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Football news for people who aren’t really interested in football I hear there is a footballing tournament taking place.
Apparently the English team is not doing too badly, and some people feel happy about this. Naturally, the Guardian is on the case. Steve Bloomfield writes, “If this England team represents anyone, it’s the 48%: the remainers”
My favourite comment came from DunstanMc:
‘If this England team represents anyone, it’s the 48%: the remainers’
God I hope not. They lost.
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The Guardian confusing England and Britain? Why am I not surprised?
How on earth do they make that out?
Ah, okay: because some of the players’ parents come from Africa, they’ve followed some successful foreign teams’ tactics, and we Brexiteers are all jackbooted hatey racist McHatersons who want to purge Britain of every last vestige of foreign influence. Or something. Solid argument there, Grauniad.
And they wonder why they lost.
Good to see posts like this, to brighten up a bit.
I thought Remainers were clever and educated, not inarticulate tattooed people with few educational qualifications.
How would that work anyway? Isn’t the *point* of the Remainers that you should dissolve national identities and become a sub-section of the European Union? Aren’t these the people who keep saying that nationalism – especially English nationalism – are racists cancers of society? Some of these people say that simply displaying the English flag is racist act.
It would seem to me that the England team specifically *doesn’t represent the 48%* and that the 48% should be repudiating FIFA and international sports in general as ‘divisive’ and ‘not moving towards further unity’.
Given some of the antics displayed it should be renamed the World Cup for Dramatic Arts.
I would say that it’s a rather curious statement from the Grauniad, especially when you consider that sport and especially international football is one of the most nationally unifying events going. Seeing how the Remoaners loathe anything to do with the nation state, I fail to see how the England team would represent the Remoaners.
So how come there isn’t a United Kingdom, or British, team? Are the Scots too afraid of being shown up?
The Grauniad presumably dreads a repeat of Denmark’s “If you can’t join them, beat them” victory after their referendum rejected the Maastricht-treaty milepost on the road to ever-closer union. A second referendum quickly fixed that in the EU’s standard vote-till-you-get-it-right way, but the EU was stronger then. Remoaners understandably fear that, were history to repeat itself in the football, that might positively hinder history repeating itself in letting them force a second ‘now get it right’ vote on Brexit.
BTW, while Brexit is a good omen, I advise no-one pinning their hopes too high. England last won 50 years before Brexit.
I’m now waiting for FIFA to reverse the result to show Colombia really winning 1 – 0 as Harry Kane’s penalty goal was a blatant example of white privilege over an ethnic, non-white, victim. Don’t laugh. Colombia haven’t gone home yet!
I do wonder what players whose parents moved from Nigeria and Ghana have got to do with the EU.
The words of the song do not say “Fußball kehrt in die Europäische Union zurück” it says “Football’s coming home”!
Although it has to be said that those 3 lions represent not just England, but also the Plantagenet Dukedom’s of Normandy and Aquitaine as well.
Perhaps, once we’ve reclaimed the World Cup we should reclaim those as well, since the current owners seem to be making a right mess of running them.
Just restore the aristocracy of Normandy and Aquitaine and see if a few “Enterprising chaps” fancy a bit of adventure in return for a nice knighthood, baronetcy or similar.
Given that the current most newsworthy football team here-abouts is England, it is worth remembering that, in the 2016 EU referendum, England voted Leave by the highest percentage of any of the constituent countries of the UK; this by 53.38% Leave and 46.62% Remain. [Note: the UK Referendum result for the whole of the UK, was 51.89% Leave and 48.11% Remain.]
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“Although it has to be said that those 3 lions represent not just England, but also the Plantagenet Dukedom’s of Normandy and Aquitaine as well.”
I hate to spoil the party but they are leopards – sort of.
Anyway, fuck it! We won. It put five years on me but fuck me we won on pens! And a very dirty team is on the plane home. Good.
“So how come there isn’t a United Kingdom, or British, team? Are the Scots too afraid of being shown up?”
They’d deny it, but when it’s pointed out that they haven’t made it to the finals since 1990 and could share in some of the glory, the reply is always that a UK team would probably end up with only English players in it. I don’t know about you, but that sounds very much as if they are to me.
Strong remainer in my tennis group this morning; “the match was very dull, and the supporters in the pub where I was watching were covered in tattoos and swore a bit, makes me embarrassed to be english”
So there you have it. Just unadulterated snobbery.
As an aside, every single person in our little redneck town with whom I have discussed it was rooting for Japan on Monday. I should imagine that this is because we’re all deplorable racists or something…
Given that Scotland has about 8.3% of the UK population, with Wales and Northern Ireland making even smaller proportions then I think that each of the segments of the UK population outside England would struggle to get more than a single player (if that) on a UK team.
Inevitably you’d end up playing “Diversity Politics” with the makeup of the football team so that the Scots, Welsh and Northern Irish aren’t “Left Out”. No doubt weakening the usual England line up even further.
Far better to just stuck to the current approach which has at least the benefit that people understand it and it is less prone to Cultural Marxist interference.
While apparently plausible, this part of the analysis turns out to be Menckian. Scotland has, historically, punched well above its numerical weight when it comes to producing great footballers.
You are being told this by a Geordie. NickM (or anybody familiar with the region and the peoples) can attest that that, in itself, is a guarantee of veracity.
The rest of it is spot on, however.
Just what I was about to say, other rob.
Mind you, the way things are right now it’s hard to argue that JG’s completely wrong. The Nats would pass an act at Holyrood to trigger another referendum if the UK football team didn’t have at least two Scottish blokes on the squad and one active on the pitch, regardless of injury, at all times.
It’s amazing how similar some names are, and how they signify similar things. Holyrood or Hollywood both stand for delusional states of mind. Any other pairings?
I wondered how the Lefties will handle the continued upsurge in patriotic sentiment if the England football team continues to progress.
Meanwhile, there is fresh possible evidence of Russian naughtiness concerning use of nerve agents to whack enemies of the state here in deepest England. Ho hum.
I have a vague nightmare that England win, and Mrs May calls a snap General Election on the back of it, foisting on us a vicious Left-wing government with a Commons majority.
I mean Theresa The Crowd Displeaser is hardly showing much in the way of small government low tax policy making.
It’s the eat zebra in 20 years party or eat zebra in 2 years party.
What a choice.
Mr James Ironside – however bad Mrs Theresa “we have spent more than Labour promised to spend” May (shades of Prime Minister John Major at the last Prime Minister’s Questions – both on government spending and regulations) may be – I assure you that Mr Corbyn would be vastly worse.
“It is all in the same direction, ever more statism, Paul – it is just a matter of speed” – alas I have no reply to that.
As for Association Football.
I must confess I have a desire for England to defeat Sweden (an even more P.C. country than ourselves) on Saturday – my birthday. Now I have just “jinxed” the result.
Someone at the Guardian is a spiteful little twat? I’m going back to sleep.
For the record, I saw today a house with a Liberal Democrat poster for a council by-election in a middle-class seaside town in East Anglia, and with a Croatian flag hung in the middle of the front window. I could almost smell the middle-class relief coming from inside at positively dissociating oneself from any display of patriotism, or enjoyment. I was tempted to knock on the door to congratulate the owner, but to remind them of the unfortunate association of that chequerboard with the Ustashe.