Post 9q044FNKzRB4WI9vma by krozruch@eupublic.social
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(DIR) Post #9pzz1cL0ezHB64zscS by fitheach@mstdn.io
2019-12-15T19:30:44Z
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I note that some people are suggesting Jo Swinson should be "parachuted" into the House of Lords, because the voters of East Dunbartonshire rejected her.That's democracy, for you, UK style.#politics #GE2019 #LibDems
(DIR) Post #9pzzdRG8IZjVk1kb5M by CreatureOfTheHill@social.coop
2019-12-15T19:37:29Z
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@fitheach Of course...
(DIR) Post #9pzznPbRJNytV4TL60 by wizardofosmium@mastodon.social
2019-12-15T19:39:22Z
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@fitheachReward for leading the party further away from power.
(DIR) Post #9q01VGJdIoMDONcI0u by fitheach@mstdn.io
2019-12-15T19:58:30Z
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@CreatureOfTheHill I'm not sure where the LibDems are going to find the competent people. 😉
(DIR) Post #9q01crXlHwWEsaqivY by fitheach@mstdn.io
2019-12-15T19:59:52Z
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@wizardofosmium No, services to the Conservative government.
(DIR) Post #9q01fdxaFRNDcUFm3U by CreatureOfTheHill@social.coop
2019-12-15T20:00:17Z
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@fitheach Fair point 😀
(DIR) Post #9q044FNKzRB4WI9vma by krozruch@eupublic.social
2019-12-15T20:27:06Z
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@fitheach Don't you just love England!
(DIR) Post #9q04MDeC9aa6NAc7ii by fitheach@mstdn.io
2019-12-15T20:30:23Z
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@krozruch Not so much England, more the establishment looking after themselves.
(DIR) Post #9q04fUSpqyXi1zUQQC by krozruch@eupublic.social
2019-12-15T20:33:54Z
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@fitheach Yes. That's everywhere, but the failing up into the Lords (or the EU depending on the bureaucracy) is something the has defined the English ruling classes for years. Sorry though, I guess the above is essentially a kind of Freudian slip not particularly apt here but representative of one thread of my thinking on what's going on right now and what Britain is heading towards.
(DIR) Post #9q053OKaJ8WNxZ1lJY by fitheach@mstdn.io
2019-12-15T20:38:16Z
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@krozruch Not confined to England. In the old days (not so long ago) Tory, Labour & LibDem MPs, from Scotland, rejected by the electorate, would find a comfy seat on the red benches awaiting them.
(DIR) Post #9q05GLrIoKoy3ZVjIO by krozruch@eupublic.social
2019-12-15T20:40:27Z
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@fitheach Yes, and by now I'm sure I could think of countless examples from my knowledge of Czech politics.
(DIR) Post #9q05IjyA8gFPPhrIXI by krozruch@eupublic.social
2019-12-15T20:37:14Z
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@fitheach It was funny there though, it felt unforced but I grew up in England so many would assume that I define myself as English. I didn't when I first came here to the Czech Republic, though I do absolutely identify as coming from the West Midlands. I used to say "I am English" in Czech. It seemed to flow better. But I have changed that of late, sometimes to "I am British", but usually some series of qualified modifying phrases relating to having Irish parents etc Also sometimes: half-Czech.
(DIR) Post #9q05IoJvxg2UuO4k1g by krozruch@eupublic.social
2019-12-15T20:39:20Z
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@fitheach I am careful now, that is, never to say I am Irish and tend to correct people who say it about me, differently than I corrected them when they used to call me Welsh, after where I last lived in Britain. I have never lived in Ireland, so I often explain what a Plastic Paddy is. All very rum, but I don't like to be thought English. No offence to those who do (though the above was admittedly a diss of the "English ruling classes") but that's not now where I'm at.
(DIR) Post #9q05IqkavWYOReZ3rM by fitheach@mstdn.io
2019-12-15T20:40:59Z
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@krozruch When you speak Czech do you sound like a native or do you have an "accent"?
(DIR) Post #9q06MEgWUo73Uzq3Lk by krozruch@eupublic.social
2019-12-15T20:52:44Z
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@fitheach I have a pronounced accent. Increasingly I am taken to be Czech, but partly in account of the fact I can be reticent in Czech company - I don't like to force people to switch to English and say only what I believe I can say most clearly. In longer conversations I am sometimes taken to be a Pražák or Praguer by people in, say Moravia. With them I speak a colloquial idiom I'm most comfortable with. Sometimes, people think me Slovakian.
(DIR) Post #9q07gL0imoesrcR3VA by fitheach@mstdn.io
2019-12-15T21:07:21Z
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@krozruch I was thinking that if you had a distinct accent, when speaking Czech, then maybe the topic of where you come from is more likely to be broached.If your accent is local(ish) then people aren't so likely to ask. My OH when speaking to, say, English people is usually identified as Scottish. Sometimes when speaking to other Scottish people they pick up on little differences in her pronunciation, which then prompts them to ask where she comes from.