Consider the following alleged unpleasant experience of an English tourist entering a small, privately-owned shop whilst on holiday in Wales. A customer and the man behind the counter were initially happily chatting in English, yet switched immediately into the Welsh tongue as soon as they saw the despised interloper enter. Not actually able to speak a single word of Welsh, but guessing the broad likely gist of what the duo were saying, the quick-thinking holidaymaker loudly declared, “I can assure you I’m not an English cunt!” Sure enough, the pair then immediately apologised (in English), saying they thought he was an Englishman. He told them that he was, and exited the shop without making any purchase.
Overall, I think it possible to say there is a certain amount of strongly-held anti-English sentiment in Wales. That is why, when one reader saw the recent Daily Sceptic story that, as our report had it, “Ethnic minority students have been offered £5,000 more than their white classmates to become teachers in Wales as part of an ‘anti-racist’ scheme”, he promptly wrote in to point out that this was in itself racist as, technically speaking, English people were an ethnic minority in Wales too, not just Angolans and Zimbabweans, so should therefore automatically be given access to the Welsh Government’s handy extra five grand too, should they not?
Our correspondent was right. The white English are in fact by far the largest ethnic minority in Wales according to
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As an English living in Wales (for over 20 years) I’ve had a few, but not many anti-English comments made to me.
What I fail to understand is that a country that’s so proud of it’s heritage, culture and language are prepared to have this diluted mass, non English, immigration whilst at the same time continuing to hate the very country that funds it.
The money spent on Welsh language is completely wasted, the English language, as is spoken my the vast majority of Welsh, should be primary and all the bilingual nonsense scrapped. Every time I et a letter from a public body it’s twice as long as it needs to be as it’s produced in English and Welsh.Goodness knows what this costs.
Ah so the welsh (quite rightly IMV) are allowed to be concerned about the submerging of their nation and culture by incomers, but the English are not?
Move along please nothing to see here.
Certainly I have noticed that in England you are allowed to wang on for hours about how Welsh you are (and to a lesser extent, Scottish or Irish), and how great Wales is, and how proud you are of being Welsh; whereas if an English person ever dares to try the same thing they are racist far-right thugs. In fact we seem to be openly encouraged to be ashamed of being English, so people are often desperate to tell you that they are in fact one sixteenth Welsh because their 10th cousin twice removed once lived in Cardiff for 6 months..
In a free society, that is a stateless society, people could be as racist as they wanted to be, or not, so long as they didn’t do harm to the property of others. Market-forces would put pressure on behaviour and individual’s self interest would soon allow a durable stability to be returned.
A stable self-regulating system is accurately formed by the plethora of signals from the ground up and not the perpetual volatility of meddlesome agendas instructing from the top-down.
The lure of involuntary taxpayer’s subsidies would play no part. And the ploy of the ruling-class to divide the public in order to weaken and so dominate them, would not occur.
I spent 3 years at a Welsh university in the 60s. There were plenty of locals who were happy to take our (English) money.
However that didn’t go for publicans on Sundays (pubs were all closed except for the private drinking for locals behind their closed doors) or for the Free Wales Army who spent their leisure time torching any English owned properties, often with the tacit approval of the locals.
The Welsh NHS cannot attract enough staff because of the less than warm welcome given to outsiders. That has been true for many years.
The Welsh schools are prioritising the Welsh language over competency in English and Maths.
Wales is disappearing up its own backside just like Scotland.
At what point can we English stop funding Scotland and Wales?
Not holidayed beyond the Welsh Borders for over a decade – not getting a penny out of me (apart from raiding my taxes) until they elect a sane government. Same goes for Scotland.
As non-Welsh speakers from South Wales, I always found the opposite. We entered a pub in West Wales where everyone was speaking Welsh. As soon as we ordered our drinks, all the people in our vicinity started speaking in English.
Although born in England (Cornwall), I’ve lived in Wales for decades. Apart from good-natured joshing in rugby (when we are magically Welsh), I have never experienced any hatred towards the English.
Thank you! I speak Welsh, and have never spoken English to another Welsh speaker then switched to Welsh only if an English person enters the room. It’s always the other way around. Most Welsh people where I come from would speak Welsh with each other then switch to English out of politeness. I’m from West Wales, which is like the Shire. I guess in North Wales, where anti- English feelings run hotter, they would definitely be speaking Welsh amongst themselves, then continue speaking Welsh if a non-Welsh speaker walked in. The idea of two Welsh speakers speaking English together is absurd in itself. I agree that Wales has gone mad and I think it’s the loudmouth minority that pushed the madness. Wales was a very religious country. The chapels have been replaced by woke unfortunately. Happily I live in England with my English husband.
“Why Don’t the English Count as an Ethnic Minority in Wales?”
Because they have the wrong skin colour!
Britain is more racist now than it has ever been, caused by the very people who shout it the loudest
Not the Coconutters, Dings! LOL The only Morris dancing group to not cave to the anti-fun, anti-tradition woke mind virus. Even the Zwarte Pieten ( Sinterklaas’s helpers ) over here have finally capitulated to appease the woketards ( as ever, it was never the black community that had a problem with this ) after many years of having full black face, now just a couple of sooty splodges. Joy killers, the lot of ’em;
”A controversial group of Morris Dancers ‘blacked up’ their faces for their traditional Easter parade in Lancashire yesterday.
The group performed their day long dance through the town of Bacup from 9am on Easter Saturday to raise funds for Rossendale Hospice.
The group insists ‘blacking up’ is part of a clog-dancing tradition dating back more than 150 years – and has nothing to do with ethnicity.
The traditional costume is understood to symbolise ‘a Moorish Pirate; the hat is of a turban style’.
The event has been surrounded by controversy, with the group splitting from the Joint Morris Organisation, the umbrella group which represents the country’s 800 dancing ‘sides’.
The body felt that the ‘full face black or other skin tone make-up is a practice that has the potential… Read more »
It is interesting that only ignorant people are hurt. The hurt is only to people who don’t or won’t understand the tradition.