Dear EDL, THIS is why nobody likes you..
- Which brings me to the more contentious bit of the EDL's identity: its
claim to represent "the English". The problem with this claim is that a
hundred people will come up with a hundred ways of defining Englishness,
and each with disagree violently with the other. To quote George
Bernard Shaw: "It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth
without making some other Englishman hate or despise him." This is a
good thing by the way. Nations that are solidly cohesive can turn
exclusivist and nasty; there's something of the Vichy about France's
recent treatment of its Muslims and Roma.
(EDL - English Defense League)
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