My Christmas revisited

Two interesting emails from two different readers provoked by my Christmas-day postings:

“I enjoyed the account of your Christmas Day and wanted to contribute to the Scots/English debate, I am half-and-half with a with a Jewish great-grandfather. My grandparents came to London from Glasgow a hundred years ago and they were keen, lifelong Conservatives, in fact my Grandmother worked at the Party headquarters. My grandparents belonged to some society for Scots in London where my grandfather played the piano for Scottish songs and dances, there was a party at Halloween for the grandchildren and New Year’s Eve was celebrated in the usual way. However, apart from my grandmother sighing over us grandchildren as “Sassenachs” because we ate our porridge with sugar and my granfather telling me about the Auld Alliance with France and pointing out the French origin of some Scots words “a silver tassie” for a silver cup for example, I don’t remember any expressions of Scottish nationalism.

The bad thing about Scotland was the lack of economic opportunity and it was for work that my grandfather came to live in London.

I would say that my family felt they had certain advantages over the English because we are by nature more intelligent, more industrious and have better values! Having married a half Franch-Canadian and lived in Quebec before the “Silent Revolution"I would say my family’s sense of being separate from the English was quite different from the French Canadian “distinct society” identity.

Incidentally, I often pretend to be a “kiwi” here in eastern Canada, as my “cut-glass” English accent is resented and Canadians don’t have a good enough ear to hear the dufference. An actor friend tutored me in “Canadian English” but although I made some changes in my pronunciation and vocabulary I was always found out!”

The misspelling of “dufference” above will be understood by anybody who has ever heard New Zealanders speak. They are the only significant European nation to have lost a whole vowel in recent times. Regarding Scotland, readers might also find some relevance in the latest series of jokes up on Wicked Thoughts. Anyway, the second email:

“As a UK resident I found the Queen’s Christmas speech quite depressing. I have never been a fan of her Xmas speeches and this was the first I had heard for several years. It sounded as though it might have been written by Cherie Blair or a BBC journalist. Bland, full of phoney re-assurance and pointless.

Of course the ethnic communities shown would seem respectable rather as red carpets are rolled out for members of the royal family. In recent elections the British National Party received up to a third of the vote in parts of the Black Country and elsewhere. Perhaps these voters see a less sanitised version of developments.

I believe most British people welcome the more cosmopolitan changes in the population in recent decades but not the mass take over of our major cities by Muslim immigrants, which seems demographically inevitable on present trends”.

I can certainly understand the final point above

Posted by jonjayray on Tuesday, December 28, 2004 at 06:10 PM in No particular place to go
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Posted by Fred Scrooby on December 29, 2004, 12:22 AM | #

”[...] the mass take over of our major cities by Muslim immigrants, which seems demographically inevitable on present trends.” (—from the log entry)

It’s certainly inevitable if everyone takes the attitude it is.

Of course it’s not inevitable! Those who like what’s going on want everyone to think it is, but countrymen of yours are doing something to thwart it right now as we speak. Why not lend a hand?

Might not those who keep insisting something’s inevitable when all evidence, indeed all ordinary common sense, say it’s not, be suspected of favoring it?

Harboring no such secret preference, I’m able to see how avoidable it all is—if only people would act, and act NOW.

Posted by Braveheart on December 29, 2004, 04:18 AM | #

I live close to Malines, a province nest of 80.000 inhabitants in Flanders, half between Antwerp and Brussels, where half of the population in the inner city is of allochthonous descent.

But how did it come so far? Statistics prove that 80% of all people of Moroccan descent (the most dangerous ones) marry somebody from their home-country and then family is “united”.

Posted by Fred Scrooby on December 29, 2004, 09:08 AM | #

Mechelen, the real name of the Flemish town Braveheart cites (which translated into French is Malines but there’s absolutely no reason to translate it into French since it’s not French-speaking and never was), is where German composer van Beethoven’s grandfather came from. Yes, van Beethoven is a Flemish name, not a German one. It means something like beet garden. His grandfather, a singer, may have run into debt or something—the reason for his move from Flanders to Germany isn’t clear—but he left Mechelen to try to find a better job situation in that country. His son, Ludwig’s dad, was also a singer I believe, and so Ludwig came from a very musical family which is why he was able to be taught music from the earliest age. Mechelen is a lovely town—or was one, at any rate, before the race-replacement fanatics got hold of it. Last time I was there was about twenty-five years ago—of course, it was a hundred percent Flemish. If memory serves, there’s a zoo there (please correct me if I’m wrong, Braveheart). Sad to think what the leftist Walloons and their leftist Flemish allies have done to it through excessive incompatible immigration—turned it half-Arab-Moslem now, apparently, from what Braveheart says above. What’s the Arab-Moslem town the Flemings can turn half-Flemish-Christian (assuming they’d want to)? Can any race-replacement advocate tell me that? Hello? Anybody there? Helloooo? Did you hear my question? Should I repeat it? Why the deafening silence all of a sudden?—I only asked a simple question ....

Posted by Braveheart on December 29, 2004, 09:30 AM | #

The Zoo in Mechelen calls Planckendael, see at (in Dutch): http://www.planckendael.be/content/index.asp
It’s a subsidiary of the Zoo of Antwerp. In the inner city of Antwerp there was not enough place. It’s also very popular, not only because of all those animals in a beautiful vast park, but also because you don’t meet there (because of the entrance fee) the kind of people from the next paragraph.

The city of Mechelen is notorious for “steaming”. This means that you are surrounded by let’s say a dozen of people and without one word saying you understand what they expect from you… See at (in English):
http://www.asc41.com/www/1999/absvi071.htm

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