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2009-03-13 Olde Tyme Religion

We must be mad to give £90m to these fanatics - and I should know, I used to be one

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Posted by ed 2009-03-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Pretty impressive, eloquent, and practical essay. Still pretty pessimistic about the UK's future as a useful ally, though.

Posted by Verlaine 2009-03-13 02:28|| 2009-03-13 02:28|| Front Page Top

#2 It is almost as though our leaders are ashamed of our own country and culture.

Bingo. They want to exterminate their own culture. Without asking the members of said culture, of course.

Posted by gromky 2009-03-13 04:30|| 2009-03-13 04:30|| Front Page Top

#3 The author doesn't understand that the problem is not the British, it is the English. The Scots are still being Scots, the Welsh, Welsh and the Irish, Irish. But the English have quit. They were decimated by WWI and their empire liquidated by the mid-century. The destruction of their constitution by a Scot completed the century.

We should not gloat. The decline of the WASP in America is pretty much 50 years behind the decline of the English in Britain. It is happening a bit more slowly here because American WASPishness was not so much heritable as a belief system anyone could adopt. And so it grew beyond its ethnic enclave evene as the English Americans quit, to endure in new generations of work ethic driven immigrants.

But now 0 will put the end to it with his New New Deal of Euro socialism and supine posturing with foreign tyrants. And now we know first hand how and why ancient Greek and Roman republics fell.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2009-03-13 07:15|| 2009-03-13 07:15|| Front Page Top

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