Hard Nationalism: Flag, Slogan, Podcast

The Country In Capital Letters, On A Banner

Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat file this dispatch from the British political menagerie.

The Hard Nationalist believes the country is a sacred trust, the borders are a sacred line, and his Twitter feed is a sacred mission, ideally with a Union Jack as the avatar. Editor Alan Nafzger of the Editor’s Desk at prat.uk presents the field guide, with help from Britannica on nationalism and UK Parliament.

Twenty Tells: Spotting The Hard Nationalist On A British High Street

1. Maintains a flag, a slogan, and a podcast that is also a flag.
2. Refers to the country as ours, on every page, in capital letters of the heart.
3. Holds any cultural change is structurally a small invasion.
4. Maintains a fantasy in which the country is fundamentally restored, by him, on weekends.
5. Refers to immigration as the only honest issue.
6. Treats any policy without a national chorus as a sort of treason.
7. Maintains a binder of speeches he wishes any current leader had given.
8. Refers to the European Union as the long, slow loan agreement.
9. Holds any culture worth keeping must be structurally defended.
10. Has explained, at a wedding, that the toast is to the country and only the country.
11. Refers to British history as the long quiet success.
12. Treats any apology for the past as a sort of national wound.
13. Maintains a soft spot for tradition and a harder one for shouting.
14. Refers to the press as the press, with airquotes.
15. Holds any sentence about borders is structurally a moral act.
16. Maintains a fantasy in which the country is once again unmistakably itself.
17. Refers to the courts as the old institution we trust, with caveats.
18. Treats any global meeting as suspect.
19. Has explained he is fundamentally just a patriot, but loud.
20. Believes the cure for the country is the country, in capitals, on a banner.

Editor’s Note

If any of this rings a bell, you have wandered into a libertarian conference, a country house weekend, or a Bitcoin meet-up with very strong opinions. More dispatches at govna.uk and the parent site prat.uk. For a second opinion that is also wrong, see NewsThump.

SOURCE: https://prat.uk/category/politics/

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