tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post9162712911340504640..comments2024-03-29T01:24:45.251+00:00Comments on Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment: National Unity in the Post-Brexit world: Fr Hunwicke's Modest ProposalFr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-64599096679905229452019-03-27T13:17:47.553+00:002019-03-27T13:17:47.553+00:00As a relative newcomer to reading your blog, Fathe...As a relative newcomer to reading your blog, Father Hunwicke, I was unsure at first as to what I was meant to think of your “National Unity in the Post-Brexit world” post. Ought I to take it at face value? Or was it intended to be quite tongue in cheek? In the end I decided that both approaches could be valid, that it was perhaps a brilliant exercise in self-parody. So I congratulate you, Father,Terryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17551041799064065025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-20374594210089620692019-03-27T12:01:09.756+00:002019-03-27T12:01:09.756+00:00Oh gosh, this is bringing Remoaners out of their h...Oh gosh, this is bringing Remoaners out of their holes.Eccleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00357168852208499013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-34814951064629526422019-03-26T18:51:22.898+00:002019-03-26T18:51:22.898+00:00Brexshit means Brexshit!
Shorry Father but I hav...Brexshit means Brexshit! <br /><br />Shorry Father but I have developed a, hopefully temporary, lishp.<br /><br />Brexshit is wonderful and the salvation of our country. Our International Trade Secretary Dr. Liam ( Blimely O'Reilly) Fox is so brilliant at his job that countries are besides themshelves to shign up for new trade deals with us. Our first Brexshit shecretary David Davies (BS1) Rubricariushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05050302650867319277noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-4646879349784428142019-03-26T11:23:29.157+00:002019-03-26T11:23:29.157+00:00WHat a modernist you are, Father. Some of us pray ...WHat a modernist you are, Father. Some of us pray in Anglo-Saxon.Eccleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00357168852208499013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-60101715020332768442019-03-26T04:15:49.235+00:002019-03-26T04:15:49.235+00:00You have omitted St Andrews, Mater et Caput. You have omitted St Andrews, Mater et Caput. Osmund Kilrule https://www.blogger.com/profile/07031929350172992367noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-49635523598508531842019-03-26T00:08:11.559+00:002019-03-26T00:08:11.559+00:00Not a huge fan of Blake, but if his speculation w...Not a huge fan of Blake, but if his speculation was right about an Important and Holy Visitor a few generations ago to your "green and pleasant land" (I have never been there except for a transient hour or two in a 70s era linoleum-paved electric-bulb-lighted hall at Heathrow - what a beautiful name by the way) - well then you should add to your list whatever language or languages stephen cooperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17277962223155674985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-1359049626958529572019-03-25T23:25:28.857+00:002019-03-25T23:25:28.857+00:00Maybe make English mandatory and the other second ...Maybe make English mandatory and the other second options to attain full citizenship. Please exclude Esperanto. We mind as well be speaking pig-Latin if Esperanto is included.<br /><br />Oh, yes, I'm a Yankee, but of Welsh descent!Tito Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12218771096085701665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-5034367064595186782019-03-25T21:05:20.059+00:002019-03-25T21:05:20.059+00:00Ah, the inexhaustible inventiveness of the British...Ah, the inexhaustible inventiveness of the British rulers how to exploit other less valuable folks. Good dental services from the Poles, Gurkha soldiers for cannon fodder, servants from many assorted nations. All for a lot less and when a cheaper supply is available somewhere the current associates get replaced. Time to invest in public housing project for the new associates. <br /> Even a Chris Wazhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16003937166271792094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-28131302857696100372019-03-25T13:04:57.057+00:002019-03-25T13:04:57.057+00:00Dear Father. Take away the right of women to vote...Dear Father. Take away the right of women to vote and let Fathers have as many votes as they have children.<br /><br />Forbid immigrants from voting until such time as they have lived in the host country for ten consecutive years.<br /><br />Print ballots only in the official language of the country.<br /><br /><i>St. Augustine. City of God: Chapter 7.— Of the Diversity of Languages, by Which Mick Jagger Gathers No Mosquehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12879499915093940176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-71366524544820796772019-03-25T12:58:53.512+00:002019-03-25T12:58:53.512+00:00And how, Father, would one be promoted to the full...And how, Father, would one be promoted to the fullness of British-ness? Would there be a trial period, a ‘catechumenate’ as it were, followed by a scrutinium? Or as we say over here: “Will there be a test?”<br /><br />This would be welcomed by the political class – oodles of public troughs, er…positions, to be awarded. Additionally in the post-Brexit period one would have places to park all thoseGORhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14313101159848740722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-26006639147834961102019-03-25T12:10:48.830+00:002019-03-25T12:10:48.830+00:00Having recently spent some time in hospital, invol...Having recently spent some time in hospital, involving an excellent course of cardiac rehabilitation lectures (all courtesy of the NHS) it greatly amused me that the nurses and doctors lecturing us spoke nearly exclusively upon their complex topic with a vocabulary of Latin and Greek, both for nouns, adjectives and verbs, the whole strung together with a few English prepositions. Because they areJosephus Muris Saliensishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10888638147153175697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-43933096350026860162019-03-25T11:44:01.349+00:002019-03-25T11:44:01.349+00:00Is not Anglo-Norman the correct title rather than ...Is not Anglo-Norman the correct title rather than Norman French? At least when I read Beroul at Oxford it was and then as a lawyer I celebrate to-day Emmanuel en ventre sa mere.Nicolas Bellordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08063019108964247676noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-82376599680782485822019-03-25T10:30:35.531+00:002019-03-25T10:30:35.531+00:00How do you grant temporary residence to people wit...How do you grant temporary residence to people with no other nationality? Who would accept us patriots who refuse to speak foreign?bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07640982011003835802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-41830117301534539182019-03-25T09:45:57.673+00:002019-03-25T09:45:57.673+00:00Citizenship? That's very contemporary of you, ...Citizenship? That's very contemporary of you, father. I'd rather be a British subject myself. As to those languages, I know only Latin and English. None of my Irish family speak Gaelic. I once asked my grandmother, from loyal Ulster, if she knew any and there came a sharp and emphatic "no."Patrick Sheridanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07995907911415177074noreply@blogger.com