| …… Trooping the Colour said …… There they were, fourteen hundred men and women working together as one, marching, turning and playing with impressive precision. But looking more closely at their cap badges I could see that the seven regiments which make up the Household Division come from all the nations within the United Kingdom. I saw the Grenadier Guards, the Scots Guards, the Irish Guards and the Welsh Guards, each with their distinctive identities and histories, working together in seamless unity. For me this serves as a powerful metaphor for modern Britain. This ability to maintain a distinct identity, to celebrate a particular history and yet act to a common purpose without losing any element of particular identities. In many ways it mirrored what I most like about modern Britain. We're a nation of immense diversity. Not just English, Scot, Welsh and Irish, but French, Spanish, Polish, African, Indian, Asian. Each of us with our own cultures, our own faiths but a common commitment to working hard for ourselves, our families, our communities and our country. Today at the Welsh Assembly Ieuan Wyn Jones took leave of the people, he chose to avoid the question, pass the buck, showed his true colours, the cowards yellow. Read here. … … |
The Daley Dozen: Wednesday
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Why am I not surprised that a tory unionist should compare democracy to the army......
"This ability to maintain a distinct identity,"
Yes, all wrapped in the union jack, along with the BNP.
"We're a nation of immense diversity. Not just English, Scot, Welsh and Irish, but French, Spanish, Polish, African, Indian, Asian. Each of us with our own cultures, our own faiths but a common commitment to working hard for ourselves, our families, our communities and our country. "
Wow, your on form today.
That could apply to any nation on earth, what makes you think Britain's imperial and slave trading history makes us any different?
Our politicians are waking up, and about time, no place for separation, we've lived together to long, it only takes a little space and Nationalism is ..... dead.
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"That could apply to any nation on earth, what makes you think Britain's imperial and slave trading history makes us any different?"
I like the way you are starting to think about Britain as being us. Even if it is only when you think about negative things.
Maybe you are the opposite of the English press, claiming Scottish success as British and Scottish failure as Scottish....In your eyes any aspects of Scottish life that are negative are British (scottish slave trading) and Scottish success is purely Scottish.
"we've lived together to long"
Your right, time for the UK to give up sovereignty along with every other nation on earth.
Let's all be the same.
Are you related to Hitler?
"Anonymous"
Oh dear, getting a bit 'shirty' I see.
Scottish Surnames throughout the West Indies & Southern States of the US (mainly as a result of rape and slavery) and indeed much of Glasgow's Merchant City serve as a reminder of Scots despicable role in the slave trade and the damaging role of empire over the free people of the earth.
The sooner imperialism in all of it's guises is stamped out of existence the better we'll all be.
A union with a democratic deficit is tantamount to imperialism.
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