Tim Worstall

Blunkett on Englishness.

David Blunkett has been verbosing about being English for a week or so now and this column in the Guardian is the first full piece of it that I’ve seen. Quite amusing really, he manages to get various digs in and yet at times seems blissfully unaware of the implications of what he’s saying.

our history of tolerance, openness and internationalism and our commitment to democracy and liberty,

This is, you remember, from the man who when Home Secretary, started off the whole ID Card thing, locking people up without trial, the abolition of habeus corpus and the idiocies about public demonstrations. Plus the Civil Contingencies Act, whereby any Minister can void any law at whim, confiscate any property without compensation, restrict any movement. Oh, and the postal voting stuff, he supported that as well, quite the biggest setback to clean elections since the Chartists demonstrated for the secret ballot. Droll, no?

These values, embodied in
our great institutions such as the NHS, the BBC and the Open University
– tell a national story open to all citizens.

Quite true of course. Our national values are indeed well expressed by a filthy, hugely expensive, inefficient health service (the envy of the world it is), one where any whiff of the efficiencies of the market is rejected on political grounds, over run by cadres of clipboard wielding "managers", stifled by unending dictats from the centre, the funding of intellectual treats for the upper and middle classes by regressive taxation upon the poor (collected in a vile and arrogant manner and by the frequent jailing of the poorest among us) and, well, I quite like the Open University actually.

One twist in the tale is
the number of extended licences granted to pubs for St Patrick’s Day,
but rejected for St George’s Day on April 23: a sign of uncertainty
that can be rapidly put right.

That’ll please the English Democrats.

And there is a quite delightful dig at fuckwit as well:

If not, how do we affirm
our Englishness as part of being British in a new way? By celebrating
our culture, from the music of Vaughan Williams and Elgar to the poetry
of Christina Rossetti, Wilfred Owen and Philip Larkin and the
quintessentially English humour of Tony Hancock, Round the Horne and
Monty Python; by celebrating our landscape, our heritage of Victorian
cities, our history, including such figures as Olaudah Equiano who was,
alongside William Wilberforce, a key abolitionist of slavery – and yes,
our unique obsession (as I know) with the love of dogs, and animals in
general.

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  1. Sir Andrew Siddle Avatar
    Sir Andrew Siddle

    Enlgand,as a culture and not a country (England was declared illegal after the 1707 Union Act of Parliament – as was Scotland) revolves around a history of racist bigotry and genocide otherwise:-
    * the name of England would still be Albion
    * Britain would be an Indo-European country and not an Anglo-Saxon one
    * The 10th century Danelaw Land Settlements Agreement would never have been neccessary.Indo-European Albion would never have given a small area of Midlands land to the Danish!An area of land, that although only small, became known as Angle-Land / England (The English. Not Southern and not Northern – Only the Midlands) .
    These “English ” who are actually following the culture of 10th century Germanic tribes are not the originators of this Great Britain that we have. They are followers of a culture that is foreign and Germanic. Anti-British racists and bigots.
    England stands for one thing and one thing only historically. Frigging racist shit and genocide initiated by Germanic culture followers who are completely alien to the original culture of the British Isles! Long live Great Britain.Albion forever more!!!!Long Live British Albion! The true culture of the British Isles!
    Regards.
    Andrew Siddle.
    —————
    Sidi of the Faien (The Royal Fan of Indo-European Albion)
    Sidi of Egypt Gone (Siddle,Sydal,Siddell,Sidiq,Siddhe,Sidi – The evolution of an Indo-European Dravidian Sanskrit Surname).
    —————
    28th Dynasty Egyptian Berber Royal army of Pharaoh Amrytious in exile in British Albion since the pre-historic invasion of Africa by Persia.

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  2. Sir Andrew Siddle Avatar
    Sir Andrew Siddle

    P.S:- The origins of British Albion are of a white race that interbred with African berbers (who in turn originated from the Phoenicians).50% of the population were brown skinned and of African descent.There were more dark skinned and brown skinned people in Albion (Great Britain) than there are in the 21st century. Such peoples can still be identified through the analysis of the root of each persons surname through to a North African sanskrit word origin by academics.
    The skin colour has gone but the names live on!

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  3. Sir Andrew Siddle Avatar
    Sir Andrew Siddle

    P.P.S:- My favourite celebrity, of centuries gone, of England is Saint Aidan of Lindisfarne (The half Irish and half English Holy Island that is one of the most popular Holy Islands to visit for USA citizens of the Christian faith when on holiday in Great Britain – and there is an army of such US people who think so!) . He was an Irish originating priest of brown skin having African descent origins. Good old English hey what!!!!Most African,and Middle East, Saints came to British Albion centuries before the English race was ever created. Indeed most of them were arab and berber as are their descendants on the basis of surname origins.So why are English shoit so racist? It is because they are an inferior race,with lower moral and spiritual standards, to the original British!

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  4. Mark Holland Avatar
    Mark Holland

    [crusty the clown]
    WHAT-THE-HELL-WAS-THAT?
    [/crusty the clown]
    I thought Blunko was talking shite but jeez…

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  5. mantovani Avatar
    mantovani

    would you buy a house from siddlem?
    http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/britannia_property

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  6. Sir Andrew Siddle Avatar
    Sir Andrew Siddle

    To the previous poster.
    No houses for sale!
    I am a private landlord. Having retired from a career of twenty something years in the property profession as a consultant and all of my life since the age of 18 doing academic work free of charge and for no thanks. I am strictly private with a capital “P”. No can do if you want any service what so ever buddy! I would also comment that I have only ever dealt with property to fund my academic career and not the other way around. I am retired from both and don’t do polite lip service to others anymore as a contributor to Acts of Parliament such as the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2,000 (Through public policy research) and
    d others.

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  7. Sir Andrew Siddle Avatar
    Sir Andrew Siddle

    Alright a simplified version of history then!
    ———————————————-
    To be quite fair, and bearing in mind that the average person in Britain does not have an education in ancient British history, the original British were Pheonician peoples of the East. So were the Egyptians.In fact exactly the same pre-historic race as migrated over from the east and interbred with peasants in the British isles. You don’t need to know anything else and I I appreciate that I talk above peoples heads in a way that annoys and that they can’t understand most of the while. Which I enjoy doing to be quite honest!

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  8. Sir Andrew Siddle Avatar
    Sir Andrew Siddle

    The unsolicited remarks, in the press this week, of David blunkett about the world prove one thing and one thing only.
    David Blunkett feels, like Toby Blair, that he is above the law and that he was within his rights, whilst in a postiion of political power, to go around the world invading which ever countries he chose (without the majoroty vote of the people of the UK), killing which ever people he objected to, and ordering who ever he chooses/chose to obey him whith no form of political control , or sa\fe guard, aganist the exceses ( and extremes ) of the labour party what so ever.
    These labour party meglomaniacs feel that they , and they are alone, are entitled to govern the whole planet once voted into power.
    These Labour party meglomaniacs warrent a new act or Parliament in respect of mental Health!
    Both Mr Blair , and Mr Blunkett, were/are suffering from untreated meglomania whilst in power. Please can we now see these people confined to a suitable mental insitute/institutions that provide/s adequete mental health treatment for meglomania as a mental health disorder?
    Andy Siddle
    —————–
    Sir Andrew Siddle B.Sc(Hons).,M.Soc.sc.,FPCS.,Property and land law specilaist going back to feudal Britain.
    ——————
    P.S:- I am a registered member of the Conservative Party of the UK and an enemy of the Labour Party of the bRITISH iSLES

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