Rejected petition Defend Our Right to Call the English Bastards
Recently Wrexham football supporter Daniel Monk was banned from all football matches and fined £768 after being accused of a racially aggravated public order offence for calling a group of Tranmere Rovers supporters ‘Dirty English Bastards’
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The people of Wales have suffered hundreds of years of exploitation, oppression, and insults at the hands of the English we have earned the right to call them bastards.
At almost every game between a Welsh and English team or even if there is a Welsh player on a team you will hear the English hurling abuse at us and yet nothing is ever done about it, this double standard must come to an end.
Calling the English bastards is not racist the English are not a protected group and are not a race and this sets a dangerous precedent undermining genuinely oppressed peoples struggle against genuine racism.
Why was this petition rejected?
It’s about something that the Senedd or Welsh Government is not responsible for.
The preservation of public order is a reserved matter under paragraph 40 of Schedule 7A to the Government of Wales Act 2006, which means that it is outside the legislative competence of the Senedd.
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