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Sunday, 30 April 2017

Nationality Amnesty




We need a Nationality Amnesty! I am prepared to turn up at Cardiff Central Police Station and hand over my 'Welshness' but only if my lookalike and stunt double Paul Nuttall agrees to do the same thing. We've had America First, North Korea First, Turkey First so it's not surprising that we have Marine Le Pen and Geert Wilders. Big beasts of countries influencing the little fellas. You can hardly call France small but it has certainly been 'diminished' in recent years. Nationality or allegiance to a National Flag is a problem in so far that it binds us and blinds us to something else that we need an amnesty for. That no good religion. What we are witnessing is a Tsunami of Religious Fundamentalism spinning a trail of discordant Nationalisms in its wake. We have forgotten that we are Global Citizens, children of the International Community. Saying things like that could get you locked up now because we are so wrapped up in our National Flags or our Class Flags. We have a choice on June 8th between the Conservative and Unionist Party of Grande Bretagne and the Working Class Labour Party or we could plump for one of the isms. The Nationalism of Plaid Cymru, the SNP or Sinn Fein or of course we could opt for the sandle wearing utopia of the Liberal Democrats or the Green Party. That much used epithet "What planet are you on"? Well obviously not the same one as you if you even have to ask that question. Last night, British Nationalist, Anti-European Union personage Nigel Farage was regaling an audience with the story of his life so far in Norfolk. He's only 53, you'd think that he was at the beaches of Dunkirk or leading the charge of the Light Brigade...hang on...! Further up the Coast, his love child Nuttall of Bootle will be standing in Boston and Skegness because they had the highest percentage of Brexiteers or Racists in the European Referendum last year, whichever way you wish to spin it. The general populace are either too busy providing for their families or other such distractions to realise that this Sceptic Isle, that this Perfidious Albion has descended into chaos. We have become passive consumers of terror tuning in to BBC News 24 to witness the latest scenes of alienation from Central London.
The question I suppose I am asking in this post is
"Do we have to become our national tribes again to be able to appreciate that we do live on the same finite planet"?   

       

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