Well, I have been accused of “petty bigotry”:-
By condemning them all as Sun, Express and Mail readers aren’t you displaying your own petty bigotry?
See the comment here. What a laugh that gave me!
Totally intolerant and curmudgeonly maybe, but bigoted NEVER!
Ironically this comes from someone supporting those virulent, vitriolic bigots and racists who are the unacceptable face of English Nationalism.
Now I would like to make a few things quite clear, once again, as the message does not seem to ever get through:-
a) I am not now and never have spoken against an English Parliament, however, I have voiced my opinion that it would be totally counter intuitive in the form that the English Nationalists want it. This opinion is completely alien to them and they would love to be able to censor anyone who has the temerity to voice it.
b) I do not normally censor people who comment here as I am a stern defender of the right of free speech. The only time that a commentor will be censored is if they do not obey the rules as set out in my comments policy; any insulting, vulgar, bigoted or plain racist comments will be deleted, or at the very least edited.
c) I will not tolerate anyone who tries to use that age old ploy of the English Nationalists when entering into a debate, i.e. the old “I am right and you are wrong” type of argument, and anyone who uses such a ploy in the comments will soon be shown for the complete idiots that they usually are.
Other than that I am always interested in what people think, and find it quite amusing when I am accused of such things as “petty bigotry” when actually the better words would have been “totaly intolerant”; but then I suppose that few people would even recognise the difference between bigotry and intolerance as there is quite a fine dividing line.
Update 1 - 11:20am:
For those who have taken the trouble to read, rather than pick out bits that they don’t like, this is precisely the sort of thing I am talking about; people who do not bother to read, and understand, what I write before passing judgement. They have no respect for anyone other than the narrow minded, racist bigots that they associate with.
Just as a side point “Numptie” is a badge I wear with pride as it only goes to prove my point that when faced with arguments against them these people can do nothing more than resort to insults!
Update 2 - 1:15pm:
It does seem like I am rufflng a few feathers here, perhaps they simply don’t like the truth! I give you this which was sent to my email at 12:45 today from a person who obviously did not want to share his/her opinion with the general public:-
Hi old git
When you call all patriots as you do below.
“Ironically this comes from someone supporting those virulent, vitriolic bigots and racists who are the unacceptable face of English Nationalism”.
Don’t forget your patriotic bigoted racist people are already years ahead of the English.
Helped by the Scottish Raj in westminister that have lead to you talk the way you do about the English.
because if it was not for TB and his fellow Scottish gimps. we would not be talking about this sort of crap.So before you go on slandering the bulk of the English whom pay for your existence have another think. don’t fancy giving me your real address do you?
Quite charming don’t you think? I think it is soon going to be necessary to add violent to virulent and vitriolic as there does seem to be a degree of implied violence here. If this person had taken the trouble to read and understand what I write he/she would have come across this in a recent reply to a comment:-
I have little time for the more extreme faces of Nationalism of any kind; one only has to look back to the 1930’s to see where rampant nationalism led us, into a second world war! On the other hand I do not and never have denied that there is a case for an English Parliament, but I temper that with the caveat that it must be properly thought out and take all of the English regions into consideration; something that most of the English Nationalists who visit here find hard to understand.
In this short paragraph the operative words are “the more extreme faces of Nationalism of any kind“, which does actually mean what it says; whether they be Scottish, Irish, Welsh, Cornish or English Nationalists there will always be a small minority who run to the extremes and who become the “virulent, vitriolic bigots and racists“, and who are the unacceptable face of Nationalism.
