Something is simmering in England called Nationalism. Racism also lingers. Unionism remains bright. I'm going to try and explain as a Northerner why this is happening. And I deliberately say Northerner, not British or English quite yet. Thread.....
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6. In the 60s industry was broken by state misrule and trade union fundamentalism. Oil meant industry no ,onger was tied to the coalfields we based out entire way of life around. The industries started to move, the mines began to close. Likewise shipbuilding moved to Japan...
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7. So began the regression to nationalism in Scotland and to racism in the North. Without a stand alone nation to fall back on the north regressed even more, to industrial strife and to racism in mill towns. The pattern is becoming clearer....
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8. Nationalism and racism are regressions. Nationalism obsesses on what we were or could have been. Racism obsesses over another sense of loss, even of our own destiny, that the "other" is a threat because we are already losing what we had....
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9. it is not antinationalist to say stop being nationalist. It is not antiracist to say stop being racist. It is cruel to say to those who have lost and have lost hope of a better future that they stop being losers. It only insults and angers them and reinforces their view....
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10. That those with the power to change things have no wish or need to. It's fine for them. The south of England, the Cantebury archdiosise in cultural terms, has never lost. It is doing well. Good for them, but that other half of England is not. doing well. So....
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11. If you say you are English, and you neglect the North, be off with you. If you say you are British and neglect Glasgow, be off with you. You are not using identity as a shield for establishment and entitlement. No. We were in this together. We have not been for some time...
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12. The answer is unionism by which I mean something specific. We lift each other up instead of pulling each other down. There will be peace,harmony and pride in these islands when we learn to share the opportunities and wealth. We need to look again to the stars not the ground.
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