Thursday 3 April 2008
Coins Of The Realm
Yes, losing Britannia is a pity. But replacing her with an expression of the United Kingdom by reference to its constituent parts sets just the right tone as we seek to rebuild our country, ravaged by surrenders to the intimately related forces of globalisation, American neoconservative hegemony, European federalism, Irish Republicanism, psuedo-Unionist sectarianism, and Scottish and Welsh (and, increasingly, English) separatism.
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Tell me David where the Welsh bit is?
ReplyDeleteWales is a Principality of England; as the BBC terms it, "a national region". And more than happy to be so, apart from a tiny handful of cranks who are in any case mostly kept happy so long as they can speak Welsh and hold the accompanying cultural events, which nobody is trying to stop them from doing.
ReplyDeleteAre sure it is just a 'tiny handful of cranks'? Even in deepest, darkest North Wales most people I know still place great pride in their nation's independence from England-the-oppressor.
ReplyDeleteHighly ironic therefore that the design which omits the 'national region' was created by a Welshman, with the Royal Mint itself in South Wales...
It's not ironic, it's entirely to be expected.
ReplyDeleteThe Welsh as a people have long existed, but exactly where Wales is as a place remains a moot point even today where many people from Monmouthshire are concerned. The present border in a twentieth-century invention.
And of course the capital of Powys was Shrewsbury, where several of the frst Eisteddfods of modern times were held.
Politically, North Wales and South Wales have been pretty much as Unionist as each other. Celebrating a different culture, or having digs at the English (Ulster Unionists never, ever support English sports teams against anyone), is one thing. But the side on which one's bread is buttered is quite another.