Brian J Goggin wrote: > On Thu, 5 Feb 2009 15:32:03 +0000, Steve Haywood > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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. > > Eh? > > I mean, not that I'm defending it, but some folk on this island > (despicable scumbags, alas) have been expressing dissent for many > years --- with armalites and semtex. And before that, the majority of > the population os this island expressed such an amount of dissent that > HMG allowed us to bugger off and do our own thing. > > I am all in favour of dissent, and in particular against HM's current > G's attempt at recording everything done by everybody, but I am often > struck by the extent to which English folk calmly accept the most > ridiculous regulations and their stalinist implementation by public > authorities. > > It is quite a while since ordinary decent Englishmen had a decent > insurrection. Aux armes, citoyens. > > bjg
We have all given up, laid down and died. Even those of us that were "prudent" can't escape these shores, due the HMG's clever plan of assisting the slide in Sterling. Soon we will be monitored taking even a rowing boat across the English Channel. Anyroad...is it much better in the ROI?...have you all taken to the streets to complain? Arlidge - NB Earnest Follow the travels of TNC, now in Ireland http://www.tuesdaynightclub.co.uk/tour.html
