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One Has To Admire His Rise To Power, But An English Lord Mayor I Ask You? No Wonder We Are Losing Our Culture.
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Zacs, This ever-present urge to undermine/ criticise/ abandon Britain and British to whatever comes along never ceases to amaze me. Maybe I’m just not trendy or right on enough, but one thing I do know. You rarely appreciate what you have until you lose it so be careful what you wish for - and if that puts me on a par with aog in this instance, so be it. Looking at...
13:08 Thu 05th Jul 2018
"When people are born in Britain, are they not British?"
Only if one or both of their parents are either British themselves or are "legally settled" in the UK. The restriction is quite understandable. Imagine, say, and Indian woman passing through Heathrow, changing flights en route from the USA to India. She goes into labour and gives birth in Hillingdon hospital. Is her child British? Of course not. A dog born in a stable is not a horse.
Only if one or both of their parents are either British themselves or are "legally settled" in the UK. The restriction is quite understandable. Imagine, say, and Indian woman passing through Heathrow, changing flights en route from the USA to India. She goes into labour and gives birth in Hillingdon hospital. Is her child British? Of course not. A dog born in a stable is not a horse.
SP, Yes, Prince Philip is British, but not by virtue of the fact that he has (presumably) a piece of paper declaring him to be British, but because unlike British-born Anjem Choudary who hates this country and would see the flag of Islam flying over Downing Street, or this Mayor, who is, like Sadiq Khan, disgracing his city, and moreover, bringing shame upon our Queen and country, Prince Philip is honourable. He is patriotic.
Zacs, if you want to know what being British means, that’s it…. in my opinion …. not that I’d expect you, or one or two others here who seem to think this Mayor is a good bloke, to understand it.
Zacs, if you want to know what being British means, that’s it…. in my opinion …. not that I’d expect you, or one or two others here who seem to think this Mayor is a good bloke, to understand it.
//...there’s no such thing as British culture per se. It’s fluid, ever changing, dynamic.......all due to both internal and external influences//
At last he admits to the deliberate (and typical) wind-up. Idle piece of sophistry: "A man cannot step into the same river twice". 'Cos it's not the same river and it's not the same man. Geddit?
No such thing as Zac's Master per se. Same logic. Same stupidity. No continuity, no shared memory, then? Nothing which connects yesterday's troll with today's?
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Google Heracleitus. Or await scholarly comment on the concept of the self by Peter Pedant.
At last he admits to the deliberate (and typical) wind-up. Idle piece of sophistry: "A man cannot step into the same river twice". 'Cos it's not the same river and it's not the same man. Geddit?
No such thing as Zac's Master per se. Same logic. Same stupidity. No continuity, no shared memory, then? Nothing which connects yesterday's troll with today's?
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Google Heracleitus. Or await scholarly comment on the concept of the self by Peter Pedant.
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