BNP, does anyone take them seriously?

[Terxpahseyton]

Maybe the important thing is that all Britons are black or white to dis-encourage group-thinking within Great Britain (for which typical racial appearances are seemingly damn tempting)

 

[Dachs]

The obvious solution is to eliminate both "the United Kingdom" and "Great Britain" as unified political entities so nobody has to worry about what a Briton is or isn't.

 

[Terxpahseyton]

I am not sure I am looking forward to "What is an Englishman?" discussions

 

[ParkCungHee]

I'm sure Dachs and I could come up with some fun answers.

 

[Flying Pig]

An Irishman fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers

Says it all I think.

 

[Dachs]

Man, that doesn't even make sense based on the usual stereotypes.

 

[Cutlass]

Says it all I think.

That doesn't seen consistent with the Scots stereotype....

 

[Traitorfish]

I think it might be an era thing. Coulton was writing in the early 19th century, when the stereotypical Scot was a dour Presbyterian, not averse to fighting but not particularly given to strong emotions of any kind. The stereotype of the easily-enraged Scot was essentially a stereotype of the Glasgow Irish, and only became generalised in the 1980s (for surprisingly complex social, economic and political reasons), and even today is a very regionalised one within Scotland itself. Similarly, the stereotypical Englishman of the period was a wily shopkeeper- "a nation of shopkeepers", as Boney put it- rather than the "rational imperialist" of later decades.

 

[Dachs]

I think I prefer the Peter McDougall Gorbals Scotsman to the nineteenth century variety.

 

[Virote_Considon]

The funniest thing about people who moan about immigration? They all want to migrate to Spain.

He would have made a great dictator,
Given half a chance.
But they treated him like a traitor,
So he went to live in Fraaaaaance

But seriously, I don't think most people who complain about immigration want to emigrate. Let alone all.