Biased BBC reader Alex notes…
“Take a look at this pointless but all-too-typical pro-EU, left-wing drivel from the BBC that seeks to undermine English identity: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-27731725 Now, repeat after me folks: England, unlike Scotland, never has been a unified country, but rather a mix of divided counties. Therefore, multiculturalism and the devolution of English counties is a good thing.”
Shakespeare is now a baronet, he now claims to be a sociologist in spite of having had a strange mixture of jobs and endless studies, and sounds to be an over-opinionated rich kiddie :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Shakespeare
Just the sort of guy to whom the BBC gives a big fee and acres of space to spout stupid ideas.
Sociology = The Pseudoscience of Socialism. It nor its proponents should ever be taken seriously.
This is a very confused and confusing article, does it call for ‘localism’, the EU or ‘world’ government?
Scotland was ‘always’ a united country, yet the present capital was founded by a Northumbrian! How did that get past the editors? What about the Picts, Gaels etc.? What about the Roman Empire extending into the central belt? What about the clan divisions and alliances?
If we are to follow the EU line shouldn’t there be eight English countries plus the French city of London (since debunked!)?
I think someone should check the water at BBC HQ: Scottish Independence, good; UK independence, bad; Salmond, English-hating non-racist; Farage, German-loving racist!
Just too many contradictions I’m afraid.
What about the Kingdom of Strathclyde which was an on/off client of the English throne for years? That part of the country didn’t become fully part of Scotland until the 11th Century, long after England was England.
History is not the BBCs strong point. But then the very same people have ensured that, through the Comprehensive schooling system neither is it for many British people any more. They, no doubt, believe they can say any old shit and few will know otherwise.
The Scots are Irish, the Saxons are German and the Welsh are British, but we Northumbrian Angles want Edinburgh back from the Scots as well as the wasteland of Durham and the return of Yorkshire back from being stolen by the Vikings.
With 100% genuineness I have felt for a long time that England needs a King George Public Holiday .
A day where England’s true identity and culture is promoted, celebrated and the King George flag is proudly flown.
As I say, I’m 100% genuine in suggesting this because I think it would do wonders in helping to reclaim your “green and pleasant land” from the multicultural “Helmand Province” England has become.
Can you imagine the BBC meltdown if this was even proposed?.
Great!!, so get on with it!.
Saint George!
Oh no, apologies!!. I had a feeling *something* was not right with my post.
Que, severe embarrassment 🙁
Cry God for Lizzie, England and St. George.
England was never a real country? I wish the BBC could try and explain that to Alfred the Great, at least until such time as he put his sword through their stupid faces.
Alfred would have prayed for their souls and then set the dogs on them. He wouldn’t have defiled his sword with their blood.
There’s a strange blog I’ve stumbled upon which is trying to say the same thing, oddly enough in doing so it seems to be trying to prove the opposite point…
It’s hard to tell if it’s a troll or a genuine post.
http://englanddoesntexist.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/why-scotland-is-nation-and-england-isnt.html
I’ve read a couple of articles on that blog and can only say ‘W.T.F?’
I, too, found it difficult to tell if its a troll or genuine.
Germany?
The various states such as Prussia and Bavaria in 1871 united under Bismarck to create Germany.
Maybe they should also revert back?
Oh, wait a minute…
Perhaps the people of Strathclyde should embrace their Welsh ancestry and throw off the shackles of (Irish Gaelic) Scottish oppression.
Free Strathclyde now!
The Lowland scots are largely anglo saxon Edinbugh, itself was a saxon settlement part of the Kingdom of Northumberland.
The risible Gealic signage in places like Glasgow Central Railway Station are some idiots way of perpetrating the Gaelic mythology that took root in Victorian times with the phoney tartans, screeching bagpipes and the rest of the paraphernalia.
Before the saxon settlements the indigenous language in that part of Scotland would have been something akin to Welsh, Gealic largely confined to Ireland and the far North West of Scotland, but never let realty impinge on a good story
Funnily enough, the areas of England which the BBC claims to be the “real” makeup of the Country just happens to coincide with the Regions the EUSSR wishes to create as Regional Boundaries, the same ones Labour tried to sneak into being and which they tried to get the people to accept by attempting to introduce Regional Parliaments which, when floated as an idea was laughed at by the public who realised it was just another expensive layer of Jobs for the Boys.
It was intended by the EUSSR that Scotland and Wales would, as they became under Blair’s Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly, two separate EU Regions to be the other two regions added to the nine English EU Regions to make up the Mainland UK.
The BBC are obviously intent on trying to fool us into believing they are a natural part of our history, which is patent rubbish. If anything the longest lasting divide in England is that of the three Kingdoms of Northumbria, Mercia and Wessex which were basically what we now call The North, The Midlands and The South.
As for Scotland always being “Unified”, somebody at the BBC should concentrate on the facts rather than the propaganda. Apart from the Picts, named by the Romans and meaning The Painted Ones, there followed the Norse, who invaded and controlled the Northern Isles and much of the North of the Highlands, The Scots, an Irish Tribe who invaded the West Coast and the Western Isles along with various indigenous tribes. It was only in the 13th Century that Scotland became unified under one Ruler. Prior to that it had been split into various competing small Kingdoms which were slowly absorbed one at a time. Until the last three or four centuries Scotland was, and to some degree still is, split in three, much as England is, with the Highlands, above the historical Highland Line dividing the Highlanders from the Lowlanders, the industrialised Central Belt with it’s large towns and cities, and the Scottish Borders.
Wales is probably the most unified but even there there is a North- South divide and rivalry.