My family is English, Scottish, Irish, Welsh, and Scotch-Irish (_i.e.,_ American descendants of Ulster Scots). No wonder I'm confused! I didn't realize until the last decade or so just how horrible all my ancestors were to one another!
Don't forget the opium and weed. Though to be fair Afghanistan has always been known as a harsh land that is hell on invaders/governments. The Brits should of known about that before the war on terror. The First Anglo-Afghan war in 1839-1842 went pretty badly. It's some times referred to as The Disaster in Afghanistan by the British.
@@leathery420 Unconquerable, just about everyone who's tried has been destroyed, The Russian Empire, The British Empire, The Soviet Union, the US empire.... The problem is several fold, its mostly rural, the people are divided between several hostile ethnicities and tribal or religious groups. Easy to incade but impossible to occupy, I implore every political and military leader to save their trouble and the people of Afghanistan the trouble by simply not bothering to invade. You'll save money. You'll save lives. You'll preserve respectibility, all you have to do is not invade Afghanistan.
Last summer, I visited Wales for a weekend and quite liked it. I'm disappointed in not seeing more of it (I can't drive stick and my mom can't drive on the left), but I loved the landscape and the language. I've always been fascinated by the Roman Britain, and Wales is basically what's left of it.
@@ketchuplad157 The romans did conquer wales starting within a decade of the initial invasion of britain and ending at the start of agricolas governorship in the 80s ad
Wales actually had it's bout of Nationalist Anti-English terrorism in the 60s all the way through to the late 80s with the likes of the FWA, MAC, Sons of Glyndwr, Gethin ap Gruffydd etc which came about for a couple of reasons including the flooding of welsh towns to supply England with water. There were quite a few bombings over Wales a few in England, a dam construction site and water lines going to Liverpool were blown up, a few hundred English holiday homes were set on fire, letter bombs were sent to politicians etc, They received arms from the IRA and Basque separatists and paraded with them. Not much media coverage was given to it though because they didn't want to give them the publicity.
certainly nationalism is a populist tool devised to shift attention away from systemic issues, but I don't see the benefit for english institutions to make wales full of nationalists and anti-english sentiment?
Welsh Nationalism can't really be styled 'anti-English terrorism'... It was based on a desire for self-rule and some of the notable targets for armed struggle were tax offices. There weren't any shootings let alone paramilitary activity unless you want to include in that the much publicised 'suicide corgis'... little dogs with suicide vests laced with semtex. These didn't really exist but were claimed in the press to stir up the necessary public outrage required to make any cause glorious or heinous depending on your slant.
Dawson Davis you all benefit from the economy of England. This is why I don’t like nationalism (not saying you are one) they complain about paying for their own utilities, and their own assembly, but then they complain that Westminster doesn’t pay enough attention to them. That’s because you have your own government that Westminster pays into to do what you want.
These videos are such wonderful education on the general culture of the UK and the subtleties of differences between those people living on those two large islands off the coast of Europe.
I think I speak for most Welshman when I say "you are officially adopted David!". The accent isn't a problem, I'm Welsh and am always being accused of being from Bristol or Dorset and once, bizarrely, from Australia. I think the best thing about the Welsh is that we have a sense of humour about ourselves. You can guarantee the first 'Sheep Joke' will be told by the Welshman at a party. The only downside to our nature is our tendency to self-criticise.
@jonnytrueblue8407 That's true I've actually seen a few irish people passout in welsh house parties sitting in a Kitchen till 7 am off our bins on 🍻❄️😬💊 not anymore though those days are behind me 😂
Okay, I'm Welsh myself, and it must be said, you're really not making up for the loss of some Yorkie-pud-puds with some rarebit, they're not equal, Yorkshire puddings are much better than a fancy name for cheese on toast... Equally, you would get Welsh cakes with that swap, so it's fucking worth it!
I guess that would depend on how you make your rarebit. We always made the cheese with a nice sharp crumbly Cheddar, butter, and a half pint of lager all smoothed together in a double boiler with dried mustard or Worcestershire sauce. Then we poured it over thick slices of dry toast and ate as is or (my preferred method) baked it for half an hour until it's all golden brown and puffy. Mushy peas on the side. Maybe this isn't real Welsh rarebit, but the Welsh-American version. All's I know is that it beats Yorkshire pudding, which is basically baked pancake batter, all to hell.
nohrt4me Oh god. I can't decide now. See,Welsh rarebit is a culinary delight wrapped up in a coronary failure, but yorkies are essential with any roast beef and gravy,, and done properly, they are enough to make a fat man cry.
***** Maybe you could put the rarebit sauce on a yorkie and die young but happy. FWIW, I'm looking at recipes of Yorkshire pudding with pictures, and have to say they appear more appetizing than the flaccid, putty-colored messes my auntie used to serve under that name.
I can't think of how to word it, but there is a joke to be written about Welsh people being likened to the biblical figure Jonah. They are 'in Wales', you see.
I'm American, and I only understood about 25% of the references made in this video, but I still found it refreshing. David Mitchell is nothing short of genius.
I think it's kind of astounding how Great Britain still has these extremely distinct, proud nations in it that still keep their own identities so strongly. Sure there are southern Americans and Mid-west and new yorkers, but they're still all American. I don't think there's another place in the world with so many groups that secretly (or not so secretly) hate each other, still managing to keep together in one mostly united country.
Being from Leeds, i've often said that The People's Republic of Yorkshire would be the best place in the world to live. We're so fiercely loyal; not to England, but to Yorkshire. We're not bitter, it's just that Yorkshire seems to have grown detached from the rest of England (like Norfolk and the West Country) but we like where we live, so we stick by it. Wales is also cool, but if you've ever heard the Stereophonics RUGBY SONG 'So Long as we Best the English', you'd have different views.
We'll things have certainly changed in Wales in 2021 with record numbers wanting independence at about one quarter of the population in the most recent poll!
@MisterZimbabwe haha :) i actually know a guy who went on an exchange to america, and convinced the entire family he was staying with that he was a haggis hunter and wore only kilts (he told them he bought the clothes he was wearing specially to use while in the US). needless to say there was an awkward moment when the american kid came to scotland a few months later :P
I don't know who I'm supposed to hate!! I'm 33% Irish and the rest of me is Welsh,Scot and dare I admit it English with a bit of Scandinavian for good measure. I did enjoy your Welsh soapbox David. Very amusing!
I’ve always suspected that a Scottish greeting is a drunken headbutt. Then again, as an American, you probably think I would greet you with some overt racism, a large hamburger, and a firearm... Wait. That last part is probably actually true.
The very crude Google translate from Welsh to English: "Please send this message if you are in Welsh!". I'm assuming the 'said' means thumbs up? Cheekily, I did it anyway (basically, pretending to be cooler and more interesting than what I am).
But they were...? Have I missed something I'm American and just Googled 'Yorkshire' and it said it was in England. I thought I was just correcting you.
Of my 8 great grandparents 5 were Irish, 2 were Scots and 1 was English. No Welsh, I'm afraid, but I have it under good authority (my parents') that I was conceived in Wales, whilst they were on holiday in Llandudno. Does that count? ;)
Wales is my favoruite part of Britain, but not Ireland on the grounds that it isnt in Britain. Its a whole boat ride away, a small boat ride, but a boat ride never the less.
@@nannite If you'll allow me to be pedantic, none of Ireland is in Britain. The island of Great Britain forms the vast bulk of England, Wales and Scotland which in turn is surrounded by hundreds of smaller islands such as Wight, Scillies, Anglesey, Skye, Mull etc.
@@jamesknightvo On the other hand, Britain refers to the British Isles, which the entire island of Ireland is a part of. It is only Great Britain that refers specifically to the largest island of the British Isles. So saying that Ireland is in Britain is correct, but saying that Ireland is in Great Britain is incorrect.
Well, the British Isles is not a political term, but a geographical, and it refers to Great Britain, Ireland and around a thousand other islands. It's a bit like Scandinavia, in that for example Sweden and Denmark are both Scandinavian nations, but quite different.
Aha! Like most English folk, you and I are also Welsh, Scottish and Irish in part. Born in Cornwall, lived in Yorkshire, the Midlands and London... odd that we have such strong views about the people from different areas when genetically we are actually much more similar than any group of foreigners.
This. I’m an American living in Britain, and I once witnessed a drunken spat at the Edinburgh Festival where somebody wasn’t being let into a bar and either the Englishman or the Scotsman involved called the other party “racist”. I’m not sure what these people’s notion of “race” is but I don’t see how it could possibly apply to these two groups. Maybe it’s just that American racism is so blatant and scary that any of the squabbles between U.K. nations (apart from perhaps Ireland historically) come off as kind of silly.
As an Italian who tries to go to Wales every 6 months I can confirm this is true, many think they're all anti-english but as far as I've seen thats only really between the rugby lovers and extremely welsh and proud granddads and grandmas , but even they don't hate the English (just the government occasionally) apart from when they beat them in rugby of course:) I 100% recommend trying to visit north or west Wales if you ever have a free week (at least):)
"Obviously the news is much less scary now and that's terrific, but perceptions like that take a while to change". Fast forward a little over 10 years to 2020...
Remember when Gareth Bale was a defender on Tottenham then magically started scoring goals then fastforward he became a winger on Real Madrid, the welsh have some greats, like Giggs. I'm an American so i understand being disappointed
Wales and England have a lot in common - we both came out of the Roman province Britannia. Scotland & Ireland were never part of the Roman Empire. Wales & England share common origins. BTW - I'm a Welsh nationalist anglophone. I want an independent Wales but wish only the best for an independent England - and Scotland of course!
don't forget that the brittania youre speaking of does not include the anglo-saxon-jute-dane people who settled in england who have no connection with the welsh.
England was formed after the Saxons invaded and pushed the native Britons to what is now Wales and Cornwall. The English are Germanic genetically and culturally.
what benefit would an independent wales have for the people there? Government spending there is 110% of UK average (source:www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-25039137) whilst government revenue is lower than in any other uk nation (source:www.ifs.org.uk/publications/6881). Just to clarify, I am not in any way annoyed by this as lower income areas should receive higher government spending.
There's a reason the English language is still called Saxon in Welsh... Honestly, as an Englishman living in Wales, I don't think independence is good for Wales right now, but I still vote Plaid - primarily because the measures they want to introduce in order to make Wales ready for independence are all inherently good for Wales anyway.
i got stabbed in wales.. by a welshman. nonetheless, i despise my worryingly ignorant fellow englishmen than i do the welsh.. they're just generally nice people.
I'm 1/4 Welsh (the rest is Irish, German, and "Colonial", which in the U.S. means "English people who got a head start on everyone else") However, if I had to pick an ethnicity, I'd choose Welsh, for many of the reasons David mentions here.
As a Welsh-born person with English parents who lives in Yorkshire, I feel somewhat conflicted by your proposals :P & thanks for not actually mentioning sheep :)
The advantage that the Irish, Scotts, and the Welsh have over the English is that we're used to different cultures, and we're quite accepting of the fact that the English culture surrounds us all the time, but whenever it is reversed and i speak a sentence in my native Welsh language, the English are all too prepared to call me rude and ignorant. The irony.
Wow you truly are the epitome of acceptance, basing an entire culture on a personal experience. and just saying English people don't accept other cultures doesn't make it true, England has a more diverse ethnic population even when accounting for population numbers.
So you think that every word that's spoken in Welsh in your presence is an insult towards you? It's incredibly self centred of you to think that we'd be speaking about you at all. Let's change the scenario and imagine that an you and an English friend were having a conversation in the presence of an Italian man who didn't understand English. Why should that man be concerned that the conversation is about him?
no that wasnt the point he made he said you are purporting yourself to be a paragon of acceptance but youre judging 50million people on a few personal experiences.
thank you, someone else who says they're British!!! i also support the Welsh in rugby, England in football and Scotland in curling or cycling, take your pick
Miranda Lockhart god knows. Some primal need for more condensed tribalism and victimhood-pretending over something that never affected them, perhaps? And the subsequent stereotypes and prejudices that come as a result. It is rather saddening.
There's a good historical reason for the Welsh to be bitter at England. There's a good current reason to be bitter at the Westminster Government rule of Wales (which does not work in our favour at all). But there is no good reason to hate the English as a people. Over the past 8 centuries there has been a lot of interbreeding between English and Welsh people so the chances are that the vast majority of Welsh people have English ancestry in some form anyway. Personally, I consider myself Welsh as I've lived in Wales all my life, but I recently found out that my DNA is around 60% English. Now, I'm fully on board with Wales becoming an independent nation (same for Scotland), but that has absolutely nothing to do with any dislike of the English. It's purely down to the belief that we would be better off as a nation running our own affairs rather than being a tiny part of a much larger nation and having to do whatever they say.
He's sitting on a field of clouds I've always wondered how they get those boring clouds up into the sky I imagine one of those hooks like you used to open your classroom windows with that is on a really long Pole just don't know how they give them to stick
+lfc lee If you knew anything about Welsh history you'd know that symbol doesn't represnt Wales at all, it's an English symbol representing an English snob.
Scottish and I don't know why British people need to identify themselves as being nationalities which haven't been independent for hundreds of years. Wish we could all just agree we're British and move on
I am British. I am also Welsh. Someone can't be Welsh but not British but can be British and not Welsh. That's how our country is. It's called the United Kingdom because we all used to be our own individual kingdom. But now we're united. Thats Why someone can be Welsh, Scottish, Or Scumglish.
I understand that but I think it serves to divide us more than anything else. We're barely the size of a US state as a whole and we all have increasingly different systems for education and government. I wish we could drop the differences and identify soley as British. Scotland in particular is too nationalistic and I feel that wouldn't be the case if everybody just identified as British. I understand it can never happen, just a pipe dream of mine
David McGinness Why? The British anthem is the English anthem and includes a verse on crushing the Scots, Wales aren't even represented in the flag and we're all expected to swear allegiance to some English family who who won the genepool lottery
+David Edwards Remember when you said "The lowlands of Scotland have a strong Germanic influence." You were only partially right, Edinburgh may have Germanic influence as it was once part of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria. I am from Glasgow, South-West Scotland, and the strongest concentration of Germanic influence is the extreme South-East part of Scotland, so I am mostly Celtic, I have Gael blood, possibly Brythonic blood too and a maybe a bit of Norman blood!
I've worked all over Britain and the only place I was made to feel unwelcome was Wales. I've been called an "English bastard" in Glasgow, but there was no malice in it. Wales however and specifically Anglesey was a different matter.
I think you're being a bit harsh on him. He's a comedian who is known for ranting angry logic. I like him, but from personal experience I think he's wrong about the Welsh. Not all of them I might add. I've worked in Wales many times without incident, but the only place I have had problems because of my nationality is Wales.
I'm an arab in the UK who became a teenager post 9/11. Just a little free thinking and maybe there wouldn’t have been so much prejudice, and maybe I'd feel comfortable in the country in which I live.
I find too many English people to be clueless about Ireland. Somehow the ones I've happened to talk to don't know the clear difference between the actual Irish accent and the Scots Irish accent of the North.
Many of them don't even know where their country ends and another begins. I don't expect them to know details about the famine or 1916, but a basic grasp of their own country's geography shouldn't be too much to ask
Okay fine then devolution out of a whinging nationalistic middle class tenth rate twattery of people who can't remember that Englishman Irishmen Scotsmen and Welsh, manxmen and channel islanders have all fought, bled, and built families together.
You're forgetting that we've also fought and bled against one another. However, just because we've fought together doesn't mean each country shouldn't have the right to self determination. Devolution out of true democracy to the Welsh public, and devolution is just the beginning.
Right you damn well listen hear, more Englishmen and Welshmen have died together in the last five hundred years than have ever fought against one another for the preceding five thousand. Jones although typically welsh sounding to you and I is actually the second most common english surname after Smith. Your ancestors were once English from the Norman conquest and at no point would your ancestors have done anything but fought against the nationalists and the English. We have been breeding and moving around for hundreds of years are you genuinely telling me you are 'pure' welsh. Read a fucking book.
Have you read what I said? Never mentioned that I was "pure" Welsh? What has that got to do with devolution? I know countless people from all over Wales, different backgrounds, ethnicity's and religion that believe in further devolution. Why? for a stronger say in Wales, and experience true democracy for the first time. And don't lecture me on my ancestors and my surnames origin, I can assure you Jones the surname is derived from Ap John, and when colonization begun it changed to Jones.
James Leith You seem to be concentrating too much on the past, Independence isn't about what happened thousands of years ago, Its about today and how we want to change the future.
I do not have an easy time classifying myself with a national identity. My father is of Italian descent, my maternal grandfather is of Scotch-Irish descent, my maternal grandmother is of German descent, and, as you might suspect, I am a natural citizen of the United States of America. Diversity is important, but America is so diverse that there is no truly common set of values and perspectives to which I can refer and say "I am (or am not) a typical Italian-German-Scotch-Irish-American."
Edward I has a well-earned unfortunate reputation in Wales, what with his penchant for brutal conquests. But he's long dead and the huge and awesome castles he built remain.
Turns out that when your main objectives are to cut benefits for disabled people, starve the NHS of funds, make protesting illegal, and drown refugees in the Channel, people tend to think of you as bullies. Who knew? Looks like most of the country increasingly feels the same way, given the Tories' poll numbers. Tick tock. :)
"They prefer Rugby more than football, which is quite right" A depressingly unpopular opinion "I support Wales in the Rugby" He is officially my favourite person, surpassing Stephen Fry in a blaze of glory
+David Edwards You may think a Slav is easier to spot, but it depends very much on the place of origin and the looks of an individual rather than ethnicity itself. I come from Slavic country and my ancestors have lived here for as long as we know it, yet when travelling with my husband (also Slavic) across Ireland no one recognised our ethnicity, until we told where we were coming from. Many people actually wouldn't know we were foreigners unless we started talking :)
David Edwards In my experience sometimes it is possible to recognise general ethnicity, but very often there are too many individual variations to be really sure. And of course there is genetic overlap due to ancient and modern migration, so the visual appearance is often depending more on familial traits rather than just whole ethnic or national population. As you undubtedly know, quite a lot of now germanic or slavic Europe used to be populated by Celtic peoples, so it's really no wonder we are not so much different from each other. :)
+David Edwards To be brutally honest, I'm not quite sure xD The thing is, I'm Slovene, but to this day I still don't know (and I suspect most of our scholars don't either) which Slavic subgroup we belong to. But basically we are a small nation quite strongly influenced by neighbouring nations (Italians, Austrians, Hungarians, Croatians) culturally and, I imagine, also genetically to some extent.
I’m an Englishman who grew up most of my life in Wales and while the Welsh don’t particularly like the English, it’s feels more of a formality where they must dislike us because their parents disliked the English and their parents before them. I never felt like I was going to get my head kicked in, so that’s a positive.
Considering what the Tories have done to this country over the last decade, yes, it is. Hope you never have to call an ambulance, it's a twelve hour wait now!
David, the scary news nearly always came from the North of Ireland, that tragic place. I would entreat you to visit the Republic of Ireland some day and see for yourself. You would be more than welcome.
The English make me laugh when they spout hatred for the Germans. There is no such thing as English pride because Englishman have no Brithonic blood. They are anglo saxon who were of corse primarily .... Germanic. Sweet irony.
+Rhys Thomas I don't really think anyone is mad about Germany, at least not any more. I think it's mostly just France. It's basically the only country that everyone accepts it's okay to be a little bit racist toward.
+Rhys Thomas You should look in to Oppenheimer's studies on British genealogy. According to him, most native Brits, whether Scottish, Irish, Welsh or English are actually the descendants of the people that lived here before the Celts and Germanic hoardes. I'm not entirely convinced by it, but the guy seems widely respected.
James Leith you blithering idiot you have no idea who I am yet assume I have English blood, a typically English response. Half Welsh gone back about 180 years on the family tree and my other half is from Norway.
One. We have been interbreeding for hundreds of years and this island is thousands of years old. Are you telling me you are 'pure' welsh. From your surname alone we can deduce your ancestors fought for the maintenance of the Union with England against the Nationalists. Two. Pray do tell me what does the second page of your Passport say? because I am pretty sure it says, Teyrnas Gyfunol Prydain Fawr a Gogledd Iwerddon. - PS. Despite YOUR assumptions I am. Scottish.
Being a Yorkshireman living in Gwynedd, neither of David's solutions inspire me. Yorkshire and Wales should however, form together to make a supercountry, taking morrisons, beef and pudding with us.
"For the sake of fairness I suppose I ought to add that I was once nearly beaten up in Cardiff ......... By a Scottsman."
Brilliant tone, hilariaty.
'The Scots come off as violent'
I was about to instinctively contest that but...aye fair play
I think they come off as sexy, manly.......Ok, a bit violent.
It's true, but it's also important never to say that to a scotsman's face.
Unless you want a broken nose.
@@asterozoan My friend once got called rude and his response was “Fuck off”.
I’m gonna glass him so hard next time I see him at the festival...
I find the Scots really quite friendly after I tell them a few offensive jokes about the English 😅
l'm English and Welsh so l have to attack myself on a regular basis
My family is English, Scottish, Irish, Welsh, and Scotch-Irish (_i.e.,_ American descendants of Ulster Scots). No wonder I'm confused! I didn't realize until the last decade or so just how horrible all my ancestors were to one another!
Allan Jones I'm irish and english so I have to bomb myself regularly
Einstein was right, nationalism is infantile
Bob Bobson rofl
Good 1 m8 :D
Jakob Fledelius every now and again I decide to starve myself almost until the point of extinction also
1:32 Ok Afghanistan you've got 9 years left....
PavarottiAardvark see you in 9 years
@@grassmonkeyO5 For the record I think it's best if we allow "genial stand-ups and chains of trendy coffee bars"
Afghanistan is so 10 years ago. Now it's Syria we'll be hoping consists of chains of nail parlours and Pets At Home in 2030 😕
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@@grassmonkeyO5 a year has passed, don't you let yourself stray from your commitment.
I remember when the things most readily associated with Afghanistan where coats and dogs
Don't forget the opium and weed. Though to be fair Afghanistan has always been known as a harsh land that is hell on invaders/governments. The Brits should of known about that before the war on terror. The First Anglo-Afghan war in 1839-1842 went pretty badly. It's some times referred to as The Disaster in Afghanistan by the British.
And rugs...
And heroin.
And for those who like history, tension between Britain and Russia
@@leathery420 Unconquerable, just about everyone who's tried has been destroyed, The Russian Empire, The British Empire, The Soviet Union, the US empire.... The problem is several fold, its mostly rural, the people are divided between several hostile ethnicities and tribal or religious groups. Easy to incade but impossible to occupy, I implore every political and military leader to save their trouble and the people of Afghanistan the trouble by simply not bothering to invade. You'll save money. You'll save lives. You'll preserve respectibility, all you have to do is not invade Afghanistan.
David Mitchell is so well liked that he can pretty much insult everyone in the British Isles and it all just gets laughed off as a bit of banter.
But he didn't like an amusing tweet I once sent him, so he can jolly well fuck off.
Being a Southerner I have a soft spot for the Welsh too, well said David.
Seeing a Harry Partridge comment in the wild is so magical.
You rock sir! :)
I am a northerner and have a soft spot for the French and Australians
@@Zareena23 the french??
Didnt expect to see you here, even though its been in 10 years
Well, this was unexpected to see 😂
Last summer, I visited Wales for a weekend and quite liked it. I'm disappointed in not seeing more of it (I can't drive stick and my mom can't drive on the left), but I loved the landscape and the language. I've always been fascinated by the Roman Britain, and Wales is basically what's left of it.
+Sam Huddy you were very lucky if it was sunny. its raining as i write this. XD
A lot of Wales wasn't under Roman remit.
roman wales? apart from a few roads you are better off visiting England my friend
Wales was the one of the few parts that wasnt under roman occupation
@@ketchuplad157 The romans did conquer wales starting within a decade of the initial invasion of britain and ending at the start of agricolas governorship in the 80s ad
Wales actually had it's bout of Nationalist Anti-English terrorism in the 60s all the way through to the late 80s with the likes of the FWA, MAC, Sons of Glyndwr, Gethin ap Gruffydd etc which came about for a couple of reasons including the flooding of welsh towns to supply England with water. There were quite a few bombings over Wales a few in England, a dam construction site and water lines going to Liverpool were blown up, a few hundred English holiday homes were set on fire, letter bombs were sent to politicians etc, They received arms from the IRA and Basque separatists and paraded with them.
Not much media coverage was given to it though because they didn't want to give them the publicity.
+Loaf Bloke Meibion Glyndwr was most likely an MI5 front created to destroy growing Welsh nationalism.
A friend of mine got speaking to one of them in llanberis, apparently the militant groups were far smaller than they portrayed themselves
jasper clough somewhat unrelatedly reminds me of how the Nazis started counting their members from 500 to make it look like they had more members.
certainly nationalism is a populist tool devised to shift attention away from systemic issues, but I don't see the benefit for english institutions to make wales full of nationalists and anti-english sentiment?
Welsh Nationalism can't really be styled 'anti-English terrorism'... It was based on a desire for self-rule and some of the notable targets for armed struggle were tax offices. There weren't any shootings let alone paramilitary activity unless you want to include in that the much publicised 'suicide corgis'... little dogs with suicide vests laced with semtex. These didn't really exist but were claimed in the press to stir up the necessary public outrage required to make any cause glorious or heinous depending on your slant.
hahaha! As a Scot, I enjoyed this alot. If you cant have a bit of banter, then what can you have!!
A pint, followed by a bit of banter
Independence? ;)
@Dawson Davis the ones you're referring to are dead if it makes you feel any better
Dawson Davis you all benefit from the economy of England. This is why I don’t like nationalism (not saying you are one) they complain about paying for their own utilities, and their own assembly, but then they complain that Westminster doesn’t pay enough attention to them. That’s because you have your own government that Westminster pays into to do what you want.
Up the Celts ay
so glad I found this channel. please keep ranting David!
"maybe it's the terrorism" I had to pause the video i laughed so hard at that.
An englishman, irishman, scotsman and welshman all walk into a pub. The landlord says "Is this some kind of joke?!"
These videos are such wonderful education on the general culture of the UK and the subtleties of differences between those people living on those two large islands off the coast of Europe.
I think I speak for most Welshman when I say "you are officially adopted David!".
The accent isn't a problem, I'm Welsh and am always being accused of being from Bristol or Dorset and once, bizarrely, from Australia.
I think the best thing about the Welsh is that we have a sense of humour about ourselves. You can guarantee the first 'Sheep Joke' will be told by the Welshman at a party. The only downside to our nature is our tendency to self-criticise.
Having spent time in both wales and Ireland the people are very similar.. drunk and happy 🏴 🇮🇪
I notice that you capitalize Ireland, but not Wales. What's up with that?
@@waynemarvin5661 hah
As they say, the Welsh are the Irish who couldn’t swim. Brothers indeed !
@jonnytrueblue8407 That's true I've actually seen a few irish people passout in welsh house parties sitting in a Kitchen till 7 am off our bins on 🍻❄️😬💊 not anymore though those days are behind me 😂
Okay, I'm Welsh myself, and it must be said, you're really not making up for the loss of some Yorkie-pud-puds with some rarebit, they're not equal, Yorkshire puddings are much better than a fancy name for cheese on toast... Equally, you would get Welsh cakes with that swap, so it's fucking worth it!
I guess that would depend on how you make your rarebit. We always made the cheese with a nice sharp crumbly Cheddar, butter, and a half pint of lager all smoothed together in a double boiler with dried mustard or Worcestershire sauce. Then we poured it over thick slices of dry toast and ate as is or (my preferred method) baked it for half an hour until it's all golden brown and puffy. Mushy peas on the side. Maybe this isn't real Welsh rarebit, but the Welsh-American version. All's I know is that it beats Yorkshire pudding, which is basically baked pancake batter, all to hell.
nohrt4me no no your rarebit sounds pretty good and accurate to me.
nohrt4me Oh god. I can't decide now. See,Welsh rarebit is a culinary delight wrapped up in a coronary failure, but yorkies are essential with any roast beef and gravy,, and done properly, they are enough to make a fat man cry.
***** Maybe you could put the rarebit sauce on a yorkie and die young but happy. FWIW, I'm looking at recipes of Yorkshire pudding with pictures, and have to say they appear more appetizing than the flaccid, putty-colored messes my auntie used to serve under that name.
nohrt4me get them right and they are the food of the gods. Get them wrong, and they are a greasy sponge that will make you gag.
I can't think of how to word it, but there is a joke to be written about Welsh people being likened to the biblical figure Jonah.
They are 'in Wales', you see.
Jonah only lived in one whale. At, least there's nothing in the Bible about him moving to another one.
Here's the joke: how do you get two whales in a car
@@alexchatter692 Ask Jonah to drive?
I'm American, and I only understood about 25% of the references made in this video, but I still found it refreshing. David Mitchell is nothing short of genius.
I think it's kind of astounding how Great Britain still has these extremely distinct, proud nations in it that still keep their own identities so strongly. Sure there are southern Americans and Mid-west and new yorkers, but they're still all American. I don't think there's another place in the world with so many groups that secretly (or not so secretly) hate each other, still managing to keep together in one mostly united country.
The big question is - how much longer before it all collapses in flames?
Thank you, darling.
I went to Cardiff. Couldn't find Torchwood anywhere.
Did you find the Ianto memorial?
@@danielyeshe No - didn't have time to look for it. It was a day-trip from London to find Torchwood, and all the available time went into that.
@@sylviaelse5086 For next time it is in Cardiff Bay.
But he did get bummed by Jack Barrowman.
Come and live with us, David. We will look after you, David. We can all live happily ever after, David.
"they prefer rugby to football which is quite right" so so true!
Being from Leeds, i've often said that The People's Republic of Yorkshire would be the best place in the world to live. We're so fiercely loyal; not to England, but to Yorkshire.
We're not bitter, it's just that Yorkshire seems to have grown detached from the rest of England (like Norfolk and the West Country) but we like where we live, so we stick by it.
Wales is also cool, but if you've ever heard the Stereophonics RUGBY SONG 'So Long as we Best the English', you'd have different views.
We'll things have certainly changed in Wales in 2021 with record numbers wanting independence at about one quarter of the population in the most recent poll!
As a Yorkshireman, I love that suggestion! We could even join Scotland to make things easier!
As long as you all learn 20 basic Scots words and 6 Gaelic ones
7 years ago but now strangely relevant!
1:00 Based England
Wales is a lovely place. Very peaceful and scenic.
@MisterZimbabwe haha :) i actually know a guy who went on an exchange to america, and convinced the entire family he was staying with that he was a haggis hunter and wore only kilts (he told them he bought the clothes he was wearing specially to use while in the US). needless to say there was an awkward moment when the american kid came to scotland a few months later :P
I'm a Yorkshireman and Scottish. Considering how much we agree on, joining up wouldn't be such a bad idea!
Honestly, I never would have taken David for a rugby fan...but I'm glad he is! :)
You surely didn't think he was a football fan?
I don't know who I'm supposed to hate!! I'm 33% Irish and the rest of me is Welsh,Scot and dare I admit it English with a bit of Scandinavian for good measure. I did enjoy your Welsh soapbox David. Very amusing!
I'm Irish so this was kind of insulting but it still cracked me up!
As for the English I don't know why I've never warmed to the English maybe its the state sponsored terrorism . Or the obliteration of my people .
I'm just guessing here, but I think David Mitchell is being funny and not therefore, to be taken too seriously...
Funny about the Irish, Scots and English, but serious about preferring the Welsh.
I think he might be a little serious about the Welsh, we are quite friendly
Well duhhh of course captain obvious! David Mitchell is a comedian!
1:30 That afghanistan thing did age about as well as one might expect
Never been more happy to be Welsh
I’ve always suspected that a Scottish greeting is a drunken headbutt.
Then again, as an American, you probably think I would greet you with some overt racism, a large hamburger, and a firearm...
Wait. That last part is probably actually true.
Am from Alabama, cam confirm all 3 parts. Although chicken/ barbecue is more traditional, but Bavarians don’t wear lederhosen anymore. So...
I'll take the hamburger and the firearm with pleasure!
more firearms than people. honestly its about time we gave them to right to vote, its their country now
A drunken headbutt in Scotland is known as the Glasgow kiss. 🤕
Aye a Scot might greet after a Glasgae kiss
the most hilarious part about this video is that it never moves away from the sheep background
rightly so I guess
Hoffwch y neges hwn os ydych yn Gymraeg!
I think you missed a few vowels there.
Did you type out a sneeze?
2 sad attempts at humor there. Keep trying lads eventually you might accidentally type something funny
The very crude Google translate from Welsh to English: "Please send this message if you are in Welsh!". I'm assuming the 'said' means thumbs up? Cheekily, I did it anyway (basically, pretending to be cooler and more interesting than what I am).
Existential eida gont
Extra points for your particularly well sourced and reasoned argument.
I'm from Yorkshire and I think that's a great idea.
No you're English.
a stupid genius Being from Yorkshire and being English are, funnily enough, not mutually exclusive.
But if they were... sigh.
But they were...?
Have I missed something I'm American and just Googled 'Yorkshire' and it said it was in England. I thought I was just correcting you.
a stupid genius Basically a lot of Yorkshire doesn't like England (or at least the south) because of the Tories and Margaret Thatcher etc etc.
Of my 8 great grandparents 5 were Irish, 2 were Scots and 1 was English.
No Welsh, I'm afraid, but I have it under good authority (my parents') that I was conceived in Wales, whilst they were on holiday in Llandudno. Does that count? ;)
Wales is my favoruite part of Britain, but not Ireland on the grounds that it isnt in Britain. Its a whole boat ride away, a small boat ride, but a boat ride never the less.
Wales is a hidden gem. It has the best beaches anywhere in the world - better than California or Seychelles. Seriously.
Ireland isn't in Britain? Only the southern bit.
@@nannite If you'll allow me to be pedantic, none of Ireland is in Britain. The island of Great Britain forms the vast bulk of England, Wales and Scotland which in turn is surrounded by hundreds of smaller islands such as Wight, Scillies, Anglesey, Skye, Mull etc.
@@jamesknightvo On the other hand, Britain refers to the British Isles, which the entire island of Ireland is a part of. It is only Great Britain that refers specifically to the largest island of the British Isles. So saying that Ireland is in Britain is correct, but saying that Ireland is in Great Britain is incorrect.
@@PGraveDigger1 Incorrect.
Well, the British Isles is not a political term, but a geographical, and it refers to Great Britain, Ireland and around a thousand other islands.
It's a bit like Scandinavia, in that for example Sweden and Denmark are both Scandinavian nations, but quite different.
8 years till Afghanistan is no longer scary lets go
I’m pretty sure the clock got reset recently.
I'm part Welsh myself. Come to think of it, David, you look surprising like my brother.
@@raymondhughes7972 I think someone's had too much whiskey in their tea
"...by a Scottsman"
I'm in tears 😂
Just to blow your mind, there is a village called Wales in South Yorkshire. Just south of J31 M1, near Rother Valley, Sheffield.
Maybe it's the terrorism
Still relevant.
Plaid cymru, a free wales is all i want.
As a Lancastrian, this pleases me
You're English, not 'Lancasterian'.
Nope, i'm Lancastrian first and then i'm English.
Is this idiot serious?
You're English you idiot.
Ye sorry you're right, I'M the idiot
Seriously though, was you joking?
This is, perhaps, the greatest piece of videography I have ever seen - and I include the video of the panda sneezing. Da iawn Dai bach.
1:00 what's wrong with being right-wing
What's good about it?
Aha! Like most English folk, you and I are also Welsh, Scottish and Irish in part. Born in Cornwall, lived in Yorkshire, the Midlands and London... odd that we have such strong views about the people from different areas when genetically we are actually much more similar than any group of foreigners.
This. I’m an American living in Britain, and I once witnessed a drunken spat at the Edinburgh Festival where somebody wasn’t being let into a bar and either the Englishman or the Scotsman involved called the other party “racist”. I’m not sure what these people’s notion of “race” is but I don’t see how it could possibly apply to these two groups. Maybe it’s just that American racism is so blatant and scary that any of the squabbles between U.K. nations (apart from perhaps Ireland historically) come off as kind of silly.
It's strange how everytime I speak to an Englishman it will eventually lead to a converation about terrorism.
I think it's because it happened
Yeah thats pretty bad cant believe people do that.
It must be like the troubles for you. What do you think!?
I’m watching this is 2021 and thinking, “My God he looks young!”
As an Italian who tries to go to Wales every 6 months I can confirm this is true, many think they're all anti-english but as far as I've seen thats only really between the rugby lovers and extremely welsh and proud granddads and grandmas , but even they don't hate the English (just the government occasionally) apart from when they beat them in rugby of course:)
I 100% recommend trying to visit north or west Wales if you ever have a free week (at least):)
"Obviously the news is much less scary now and that's terrific, but perceptions like that take a while to change". Fast forward a little over 10 years to 2020...
l'm also Mancunian, which is much more important
Remember when Gareth Bale was a defender on Tottenham then magically started scoring goals then fastforward he became a winger on Real Madrid, the welsh have some greats, like Giggs. I'm an American so i understand being disappointed
Wales and England have a lot in common - we both came out of the Roman province Britannia. Scotland & Ireland were never part of the Roman Empire. Wales & England share common origins. BTW - I'm a Welsh nationalist anglophone. I want an independent Wales but wish only the best for an independent England - and Scotland of course!
don't forget that the brittania youre speaking of does not include the anglo-saxon-jute-dane people who settled in england who have no connection with the welsh.
England was formed after the Saxons invaded and pushed the native Britons to what is now Wales and Cornwall. The English are Germanic genetically and culturally.
there's still debate as to how many were "pushed" to the west and how many were massacred.
what benefit would an independent wales have for the people there? Government spending there is 110% of UK average (source:www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-25039137) whilst government revenue is lower than in any other uk nation (source:www.ifs.org.uk/publications/6881). Just to clarify, I am not in any way annoyed by this as lower income areas should receive higher government spending.
There's a reason the English language is still called Saxon in Welsh... Honestly, as an Englishman living in Wales, I don't think independence is good for Wales right now, but I still vote Plaid - primarily because the measures they want to introduce in order to make Wales ready for independence are all inherently good for Wales anyway.
i got stabbed in wales.. by a welshman.
nonetheless, i despise my worryingly ignorant fellow englishmen than i do the welsh.. they're just generally nice people.
I'm 1/4 Welsh (the rest is Irish, German, and "Colonial", which in the U.S. means "English people who got a head start on everyone else") However, if I had to pick an ethnicity, I'd choose Welsh, for many of the reasons David mentions here.
If he finds the news from Ireland much less scary, he's not been reading the financial pages.
'Support England in the cricket' you do realise England means England and Wales in this context?
@MrNorthernSol because they didn't care about cricket, it's shite
As a Welsh-born person with English parents who lives in Yorkshire, I feel somewhat conflicted by your proposals :P
& thanks for not actually mentioning sheep :)
The advantage that the Irish, Scotts, and the Welsh have over the English is that we're used to different cultures, and we're quite accepting of the fact that the English culture surrounds us all the time, but whenever it is reversed and i speak a sentence in my native Welsh language, the English are all too prepared to call me rude and ignorant. The irony.
To be fair, we gave you a common language to talk to all your neighbors and you still use your own.
It's like giving back a present.
Jk
That's because we don't understand Welsh, and assume you're insulting us.
Wow you truly are the epitome of acceptance, basing an entire culture on a personal experience. and just saying English people don't accept other cultures doesn't make it true, England has a more diverse ethnic population even when accounting for population numbers.
So you think that every word that's spoken in Welsh in your presence is an insult towards you? It's incredibly self centred of you to think that we'd be speaking about you at all.
Let's change the scenario and imagine that an you and an English friend were having a conversation in the presence of an Italian man who didn't understand English. Why should that man be concerned that the conversation is about him?
no that wasnt the point he made he said you are purporting yourself to be a paragon of acceptance but youre judging 50million people on a few personal experiences.
thank you, someone else who says they're British!!! i also support the Welsh in rugby, England in football and Scotland in curling or cycling, take your pick
00:40 "By AND Large", c'mon David
That's what he said. Problem?
@@rosiefay7283 Hmmm, it does kind of sound as though he's saying "by in large", which is incorrect
@@donnosplumbing1748 /ən/ is a perfectly standard pronunciation of ‘and’ in fast speech in modern British English
Cornwall. Never heard a bad word said about the place. They have their own flag and language too.
The comments on this video make me sad about my country, why do we all hate each other?
Miranda Lockhart god knows. Some primal need for more condensed tribalism and victimhood-pretending over something that never affected them, perhaps? And the subsequent stereotypes and prejudices that come as a result.
It is rather saddening.
Because people are idiots. As a society I like to think we are progressing forward and putting the "United" in United Kingdom into practice.
There's a good historical reason for the Welsh to be bitter at England. There's a good current reason to be bitter at the Westminster Government rule of Wales (which does not work in our favour at all). But there is no good reason to hate the English as a people. Over the past 8 centuries there has been a lot of interbreeding between English and Welsh people so the chances are that the vast majority of Welsh people have English ancestry in some form anyway. Personally, I consider myself Welsh as I've lived in Wales all my life, but I recently found out that my DNA is around 60% English.
Now, I'm fully on board with Wales becoming an independent nation (same for Scotland), but that has absolutely nothing to do with any dislike of the English. It's purely down to the belief that we would be better off as a nation running our own affairs rather than being a tiny part of a much larger nation and having to do whatever they say.
He's sitting on a field of clouds I've always wondered how they get those boring clouds up into the sky I imagine one of those hooks like you used to open your classroom windows with that is on a really long Pole just don't know how they give them to stick
WALES!!!!!! RULES!!!!!!! and we do not shag sheep (just saying)
Lewis Daly Yeahhhh.. It just kind of says something that you mention that last bit, unsolicited....B^D
Telstar62a Well, it's commonly said I guess!
I also like the Welsh ^_^
screw u
+Telstar62a LOLing at that. Yup struck me a bit, "He doth protest too much" too.
+lfc lee If you knew anything about Welsh history you'd know that symbol doesn't represnt Wales at all, it's an English symbol representing an English snob.
Went Yorkshire once from my home in Wales found hills miners and friendly people home from home
Scottish and I don't know why British people need to identify themselves as being nationalities which haven't been independent for hundreds of years. Wish we could all just agree we're British and move on
I am British. I am also Welsh. Someone can't be Welsh but not British but can be British and not Welsh. That's how our country is. It's called the United Kingdom because we all used to be our own individual kingdom. But now we're united. Thats Why someone can be Welsh, Scottish, Or Scumglish.
I understand that but I think it serves to divide us more than anything else. We're barely the size of a US state as a whole and we all have increasingly different systems for education and government.
I wish we could drop the differences and identify soley as British.
Scotland in particular is too nationalistic and I feel that wouldn't be the case if everybody just identified as British. I understand it can never happen, just a pipe dream of mine
Because "Britishness" is seen as inherently English
Y Cymro I strongly disagree
David McGinness Why? The British anthem is the English anthem and includes a verse on crushing the Scots, Wales aren't even represented in the flag and we're all expected to swear allegiance to some English family who who won the genepool lottery
+David Edwards Remember when you said "The lowlands of Scotland have a strong Germanic influence." You were only partially right, Edinburgh may have Germanic influence as it was once part of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria. I am from Glasgow, South-West Scotland, and the strongest concentration of Germanic influence is the extreme South-East part of Scotland, so I am mostly Celtic, I have Gael blood, possibly Brythonic blood too and a maybe a bit of Norman blood!
I've worked all over Britain and the only place I was made to feel unwelcome was Wales. I've been called an "English bastard" in Glasgow, but there was no malice in it. Wales however and specifically Anglesey was a different matter.
I think you're being a bit harsh on him. He's a comedian who is known for ranting angry logic. I like him, but from personal experience I think he's wrong about the Welsh. Not all of them I might add. I've worked in Wales many times without incident, but the only place I have had problems because of my nationality is Wales.
I highly doubt that, in Wales you will get insults for being Welsh. What hatred did you experience?
unfortunately, even now, anti english sentiment prevails in north wales
Yeah and fcking anti- welsh sentiment to! Welsh are a minority over here......................full of mancs and scousers.
hey you can insult the scousers but leave alone the mancs
I'm from Yorkshire, and he's right!
Deal! Yorkshire can just join with Scotland. :D
I'm an arab in the UK who became a teenager post 9/11.
Just a little free thinking and maybe there wouldn’t have been so much prejudice, and maybe I'd feel comfortable in the country in which I live.
I find too many English people to be clueless about Ireland. Somehow the ones I've happened to talk to don't know the clear difference between the actual Irish accent and the Scots Irish accent of the North.
Many of them don't even know where their country ends and another begins. I don't expect them to know details about the famine or 1916, but a basic grasp of their own country's geography shouldn't be too much to ask
I have meet quite a few English people that didn't even know Northern Ireland was separated from the rest of Ireland or that it was part of UK.
Rob Brydon would be so proud
"They're not always moaning on about the English" Ahem... yes. Yes they are.
oh that last part was like a sugar treat with a mental check up
Devolution out of politeness? Hardly.
Okay fine then devolution out of a whinging nationalistic middle class tenth rate twattery of people who can't remember that Englishman Irishmen Scotsmen and Welsh, manxmen and channel islanders have all fought, bled, and built families together.
You're forgetting that we've also fought and bled against one another. However, just because we've fought together doesn't mean each country shouldn't have the right to self determination.
Devolution out of true democracy to the Welsh public, and devolution is just the beginning.
Right you damn well listen hear, more Englishmen and Welshmen have died together in the last five hundred years than have ever fought against one another for the preceding five thousand. Jones although typically welsh sounding to you and I is actually the second most common english surname after Smith. Your ancestors were once English from the Norman conquest and at no point would your ancestors have done anything but fought against the nationalists and the English. We have been breeding and moving around for hundreds of years are you genuinely telling me you are 'pure' welsh. Read a fucking book.
Have you read what I said? Never mentioned that I was "pure" Welsh? What has that got to do with devolution? I know countless people from all over Wales, different backgrounds, ethnicity's and religion that believe in further devolution. Why? for a stronger say in Wales, and experience true democracy for the first time.
And don't lecture me on my ancestors and my surnames origin, I can assure you Jones the surname is derived from Ap John, and when colonization begun it changed to Jones.
James Leith You seem to be concentrating too much on the past, Independence isn't about what happened thousands of years ago, Its about today and how we want to change the future.
I do not have an easy time classifying myself with a national identity. My father is of Italian descent, my maternal grandfather is of Scotch-Irish descent, my maternal grandmother is of German descent, and, as you might suspect, I am a natural citizen of the United States of America. Diversity is important, but America is so diverse that there is no truly common set of values and perspectives to which I can refer and say "I am (or am not) a typical Italian-German-Scotch-Irish-American."
More sheep in England though .
Edward I has a well-earned unfortunate reputation in Wales, what with his penchant for brutal conquests. But he's long dead and the huge and awesome castles he built remain.
It’s so tiresome hearing that “right wing” is bad by leftists.
Turns out that when your main objectives are to cut benefits for disabled people, starve the NHS of funds, make protesting illegal, and drown refugees in the Channel, people tend to think of you as bullies. Who knew? Looks like most of the country increasingly feels the same way, given the Tories' poll numbers. Tick tock. :)
@@dswrabkln4900 You are delusional
What's your problem? Don't like being on the wrong side of history?
what would you rather them say? that its good? that would be rather confusing coming from a leftist.
As a poncy southron type who lives in York, I'd be happy to have the ability to visit Wales more easily.
Maybe it's the terrorism hahaha
"They prefer Rugby more than football, which is quite right"
A depressingly unpopular opinion
"I support Wales in the Rugby"
He is officially my favourite person, surpassing Stephen Fry in a blaze of glory
The English are 60% Celtic who think they are Saxon or Norman toffs.
It sounds logical, given the evidence.
thats scientifically right but dont tell this to certain groups, it doesnt fit their narrative!
+David Edwards
You may think a Slav is easier to spot, but it depends very much on the place of origin and the looks of an individual rather than ethnicity itself.
I come from Slavic country and my ancestors have lived here for as long as we know it, yet when travelling with my husband (also Slavic) across Ireland no one recognised our ethnicity, until we told where we were coming from. Many people actually wouldn't know we were foreigners unless we started talking :)
David Edwards
In my experience sometimes it is possible to recognise general ethnicity, but very often there are too many individual variations to be really sure.
And of course there is genetic overlap due to ancient and modern migration, so the visual appearance is often depending more on familial traits rather than just whole ethnic or national population.
As you undubtedly know, quite a lot of now germanic or slavic Europe used to be populated by Celtic peoples, so it's really no wonder we are not so much different from each other. :)
+David Edwards
To be brutally honest, I'm not quite sure xD The thing is, I'm Slovene, but to this day I still don't know (and I suspect most of our scholars don't either) which Slavic subgroup we belong to.
But basically we are a small nation quite strongly influenced by neighbouring nations (Italians, Austrians, Hungarians, Croatians) culturally and, I imagine, also genetically to some extent.
Heartily agree, my family are all from north Wales but would never support separation from the UK, it makes no sense politically or economically.
Ireland ain’t part of Britain anyway lol
Northern
Alfie Coates
Yes the North Part of an Island is part of a completely different island because that’s how geography works.
@@autismobinch135 I think you're confusing islands with countries. It's not a geographical issue, it's a political one.
Alfie Coates
Britian isn’t a country it’s an Island
The UK is a country
You’re wrong
I’m an Englishman who grew up most of my life in Wales and while the Welsh don’t particularly like the English, it’s feels more of a formality where they must dislike us because their parents disliked the English and their parents before them. I never felt like I was going to get my head kicked in, so that’s a positive.
weird that David implies having a left wing government is a good thing.
To be fair, being able to elect one when it is warranted is a good thing.
It's a good thing for the vast majority, for working people
Considering what the Tories have done to this country over the last decade, yes, it is. Hope you never have to call an ambulance, it's a twelve hour wait now!
David, the scary news nearly always came from the North of Ireland, that tragic place. I would entreat you to visit the Republic of Ireland some day and see for yourself. You would be more than welcome.
The English make me laugh when they spout hatred for the Germans. There is no such thing as English pride because Englishman have no Brithonic blood. They are anglo saxon who were of corse primarily .... Germanic. Sweet irony.
+Rhys Thomas I don't really think anyone is mad about Germany, at least not any more. I think it's mostly just France. It's basically the only country that everyone accepts it's okay to be a little bit racist toward.
+Rhys Thomas You should look in to Oppenheimer's studies on British genealogy. According to him, most native Brits, whether Scottish, Irish, Welsh or English are actually the descendants of the people that lived here before the Celts and Germanic hoardes. I'm not entirely convinced by it, but the guy seems widely respected.
Rhys, you blithering idiot it's not as if you don't have English blood in you.
James Leith you blithering idiot you have no idea who I am yet assume I have English blood, a typically English response. Half Welsh gone back about 180 years on the family tree and my other half is from Norway.
One. We have been interbreeding for hundreds of years and this island is thousands of years old. Are you telling me you are 'pure' welsh. From your surname alone we can deduce your ancestors fought for the maintenance of the Union with England against the Nationalists. Two. Pray do tell me what does the second page of your Passport say? because I am pretty sure it says, Teyrnas Gyfunol Prydain Fawr a Gogledd Iwerddon. - PS. Despite YOUR assumptions I am. Scottish.
Being a Yorkshireman living in Gwynedd, neither of David's solutions inspire me. Yorkshire and Wales should however, form together to make a supercountry, taking morrisons, beef and pudding with us.