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Just musing over some of your postings, Bern.
The part about being Irish. In the Army, we had many Irish neighbors from Eire. It was totally unknown to me that anyone ever considered these people as immigrants or anything other than like us and part of us.
The bit about terrorism. Shocked! The first bomb that went off, in Aldershot, I was living there, my sister was the first person to see it go off, it exploded in front of her eyes. Never seen or heard of anyone, then or after, even say one bad word to or about the Irish, either living in Britain or in Ireland.
The local Irish catholic priest in North Camp later got killed in Northern Ireland, and the people in our area were sad and shocked.
I'm not saying you haven't had some other experience, but the picture you paint of Britain's people is not that which I can testify to.
It is rather disturbing in some way, and perhaps to see the uncountable positive feelings and gestures that have come from us Brits could help. It's beginning to look as if we're being imprinted with a stigma.
Tabloid agenda and fiscal anxiety... what about all the tolerance we have shown over the decades to millions of people who have moved here, everything they received to be a part of our Country, houses, livelihood, education, cultural freedom... what more can we do, Bern?
