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Originally posted by Hoof Hearted

I don't think so...

He is one of a handful of people on here to regularly PM me and give me support knowing that I have Parkinson's which his mother has too, so he knows what problems I face. Hardly the actions of a troll?

You've both been pushing each others buttons fairly hard on here.... just accept it's a debate and you're both on the opposite end of the political spectrum.

Agree to disagree.

Fair enough.

 


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legaleagle Flag 02 Oct 16 3.37pm

Originally posted by Sedlescombe


What do you mean by national identity?

When is the point of perfection to which you want to return to?

We have a royal family who have been speaking French for longer they have been speaking English; where does that fit into your idea of national identity.

A survey in 2001 reported that 25% of the UK population have some sort if Irish connection so given that our population has been in a state of flux since these lands became an island, please describe which of our identities you think is the "original" one. As far as I can see the one consistent aspect of our collective identity is that it has constantly changed.

Its entirely fair to make the arguments that some do about levels of immigration - and more importantly the failure of governments to respond to demographic changes with services in those places. Its also possible to dislike the changes in population and pine for a time when people were more like "me" - and not to be racist in doing so. But don't confuse that with some mythical sense of national identity that didn't exist in the first place

And don't confuse it with sh*t like right wing people in Hungary looking after "their own" where,as the Council of Europe reported,it manifests as:"the hatred and vitriol that Jews, homosexuals, Roma, migrants and other groups encounter."

 

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Originally posted by legaleagle

Mmmmmm,maybe you think people have a perfect right to look after "their own" by discriminating against their fellow citizens and/or legal residents who might be of a different race/ethnicity or religion to them...viz"the hatred and vitriol that Jews, homosexuals, Roma, migrants and other groups encounter."

Perfect right...or a perfect example of extreme right wing sh*t?

Edited by legaleagle (02 Oct 2016 3.28pm)

I'm not referring to 'fellow citizens'. Why are you expanding the point out?

In terms of their own citizens living among them....that is a matter for the country's own law courts.

This is about a country's right to decide who comes into it or not. This is most definitely a case of discriminating against foreigners it doesn't want.

Each country has the perfect right to do so and your views are a minority. More and more European countries are pushing back against the EU in this matter.

You can label it what you want. Thankfully those labels are losing their power the more they are used.

Maybe you should move to Germany where one million migrants 'benefited' the country.....God knows where the increase in crime and rape came from....Who knows.

You would fit right in....or maybe not as the tide is rapidly turning against Merkel's madness.

Edited by Stirlingsays (02 Oct 2016 3.40pm)

 


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legaleagle Flag 02 Oct 16 3.49pm

Go back to my post in question.Its about the reality of the hatred in Hungary towards fellow citizen Roma,Jews,gay people.....as well as migrants.

Then read your response.Perfect right or perfect example of extreme right wing sh*t?

You'd have fitted in perfectly in the NF in the 1970's or Mosley in the 1930's with the kind of ideology you espouse today.

As Mosley put it in answer to the question, what alterations, if any, will you make in the laws governing the immigration of alien races into Great Britain ?

"All immigration will be stopped. Britain for the British, is our motto, and all of Britain is required for the British.

...It should not be necessary to secure British racial purity by act of law. It should only be necessary by education and propaganda to teach the British what racial mixtures are bad. If a Briton understands that some action is bad for his race he will not do it. With the British this is a matter for the teacher rather than the legislator, but if legislation was ever necessary to preserve the race, Fascism would not hesitate to introduce it."

Edited by legaleagle (02 Oct 2016 3.54pm)

 

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In a way I'll be glad come 2 or 3 years when this is all sorted and done with. Then it can be judged on its merits, should it be successful or otherwise. I just hope we blame ourselves if we don't get the deals or society we want and not the 'wicked EU'. We don't have to do them any favours and in the same way they don't have to do us any. Tough times ahead but we'll get through it, we have to believe that.

People all have their different reasons for voting how they did, so it's not an argument worth having. Besides for those who genuinely dislike difference in this country and 'foreigners', the horse has already bolted and they have to deal with many colours and creeds in daily life. If they don't like that to the point where they overstep our laws, whether on the street or on the net, they will be dealt with by the boys in blue.

 

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Originally posted by Sedlescombe

What do you mean by national identity?

Being a leftie I'm not surprised I have to explain this to you. You probably don't identify with it.

The feeling that the culture around you shares a national identity and allegiance to the country around it.. It's a feeling that your living spaces exist as supporting that culture rather than becoming a confused mess of multiculturalism.

Originally posted by Sedlescombe

When is the point of perfection to which you want to return to?

No, 'point of perfection'...Many parts of the country haven't been ruined by the over population and mess that multiculturalism brings....They could see it coming...London was a big advert for it..That's a large part of why Brexit happened.

Originally posted by Sedlescombe

We have a royal family who have been speaking French for longer they have been speaking English; where does that fit into your idea of national identity.

Who taught you history? The Norman invasion was in 1066 was obviously contested and opposition to the Normans in various forms was strong for hundreds of years. That's the reason the North was practically destroyed and the South became the centre of power.

You are just wrong.

The evolution of English as the primary language of England gains momentum in the reign of Edward III, with the beginning of the Hundred Years War. From the 1360s onwards we see a rather sudden flowering of poetry at and around the royal court in French styles but written in English - Chaucer and Gower being two of the most prominent poets associated with the court who chose to write in English rather than French. In 1362 the Chancellor opened Parliament in English for the first time and it was decreed that court proceedings now be in English as well. By 1404 it was decreed that all negotiations with the French be in Latin rather than French. In the first half of the Fifteenth Century private letters by the aristocracy switched from being written in French to English.

Originally posted by Sedlescombe

A survey in 2001 reported that 25% of the UK population have some sort if Irish connection so given that our population has been in a state of flux since these lands became an island, please describe which of our identities you think is the "original" one. As far as I can see the one consistent aspect of our collective identity is that it has constantly changed.

I myself am English as I was born and raised here. My father's line is Irish. It's about the culture you are raised in. This collectively is Britain. The only confusion as too this point appears to come from yourself.

Originally posted by Sedlescombe

Its entirely fair to make the arguments that some do about levels of immigration - and more importantly the failure of governments to respond to demographic changes with services in those places. Its also possible to dislike the changes in population and pine for a time when people were more like "me" - and not to be racist in doing so. But don't confuse that with some mythical sense of national identity that didn't exist in the first place

Don't tell me what is valid for me to feel.

I lived in Britain before it suffered from large scale immigration and I live in it now. You may not recognise national identity but I do. You carry on with your mythical non national identity.

By the way, do you subscribe to this 'mythical sense of national identity' to all nationalities?

 


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Originally posted by legaleagle

Go back to my post in question.Its about the reality of the hatred in Hungary towards fellow citizen Roma,Jews,gay people.....as well as migrants.

Then read your response.Perfect right or perfect example of extreme right wing sh*t?

You'd have fitted in perfectly in the NF in the 1970's or Mosley in the 1930's with the kind of ideology you espouse today.

As Mosley put it in answer to the question, what alterations, if any, will you make in the laws governing the immigration of alien races into Great Britain ?

"All immigration will be stopped. Britain for the British, is our motto, and all of Britain is required for the British.

...It should not be necessary to secure British racial purity by act of law. It should only be necessary by education and propaganda to teach the British what racial mixtures are bad. If a Briton understands that some action is bad for his race he will not do it. With the British this is a matter for the teacher rather than the legislator, but if legislation was ever necessary to preserve the race, Fascism would not hesitate to introduce it."


Edited by legaleagle (02 Oct 2016 3.54pm)

You are part of the problem because you misrepresent and lie about people.

To quote you, 'You'd have fitted in perfectly in the NF in the 1970's or Mosley in the 1930's with the kind of ideology you espouse today.'

Where have I supported action against a person based upon their skin colour? I don't believe in that at all. Yet here you are labeling me as fitting in with the NF of the seventies.

I don't support this and you are either thick or lying about me because my views have never refereed to or stated that.

Where have I said I want to stop all immigration?

I don't.

Again, I don't support this and you are either thick or lying about me because my views have never referred to or stated that.

I state again, internal situations of cohesion or discrimination within Hungary are for the Hungarians to sort out. You referring to this had nothing to do with my post.

Edited by Stirlingsays (02 Oct 2016 4.40pm)

 


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"The repeal of the 1972 Act will not take effect until the UK leaves the EU under Article 50.
It will be contained in a "Great Repeal Bill", promised in the next Queen's Speech, which will also enshrine all existing EU law into British law."

This is something positive. The successful EU-directives re:environment (cleaner beaches, etc) and anti-pollution laws, for example, will have to be kept unless they are individually repealed later on. Environment Agency still loses on the grants side of things though unless the government makes up the difference which I doubt they will.

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Originally posted by Kermit8

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"The repeal of the 1972 Act will not take effect until the UK leaves the EU under Article 50.
It will be contained in a "Great Repeal Bill", promised in the next Queen's Speech, which will also enshrine all existing EU law into British law."

This is something positive. The successful EU-directives re:environment (cleaner beaches, etc) and anti-pollution laws, for example, will have to be kept unless they are individually repealed later on. Environment Agency still loses on the grants side of things though unless the government makes up the difference which I doubt they will.

Edited by Kermit8 (02 Oct 2016 4.35pm)

Common sense really.

 


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The feeling that the culture around you shares a national identity and allegiance to the country around it

There has never been a point when our identity wasn't changing. Even the most quintessentially British things such as Fish and Chips are foreign imports. We aren't "becoming a confused mess" we have always been a confused mess and that is one of our strengths as a nation.

No, 'point of perfection'...Many parts of the country haven't been ruined by the over population and mess that multiculturalism brings....They could see it coming...London was a big advert for it..That's a large part of why Brexit happened.

Its ironic that the places least experiencing immigration were the strongest supporters of Brexit. As for why Brexit happended. Two reasons. One is a failure of the EU to address things like companies such as Next who were only advertising roles outside the UK and only addressing the needs of those who were willing to move around Europe. The other was economic inequality which resulted in a big f*** You to the political establishment.

We have a royal family who have been speaking French for longer they have been speaking English; where does that fit into your idea of national identity.

Who taught you history?

If abuse is all you have so be it. The fact is that the cultural norms you want to return to aren't there. the bedrock (allegedly) if our country, the monarchy have never been very British and have - as I said - Been speaking French for longer than they have English. _ I presume you know full well I was I was referring to them. They only became the House of Windsor because it was becoming embarrassing to be the House of Hannover.

There was opposition but there was no NARIONAL resistance. You could make the case that England didn't exist (as opposed to a group of regional kings) until the Domesday book was produced.

I myself am English as I was born and raised here. My father's line is Irish. It's about the culture you are raised in. This collectively is Britain. The only confusion as too this point appears to come from yourself.

My question is whether you think the Irish are in or our of this mythical unified national culture. By your logic they should be out.


Don't tell me what is valid for me to feel.

you have simply made up a point I haven't made.


By the way, do you subscribe to this 'mythical sense of national identity' to all nationalities?

For the most part it is almost universally wrong. It is at its vilest in the US where one set of immigrants seek to write out of their history every other immigrant

 

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Originally posted by Sedlescombe

The feeling that the culture around you shares a national identity and allegiance to the country around it

There has never been a point when our identity wasn't changing. Even the most quintessentially British things such as Fish and Chips are foreign imports. We aren't "becoming a confused mess" we have always been a confused mess and that is one of our strengths as a nation.

No, 'point of perfection'...Many parts of the country haven't been ruined by the over population and mess that multiculturalism brings....They could see it coming...London was a big advert for it..That's a large part of why Brexit happened.

Its ironic that the places least experiencing immigration were the strongest supporters of Brexit. As for why Brexit happended. Two reasons. One is a failure of the EU to address things like companies such as Next who were only advertising roles outside the UK and only addressing the needs of those who were willing to move around Europe. The other was economic inequality which resulted in a big f*** You to the political establishment.

We have a royal family who have been speaking French for longer they have been speaking English; where does that fit into your idea of national identity.

Who taught you history?

If abuse is all you have so be it. The fact is that the cultural norms you want to return to aren't there. the bedrock (allegedly) if our country, the monarchy have never been very British and have - as I said - Been speaking French for longer than they have English. _ I presume you know full well I was I was referring to them. They only became the House of Windsor because it was becoming embarrassing to be the House of Hannover.

There was opposition but there was no NARIONAL resistance. You could make the case that England didn't exist (as opposed to a group of regional kings) until the Domesday book was produced.

I myself am English as I was born and raised here. My father's line is Irish. It's about the culture you are raised in. This collectively is Britain. The only confusion as too this point appears to come from yourself.

My question is whether you think the Irish are in or our of this mythical unified national culture. By your logic they should be out.


Don't tell me what is valid for me to feel.

you have simply made up a point I haven't made.


By the way, do you subscribe to this 'mythical sense of national identity' to all nationalities?

For the most part it is almost universally wrong. It is at its vilest in the US where one set of immigrants seek to write out of their history every other immigrant

I can't be bothered to write another long post against your ideas of national identity or its lack thereof.

I am tempted to embarrass you on your 'Monarchy speaking French for longer than speaking English' as a first language though....but if you can't count what's the point. If you think poetry composed in English in the King's court for the King in the mid 1300s was done as a joke then fair enough...the joke's on you.


Edited by Stirlingsays (02 Oct 2016 5.10pm)

 


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Originally posted by Stirlingsays

I can't be bothered to write another long post against your ideas of national identity or its lack thereof.

I am tempted to embarrass you on your 'Monarchy speaking French for longer than speaking English' as a first language though....but if you can't count what's the point. If you think poetry composed in English in the King's court for the King in the mid 1300s was done as a joke then fair enough...the joke's on you.


Edited by Stirlingsays (02 Oct 2016 5.10pm)

I wasn't saying that no one was Speaking in English. Certainly by the end of the 15th Century it had clearly becomes the second language and Henry V was the first who could write in English (he died in 1422)

Was I exaggerating, just a little, but the point is still valid. This unified culture of Olde England never existed and has always been in a state of flux.

 

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