Date: 2021-03-28 11:42 am (UTC)
danieldwilliam: (Default)
From: [personal profile] danieldwilliam
Two MPs now in the Alba Party.

BBC News - MP Neale Hanvey defects from SNP to new Alba Party
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-56555096

Date: 2021-03-28 03:47 pm (UTC)
danieldwilliam: (Default)
From: [personal profile] danieldwilliam

Certainly they have been joined by someone with a different view than you.

Date: 2021-03-28 12:13 pm (UTC)
cmcmck: (Default)
From: [personal profile] cmcmck
I just don't understand people who live in a country and don't wish to be of that country. What's the betting they've never learned the language ether?

One of my huge regrets (and there aren't very many) is that I left Belgium three months before I could have claimed citizenship because I'd been offered a uni place back here. And I went there originally able to speak French and soon picked up some Flemish.

Many Brits, myself included, would give their eye teeth for dual nationality now and unless Latvia decides to come over for people of Jewish ancestry as Germany has, my only chance is being married to a Scot!

Date: 2021-03-28 12:33 pm (UTC)
alithea: Artwork of Francine from Strangers in Paradise, top half only with hair and scarf blowing in the wind (Default)
From: [personal profile] alithea
It appears to be more or less entirely about the weather from what I can glean. I don't get it either but then I don't do heat so that's probably why!

Date: 2021-03-28 12:44 pm (UTC)
alithea: Artwork of Francine from Strangers in Paradise, top half only with hair and scarf blowing in the wind (Default)
From: [personal profile] alithea
Yeah but not really believing in national borders isn't at all the same thing as going to live in a different country but creating your own little enclave of your former home there and living completely separately from the locals. These people very much believe in countries, they just think they should be allowed to have their bit of Britain somewhere with better weather.

Date: 2021-03-28 01:12 pm (UTC)
alithea: Artwork of Francine from Strangers in Paradise, top half only with hair and scarf blowing in the wind (Default)
From: [personal profile] alithea
Yeah, there are degrees of enclaves though too. I get several British families end up in this village because there's a shop that imports treats from home and it's handy if you're still learning the language. But that's not the same as only ever mixing with and using services run by other Brits.

Date: 2021-03-28 03:44 pm (UTC)
calimac: (Default)
From: [personal profile] calimac
That's a thing we get in the US a lot, and it really irritates the nativist xenophobes. They're convinced the immigrants are never going to assimilate or learn English, and then within a generation or so they do. This has been going on regularly since the Irish in the 1840s.

Date: 2021-03-28 04:00 pm (UTC)
cmcmck: (Default)
From: [personal profile] cmcmck
When I went to Belgium I was running away and there was no enclave to go to, so I had to try to fit in.

You'd think at least an effort with the language, but no..........

Date: 2021-03-29 12:19 pm (UTC)
cmcmck: (Default)
From: [personal profile] cmcmck
And I learned a hell of a lot.

Belgium's still very much my second home.

Date: 2021-03-29 01:24 pm (UTC)
cmcmck: (Default)
From: [personal profile] cmcmck
If I'd known then what I know now..............

Date: 2021-03-28 04:01 pm (UTC)
cmcmck: (Default)
From: [personal profile] cmcmck
Nor I, but I can't help thinking that more of an effort to integrate might have helped.

Dual nationality is painless after all!

Date: 2021-03-29 12:20 pm (UTC)
cmcmck: (Default)
From: [personal profile] cmcmck
It's more that being able to walk into a shop or restaurant and ask for what you want and to know that people know your face is such a big thing.

I'm certainly not into little Englanderism!

Date: 2021-03-29 01:28 pm (UTC)
cmcmck: (Default)
From: [personal profile] cmcmck
Isn't it though?

Even in countries we've visited like Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic where we'd no idea of the language (we can muster French, German, Italian and a bit of Flemish between us) we tried to learn 'please', 'thank you' and good 'morning/evening'.

As you say, it's called making an effort!

Date: 2021-03-28 12:46 pm (UTC)
redbird: closeup of me drinking tea, in a friend's kitchen (Default)
From: [personal profile] redbird
I have no sympathy for the people who are saying, in so many words, that yes they voted for Britain to leave the EU, but didn't expect that would mean that they, personally, would have to leave the EU.

Date: 2021-03-28 01:15 pm (UTC)
alithea: Artwork of Francine from Strangers in Paradise, top half only with hair and scarf blowing in the wind (Default)
From: [personal profile] alithea
In many cases, I think it wasn't so much a failure of research as a refusal to see it as a problem that British exceptionalism wouldn't solve. They couldn't imagine that the EU country would want to throw *them* out.

Date: 2021-03-28 01:53 pm (UTC)
fub: (Default)
From: [personal profile] fub
"I never thought the leopards would eat my face!"

Date: 2021-03-28 05:59 pm (UTC)
flemmings: (Default)
From: [personal profile] flemmings

"They'll be sorry they ate my face, just you wait and see!"

August 2025

S M T W T F S
      1 2
3 4 5 6 7 8 9
10 11 12 1314 15 16
17 18 19 20 21 2223
24252627282930
31      

Most Popular Tags

Style Credit

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags
Page generated Aug. 22nd, 2025 04:43 pm
Powered by Dreamwidth Studios