Site Access
Date: May 13, 2008 | Discussion: 6 Comments
Hi all, I’m having serious difficultes accessing theenglandproject.net. How does it seem to everyone else?
Fräulein Aunty
Date: May 4, 2008 | Discussion: 1 Comment
Who do they think they are, this BBC lot? How intimidating are they intending to get? I keep seeing the following graphic on their news web site and it really grinds my gears:
I pay my license fee by direct debit and I consider it state sanctioned theft. I understand the idea and what the state and the BBC say they are trying to achieve but the reality gives rise to two problems; firstly, and principally, the idea is incompatible with my ideas of liberty and choice, and secondly the output of the BBC is such that it isn’t even my secondary viewing choice. Nor is it my third. It is way, way down the list.
So, I wonder what exactly they mean in the above threat when they say “It’s all in the database”. What is “it”? How much of “it” have they recorded? What exactly is in this database and how secure is it?
I think a few million of us should ask them the question and ask for full disclosure on how much of “it” that relates to us they actually have recorded in this “all” powerful database.
Filed under Media.
The rise of the machines
Date: May 1, 2008 | Discussion: No Comments
It’s only a matter of time and I would like to be one of the first to welcome our new titanium overlords.
Filed under General.
Quote of the Day
Date: April 18, 2008 | Discussion: No Comments
Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them - Paul Valery
Obviously, this is from experience rather than from the stated desires of the politicians themselves.
Filed under Quote.
Tescos declares War on Denmark
Date: March 8, 2008 | Discussion: 4 Comments
Video contains one naughty word so not suitable for children.
Filed under General, Giggle.
Quote of the day
Date: March 6, 2008 | Discussion: 1 Comment
…and it’s been a while since we had one:
The word ‘politics’ is derived from the word ‘poly’, meaning ‘many’, and the word ‘ticks’, meaning ‘blood sucking parasites’. - Larry Hardiman
Who knew?
Filed under Politics and politicians, Quote.
We should all get together in a lovin machine
Date: March 5, 2008 | Discussion: 1 Comment
You’ve got to love Mrs England Project, or at least I do. She recently got herself one of those new fangled ipod thingies and loaded all her flotsam and jetsam onto it. The kitchen is a veritable nightmare of 60s and 70s tragedy. I got to say though that it’s all growing on me. Take the following for example. A song by a British band called Blue Mink. No, nor me, but just give it a moment. It’s glorious in its multi-culti street cred and could, I suspect, be used as an anthem for a hundred and one right on organizations and broadcasters. I absolutely love it, not withstanding that a person’s colour or creed makes not one jot of difference to me.
I get the message that the lyricist is trying to spread but honestly, churning out coffee coloured people seems an odd way of saying that people should all just get along. The wonderful melody and the cringe making words are superb. I just can’t help smiling when I hear it.
Don’t miss the Oh Lordy, Lordy, mixed with yellow Chinkees, yeah bit. Heavens above, brave and irresponsible all at the same time.
Take a pinch of white man
Wrap him up in black skin
Add a touch of blue blood
And a little bitty bit of red Indian boy
Oh like a Curly Latin kinkies
Oh Lordy, Lordy, mixed with yellow Chinkees, yeah
You know you lump it all together
And you got a recipe for a get along scene
Oh what a beautiful dream
If it could only come true, you know, you knowWhat we need is a great big melting pot
Big enough enough enough to take
The world and all its got And keep it stirring for a hundred years or more
And turn out coffee coloured people by the scoreRabbis and the friars
Vishnus and the gurus
We got the Beatles or the Sun God
Well it really doesn’t matter what religion you choose
And be thankful little Mrs. Graceful
You know that livin’ could be tasteful
We should all get together in a lovin machine
I think I’ll call up the queen
It’ s only fair that she knows, you know, you knowWhat we need is a great big melting pot
Big enough enough enough to take
The world and all its got And keep it stirring for a hundred years or more
And turn out coffee coloured people by the score
Play the youtube thingy below. Get a drink first. Get three. Brilliant.
Filed under Music.
The Earth, she burns!
Date: March 5, 2008 | Discussion: 1 Comment
And so, our politicians vote for irrelevance.
The assignment this evening is to come up with a single word that best describes these politicians. My best shot is charlatans.
Filed under EU, Politics and politicians, Scorched Earth.
A tale of two news channels
Date: March 5, 2008 | Discussion: No Comments
One big news story today and another lesser story. The first is the clash in the commons over the EU referendum, the second is some kind of vote in a country called the USA on who should be allowed to stand in some kind of future election. I sat with my lunch and turned on the TV. Both Sky News and BBC News 24 were about to start their on the hour news programme and I awaited the news on the EU commons battle with some anticipation. Guess which channel decided that the vote in the USA should be the first and primary news story? Yup. You got it. Thank the heavens for Sky News who chose to run the EU debate first.
The question that I ask the BBC is should we expect our news to play second fiddle to US news until the US presidential campaigns are over? I mean, some of us are legitimately interested in how our country is to be run in the future.
Filed under Media, EU.
The leading roll as the bad guy
Date: March 3, 2008 | Discussion: 7 Comments
Via Dumb Jon comes this from Peter Hitchens:
Last month, a group of 13-year-olds in a school in East Anglia were learning about the Spanish Armada, that pivotal moment in our island story.Then they were handed a worksheet. I have a copy of it, if you don’t believe me.
“You are a Spanish sailor about to embark in the Spanish Armada,” said the worksheet. “Draw an anti-English poster to show all the reasons why you are invading the country.”
It also asked for a “spider diagram of at least four reasons why Spain was angry enough with England to want to invade”.
Without asking, one can only guess at the message that these educators were trying to instil in our children but the episode does seem entirely bizarre. I’m left here wondering just one thing; could the same education not have been given to the children without placing England in the leading roll of the bad guy? Of course it could, and quite legitimately too.
Filed under Anti England, Education.
My guess is the latter
Date: March 2, 2008 | Discussion: No Comments
So, the question is will the politicians listen to the clear message sent out by the results of the privately organized vote on the EU referendum or will they continue their downward spiral into credibility oblivion? My guess is the latter but surely they would be foolhardy to attempt to dodge this one.
This is a real test of their often stated desire to bring more power to the people and if, ultimately, they continue to ignore us the damage to their already scorched reputation would be significant.
Expect a swelling of the ranks of the Scorched Earthers but hope that they will come through with what is so obviously the desire of the people.
Filed under EU, Politics and politicians, Scorched Earth.
Hey, teacher, leave them kids alone
Date: March 1, 2008 | Discussion: 1 Comment
The news that young English children are being chastised for expressing their nationality is all over the English blogosphere.
SCHOOLKIDS are being punished for flying the English flag, a Government report claimed yesterday.It found that politically correct teachers are sending youngsters home for wearing clothing featuring the St George cross.
And kids are even being told off just because they have been dropped off in a car decorated with the symbol.
We can only wonder at the motivation behind the actions of these teachers as it is plainly nonsense to attribute the promise of a certain kind of behaviour to children just because they choose to decorate themselves in some small way with the national symbols of their country. Not just any old country mind, but the actual country that they are living in. It seems, though, that we must either believe that or believe that these children are being punished because of the past behaviour of other people that these educators have decided to attribute to a whole nation. Broad brushed these days in the education sector.
I’m guessing that the problem lies with the simpletons themselves. I suspect that they have been damaged in some way by overdosing on liberal propaganda. Stuff that they have perhaps been absorbing for years, maybe starting at University and continuing in the more wicked publications put out by our national media.
One day it will dawn on the ranks of the ‘right-on’ generation that they have been duped. Fed a line. Indoctrinated. Symbols of national pride are not, in actual fact, evil. They do not cause a certain kind of behaviour and they are not precursors of doom. That the targets of their own failings have been children is to their eternal shame.
Filed under General, Liberty under assault, England, Anti England, Prejudice, Education.
What England means to me
Date: February 27, 2008 | Discussion: No Comments
Gareth has kindly published my short essay on what England means to me.
Thanks Gareth.
Filed under Equality in Britain, Politics and politicians, England.
A big thanks to Ian and his good lady
Date: February 27, 2008 | Discussion: 1 Comment
I would like to take a moment to personally thank Ian from An English Shooter’s Blog for placing an order for a copy of England Rising and also to thank his good lady for ordering a copy of Bajan Sunset.
The prints are winging their way to you as I type.
This is the second copy of England Rising that Ian has received, purchased for a friend who has seen Ian’s print hanging.
UPDATE: Wow, Ian’s choice of framing works really well.
Filed under Art.
The pathetic stick comes out. All that is missing is the ducking.
Date: February 26, 2008 | Discussion: 6 Comments
There is an often confused understanding that people have of the English question. This manifests itself as a waggly finger scolding of progressive English civic nationalists for voicing the desire for national equality in the British political system. We use words like ‘the’ and ‘English’ to mean the people of England. They hear words like ‘bloodline’ and ‘dna’. It’s an age old story and a very old stick that we have often been beaten about the head with and, to many of us, it has become extraordinarily tiresome.
Here (via The Secret Person) is an example of this waggly finger wizened old stick:
There is a certain irony to nationalist calls for an English ‘parliament’ and their calls to leave the EU - to be ruled by the ‘English’, when in fact the public school dominated ruling classes in London are probably more French than those in Brussels in terms of their ancestry.
There it is. But let us not be disheartened. The only pureness preached by true English civic nationalists (note the clue in the word civic) is the pureness of the truth. The cries of ‘mandate’ are a direct and unavoidable result of the obvious disparities in the current British political system. The preposterousness of the creation of legislation by ministers whose constituents are unaffected by that legislation is nauseating enough that no amount of bleating by our detractors can possibly have a detrimental effect on our cause.
That game has been well and truly rumbled and quite some time ago too.
So the next time someone tries to teach you a history lesson about who invaded who and who is descended from what and, bizarrely, who invented the word ‘parliament’ just remember that your humble author is descended directly from the Greatest of the Greek architects of democracy and that whether this is true or not it makes absolutely no difference to any cause whatsoever. Democracy on an equal footing with our partners in Britain will come to England not because of the vagaries of who had sex with who a few hundred years ago and not because a bunch of Hooligans and Barbarians stuck the knife into the Roman Empire while some guy was giving a concert on a stringed instrument. It won’t come because some Norman tricksters managed to entice an English shield wall to break ranks and run down a grassy hill. It will come because of the facts on the ground as they stand today and because we no longer duck our heads when that pathetic stick comes out.
Filed under Equality in Britain, Politics and politicians, Britain, England, Anti England, Prejudice.
Don’t ask us, we’re English
Date: February 18, 2008 | Discussion: 1 Comment
I don’t see why central government, whether UK or English, should control issues that are local or regional in nature.
The thing about re-organizing local government in England is that, frankly, it should be entirely up to the people of England to decide what type of governance we feel is best suited to us, our local community and our country. Right now we have a situation where the choices are not in the hands of the very same people that will be affected.
Let’s just consider for a moment what the people of England have observed over the past few years. With respect to regionalisation we have been witness to what started out as a ham fisted approach and ended up as an underhand one. We were asked once about regional assemblies and we declined the offer. Think about what happened after that and then ask yourself why anyone, other than those with a remit to do what is best for England, should be permitted to take another bite at a task to which the answer has already been given. By the people.
Then consider the kind of self determination that has been handed down to the other nations in the United Kingdom. Consider the excuses given by those that granted that power as to why England should not receive the same. Then think of our reaction to being treated like children and denied our right to choose in the same manner as other British citizens.
That is the landscape of the moment. That is what we English have observed. And we have observed it because it has happened not because we are being unreasonable.
Peter says that he doesn’t see why central government, whether UK or English, should control issues that are local or regional in nature and then asks us to leave it to the UK central government to organize our regional governance for us. The very same government that has been responsible for the entirely underhand attempt at regionalisation that we have witnessed. The very same government that continues to refer to us as a subtext in their great Nations and Regions of Britain mantra. The same government that denies us the right to fly our nation’s flag without an advertising permit. The very same government that says the best thing to do with the West Lothian Question is to not ask it. The very same government that says there are too many of us to receive the same level of self determination as the Scottish and the Welsh.
There is nothing much wrong with local power in the hands of local people. There is everything wrong with denying us the same privileges and opportunities as the Scots and the Welsh.
Let’s consider one more observable fact. During this whole debacle where has the single, strong, unified voice for England been? The kind voice that acts as a searchlight, watching for the underhand, the unfair, the discriminatory? The voice that acts as a beacon, informing the people of England what underhand practices have been played out to our disadvantage. The voice that stands in the UK parliament and shouts what about us, where is our right to self determination? The people of the nation that I am tasked with representing will not stand for it! A voice with enough power so that these kinds of remonstrations on the floor cannot be ignored or fobbed off with a soundbite or two. The voice with the mandate to represent us as a nation.
It has been nowhere. Our UK MPs have let us down so badly that many I have come into contact with consider them enemies of England rather than employees and friends.
That’s the desolate landscape. The landscape within which we are asked what is wrong with the UK government organizing regional government in England?
Filed under Equality in Britain, Politics and politicians, Britain, England.
Alfie goes to London Town
Date: February 16, 2008 | Discussion: No Comments
I’m late to this, having been ejected off the Internet recently, but what a cracker it is. Alfie goes to London Town to visit the circus and what a marvel it was:
The questions rained in - unfortunately the answers were totally inadequate - they mostly answered questions that weren’t asked. But then, just when I’m beginning to lose the fight to resist jumping the desk and beating Falconer to within an inch of his pension, someone got up and asked the great white effer if he thought that England was a country in its own right?“Of course, England plainly is a nation”….. A few fainted, a few went mad.
You really should put aside a few minutes and read Alfie’s account of the goings on. Great stuff.
Filed under Equality in Britain, Politics and politicians, Britain, England.
UK - division over values, history and identity
Date: February 15, 2008 | Discussion: 3 Comments
Now here’s an interesting thing:
“The United Kingdom presents itself as a target, as a fragmenting, post-Christian society, increasingly divided about interpretations of its history, about its national aims, its values and in its political identity…”
I wonder how much of this apparent lack of belief in our own cultural story is due to any reduction in the degree to which people identify with Britain as their nation and British as their primary identification?
Filed under Politics and politicians, Britain.
I have falled off the Internets!
Date: February 12, 2008 | Discussion: 1 Comment
Hello all. Just a quick note before I lose connectivity to the wireless connection from over the road that I am piggybacking on … A few days ago our telephone line and wireless network stopped working. BT have informed us that someone has vandalised some of their equipment and basically stolen 800 meters of cable to sell the copper cores. Lots of houses near us have lost their service and BT estimate that it could take weeks before they have it all repaired.
I have fallen off the Internets!!!
Filed under General, Administration.
All unequal in the eyes of the law
Date: February 7, 2008 | Discussion: 1 Comment
An approach to law which simply said - there’s one law for everybody - I think that’s a bit of a danger.
Please discuss.
