Thursday, November 01, 2007

HOME RULE? NOT ENGLISH.
The English have always had a special skill. To twist words around so much as to always find the sun shining out of the English arsehole.
The British Empire ( with slaves from Wales, Scotland and Ireland) was of course a British Empire. Oh the English. ( was that "Brutish" Empire" get a medel for that)
Forever a bit of this England laid down and dead in a WORLD WAR. Yes that is right a First World War!
Dizzy obvious stuff this.
Holy Shiite now the English accuse the slaves of Wales and Scotland of being selfish and refusing the "window of opportunity" ( for finance centres in London) of Olympic football through an agreed Great Britain team.
Think it was football anyway.
Could have been a few other things too. ( oh yes)

I am not proud ( even in a soft and good way of being proud) of being born and first bred in England.
The only language Ican use in this high-warping-field, that is forever England, is this kind of language : GOOD BYE TO ALL THAT ( sori selfish I know but right to say).

But I do begin to understand the celebi-clubbi-britti-pity ways now a little more.
They have nowt to live-for but their imagined-selves in imagined communites. It is all very English. But fucked. Not even Wales or Scotland will support the image.
In fact much of the wider world moved long times past but that is another more significant issue.



9 comments:

anticant said...

The Scots weren't the slaves of Empire. They were its backbone, as many of Kipling's stories attest.

zola a social thing said...

Anticant : With respect a few Scots from various places in a Scottish atmosphere did indeed provide that backbone you talk about. Oh yes. It can also be said that a Scottish education was needed for the British Empire to empire itself. Yes.

But MOST SCOTS?

do me a favour do.

What you mean is the Industrial Revolution !!!!

And, of course the Highland ethical cleansings.

Do me a favour please.

The majority of Scots were right to sing the Flower of Scotland methinks.

zola a social thing said...

BTW : Scots that claim to be Scottish have rarely been Imperialists even if Adan Smith and all that was active before the Adam Smith Institute so loved by ny-labor.

Gimme more Anticant - about time too.

BTW where is any Scottish language in this "backbone" you insist upon?
Just imagine even George Orwell talking Easterhouse spraken. As for Kipling..... I pissed upon his flowers to make them grow in ways that sent him into dreams.

Merkin said...

With NuLab telling us this week that we Brits have shared values with Saudi Arabia, we can see the last flounderings of the Imperialists that live in London - whether Angles or Scots.

Anonymous said...

Linda Colley's 'Britons' is great on the Scots and Empire issue. If I remember rightly, she argues that the Scots - and yes, Zola, she is only talking about the metropolitan minority - were all for empire, not merely for financial/career reasons (with Scots being overrepresented within the Imperial staff), but because it was a British, not English, endeavour; that they drew status and pride from this, that it evened out the dynamics of England's internal empire, Scottish inferiority vis-a-vis the English etc.

Anonymous said...

"Last flounderings of the imperialists" just about sums it up merk.

Anonymous said...

Is it only the English who are never proud their nation, except for the warped Thatcherite and BNP versions of pride?

I wonder why that is. They've done, and are doing, many things that there is no reason to be proud of, but they've also done, and are doing, many things that are great and good.

I certainly wouldn't want to live there again, but I rather like the English.

At a safe distance.

anticant said...

Just two points:

After the Jacobites were squashed in the '45 and their Highland culture destroyed, the Empire was an outlet for many who were out of sympathy with the Edinburgh-based Whig oligarchy.

Adam Smith, like so many original thinkers, has been 'colonised' by parasitic later generations who either misunderstood or deliberately misconstrued his writings. He was not the advocate of unbridled capitalism, and denounced monopolistic conspiracies to push up prices as against the public interest. I'm sure he would not have been a patron of the Adam Smith Institute!

Merkin said...

'I'm sure he would not have been a patron of the Adam Smith Institute!'
Agree with that.

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