That's an odd nationality

Here's an interesting letter from the office of John Prescott, the deputy Prime Minister. It's from 2002:

"...there is no such nationality as English as laid down by various acts of Parliament and accession. Persons born in the United Kingdom are citizens of the United Kingdom and are therefore British/English."

Of course if I thought for one moment that anyone in England was about to take the word of our political masters on this subject seriously I would begin to get worried. What Prescott's office is asking us to believe is that the Nation of England and the Nationality of the English stopped existing because a few thousand words banged out on a few crappy typewriters by a small number of monkeys.

If for one moment the same people believed that their power-base relied upon the modification of these documents to suddenly re-create England and the English they would do so like a shot.

That's the measure of what they believe nationality to be. In and out of existence at their behest.

Like children they believe in magic.

Posted by John at March 31, 2005 02:32 PM | TrackBack