tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2623721153002721356.post2930899431068255488..comments2024-03-27T12:40:09.015+00:00Comments on Three Thousand Versts of Loneliness: Tom Elliott gets stuck into Labour's Britishness policy. More of the same please.Owen Polleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00567787385096905811noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2623721153002721356.post-75710346666086370332008-10-30T16:56:00.000+00:002008-10-30T16:56:00.000+00:00Your insinuation was that a separate anthem for th...Your insinuation was that a separate anthem for the Northern Ireland football team would be analogous to Labour's damaging policies. I was refuting any such notion. I certainly was not refuting the damage which Labour has done to the Union.Owen Polleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00567787385096905811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2623721153002721356.post-40617562878357378132008-10-30T16:44:00.000+00:002008-10-30T16:44:00.000+00:00"You tried to tie that argument into football"No m..."You tried to tie that argument into football"<BR/><BR/>No my reference to AN Wilson went far beyond football<BR/><BR/>"It was as A N Wilson commented in the panorama programme the politicians only noticed the usefulness of britishness until after they had systematically diminished it. Hence Labour's dirty rush to do something even if often poorly conceived. Should we continue with the pattern A N Wilson described?"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2623721153002721356.post-12717583523221643432008-10-30T16:12:00.000+00:002008-10-30T16:12:00.000+00:00My comment was 'Britishness WILL NOT be effected o...My comment was 'Britishness WILL NOT be effected one iota by changing Northern Ireland's football anthem, whatever AN Wilson's criticism of politicians might say' which still stands. His point was that Labour evoked Britishness when it was convenient yet continued to demolish it through their policies. You tried to tie that argument into football which I rightly dismissed as a stretch too far.Owen Polleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00567787385096905811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2623721153002721356.post-55480117494102064542008-10-30T16:02:00.000+00:002008-10-30T16:02:00.000+00:00AN Wilson said something remarkably similar in the...AN Wilson said something remarkably similar in the dreadful Panorama programme on Britishness. However, it was an argument you brushed it aside "whatever AN Wilson's criticism of politicians might say." A welcome shift.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com