What happened to mighty England?

Lol, that makes no sense.

SO you can ONLY be British if your ancestors emigrated to Britain before 1973. From this point on you can -NEVER- be British?

This is why you are a troll.

I'm going to come to the OP's aid here, because she bloody well needs it. Unfortunately, the views are presented in a bigoted and BNPesque manner. I think instead of wasting everyone's time by slating the OP, we should look to address issues that she (perhaps inadvertantly) raises.

What happened to national pride? Any citizen of the UK can feel patriotic, and should. Black, white, mixed or others are all British these days, and as has been pointed out, the success of our nation over the past millenium is due in part to our bastard nature. Britain is a great country, we should never forget this. We can moan about congestion charges and income tax etc 'till the cows come home, but we should be proud of our country and its achievments. We're a tiny island, yet have in the past controlled 3/4 of the known world. People say we shouldn't be bogged down by nostalgia, but we must remember such glory. Albion, the archaic term for Britain, invokes such pride in me as a descendant of ancesters who perhaps played a part in establishing Britain's greatness. To be regarded as the USA's strongest ally, despite our size, is phenomenal. We are the strongest power in the world in terms of land mass and population. The fact that immigration is booming is a compliment to the steady, responsible and glorious nature of our country. It is not detrimental to society.

The greatest paradox is that immigrants seem to have a greater love for Britain than existing citizens do. Sort this out. Have some pride, fellas.

Why doesn't it make sense?

I don't consider the million poles in Britain as British just because they're white. Do you?

No, that wasn't my point. The country has gone to the dogs and is nothing to be proud of.

You'd be the expert at that from what I've seen.

What about the ones that came here before 1973?

There are things that this country could improve on, as all countries could.

Just don't say that this country has "gone to the dogs" because some brown and black people have come to the country to try and make themselves better off.

I guess all indians and africans are really sittign around in knitted sweaters and drinking tea right?

ITT we eat up BBC propaganda and regurgitate it for all our fellow numb skulls to clap and offer support for.

I guess all indians and africans are really sittign around in knitted sweaters and drinking tea right?

This isn't just about immigration, though that is part of it.

The leftists in this country hack me off, as do the EU traitors.

What happened to mighty England?

Yes, they're British.

However, you're delusional in thinking that many if any poles came to Britain with the iron curtain still up

i dont quite follow. are you making a point or?

I used to be proud of how great we once were, of how we ruled the waves etc. But at the moment I am studying colonialism, which is really making me re-think my views. Our empire wasn't as great as it is made out to have been.

The nationality of the white immigrants is irrelevant. Setting such an arbitrary cut off date is bizarre.

ITT we eat up BBC propaganda and regurgitate it for all our fellow numb skulls to clap and offer support for.

I guess all indians and africans are really sittign around in knitted sweaters and drinking tea right?

Let's keep the spam, flame-baiting and offensiveness down, guys, or the thread will be locked.

Nationality?

LOL, you've heard of the soviet union right? There wasn't slavic immigration during a period of 50 ish years. Slavs who migrated to the Britain before this period of time i consider British. Those after, NOT