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] Date Posted: 09:35:21 12/01/04 Wed In reply to: Ed Harris (Venezia) 's message, "Rule of thumb..." on 00:05:37 12/01/04 Wed Although New Zealanders might actually start to vote more sensibly if they were a substantial part of a much larger Union. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |
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Author: Ed Harris (Venezia) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 12:26:22 12/01/04 Wed But could you convince Squire Western of that? It's hard enough to convince me of that, and I've met some perfectly sensible kiwis! It's just that all the headlines from New Zealand are either about Lord of the Rings or the Rainbow Cruiser. Such is NZ's reputation that nut-cutlet eating and boat-shoe wearing British luvvies from Hampstead Garden Suburb actually choose to emigrate to NZ because it is so associated with vegan, dendrophiliac, clean-energy whale sanctuaries. In fact, I had a music teacher once, who had to give notice because she was emigrating to NZ. I asked her why, and without hesitation she said "Because there's no nuclear power." I laughed hesitantly, until I realised that she was being deadly serious. "One earthquake in northern Europe," she went on, "and the whole nuclear establishment's going into meltdown." I refrained from pointing out that earthquakes are not plentiful in Shrewsbury, and that nuclear power stations are probably built with a bit of resilience in mind, the evidence suggesting that Force 9 gales don't tend to recreate Chernobyl in the British countryside, but there you go. This leads me, perhaps, to alter my original statement. Perhaps not all kiwis are totally pinko, but such a reputation has been forced onto them by all the ghastly immigrants from Britain: rather like all the English immigrants in South Wales voting Plaid Cymru! If only we had a member from NZ, this topic might have some more light thrown on it. Oh, and P.S.: I've played badminton too! [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: Owain (UK) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 19:29:46 12/01/04 Wed "all the English immigrants in South Wales voting Plaid Cymru!" Is this true? Please tell me I am misreading. Sadly its so stupid I can actualy imagine it happening. This country needs some serious work. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: Ed Harris (Venezia) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 20:25:36 12/01/04 Wed The number of 'pure' Welsh people living in South Wales is absurdly small. From a racial and cultural standpoint, the industrial revolution caused a massive ethnic shift in the population of South Wales. It stands to reason that, then and now, a great proportion of the increased population of the region came from across the boundry in England, particularly from Cheshire, Shropshire (which is half-Welsh in any case), and Worcestershire. The South of Wales is not "Welsh" like the North West of the principality, in the same way that the South of Scotland is ethnically and culturally anglicised and the North of England is ethnically and culturally scossified. In this context, it is safe to suppose that Plaid Cymru voters in South Wales must constitute in a great proportion people whose ancestry is hardly Welsh at all. On top of this is the phenomenon, which I have read about in the newspapers and seen with my own eyes (I've spent a lot of time in Glamorgan), of people who were born in England and have moved to Mountain Ash or Ponty Pwl mouthing off in a pub about bloody interference from London into Welsh affairs which should be left in the hands of Wales. I'm prepared to bet that there are similar English people in the South of Scotland voting SNP! [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |