[Livia]

Originally Posted by toby843

What my point was, is that, as we, quite rightly, accept a steady incoming stream of asylum seekers we constantly integrate other cultures and religions and different ways of life into our own, we must make sure we don't forget our own national identity. Thats what I meant. As a serving member of HM forces I agree 100% with you on our countries crowning glory.

(Thanks for the nice intro too)

Dave is discriminating because the Bible tells him to. He's following a set of rules. It is the rules that are wrong, and it's the lawmakers and the Church (and I don't mean just Christians) itself that needs to think deeply about it.

It'll be two weeks on Saturday since I was at a village fair that was decked out with flags. I realise that it's not the same in the inner city (I come from east London) but I do think that the Union Flag is being reclaimed from the BNP and other far-right fanatics. Slowly, but it's happening.

The arrival of newcomers to Britain has been going on since people invented the boat. The Vikings, the bloody Romans, the Huguenots, Jews, Muslims, Moors... this country is ever-changing. Even the language owes it beauty to the fact that it's made up of the best of other languages... every word that ends 'able' or 'ible' or 'tion' is a French word. We're a patchwork quilt of a country and we always have been really. Ever changing and ever the same.

Always nice to talk to someone serving in the Forces.