UK: Labour Candidate Said People Who Fly English Flag are Racists

Andrew Anglin
Daily Stormer
April 15, 2015

Hmmm….

Telegraph:

A Labour Party candidate has been forced to apologise after it emerged he wrote a blog posting in which he said anyone who flies an England flag is a “simpleton or casual racist”.

Huw Thomas, the Labour candidate for Ceredigion, said during World Cup that cars flying the England flag deserve to be vandalised.

It comes after Emily Thornberry, the former shadow Attorney General, was sacked by Ed Miliband last year after appearing to mock a family’s terrace home draped in England flags.

Mr Thomas was a student in 2006 when he wrote a blog posting in which he said he was “completely sickened” by the number of England flags in Wales.

According to Wales Online, he wrote: “It truly shows the degree our society has been infiltrated by incomers who are not ready to integrate.

“Very often, from what I see, some flying English flags are young people, who have been brought up in Wales, but who are loyal to England. This raises questions about us as Welsh people as well.

“It’s true that the parents are at fault, but it’s obvious that the education system has failed to create a Welsh Nationalism in these people, and I wonder also how many of us Welsh people, in our school days, tried to bring these people (aka chavs) into the Welsh circle.”

So, I can kinda go along with a Welshman not wanting England’s flag flying everywhere in Wales. I am not super up on the whole status of Welsh nationalism or the current conceptions of Welsh identity, but I can see how that could be a problem. In Ohio, people get pissed off when people fly Michigan flags – this is after many Michiganites fled to Ohio following the Black takeover. And that is a lot different than the dynamic with Wales, where they actually have their own language and used to be their own country.

But what does that have to do with racism? Is he saying the English are racist against the Welsh? Is that a thing? Would that be called racism?

In the end, despite the fact I’m quite certain I would disagree greatly with this Labour politican’s views, holding him responsible for something he wrote on the internet a decade ago is ridiculous.