Thursday, October 11, 2007

A Strange Kind of Unionist?

I’ve got more in common with Simon Barnes than I would have expected:

Here are a few things I am not: neo-colonial, possessed of a born-to-rule mentality, a racial supremacist, a little Englander, a snooty bastard, an avoider of baths, an oppressor, a cultural elitist, a snob.

Here are some other things I am not: a racist, Pope Hadrian IV, a Black and Tan, Oliver Cromwell, the Duke of Cumberland, an anti-Catholic, an anti-Protestant, Edward I, a silencer of Celtic languages.

I do not hate Australia. Nor do I hate Ireland. I don't hate Wales or Scotland, either.


Sheesh, apart from hating Australia*, me neither.
In addition I don't walk on The Twelfth, keep the Lord's Day holy, support Glasgow Rangers or even sing The Sash in the bath.

Can’t be really a true Unionist then, can I?





*Only joking, of course. I love Fosters, some of my best friends are Aussies etc etc

3 comments:

Owen Polley said...

Christ on rollerblades! I'm afraid I'm not actually au fait with the concept of Indymedia! Who are they and why are they publishing such hateful nonsense?

Anonymous said...

Indymedia, from my limited experience, seem to be a loose collection of rag tag bunch of republicans/socialists from the south.

That said, this piece in question seems to be written by "Justice for the Forgotten" (the hypocrisy).

Also, bits are provably wrong: "accompanied by thousands of marches, mainly through the areas were the people subject to the attacks live."

Mainly? He's right, there are thousands of marches a year, a handful of which are contentious.

Says a lot about the credibility and impartiality of the rest of the rant.

O'Neill said...

Indymedia is a loose collection of leftish sites operating throughout the world promoting stories that the MSM won't touch, hence the name.

In ROi unfortunately it's been overrun by the type of anti-Brit lowlife with views that even The Adams Jugend find embarrassing....hold on a minute, perhaps not;)
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/84020