Tuesday 5 May 2009

Getting Prescott's Continental Drift

"In countries like Africa, people queue up to vote. Whatever your political position, we hope you will vote and play a part because that's what it's all about." John Prescott campaigning for the Labour Party in York city centre today.

8 comments:

dearieme said...

People complained that Sarah Palin thought that South Africa was a region rather than a country.

hatfield girl said...

Angels complain that people think England is a region not a country, Dearieme.

Sebastian Weetabix said...

And there I was thinking that England was a nation, but not a country.

Anonymous said...

He's not altogether wrong. African voters may have more influence on British elections, than on elections in African countries!

Odin's Raven
(somehow the identity checker no longer recognises me.)

godless said...

no doubt he thinks they speak african in countires like africa

hatfield girl said...

That's because you are politically correct, as you should be, Mr W. We all must say 'nation' not 'tribe'and avoid i. colonial terminologies and ii. groupings determined by lineage and constant, historically determined locality. Divide people up by regions and they turn all their energies on bickering with who has come to live next door while forgetting identity and purpose deriving from descent and exchanging women and goods with each other and just hand everything over to their masters.

Even 'nation' developed unhelpful characteristics of local belonging and historical identity, so now the really really correct term is 'region', not to be confounded with 'shire' or 'county', city or town or village.

hatfield girl said...

Mr HG, at the welcome party for new post graduates, long ago Godless, was chatting (in English) to a magnificently robed man from, he guessed, west Africa, who wondered whether Mr HG's native tongue was sufficiently sophisticated to have its own western scientific terminology or used English for that sort of thing. They agreed that English was very handy in simply taking over any word from any language as its own (they do that with countries too, the man said and Mr HG had to confess it was known for his part of the world to do it as well), whenever English found it had a gap.

I'm not from Hull, I'm from Hull said...

If they want you to vote whatever your political persuasion, why are BNP supporters hounded out of their jobs with the connivance of Labour MPs?
I have no truck with either, but I do wish fatty would keep his vomiting private.