'British values'

[shrimpled]

What are they?

I hear this term bandied around all over the place at the moment.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Drinking German lager before you go out for an Indian?

 

[Rusty Shackleford]

No such thing. There are English values of humility, remaining calm under pressure, courage, ingenuity and a passion to stand up for that which is right. Sadly, these values have been gradually eroded to the point of disappearance by the moral relativism of the last few decades and the canker of multiculturalism.

As for being British, I consider that to be an artificial nationality akin to being Yugoslavian. I feel no affinity for the Scots or Welsh, as I'm sure they feel none for me.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

No such thing. There are English values of humility, remaining calm under pressure, courage, ingenuity and a passion to stand up for that which is right. Sadly, these values have been gradually eroded to the point of disappearance by the moral relativism of the last few decades and the canker of multiculturalism.

As for being British, I consider that to be an artificial nationality akin to being Yugoslavian. I feel no affinity for the Scots or Welsh, as I'm sure they feel none for me.

And the (Northern) Irish? :winking:

 

[MK Shrimper]

No such thing. There are English values of humility, remaining calm under pressure, courage, ingenuity and a passion to stand up for that which is right. Sadly, these values have been gradually eroded to the point of disappearance by the moral relativism of the last few decades and the canker of multiculturalism.

Sounds like some romantic notion from Kipling.

Englishmen and women can be as vain, as cowardly, and as stupid as any other nation on earth and always have been.

 

[Rusty Shackleford]

And the (Northern) Irish? :winking:

I said Britain. Not the United Kingdom.

#barnabluegetsitwrongagain

 

[dingleydangley]

Let's at least be serious;

Corn Flakes for dinner
Sarcasm (yeah, right)
Phil Collins

There may be others.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Phil Collins

Yeah right. :stunned:

 

[Another Surrey Shrimper]

No such thing. There are English values of humility, remaining calm under pressure, courage, ingenuity and a passion to stand up for that which is right. Sadly, these values have been gradually eroded to the point of disappearance by the moral relativism of the last few decades and the canker of multiculturalism.

As for being British, I consider that to be an artificial nationality akin to being Yugoslavian. I feel no affinity for the Scots or Welsh, as I'm sure they feel none for me.

did you move away because you felt you would never fit in?

 

[dingleydangley]

Yeah right. :stunned:

I had to mention at least one member of the Royal family.

 

[shrimpled]

No such thing. There are English values of humility, remaining calm under pressure, courage, ingenuity and a passion to stand up for that which is right. Sadly, these values have been gradually eroded to the point of disappearance by the moral relativism of the last few decades and the canker of multiculturalism.

As for being British, I consider that to be an artificial nationality akin to being Yugoslavian. I feel no affinity for the Scots or Welsh, as I'm sure they feel none for me.

I don't disagree with you on these, but why would you say they are English values? Are they your ideal values in other English people or simply what you view yourself to be? I guess what I'm trying say is, based on what are they 'English values'? Do you feel that people from other nationalities do not share these same values?

 

[Rusty Shackleford]

did you move away because you felt you would never fit in?

No, because I feel like I no longer fit in to the cesspool that you celebrate.

 

[Another Surrey Shrimper]

No, because I feel like I no longer fit in to the cesspool that you celebrate.

It was an elaborate plan but at least it got the desired results. English and proud.

 

[southendkid]

It's used for complaining about how expensive things are:

E.g. the British value of bread is £1.02 but the Bulgarian value of bread is 37p.

 

[Benfleet A1]

I think Harold Shand sums it up rather nicely.

[video=youtube;FVVrZJaN1IU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVVrZJaN1IU[/video]

 

[OldBlueLady]

This Telegraph list would seem pretty accurate, particularly the first...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/educatio...re-British-values-that-define-our-nation.html

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

No such thing. There are English values of humility, remaining calm under pressure, courage, ingenuity and a passion to stand up for that which is right. Sadly, these values have been gradually eroded to the point of disappearance by the moral relativism of the last few decades and the canker of multiculturalism.

As for being British, I consider that to be an artificial nationality akin to being Yugoslavian. I feel no affinity for the Scots or Welsh, as I'm sure they feel none for me.

And the (Northern) Irish? :winking:

I said Britain. Not the United Kingdom.

On the contrary you said British.

And as David Goldblatt writes;- "As enshrined in the Good Friday Agreement,everybody in Northern Ireland has the choice as to whether they are British or Irish."
The Game of Our Lives.