I have never felt British in my life. There are occasional pangs when you see Team GB in the Olympics and you are bombarded with Britishness, Britishness, Britishness by the BBC, but I have never felt British in my life. I do not even know what Britishness is.
15 November 2008
SNP MP Pete Wishart, speaking in the House of Commons last Wednesday:
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Say what you like about Sinn Fein - the political wing of a violent sectarians and gangsters, that sort of thing - but at least they declined to take their seats at Westminster. Some principles there.
This link comes from They Work for You. Two thirds of the Perth and North Perthshire constituency did not vote for Wishart. And here is he telling them that, potentially, he cannot begin to comprehend and even actively dislikes a central point of there identities.
Kitty Atholl must be turning in her grave.
Strange, he can't have been speaking to Kenny MacAskill recently:
"What is meant by Britishness? Is there a concept of Britishness? Yes, just as there is a concept of being Scandinavian. We eat fish and chips, we eat chicken masala, we watch East Enders."
But that said, of course the reason the SNP want to devolve broadcasting is to prevent talk of Britishness on the telly. They're hardly discreet about it.
Ha! Well spotted, DG.
Mind you, MacAskill's fairly clueless about it too. Fish and chips, East Enders... give me a break!
pete wishart for all his bluster does reveal a particularly endearing British trait..that of Understatement the quintessentially British subject never flaunts their Britishness..