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Saturday, January 14, 2006

Britification takes a step forward

Gordon Broooooon has reached chapter 6 in the Scottish Raj's red book - Britification for Dummies.

His latest proposal is for a British Day, a day where we can celebrate our nationality.

Sounds like St Georges Day.

But no, the nationality in question is, of course, British and not English. To celebrate your Englishness is wrong, racist, intolerant. You must be British and proud of it like the Scots and Welsh ... stop laughing, I'm being serious here.

The Scottish First Minister, Alex Salmond, has told Gordy that he's waving the wrong flag for Scotland, they're Scottish, not British. He's told him that this Britishness crap (my words, not his) is just an attempt to give himself credibility as a British Prime Minister with a Scottish constituency.

For once, Mr Salmond has hit the nail right on the head because that's what it's all about.

How much support is a Scottish Prime Minister from a Scottish constituency going to get when 80% of the work of the British government affects only England, leaving less than 20% affecting his own constituents? Sweet F.A., that's how much and that's why he is putting in so much effort of late to try and turn English people into mindless British drones with these endless British initiatives.

Scottish people are never going to feel British, Welsh people are never going to feel British and Northern Irish people are never going to feel British. His only hope is to ramp up the process of Britification that has been ticking over quietly in the background carefully replacing English with British whenever possible.

British Day would have about as much value as Europe Day and trying to promote Britishness as an alternative to Englishness is a pointless waste of time, money, effort and resources that could otherwise be spent on more worthwhile causes that would actually benefit the UK. Like an English Parliament for example.

St George is Cross.