How British are you?

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classic33

Leg End Member
Bloody Anglo-Saxons - one moves in and the next thing you know the place is full of them :smile:
One side of my family were here before them. East O'Pennines!
 

marinyork

Resting in suspended Animation
Location
Logopolis
[QUOTE 4534932, member: 259"]Anything's possible - which is quite scary![/QUOTE]

Software previously used for careers guidance in schools has got brought out of retirement and is being used to match (in theory) 1 immigrant and pair them up with 1 bremoaner/liberal/PC gawnmad type and when it's finished every immigrant will have a 'brexit buddy' and both of them will be going to get deported so they aren't alone in the brave new post-brexit world. I've been paired up with Pat 5mph, the bit of paper that came in the post said we'd been matched due to work background, speed of cycling, some familiarity with Italy and rucksacks. User482 has got paired up with Mariusz from Poland who currently pretty much runs the dustbin collection in a large city in the south of England, theclaud has got paired up with Miriana from Romania who is assistant director of a large theatre based charity in London, rockymountain has got paired up with Danillo a reader in Sociology at Glasgow University and Adele a teacher in an inner city comprehensive in Dewsbury, McWobble has been matched up with 7 (unemployed) previously researchers in science departments in universities who all cycle, and User has got paired up with 55,124 people who seem to be a bunch of GPs, hospital doctors, nurses, paramedics and midwives and for some reason 28,473 agricultural workers in East Anglia.
 

deptfordmarmoset

Full time tea drinker
Location
Armonmy Way
[QUOTE 4535614, member: 43827"]If you're no longer British and you cannot now be an EU citizen what are you? A stateless refugee?

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To be honest, I don't quite know where it leaves us. I'm struggling to remember the last time 30 million people were stripped of European citizenship against their will following an advisory referendum.
 

GrumpyGregry

Here for rides.
Irish by blood, English by birth, Munster by the Grace of God.
 

Hyslop

Veteran
Location
Carlisle
I'm not getting involved in this.Im from Cumberland,on the front line one way or another.And no,Im not revealing my ancestry,so don't either of you lot be cheeky:tongue:
 

mjr

Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
[QUOTE 4535731, member: 43827"]I read deptformarmoset's post as him concluding that he was no longer British, but if he actually means that politicians not following his voice are not treating him as British then I apologise for my misunderstanding.[/QUOTE]
Did you not notice your glorious leaders telling all Europeans and holders of multiple passports that we're citizens of nowhere a few weeks ago, then? That only the views of the "seventeen million" voting for brexit now matter to them? That the rest should "stop quibbling", "respect" their authoritah and "build a new united Britain" by condoning their bonkers self harm project? That having foreign workers is shameful and businesses should do "better" than that?

And the few fig leaves of decency, like pledging to investigate and potentially correct "historic injustices" like Orgreave, or to stop unfair testing of people with disabilities, have started falling by the wayside now autumn's come.

I'm English and history shows we don't capitulate like that and our democracy doesn't work like that. One win doesn't give the victor carte Blanche, especially such a narrow one!
 

Chris S

Legendary Member
Location
Birmingham
Irish by blood, English by birth, Munster by the Grace of God.
I assume you mean the Irish province and not this lot? :smile:

munsters.jpg
 

swee'pea99

Squire
My dad was a proud New Zealander whose family name makes clear that 'we' came from Scotland originally; my mother's clan were split between Scots and Northerners; I was born in London and have never considered myself anything other than English (no divided loyalties in an England v All Blacks encounter, eg). I guess all that adds up to me being pretty damn British, to answer the OP.
 
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