Time for a new British (or English) identity

[sasguru]

That would be Sarkozy, not France

The guy won't be in charge in 7 month

Whoever is in charge will have to deal with the wholesale collapse of France after Greece defaults. Wher are you going to get the money?

[Le Rosbif]

Nobody has said anything to suggest he has 'no respect for cultural homogeneity'; however, some consider a heterogenious culture to have benefits as well; the two are not mutually exclusive.

And to suggest that Britain 'has hardly any culture left' when British cultural exports (music, art, literature, fashion, design and tourists visiting Britain to learn about and enjoy theatre, history and so on) form a pretty big chunk of Britain's economy is quite simply preposterous. Yes, Britain has chavs, but it has a lot more than just chavs.

fair enough

Note that those who consider that diversity is benefial to the country are those who live in areas where diversity is inexistant. The humanists who lecture others to buy themselve a good conscience, but carefully look for a school that is not too exposed to "diversity for their children".

[Churchill]

fair enough

Note that those who consider that diversity is benefial to the country are those who live in areas where diversity is inexistant. The humanists who lecture others to buy themselve a good conscience, but carefully look for a school that is not too exposed to "diversity for their children".

NIMBY - works for me!

[Mich the Tester]

Note that those who consider that diversity is benefial to the country are those who live in areas where diversity is inexistant.

What, like London, Amsterdam and New York?

[sasguru]

fair enough

Note that those who consider that diversity is benefial to the country are those who live in areas where diversity is inexistant. The humanists who lecture others to buy themselve a good conscience, but carefully look for a school that is not too exposed to "diversity for their children".

There is a fair amount of diversity where I live, although it is limited to the well off. I'd rather live next to a highly educated Indian than a chavvy Frog any day.
Class matters more than race.

[Churchill]

There is a fair amount of diversity where I live, although it is limited to the well off. I'd rather live next to a highly educated Indian than a chavvy Frog any day.
Class matters more than race.

Spoken like a true nouveau riche lower middle-class social climber! Your routes betray you, peasant!

[Le Rosbif]

Whoever is in charge will have to deal with the wholesale collapse of France after Greece defaults. Wher are you going to get the money?

quit the euro - reinstate the Franc, devaluate the Franc
stop subsidising Europe
stop costly immigration - and aids to immigrants
stop "droit du sol" - the law that de facto give French nationality to whoever is born on the French territory
restore security
reduce tax on SMEs, simplify the French laws of employment
Cut subsidies to "collectivite territoriales" (vassal states within the state - a result of decentralization)
Restore border control for human and economic movements - tax imports from goods coming from countries that make children work, with no welfare or regulation.

[Mich the Tester]

There is a fair amount of diversity where I live, although it is limited to the well off. I'd rather live next to a highly educated Indian than a chavvy Frog any day.
Class matters more than race.

Indeed. Professional people from all over the world can work together very succesfully without allowing their so-called national culture to play a significant part in matters. In fact, I think that among mobile, educated professionals, nationality often just doesn't matter and may actually become even less and less important in the future; it will perhaps remain very important among the less mobile.

[sasguru]

Spoken like a true nouveau riche lower middle-class social climber! Your routes betray you, peasant!

My roots are aristocratic, actually.

[Le Rosbif]

There is a fair amount of diversity where I live, although it is limited to the well off. I'd rather live next to a highly educated Indian than a chavvy Frog any day.
Class matters more than race.

So you don't know anything about mass proletarian immigration from 3rd world countries - not a surprise.

We have a name for lesson givers ignorants like you in France "Bourgeois bohemes" or Bobos

rich fookers who lecture everybody, vote labour and only drive from Paris to la Baule using the motorway