Posted 26 August 2008 - 07:09 PM
British means being proud of your roots (I come from 3 generations of English Black Country canalboatmen) Coming from a country which has stood up for freedom countless times (and won) Having one Grandfather who fought in both world wars and one who fought and won a medal in the first world war. Fish and chips, faggots and peas, cups of tea with custard creams, football, cricket, King Arthur, Robin Hood, William Wallace, Rob Roy, Fingle the Giant, Rourke's drift, Shakespeare, The Empire, Sir Francis Drake, The Battle Of Waterloo, The Battle Of Britain, The Spitfire, The Dambusters, Sir Winston Churchill. Countless inventions (maily Scottish), Haggis, Black Pudding. Having the best fighting men in the world in our Army, Navy and Airforce, DRIVING A MINI, Del-Boy and Rodders, Rab C Nesbitt, Monty Python, Spike Milligan, Tom Jones, The Beatles, The Who, Punks, Mods, Rockers, Skinheads (the original ones), 2-tone and Ska etc etc.
I welcome immigrants as long as they actually have something to contribute and offer our country, washing cars and cleaning can be done by anyone, there's too many here. End of. That Olympic handover thing was a joke, What did that London bus with the bush on the top and the little asian girl have anything to do with the rest of England, Scotland, Wales and N. Ireland? It's all about London as usual. One thing the Liberal PC brigade need to remember is that this is a Christian country were 90% of the population are native, white British AND I'm not a racist for saying that. We're a tolerant country and the immigration in the 60's has enriched us (especially as that immigration was from our former empire anyway) The immigration of the last 11 years has been beyond a joke and it's horrible to go into certain areas and feel uncomfortable because EVERYONE is foreign and speaking in a different language!