England and Wales, formerly Christian countries

Vinty said:
Balkanisation of Britain has been going on for years.
The idea of national sovereignty is the antithesis of what the EU stands for.
This is why the EU promotes freedom of movement and open borders.
Flooding countries like the UK with immigrants dilutes the national identity of the host nation which in turn facilitates the absorption of that nation into the concept of an EU superstate.
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More irrelevant nonsense from Vinty.
 
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Vinty said:
Flooding countries like the UK with immigrants dilutes the national identity of the host nation which in turn facilitates the absorption of that nation into the concept of an EU superstate.
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So just what ethnicity are you, then? My forebears are Welsh, Irish and Lancashire. My missus is Northumberland, Yorkshire (Viking surname, apparently), Welsh and Scots. One of my closest friends is Afro-Carribean with a Spanish/Moroccan wife. By your standards of racial purity I have no doubt we'd be banished as being insufficiently English. But what are the English other than a mongrel race, made up of Celts, Vikings, Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Normans, who speak a mongrel language which is basically a mixture of German and French with a liberal sprining of worfs derived from Italian, Arabic, Hindi and a dozen or more other languages? So how was immigration from the EU going to make a difference? They were already here 500 to 2500 years ago
 
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I'm certain you said you were in Brummagen - so it has to be Happy Winterval, surely, or have thevcouncil stopped that nonesense?
 
JobAndKnock said:
I'm certain you said you were in Brummagen - so it has to be Happy Winterval, surely, or have thevcouncil stopped that nonesense?
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Last ran in 1998/9.

It was silly, they started it at Halloween for crying out loud.
 
Halloween? Or is that Diwali? Halloween was always a Scottish thing, like Burns night and Hogmanay. May Day, Bonfire night and Christmas were the English things. Once

PS Can I use my garden flamethrower on Trick or Treaters next year? Horrible American import like the School Proms
 
JobAndKnock said:
Halloween? Or is that Diwali? Halloween was always a Scottish thing, like Burns night and Hogmanay. May Day, Bonfire night and Christmas were the English things. Once

PS Can I use my garden flamethrower on Trick or Treaters next year? Horrible American import like the School Proms
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The history of trick-or-treating traces back to Scotland and Ireland, where the tradition of guising, going house to house at Halloween and putting on a small performance to be rewarded with food or treats, goes back at least as far as the 16th century, as does the tradition of people wearing costumes at Halloween
 
The problem is that when I was a kid in Scotland it wasn't called "Trick or Treating", but "Guising" as you say, and the night was "All Hallows Eve", but it still isn't English (in the same way that Bonfire Night isn't Scottish)
 
JobAndKnock said:
The problem is that when I was a kid in Scotland it wasn't called "Trick or Treating", but "Guising" as you say, and the night was "All Hallows Eve", but it still isn't English (in the same way that Bonfire Night isn't Scottish)
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Just saying its not particularly a US import, as for "Proms" I believe they are well attended and popular with staff & pupils alike, so hardly "horrible"
 
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