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Thursday 1 May 2014

OH DANNY BOY – KEEP YOUR SCOTTISH NOSE OUT OF ENGLISH AFFAIRS! Liberal Democrats attempt to try and cause division within the nation - a good wheeze to try and break off Cornwall from England.


 OH DANNY BOY – KEEP YOUR SCOTTISH NOSE OUT OF ENGLISH AFFAIRS!
 

Danny Alexander, or as Harriet Harman (aka Hatty Harperson) unkindly called him “a Ginger Rodent”, the Scottish Liberal Democrat MP and Chief Secretary to the Treasury in the Coalition Government, stuck his nose into English affairs last week with his typical 

Liberal Democrat attempt to try and cause division within the nation, as much as they are trying to do in Scotland with the Orkneys.  They now think it would be a good wheeze to try and break off Cornwall from England.  

Rod Liddle in the Sunday Times (27.4.14) is highly amusing about this and said:-
 
“Mmm, delicious Cornish fudge – made in Brussels


At last, one of Britain’s most colourful but endangered and rapidly dwindling communities has been afforded special, protected “minority” status.  The nation’s last remaining colony of possibly Liberal Democrats voters, known to the public as “Cornwall”, is to be recognised by the European Union.  This joyful news was announced by the, er, Liberal Democrats chief secretary to the Treasury, Danny Alexander.

Cornwall is henceforth a special entity – a bit like Transnistria, say.  No longer simply a weekend destination for braying Hooray Henrys and middle-class families with mewling brats and Labradors called Oscar.  No longer simply a “county” like all the other counties.  It has been “recognised” under the European Framework Convention for the Protection of Pixies and People Who Have Been Too Generously Apportioned Fingers and Toes.

A small minority of the Cornish have long proclaimed that they are not part of that awful oppressive and imperialistic thing from which they get all their money – England.   Some of the more radical separatists have protested by placing razor blades and broken glass beneath the sands of the country’s better known beaches, so as to impress upon the incomers their profound loathing at being afforded a decent living.  Their claims to a special status have some force, mind – there is a distinct language in Cornwall, a Celtic hand-me-down that is spoken and understood by precisely 557 of the half a million people who cling to its photogenic and precipitous cliffs, or paddle about its bogs in search of peat.

That’s even fewer than the number of people in London who speak English, but never mind.  Northumberland for example, doesn’t have its own language, even if the people up there are no less intelligible than the Cornish and use the mysterious dialect word “netty” for lavatory basin and refer to those people with whom they have sort of primitive affection as “marra”.  So this recognition thing has been a long time coming and it remains to be seen what will happen next.

Will the people of Cornwall press for full-scale independence, like the Catalans and Venetians and Galicians?  Should we envisage passport checks as we approach the Tamar and import duties on their sickly, tooth-rotting fudge?  Or will they instead simply sulk in an adolescent manner, mindful of which side their bread is buttered?

Of course, this recognition business is a nominal thing meaning little more than an expenditure of taxpayers’ money and in effect amounting to precisely nothing.  Some public sector employees and third-sector activists will undoubtedly coin it, to a limited degree.  But it is largely – if you will excuse my terminology – piss and wind, as is so much that Brussels churns out in its increasingly desperate attempts to undermine the notion of the nation state.

It is in the EU’s interests to perpetually encourage regional factional dissent against the national governments that, it believes, are archaic and redundant concepts.  The more the disparate parts of – particularly – Italy and Spain can be encouraged to renounce the hegemony of Rome and Madrid, the stronger the EU feels itself to be.  And so there are EU departments determined to pay homage to Catalonia, or the Basque, or the Bretons, or the Cornish.  Anything that loosens the ties towards the capital cities and thus, by default, strengthens the ties to Brussels. 

Early reports suggest the Cornish are distinctly unimpressed. Of course the activists and the quangoes have exulted, especially those whose job it is to pretend that the Cornish language is of crucial importance to Cornwall and the world, despite considerable evidence to the contrary.  But on the phone – it shows your average Cornishman was less than euphoric.  “Will it help me find a job – no!”   And “What is the point? Probably to line the pockets of those who we will never know sat in posh offices.”  Yep, that would be about right.”



The initial report shows in fact Rod Liddle hadn’t quite got his facts straight as actually Danny Alexander has given £½m of our money to the Cornish language "partnership" as is shown from the government press release the last paragraph of which says:-

"The Cornish language is the only language in England recognised under the Council of Europe’s Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In March 2014, the government announced funding of £120,000 to the Cornish Language Partnership for the development and promotion of the Cornish language. Since 2010 the government has provided over £500,000 to the partnership. This payment which will sit alongside funds from Cornwall Council and other funds raised locally by the partnership."
  https://www.gov.uk/government/news/cornish-granted-minority-status-within-the-uk


Regular readers of this blog will remember that this is happening in the context of the results of the 2011 Census which showed that by only sensible understanding Cornish nationalism is a dead issue.  Here is how my comments were reported in Cornwall:-

CORNISH nationalism is "dead" – according to an English nationalist leader.
Robin Tilbrook, chairman of the English Democrat party, which is campaigning for England to become independent of the UK and EU, based his claim on the latest census figures.

He said it showed people did not take the opportunity to declare themselves as Cornish.

Mr Tilbrook told the West Briton from his home in Essex: "The census figures show that not many people are precious about declaring themselves as Cornish. There's at least five times more people for English nationalism than Cornish.

"People feel a part of being Cornish but they do not identify Cornwall as a national identity."


Read more: http://www.westbriton.co.uk/Cornish-nationalism-dead-according-English/story-19908944-detail/story.html#ixzz30S9c5skA


Can anybody think of an adaptation to the Danny Boy song to adequately and wittingly reflect the English preference for the “Ginger Rodent” to stop sticking his nose into English affairs? 

Here is the text of Danny Boy:- 


Oh Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling
From glen to glen and down the mountainside
The summer's gone and all the roses fallin'
It's you, it's you, must go and I must bide

But come ye back, when summer's in the meadow
Or when the valley's hushed and white with snow
I'll be here in sunshine or in shadow
Oh, Danny boy, oh, Danny boy, I love you so

But if you come and all the flowers are dying
And I am dead, as dead I well may be
You'll come and find the place where I am lying
And kneel and say an ave there for me

And I will know, though soft ye tread above me
And then my grave will richer, sweeter be
And you'll bend down and tell me that you love me
And I will rest in peace until you come to me.


Here is a link to a good performance of it (click here>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Jgma--0WYU ).


 

7 comments:

  1. Margaret Clare Stoll1 May 2014 at 11:22

    I've recently been learning Old English (Anglo-Saxon) as spoken by King Alfred and his descendants. Can I claim that this is a 'minority language' and gain special status? Could we resurrect our original English language as spoken pre-Conquest? After all, that's what the Israelis did when they decided to resurrect ancient Hebrew for their new nation. It's been done before!

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    1. This is an interesting point. Perhaps all English puplis should be made to learn Anglo-Saxon, as you and I have, just as the Scots now, as the Irish, are to be made to learn gaelic and the Welsh have to learn Welsh. Anglo-Saxon after all is a minority language if only spoken by a few hundred, most of whom probably belong to the English Companions Anglo-Saxon history group which you should now think about joining. On a recent Time Team an archeologist was talking about the De Grandmesnil family who later became the Greys and the Battle of Hastings. She was reading from a document referring to the defeat of the English at Hastings and spoke of the Normans as French. This division is still present here and the Normans became and still are the French ruling elite - forget the Viking bit, by 1066 they were French. The English really perished on the field of Hastings. If we wish to reinforce our English identity then we should really all be focussing on the history of England between 400 and 1066.

      As regards Cornwall, I see their cousins in Brittany are now clamouring for independence, too. Perhaps the Celtic Fringe should form their own country. The EU may be fostering "regional" identity in order to create the Europe of the regions. I fear Cornwall's fate may be just part of the move to fragment England. But I prefer to look on this thing more positively, that the EU monster is now collapsing. The more you join countries together in this huge empire the more people become aware of their own national identity and want to re-assert it. Self-determination is breaking out all over the EU just as the American Empire and its EU affiliate attempt to push it further east into the Ukraine and UKIP tell us that Armenia is in their sights as well.

      On Russia Today a former British ambassador to Moscow was speaking - obviously one of the boys - and he was talking of the EU extending the rule of law and democracy. That is double speak Soviet style as the rule of law is the diktats coming out of Brussels and the EU is not a democracy but a dictatorship.

      Meanwhile we hear that America is forcing the countries surrounding China to take its bases and they have signed a new free trade deal which like the Europe US one will allow big American corporations to pillage them and leech on their economies. The American Empire has been compared to the Third Reich aiming at total world domination and its leaders to Nazis and psychopaths. One of the worst is Senator John McCain whom somebody likened to a crazed Hitler. They said that only when the Americans wake up will it all end. America and the EU will both collapse and then we can have England back and from the Norman establishment here who are pushing their agendas. Hopefully eventually Harold Godwinson will be shown not to have died in vain.

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  2. Cornish has been resurrected in exactly the same way as was done with "Hebrew". Hebrew hasn't been used outside of synagogues for 2,000 years when it died out as a living language. Neo-Cornish is like Neo-Hebrew, and now Neo-Manks, a new language (actually an Irish dialect). What is known as Cornish is medieval Cornish. Cornish survived into the 18th century, by which time it had become thoroughly corrupted.
    Rod Liddle wrote:
    "Northumberland for example, doesn’t have its own language, even if the people up there are no less intelligible than the Cornish and use the mysterious dialect word “netty” for lavatory basin and refer to those people with whom they have sort of primitive affection as "marra”."
    I refer Rod Liddle to the "Northumbrian Language Society".
    Northumberland is interesting because it is probably the last bastion of true-English, (i.e., Anglian English)
    What is known as Old English is actually West Saxon. Modern English has its roots in the Anglian English of the East Midlands.
    The language we all speak today is a corrupted form of English, i.e., Ancwe (Ancillary World English).
    As a nationalist party, the English Democrats should work for the restoration of true-English, cleansed (as much as possible) of contamination by words of Latin, French and Greek origin.
    Of course, we will still need Ancwe for international purposes, but we would have an English language (tongue) to call our own.
    As for Cornish nationalism, Cornwall is no different in its relation to England than the Irish (Erse) speaking Western Isles are to the rest of Scotland, and there is no Hebridean nationalist party
    [For some ideas for developing True-English, see David Cowley's book "How We'd Talk - if the English had won in 1066]"

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    1. Just as the American based New World Order seems to think that the whole world wants to be like that violent, money-obsessed, ethnic friction torn, cultural void that is the United States so their form of English is eroding our much more pleasant and educated form on a daily basis. The most recent nonsense is the phrase "I am good thanks" instead of " I am fine". I try to be good for I know that I should that's my prayer at the end of the day; but I don't always succeed.

      The contempt with which the United States now regards the ancient, mature and better educated countries of Europe is now obvious to all. You will remember that the looney plutocrat Victoria Nuland said over the Ukraine that the US should f..... the EU now she has more or less said that she will force Europe to go along with their mad sanctions against Russia.
      Russia is a cultural and scientific giant compared to the Disneyland that the founding fathers have made of the American continent; and like most Europeans the Russians have a maturity that the Americans can only dream of.
      Sadly, bullies that they are, they are getting Europeans to dance to their obsessive tune and their dreams of total control.
      Probably because of their confrontations with the native Americans and subsequent paranoia, they even outdo the Germans as control freaks; but then they have much more German than English blood.

      Yes, we English now need to go back to our Anglo-Saxon roots. It has been shown that the Saxons gave us our present day framework and that it permeated through what the Normans did. In actual fact the Normans were not so many in number; neither were most other immigrants between 1066a dn 1945.
      But with a future that is Afro-asian by 2050 plus there is little hope of their legacy surviving either racially or culturally unless we now make a stand. They say of the English that they are lazy and never turn until their backs are against the wall. Sadly that moment is now close and the outcome of mass immigration predicted for 60 years but which few dared articulate comes nearer by the day.

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    2. Old English should be taught in schools, and universities.

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    3. The old myth that the Anglo-Saxons were "civilised" by the Normans is a lie. King Alfred was a scholar king, and he sponsored translations from Latin into English.

      "Just as the American based New World Order seems to think that the whole world wants to be like that violent, money-obsessed, ethnic friction torn, cultural void that is the United States so their form of English is eroding our much more pleasant and educated form on a daily basis. The most recent nonsense is the phrase "I am good thanks" instead of " I AM FINE". I try to be good for I know that I should that's my prayer at the end of the day; but I don't always succeed".

      Better would be, "I am well, thank you" ("I am fine" is an earlier Americanism)
      The important difference is not between American and British forms of "English", but the difference between Ancillary World English (Ancwe) and True-English. The Americans often use True-English, such as "Fall"; rather than Ancwe "Autumn".
      True -English must be brought back from the brink of death, as our national (theedish) tongue.

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  3. You say, "Keep your Scottish nose out of English English affairs," but meddling in English affairs is all Scottish M.P.s are for, now. They have no relevence in their own country, so they foist University fees on to our youngsters and mess about with an English County, instead.
    Clive,
    Weston-super-Mare.

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