Call Yourself British aims to rally the people of Great Britain around the 1707 Acts of Union. You may be English, Scottish, Welsh or come from Northern Ireland. But we want you to Call Yourself British
Yes, very good, last entry 11th December -thankfully we’re not relying on the Daily Telegraph to keep the Union Jack flying high.
If I as a humble (and unpaid) blogger can manage to squeeze out at least one post daily on the subject of the Union, then the Torygraph's coterie of highly-paid journos should really be capable of putting down their G'n'Ts down for half an hour and contributing a bit more than once per month towards the struggle.
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The Barclays are too busy in Sark counting their money and looking into further arts in the craft of tax avoidance.
Possible...but I have two more plausible reasons:
1.Having opened up the forum to the general public, the Tele (being very much of the old-school style of stiff upper-lip journalism) has been shocked and disturbed by the amount of nationalists of various descriptions posting their disagreement with the pro-Union sentiment. When they said they welcomed debate, they didn't really mean the kind of free-for-all "debate" you get in blogland.
2. Don't know if this too conspiracy theory or not...Cameron is almost 100% sure to make concessions to English nationalism this year, be it support for Rifkind's grand committee, English votes for English measure or (unlikely) the Eng parliament. That being the case, it won't really make too much sense for the Tories favourite rag to take too UK a stance when the party both sides of the border is moving towards a more autonomous stance.
Pity really, there's plenty of material to work on for pro-Unionists to build up a decent newspaper and media campaign and once again it looks like the Establishment are content (and complacent) enough to let the nationalists to make the running.
Despite the appearance otherwise, the Telegraph is not a mouth-piece of any public organisation or political philosophy, nor are they public servants, so have no duty to their readers (especially in Britain where there is such choice of papers)
Maybe its because they discovered nobody, barring some pensioners and subjects of Northern Ireland, gives a hoot about being british anymore... Just a thought
Maybe its because they discovered nobody, barring some pensioners and subjects of Northern Ireland, gives a hoot about being british anymore
I wasn't aware I'd overnight become a "subject"....plenty must give a hoot being British, otherwise the various separatist parties in the Kingdom would be polling a lot more than 20-30% of the electorate in NI/Wales and Scotland and whatever figure the English Democrats muster.
When 50+% of the electorate in any part of the Uk vote for separation, then we can finally write the epitaph for Britishness.
In the UK we are all subjects who are also citizens. As you probably know, people born in the Republic after 1922 but before 1949 (before it became constitutionally a republic after being a defacto one since 1937) are legally solely "subjects". Pace Sirs Terry Wogan and Tony O'Reilly or Michael Gambon. Same with Bob Geldof if he had he been born a couple of years earlier.
Quite interested in the fact that despite Geldof living most of his life in the UK, he has never taken British citizenship despite his children being married to a British citizen and fathering three others. Unlike Terry"all my kids have Irish passorts" Wogan who got a British passport (subject status) when he got his knighthood so he could call himself "sir". Not that I begrudge him the honour or his money.
In the UK we are all subjects who are also citizens.
My esteemed fellow Unionist blogger Beano (nominated on this year's long-list of Best Irish Political Blog did a post on that very subject(!) just before Xmas)
http://www.everythingulster.com/blogs/index.php/2007/11/23/p631#more631
He reckons we're not...
Seems the Daily Telegraph realised pretty quickly that most internet browsing people (i.e. under 50) have already ditched the term "british" for English, Welsh, Scottish or Northern Irish.
This is ite is scary, like some propoganda machine ;-)
HF
This is ite is scary, like some propoganda machine ;-)
Glad you like it, although I should acknowledge here all the help I've got from my friends up there in the Downing street Press office and, of course, the True Blue securocrats in MI5;)
Don't flatter yourself, the Telegraph are the scary ones not you :-P
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Thats disapppointing to hear, I must be doing something wrong...
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