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Post by Red Rackham on Jan 4, 2024 14:57:26 GMT
A petition calling for Wales to be referred to exclusively as Cymru has gathered almost 3000 signatures. Should it reach 10,000 names by June, it will go to the Senedd where it will be considered for debate. Welsh language champion Arfon Jones from Old Conwy began the petition and said: "Wales is a name imposed on Cymru and is essentially not a Welsh word at all. "The world knows about Wales because of its English connection since 1282. www.itv.com/news/wales/2024-01-02/petition-calls-for-wales-to-be-referred-to-only-by-welsh-language-name-cymruPersonally I don't care one way or the other, in the unlikely event Wales did scrap the name Wales, I doubt it would make much difference, people would still call it Wales. But there is a wider point here, this is yet another example that shows that nationalism both Welsh and Scottish is good. English nationalism on the other hand is nasty and racist. |
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Post by Ripley on Jan 4, 2024 16:24:54 GMT
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Post by Montegriffo on Jan 4, 2024 18:18:01 GMT
A petition calling for Wales to be referred to exclusively as Cymru has gathered almost 3000 signatures. Should it reach 10,000 names by June, it will go to the Senedd where it will be considered for debate. Welsh language champion Arfon Jones from Old Conwy began the petition and said: "Wales is a name imposed on Cymru and is essentially not a Welsh word at all. "The world knows about Wales because of its English connection since 1282. www.itv.com/news/wales/2024-01-02/petition-calls-for-wales-to-be-referred-to-only-by-welsh-language-name-cymruPersonally I don't care one way or the other, in the unlikely event Wales did scrap the name Wales, I doubt it would make much difference, people would still call it Wales. But there is a wider point here, this is yet another example that shows that nationalism both Welsh and Scottish is good. English nationalism on the other hand is nasty and racist. Join me in a petition to get rid of the name those bloody Germanic invaders forced on us. #Make England Albion Again. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2024 18:27:29 GMT
Perfidious Albion, did you mean?  |
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Post by Red Rackham on Jan 4, 2024 18:46:36 GMT
Red recycles a favourite topic. Link dated 2 Jan 2024. I don't write the news. |
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Post by Red Rackham on Jan 4, 2024 18:51:16 GMT
A petition calling for Wales to be referred to exclusively as Cymru has gathered almost 3000 signatures. Should it reach 10,000 names by June, it will go to the Senedd where it will be considered for debate. Welsh language champion Arfon Jones from Old Conwy began the petition and said: "Wales is a name imposed on Cymru and is essentially not a Welsh word at all. "The world knows about Wales because of its English connection since 1282. www.itv.com/news/wales/2024-01-02/petition-calls-for-wales-to-be-referred-to-only-by-welsh-language-name-cymruPersonally I don't care one way or the other, in the unlikely event Wales did scrap the name Wales, I doubt it would make much difference, people would still call it Wales. But there is a wider point here, this is yet another example that shows that nationalism both Welsh and Scottish is good. English nationalism on the other hand is nasty and racist. Join me in a petition to get rid of the name those bloody Germanic invaders forced on us. #Make England Albion Again. You are perfectly entitled to sign/start such a petition if you wish. I wouldn't sign it personally, but I would have thought woke lefties would jump at the chance to erase the nasty racist word 'England' from the lexicon. |
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Post by Montegriffo on Jan 4, 2024 19:03:49 GMT
Join me in a petition to get rid of the name those bloody Germanic invaders forced on us. #Make England Albion Again. You are perfectly entitled to sign/start such a petition if you wish. I wouldn't sign it personally, but I would have thought woke lefties would jump at the chance to erase the nasty racist word 'England' from the lexicon. It's not that 'England' is racist. It's that it is bloody foreign. Albion is based on the Celtic Alba. None of that filthy Angle language. |
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Post by Ripley on Jan 4, 2024 19:05:03 GMT
Red recycles a favourite topic. Link dated 2 Jan 2024. I don't write the news. The article is not recycled, but you are using it to recycle one of your favourite complaints about nationalism. I'm not sure I quite understand what it is that you want to do that you think can't be done in England. |
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Post by Red Rackham on Jan 4, 2024 19:12:54 GMT
Link dated 2 Jan 2024. I don't write the news. The article is not recycled, but you are using it to recycle one of your favourite complaints about nationalism. I'm not sure I quite understand what it is that you want to do that you think can't be done in England. Ripley, attempt start an English Nationalist Party. The chances are you will be arrested on some jumped up hate crime charges, then forced into hiding due to death threats from outraged lefties. England must be the only country in the world where nationalism and the national flag are considered to be racist. |
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Post by Ripley on Jan 4, 2024 19:22:01 GMT
You are perfectly entitled to sign/start such a petition if you wish. I wouldn't sign it personally, but I would have thought woke lefties would jump at the chance to erase the nasty racist word 'England' from the lexicon. It's not that 'England' is racist. It's that it is bloody foreign. Albion is based on the Celtic Alba. None of that filthy Angle language. The name for Scotland in most of the Celtic languages is related to Albion: Alba in Scottish Gaelic, Albain (genitive Alban) in Irish, Nalbin in Manx and Alban in Welsh and Cornish. Alba was the kingdom formed by the union of the Picts and Scots under Kenneth I MacAlpin in 843. Their territory, ranging from modern Argyll and Bute to Caithness, across much of southern and central Scotland, was one of the few areas in the British Isles to withstand the invasions of the Vikings. The ancient link with Ireland (from which the Celtic Scots had emigrated) was broken as a cordon of Scandinavian settlements were established in the Western Isles and Ireland. With southern England also conquered by the Norsemen and Danes, Alba was left isolated. With the withdrawal of the Norsemen, England, under the English, then launched invasions against Alba but were ultimately repelled by Malcolm II at the Battle of Carham (1016/18). When Malcolm’s grandson and successor Duncan I came to the throne in 1034, he united Alba with Strathclyde, Cumbria, and Lothian. Later, the name Alba began to fade away... www.britannica.com/place/Alba-historical-kingdom-Scotland |
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Post by Ripley on Jan 4, 2024 19:22:49 GMT
The article is not recycled, but you are using it to recycle one of your favourite complaints about nationalism. I'm not sure I quite understand what it is that you want to do that you think can't be done in England. Ripley, attempt start an English Nationalist Party. The chances are you will be arrested on some jumped up hate crime charges, then forced into hiding due to death threats from outraged lefties. England must be the only country in the world where nationalism and the national flag are considered to be racist. Unlike the other constituent countries of the UK, English is often substituted for British. Are you suggesting that an English Nationalist Party might want to break away from the Union? I'm not clear about what purpose you think an English Nationalist Party might have. What do you see such a party being able to accomplish that can't already be accomplished? |
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Post by Red Rackham on Jan 4, 2024 19:57:05 GMT
Ripley, attempt start an English Nationalist Party. The chances are you will be arrested on some jumped up hate crime charges, then forced into hiding due to death threats from outraged lefties. England must be the only country in the world where nationalism and the national flag are considered to be racist. Unlike the other constituent countries of the UK, English is often substituted for British. Are you suggesting that an English Nationalist Party might want to break away from the Union? I'm not clear about what purpose you think an English Nationalist Party might have. What do you see such a party being able to accomplish that can't already be accomplished? It would seem you are a part of the problem Ripley. Welsh nationalism is fine, Scottish nationalism is fine, but English nationalism is racist. If nationalism is fine in Wales and Scotland, why do outraged lefties and the left wing political elite sneer at English nationalism? Remember Emily Thornberry's controversial tweet ref Englands national flag? Do you think she would have posted that tweet if the flags in question had been Welsh or Scottish? Rhetorical question, obviously.
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Post by Montegriffo on Jan 4, 2024 20:11:41 GMT
You are perfectly entitled to sign/start such a petition if you wish. I wouldn't sign it personally, but I would have thought woke lefties would jump at the chance to erase the nasty racist word 'England' from the lexicon. It's not that 'England' is racist. It's that it is bloody foreign. Albion is based on the Celtic Alba. None of that filthy Angle language. Ah, Albion has Greek origins and Alba comes from Albion rather than the other way around. thomas is the expert at this sort of thing. |
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Post by Ripley on Jan 4, 2024 20:13:06 GMT
Unlike the other constituent countries of the UK, English is often substituted for British. Are you suggesting that an English Nationalist Party might want to break away from the Union? I'm not clear about what purpose you think an English Nationalist Party might have. What do you see such a party being able to accomplish that can't already be accomplished? It would seem you are a part of the problem Ripley. Welsh nationalism is fine, Scottish nationalism is fine, but English nationalism is racist. If nationalism is fine in Wales and Scotland, why do outraged lefties and the left wing political elite sneer at English nationalism? Remember Emily Thornberry's controversial tweet ref Englands national flag? Do you think she would have posted that tweet if the flags in question had been Welsh or Scottish? Rhetorical question, obviously.
You entirely misunderstand me. Where did I suggest that I am opposed to English nationalism or that English nationalism is racist? How am I part of the problem? I am merely seeking to understand what it is you want English nationalism to do. The Welsh and the Scots have no power over a host of issues that are reserved to Westminster, hence their nationalism, but what do you think the English want that they can't accomplish now just by voting for it? |
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Post by Ripley on Jan 4, 2024 20:17:49 GMT
It's not that 'England' is racist. It's that it is bloody foreign. Albion is based on the Celtic Alba. None of that filthy Angle language. Ah, Albion has Greek origins and Alba comes from Albion rather than the other way around. thomas is the expert at this sort of thing. Yes, Ἀλβίων was originally used to describe Britain but later only Caledonia, and the Greeks would have pronounced the Beta as a V sound, and the Omega would be a long 'o' as in 'coat', hence Alvioan. |
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