tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8442430064359197279.post5469645880574893291..comments2024-03-26T10:03:51.827+13:00Comments on Karl du Fresne: We still call Britain 'Home'? Really??Karl du Fresnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05054853925940134404noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8442430064359197279.post-76672636427673950392016-04-15T14:04:49.164+12:002016-04-15T14:04:49.164+12:00The referendum gave as well as retention of the fl...The referendum gave as well as retention of the flag; a clear signal to John Key to stop trying to pull wool over eyes. A deceitful,manipulative and dishonest process, in my opinion. paul scotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15675247055484136242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8442430064359197279.post-59519883618952689912016-03-27T16:26:14.529+13:002016-03-27T16:26:14.529+13:00Personally as a 75 year old I haven't heard an...Personally as a 75 year old I haven't heard anyone call Britain 'home' since I was a child and then it was used as often in jest as in reality. We valued what we had that was British but also disliked being told as so often seemed to happened in the 1950's 'we don't do it this way back home' for which there was a very short and pungent reply. My first time in the UK and I thought about this as I stood and waited in the queue labelled 'others' while all sorts of other peoples walked through the gate marked EU.Jigsawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13906156865367357834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8442430064359197279.post-51476982991137956512016-03-26T20:25:31.548+13:002016-03-26T20:25:31.548+13:00My parents called UK home, our generation never ha...My parents called UK home, our generation never has as NZ was our home. While I am an avid anglophile my view is that this referendum was a lost opportunity opposed by a petty, unprincipled and vindictive opposition. We actually had the opportunity to move beyond the symbolism of colonialism and lost it. And this is from a 60's radical. SouthlandMurhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05849596906144297428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8442430064359197279.post-83045532175459285402016-03-26T09:44:24.969+13:002016-03-26T09:44:24.969+13:00I don't disagree with any of that, Brendan. Li...I don't disagree with any of that, Brendan. Like you, my lineage is not British, but that doesn't stop me from valuing New Zealand's British heritage and all that we've gained from it. (I support the continuation of the constitutional monarchy, for example.) But I object to readers of the Daily Telegraph being given a fanciful and deeply patronising image of a New Zealand that existed 40 years ago. Karl du Fresnehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05054853925940134404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8442430064359197279.post-82389938710922759772016-03-26T09:21:19.225+13:002016-03-26T09:21:19.225+13:00Hi Karl
No, we don't call Britain home, and t...Hi Karl<br /><br />No, we don't call Britain home, and those of us with Irish grandparents never did. However we owe a considerable debt to the British and European colonists who first settled in New Zealand and who brought with them (some of them anyway) their faith, their legal and justice system and their democratic institutions that had developed over 600 - 800 years.<br /><br />New Zealand would be a much different country today had we been settled by (say) Turkish Moors.<br /><br />I thought Bruce Logan's article on the flag published in the Herald was more substantial.<br /><br />http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11595044<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Brendan McNeillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02741263914308842497noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8442430064359197279.post-28573884174008584422016-03-25T14:38:56.637+13:002016-03-25T14:38:56.637+13:00If he'd written like that before the referendu...If he'd written like that before the referendum we might now have a new flag. - Ele Ludemannhomepaddockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08596903968235369282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8442430064359197279.post-14760156904579853752016-03-25T13:38:48.000+13:002016-03-25T13:38:48.000+13:00This is tripe. Utterly patronizing (especially to ...This is tripe. Utterly patronizing (especially to Maori) and historically untrue. Almost makes me wish I'd voted for change and not given him the smug satisfaction of writing it.Lindsay Mitchellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04437693272797130833noreply@blogger.com