2009/2/5 David Kitching <[email protected]> > On 5 Feb 2009 at 14:23, Adrian Stott wrote: > > > At last. Something that you and I can agree on! :-o > > Don't trust the government one inch when they tell you it's all for your > own > good and protection. > > You see the reason we are all at one on this is that though we may all differ politically we are at root all English, and there is a vein of bloody-minded anarchy that permeates the attitude of the English to government. We suffer the state of government but we don't suffer it gladly and can never really bring ourselves to love it as do the French or the Americans. We certainly don't trust government - any government - regardless of its colour. We treat all government as we treat our appendix: we're not quiet sure why it exists but we don't mind putting up with it as long it doesn't play us up too much. If it does, we'll cut it out with a vengeance.
Let me apologise to the Welsh, Irish and Scottish on this list who may, as far as I know, feel the same way too. It's just that I don't believe it's such a commonly inherited feeling among the nations we have colonised, because we treated dissent of any sort so savagely it couldn't survive. Steve [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
