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| Announcement: Kevin Myers in Todays Irish Independent |
| Posted: LiamMellows @ Wed Dec 02, 2009 12:23 pm |
http://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/we-are-all-entitled-to-our-delusions-of-ethnicity-but-it-doesnt-mean-they-should-get-legal-status-1960521.html
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The Federation of Irish Societies in Britain is this week celebrating the proposed changes in British census laws that will allow millions of British people to declare themselves of Irish ethnicity.
What 'Irish ethnicity' actually means, I cannot say. Does it include a Celtic supporter from east Glasgow who, like his parents, has never been to Ireland, has three beer bellies, no job, a life expectancy of 48 (also the number of cigarettes he smokes every day) and a disability allowance to make those few remaining years bearable?
Huge numbers of people in west Scotland regard themselves as 'Irish': this is their right. They can equally regard themselves as Rwandan. We are all entitled to our delusions. It is a quite different matter when those delusions are given legal status in a census. |
What a patronising, condescending scumbag he truly is.
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