As early as 16 years ago, Lord Norman Tebbit, a British politician expressed his concerns about the increasing numbers of British Citizens that identified with a foreign nationality more than their British citizenship.
An example he gave was what he saw at a cricket match in Great Britain between their national team and that of Pakistan. He saw a great number of British citizens of Pakistani descent rooting not for England but for Pakistan. And they weren’t all naturalized first generation British citizens, but third and fourth generations as well.
How, he wondered, can these people be considered British citizens and take part of the responsibilities of British citizenship, when they themselves don’t even really think of themselves as British as indicated by them rooting for a foreign team instead their own national team?
And what are the consequences for British society of having a significant segment of its population that will not integrate itself into British Culture but instead identifies itself more with a foreign country than their own?
This “test” of British citizenship came to be known in England as the “Cricket Test” and as you can imagine was greeted with hostility and calls of racism from the Left.
But his concerns were unfortunately vindicated on July 7th, 2005 when “home grown” terrorists hit the London Underground subway system with suicide attacks
And now we have another terrorist plot which might have just included “home grown” terrorists in Great Britain.
These “British” Fans of the Pakistani Cricket team in 1990 became the British “Home Grown” terrorists of today.
Too bad people didn’t listen to Lord Tebbit’s concerns in 1990 instead of ridiculing his “Cricket Test”.
Lord Tebbit said the ‘cricket test’ was a means of gauging whether a community had integrated.
“If a community was looking back at where it had come from instead of looking forward with the people to whom they had come to, then there is going to be a problem sooner or later.”
Hasib Hussain was 3 in 1990.
I predicted 20 years ago that the unfortunate existence of racist arseholes like you would bring naught but pain. Lo, it has come to pass.
Twat.
Steve: To live in Britain, thankfully we don’t have to be an English Nationalist or Scottish nationalist or whatever. It makes no difference, the Tebbit test is just racist nonsense. Otherwise should we victimise all the white teenagers who wear Brazilian, Italian or Arsenal (lol) football shirts as ‘traitors to their country’?
What Cricket has to do with this terrorist plot.
As early as 16 years ago, Lord Norman Tebbit, a British politician expressed his concerns about the increasing numbers of British Citizens that identified with a foreign nationality more than their British citizenship.
An example he gave was what he saw at a cricket match in Great Britain between their national team and that of Pakistan. He saw a great number of British citizens of Pakistani descent rooting not for England but for Pakistan. And they weren’t all naturalized first generation British citizens, but third and fourth generations as well.
How, he wondered, can these people be considered British citizens and take part of the responsibilities of British citizenship, when they themselves don’t even really think of themselves as British as indicated by them rooting for a foreign team instead their own national team?
And what are the consequences for British society of having a significant segment of its population that will not integrate itself into British Culture but instead identifies itself more with a foreign country than their own?
This “test” of British citizenship came to be known in England as the “Cricket Test” and as you can imagine was greeted with hostility and calls of racism from the Left.
But his concerns were unfortunately vindicated on July 7th, 2005 when “home grown” terrorists hit the London Underground subway system with suicide attacks
And now we have another terrorist plot which might have just included “home grown” terrorists in Great Britain.
These “British” Fans of the Pakistani Cricket team in 1990 became the British “Home Grown” terrorists of today.
Too bad people didn’t listen to Lord Tebbit’s concerns in 1990 instead of ridiculing his “Cricket Test”.
For More Information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cricket_test
Tebbit attacks ‘unreformed’ Islam
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4163484.stm
Lord Tebbit said the ‘cricket test’ was a means of gauging whether a community had integrated.
“If a community was looking back at where it had come from instead of looking forward with the people to whom they had come to, then there is going to be a problem sooner or later.”
Hasib Hussain was 3 in 1990.
I predicted 20 years ago that the unfortunate existence of racist arseholes like you would bring naught but pain. Lo, it has come to pass.
Twat.
Steve: To live in Britain, thankfully we don’t have to be an English Nationalist or Scottish nationalist or whatever. It makes no difference, the Tebbit test is just racist nonsense. Otherwise should we victimise all the white teenagers who wear Brazilian, Italian or Arsenal (lol) football shirts as ‘traitors to their country’?