Steve Haywood wrote: > 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
I would have thought most "English" got their "bloody minded anarchy" from Celtic ancestors. -- Neil Arlidge - NB Earnest Follow the travels of TNC, now in Ireland http://www.tuesdaynightclub.co.uk/tour.html
