I agree about the differences in Welsh and Scottish language issues having a significant effect. Your analysis of that, and Labour as a party of nationalism (which I knew but didn't fully understand*), are especially interesting to me. Thank you.
she obviously felt completely comfortable saying this in the same breath as expressing all sorts of other left-wing ideas and was completely confident I'd feel the same way
Been there a kazillion times, just with slightly different issues. Although, thinking about it, maybe not that different (your pro-Norman-English foes and mine probably have similar attitudes). I've often wondered if some of the English-in-Wales who've moved there recently were in search of rural England (and possibly as a low-key British form of "white flight").
* Humorous aside: one of my Welsh-speaking friends from north-west Wales claims the Labour Party only have even a foothold in many parts of Wales because the local Labour clubs were the one place that served alcohol on Sundays.... lolz.
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Date: 2011-05-07 12:33 pm (UTC)she obviously felt completely comfortable saying this in the same breath as expressing all sorts of other left-wing ideas and was completely confident I'd feel the same way
Been there a kazillion times, just with slightly different issues. Although, thinking about it, maybe not that different (your pro-Norman-English foes and mine probably have similar attitudes). I've often wondered if some of the English-in-Wales who've moved there recently were in search of rural England (and possibly as a low-key British form of "white flight").
* Humorous aside: one of my Welsh-speaking friends from north-west Wales claims the Labour Party only have even a foothold in many parts of Wales because the local Labour clubs were the one place that served alcohol on Sundays.... lolz.