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Indigenous British? I thought he said he was English  |
Isn't that his point really? He's saying that he wants out of this definition of British which includes Pakistanis and Jamaicans. He sees himself as English.
Here's a related post by someone else on the same subject:
Taki\'s Top Drawer: Patriotic Song For England
The song is called "Roots"
Don't get me wrong though, I know this song is not all that's happening on the Other Island. A site linked to from the above webpage called "The Monarchist" is a perfect example. They have truly retreated into a world of their own imagination. I noticed the Church of Ireland and historical Irish peerages do not exist in their universe (so I’ll be getting no love from them I suppose).
Israel does seem to find friends among this bunch though. Here are two comments on an article discussing Israel joining the Commonwealth!:
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You could make a pretty strong case for Israel, however, and it would be interesting to know whether your namesake Beaconsfield, one Benjamin Disraeli, the great British Jewish PM, would support such a move. I tend to think he would.
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Israel would be a welcome brother - but I fear the level of anti-Israeli, if not anti-semitic, sentiment in Britain is simply too great. No politician would risk such a move. The hoo-hah over the Lebanese war this past summer shows that explicitly siding with Israel is not a popular move. Yet our peoples are joined by centuries of friendship, a common religious heritage, values, and a number of constitutional similarities. I would like nothing more than for the noble Israelis to join our fellowship; yet I would hope they would swear allegiance to our Queen, since any enlargement of the Commonwealth without the Crown at its centre, will quickly marginalize the Monarchy.
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The precious gift of sanity seems to have slipped through their fingers. We are clearly not speaking of the “Israel” which currently exists in our world.