect for the democratic will of the people?
Or were you, in fact, referring to Scotland or Wales as a region?
I suspect not.
Power 2010 has full-time organisers in every nation and region of the UK .
Nations and regions, Ms Giddy? Surely the UK is a union of nations and the province of Northern Ireland, often referred to as a nation? The only area of England allowed a referendum on regionalisation - effectively the break-up of England by the Imperialist UK Government - voted over 70% NO.
So, where is your respect for the democratic will of the people?
Or were you, in fact, referring to Scotland or Wales as a region?
I suspect not.
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Peter Facey And Unlock Democracy - When It Comes To England, Lock-Up Democracy...
EWe're puzzled as to why Unlock Democracy sent out a rallying call to its supporters to deny England the chance of English Votes On English Laws being included in the Power 2010 top five. But it did.
Very strange.
Of course, EVoEL is not absolutely what we want - far from it - but its inclusion in the top five Power 2010 votes would help to keep the question of how England is governed - and the unfair deal all its citizens are receiving - on the political agenda.
We urge readers to go to Power 2010 and vote for EVoEL. If you live in England, it makes sense.
You can do it here.
Very strange.
Of course, EVoEL is not absolutely what we want - far from it - but its inclusion in the top five Power 2010 votes would help to keep the question of how England is governed - and the unfair deal all its citizens are receiving - on the political agenda.
We urge readers to go to Power 2010 and vote for EVoEL. If you live in England, it makes sense.
You can do it here.
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Campaign For An English Parliament - '70s Music Was Better Than '60s!
Here at WENAP we are big fans of the CEP. But this made us smile:
We are seeing an orchestrated attempt to destroy our English Rock music heritage (which in the 1970s was the best in the world) through the continued dumbing down and sabotage of our culture.
So glad that the CEP recognises how great was the music scene of the 1970s.
The '60s with the Beatles and the Stones and the emergence of Led Zep and Deep Purple? Pooh, we are impervious to that vapid decade's charms - give us Little Willy Won't Go Home and Disco Duck any day!
And we musn't forget that future greats like Duran Duran were formed in the 1970s (1978). OK, Simon Le Bon didn't join till 1980, but still...
LOL!
Of course at the end of the day when it comes to music it's all down to personal opinion, but passing off personal opinion as fact (the 1970s saw English rock music as being the best in the world) strikes us as a little bit sad.
Stick to the point - and stick to the verifiable facts, CEP, please - don't alienate readers with the off-topic (and frankly rather dubious) opinions of your writers!
We are seeing an orchestrated attempt to destroy our English Rock music heritage (which in the 1970s was the best in the world) through the continued dumbing down and sabotage of our culture.
So glad that the CEP recognises how great was the music scene of the 1970s.
The '60s with the Beatles and the Stones and the emergence of Led Zep and Deep Purple? Pooh, we are impervious to that vapid decade's charms - give us Little Willy Won't Go Home and Disco Duck any day!
And we musn't forget that future greats like Duran Duran were formed in the 1970s (1978). OK, Simon Le Bon didn't join till 1980, but still...
LOL!
Of course at the end of the day when it comes to music it's all down to personal opinion, but passing off personal opinion as fact (the 1970s saw English rock music as being the best in the world) strikes us as a little bit sad.
Stick to the point - and stick to the verifiable facts, CEP, please - don't alienate readers with the off-topic (and frankly rather dubious) opinions of your writers!
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