The English Democrats

[emmie]

did anyone see their party political broadcast on tv last evening, interesting to say the least, they are English not British, and most definitely not European, fun watching, not sure i would give them a vote though

http://www.englishdemocrats.org.uk/

[Kromovaracun]

" I despise being surrounded by people chattering away in foreign languages when I'm in England"

Why, out of interest? I can understand it when people resent others who they are trying to communicate with being unable to understand English, but why would you despise it when they're not talking to you?

[emmie]

wiki

Edward VII (Albert Edward; 9 November 1841 – 6 May 1910) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India from 22 January 1901 until his death.

The eldest son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Edward was related to royalty throughout Europe.

[emmie]

because its like living in a foreign country, if you live in a place where no one speaks English, as in England, you tend to get a little bit peeved
it might be that many speak English, however my feeling is that many don't, or have little command of it. That includes those i come across in the NHS, government departments, or simply hard to understand.

[New Judge]

Thanks emmie. I was just having me dinner.

Yes, Kromo, if I wanted to be suurounded by people chattering away in foreign languages I'd go elsewhere. There's a difference between having the odd tourist talking in their native tongue and the situation prevalent in many parts of London where hearing somebody speaking English among the resident population is an event to be reported. It gets on me nerves, I find it most unpleasant and that's why I avoid inner and central London as far as possible.

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[Kromovaracun]

emmie: there's a significant difference between "nobody speaking English" and people choosing to use a foreign tongue when addressing friends or colleagues who can understand it. You have no idea how good somebody's English is just going on the fact they can also speak another language.

NJ: Fair enough. I guess we're just different people. I've been in the same situation in London (and other parts of the UK) and it just doesn't bother me.

(although it certainly does if I'm trying to buy something and the seller can't speak English - which has only ever happened to me once in the UK).

[Brenden]

Just come through my letterbox: leaflet from English Democrats.
NO to EU rule
NO to mass immigration
NO to Sharia law
Make St Georges day a public holiday
Teach English history in schools
Fly the England flag from our town halls
YES to English independence
English jobs for English workers (Australia already has this up and working)
Not left - not right - just english.

Well i agree to all this - finding it very tempting

[emmie]

Brenden, go for it - i am not sure about them, however i can see the appeal for some.

[emmie]

Krom, i don't care for the fact that a shop has an owner, or worker who can't speak the language, or a semblance. I have come across this problem time and again, i asked , a bloke working in Wilkinsons recently where i could find a certain item, no joy, he gesticulated he couldn't speak much English, i had to find someone else to show me, how is this remotely possible.

[Zeuhl]

/Well i agree to all this - finding it very tempting /

Please don't be brenden, hardly anybody disagrees with any of this - that's what makes it silly nonsense

Can you tell us which of the other parties are suggesting:

being ruled by the EU?
mass immigration?
Sharia law taking precedence over UK laws?
Not teaching English history in schools?

I don't think there are any

Fly the England flag from our town halls - well yeah whatever, if tokenism is your thing

Make St Georges day a public holiday - yeah why not, i agree with you, we should follow Europe's lead and have a few more public holidays

English independence - only if you want to shrink our country back to where it was 800 years ago before it became part of Great Britain, when our competitors are actually grouping together

English jobs for English people?
Tough for all the English people who would have to give up their jobs overseas

/Not left - not right - just english./

And what is the benefit of being 'just' anything?

[Kromovaracun]

"i don't care for the fact that a shop has an owner, or worker who can't speak the language, or a semblance."

Oh, I agree. I've had the same problem - and I don't like it either.

That's quite a different scenario to simply disliking the fact that people *around you* are speaking foreign languages though. Because in the latter scenario they're not talking to you.

[emmie]

where once English was the common language, certainly here in the capital, now it isn't. It might be that they do speak English, but choose not to, if you have large communities of Pakistanis, Somalis, Bengali's, Polish, Lithuanian s, what language would they converse in, their own presumably,
where once with all the mix up of peoples from far and wide it would have been mostly English spoken.