The shape of things to come....

[EqualOpportunities]

Ah right - they're not British unless they embrace Britishness?! Now I get it.

...What's Britishness again?

Sal, you are an educated individual (unless, like me, you blagged your way into IT) - don't take cheap punts

[Maxamus]

This only made it in the news and on to this forum because of the following reasons:

1. It has the words" Muslim" in it.

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What exactly is britishness?

Is it having loads of chavs scattered on our streets?
Is it having a problem with teenage pregenancys?
Is it getting drunk every weekend and making a complete arse of yourselves?
Is it being in constant debt?
Is it liking football?
Is it supporting every crap British tennise player?

Your asking "other" people to be British but everytime i look around i just see a society out of control!

[SallyAnne]

Sal, you are an educated individual (unless, like me, you blagged your way into IT) - don't take cheap punts

It's honestly not a cheap punt!

If you can pick even just one characteristic that makes someone "British", that every single British person in this country has, I'll buy you a pot pie served on a Union Flag serviette, signed by the Queen Mum gawn bless her soul.

[EqualOpportunities]

It's just religion!! It's always happened, it always will. People are only offended because it's the Muslims who are doing it, and they're them lot who wear them funny sheets on their head and bomb us aren't they?

No, you absolute Pleb.

'They're them' (well, some of 'em anyway), who want 'us' to change so that 'they' don't have to.

We are a square hole, and so we should be. We should be proud to have an identity that others HAVE to respect (that is not to say that they should be forced to assume it), even if they do not share it.

[Maxamus]

No, you absolute Pleb.

'They're them' (well, some of 'em anyway), who want 'us' to change so that 'they' don't have to.

How are you going to change?

[SallyAnne]

No, you absolute Pleb.

'They're them' (well, some of 'em anyway), who want 'us' to change so that 'they' don't have to.

We are a square hole, and so we should be. We should be proud to have an identity that others HAVE to respect (that is not to say that they should be forced to assume it), even if they do not share it.

"proud to have an identity that others HAVE to respect"

Oh come on!! Who respects the English?!!!

FFS dilusional half wittery at it's finest!

I suppose you think we're going to win the world cup next time round too eh?

[EqualOpportunities]

It's honestly not a cheap punt!

If you can pick even just one characteristic that makes someone "British", that every single British person in this country has, I'll buy you a pot pie served on a Union Flag serviette, signed by the Queen Mum gawn bless her soul.

It isn't just about one characteristic, but here goes.

1. Traditionally, English people spoke English (at least relatively recently, anyway.

2. Even the Atheists said that God did not exist. Not that Allah did not exist.

3. The Bible was a load of bollox, not the Koran.

4. We wear Nike headgear, not middle-eastern religious dress.

5. We do not starve all day until it's dark (unless, like me, you're trying to shed a few pounds but it goes out of the window after a drink)

And so on.

I know, full well, that you can see my point - even through your standard-issue, Tony Blair special edition, left wing glasses.

[EqualOpportunities]

How are you going to change?

I am not.

[M_B]

I am not.

But you just said that being British was to

" embrace diversity and multiculturalism "

Are you not British then ?

[EqualOpportunities]

"proud to have an identity that others HAVE to respect"

Oh come on!! Who respects the English?!!!

FFS dilusional half wittery at it's finest!

I suppose you think we're going to win the world cup next time round too eh?

Just because yo uhave no self respect, don't assume that I'm the same.

I agree that it's probably delusional - I am deluded in thinking that I should be able to be English, in England, and not be forced to change because someone who came over on the undercarriage of a 747 doesn't like pork pies. But I don't believe that I'm half-witted.

Furthermore, I have no interest in football.