tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4411161795798360588.post531434518523083584..comments2024-03-26T09:38:39.888+00:00Comments on Borthlas: Pot, kettle...John Dixonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07447224248021209852noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4411161795798360588.post-62274622628510064292012-06-12T18:26:55.521+01:002012-06-12T18:26:55.521+01:00I read the article in the Independent and I can...I read the article in the Independent and I can't help but wonder, does the paper choose representatives of a party who will write this kind of self-contradictory foolishness as a ploy to encourage people to vote elsewhere? <br />So his trip to Lebanon convinced him that nation building in Lebanon is necessary but nation building in Wales is abhorrent? <br />There is one thing I would like to thank Chris for. The phrase "Aunt Sally Politics" I've never heard that before and it fits the scene in America so well. The candidate who can buy the most television and advertising space is free to engage in these kinds of accusations while the opponent is pressed to refute them. <br />I will definitely be using that phrase a lot over here.Peter Freemanhttp://iantopf.hubpages.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4411161795798360588.post-54805495618593969962012-06-11T19:13:00.167+01:002012-06-11T19:13:00.167+01:00". . . the exaggerated belief in one's ow...". . . the exaggerated belief in one's own cultural heritage, the puffed-up, arbitrary and unmerited self-confidence, the swift denunciation of all that is alien or foreign. . ."<br /><br />That rings a bell. It reminds me of someone. Ahh, that's it! It is Chris Bryant!SiƓnnynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00021974709953206048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4411161795798360588.post-5334308531603525462012-06-11T11:50:44.803+01:002012-06-11T11:50:44.803+01:00He, also, confusingly, goes on in the column to sa...He, also, confusingly, goes on in the column to say that Lebanon needs a dose of 'nation building' ... that would be nationalism by another name! <br /><br />So 'nation building' is a 'good thing' (see 'nation building during Jubilee, Olympics, NHS etc). 'Nation building' or, to give it another term, 'nationism' is done by the dominant ethnic or political group within an already defined state. That's good.<br /><br />'Nationalism' is exactly the same thing but done by a nation or community which isn't fortunate to have it's own state. That's bad.<br /><br />And as for Bryants talk of eating Welsh cakes and listening to Tom Jones all day - is this man real? Who the hell does that?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com