I haven't read the Mail they can keep their racist filth in order to e sell newspapers to jingoistical closet racists.

Mo Farah and Jess Ennis are everything my own children have turned out to be, mine are very sporty but not sports people, but the values are the same and their father and I reared them to have values and responsibilities. We are now doing all we can as a complete family to ensure all the grandchildren are raised in the same way.

My children are fro a mixed race marriage, does the Mail infer that my children are plastic? What utter nonsense, why does anyone give that paper houseroom?

I cannot say how much I like, admire and respect Jess and Mo and how proud we should be as a country to have them.

I recently watched Mo competing in the Cube on TV and he won the top prize for charity, if we had more people like Mo, this country would be a damn sight better place then it currently is.

Obviously some people forgot that Mo Farah's dad was born in England.

bet the'yd be all from "great" britain if they won gold.

Those Mail articles I read on this topic were not attacking those to whom Britain is clearly home, regardless of where they were born. They were attacking those who seem to be using the Union flag as one of convenience because 'home' to them lies beyond our shores and they weren't good enough to make the grade there.

If the Olympics were contested by independent self-contracted sportsmen, whose nationality was merely incidental - like Wimbledon or golf's Open Championship - I doubt the Mail would have even picked up on this angle. The Olympics are contested by national teams, however, so the Mail's basic premise remains valid - if it's not about the best of ours versus the best of theirs, then what's the point?

The Mail...

I would not wipe my backside with it. Usual casual racist filth. It's journal's l like yours that alerts me to such hypoccrisy. The Mail forgets that it proudly arranged for the WHITE South African Zola Budd to become British to run in the LA games in 1984 during teh days of aparthied.

George

"its about Gold its not about money"

Are you thinking of switching allegencies between UK or socialist pin up Hollande?

Since I was born in Australia I thought I was a 'plastic Brit', then again since I had a British birth certificate, probably not.

I don't think it's a problem having people who were born abroad in the GB team if they have since genuinely become British, but if they're temporarily British on some kind of sports passport scholarship, then clearly they aren't the real deal and can't be surprised if people feel they're being had.

Nationalist sport is not a multiculturalist endeavour, by definition. If we want to do away with nationalist loyalties in the Olympics/football/cricket then the changes would have to be considerably more fundamental than turning a blind eye to cynical naturalisations.

I realise that as a right winger and a young daily mail reader I may be shot down straight away here but I find it important to denounce both sides of the spectrum's political arguments.
The left claim that the Great British team's success is a multicultural triumph, which yet again shows their obsession with covering up and ignoring the vast problems Britain faces with the impact of a deeply divided country. The Olympics is not a representation of multicultural Britain but a representation of many British athletes uniting for the same cause, to do our country proud at the world's greatest sporting event. This is not multiculturalism! This is not people sitting at different tables with their own objectives and their own policies. This is people (athletes, coaches, volunteers) sitting at the same table with the same objective, winning Gold for Great Britain. Heck if anything this is the same culture. The British Olympic Culture.

As for the Daily Mail's argument (although I'm a reader I don't neccessarily agree with everything in the paper) the "Plastic Britain" label is ridiculous. Mo Farah is just as British as any other born in this country. He has adopted Britain and Britain has adopted him. The sacrifice and the positive contribution he has given to Britain is fantastic and he has set the example for so many other British athletes out there. So why do we focus on the differences? Mo Farah is British and he is proud to be British. What right do we have to tell him he is anything else? I am disappointed with the Mail on this occasion and I hope that although people commenting on this article realise the "Plastic Brit" theory is not the view of all right wingers.

Let's face it, the Daily Mail hates Britain and most of its inhabitants, and spends all of its time trying to make us as miserable and hating as them. They will of course be 'plastic' about suddenly praising these people because they won medals, while simultaneously questioning their family's rights to stay here. They really are odious scumbags at the Mail. They have taken the term 'plastic' from football fans who use it routinely to describe the new supporters who have turned up at clubs with little idea of traditional football culture or their clubs' history. Funnily enough, the term sits far more appropriately with the Daily Mail editor and his hacks than it ever will with people like Mo, who I would far prefer as fellow Brits than any of the racist hypocrites at the Mail (and their supporters who infest these comments with their ignorant diatribes).

Surely being white and middle-class does not rule out foreign birth or antecedents. The lineage of English kings is peppered with monarchs born overseas. Let's forget James I, but Dutch William and the German Georges will do for a start.
Even in the thirties and before British Royal circles resorted to acquiring better halves from other countries.
Eddie who abdicated married an American, not forgetting Winnie Churchill's mum also a citizen from the stars and stripes. Possibly a wannabe. How did Madonna get into this.
We don't like to mention Prince George, Duke of Kent, but he was married to Princess `Marina of Greece and Denmark. Barbara Cartland even enters the story; she was not a blue-blood, definitely not.
Queen Victoria did not speak the native tongue until she was five or six. Hardly any wonder as her mother was Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coberg-Saalfield.
Even the present Queen Elizabeth, although her marriage was an affair of the heart, married a Greek prince. And her grandmother, paternal side, was German. Almost forgot - Lord Dicky Mountbatten. German roots somewhere.
Oh, someone pointed out that the above are aristocrats and not middle-class role models.
The Saatchis Brothers and the Tchebguiz Brothers could fill that bill. OK, there're rich but how does that rule them out. Lakshmi Mittal is also mega-rich and was born in Indiar.
Waken up! A lot of the UK's social set were born abroad but prefer to live here or in the shires rather than their own country.
Many immigrants have made good here in the UK. The Mayor of London is of Turkish descent and possibly his great-grandfather was a minister in the Ottoman 'government'.
Four Irish-born subjects of the monarch were British prime minsters and there must have been some with Welsh and Scottish people in their family tree.
Incidentally, we need to know the ethnic make-up of the British Olympic squad before anyone can claim it was not a multicultural effort.

Indian Army Officers

Hugh

Apart from Jessica Ennis and Mo Farrah all the other GB medal winners are white and middle-class. In this sense the UK's medal bonanza is not a 'multicultural triumph'!

Apropos Team GB - how many medallists are truly Wasps - Bams (Black African Muslims) 0r Scots (who don't regard themselves Brits) ? The melting pot status applies when there are Olympic Medals to be claimed which reverts to rigor mortis when there are riots to be considered. After the games one can expect normal Brit xenophobia to resume when it will be the "benefit scroungers" who will be the drain on the exchequer when they try to foot the bill for this fool-hardy expenditure.

Daily Mail subtext: well, if we achieve medals it is because they are all 'foreign' - after all we have laboured every minute of every day to spread the message that Britain is rubbish, broken and finished, because of left wing socialism and multiculturalism and the EU. So if we win anything, trust us to find a reason to denigrate their achievements and allow us to continue our agenda of depressing every person in the country with our negative, right wing, old, hackneyed, utterly obnoxious campaign against this country.
The only thing 'plastic' about Britain is our unrepresentative clique of right wing tossers who hate everything about this wonderful country - see our incredibly stupid remarks about the 'Marxist' opening ceremony. LOL

I didn't see you sticking up for the WHITE south african girl we tryed to fast track a british passport for the olympics a few years ago........ Funny that how we change out oppinions on giving passports depending on skin colour. If not then its funny how it seems like that's the way :)

Look if the British monarchy and other aristos decided it needed to import spouses to this great country than so be it.
The UK's medal bonanza is a multicultural triumph. All part of the BIg Society and not High Society as in the not-too-distant past.

Meritocracy
{George forgot to fix the roof. Look at the Olympic Stadium! And what's worse it hasn't been all that sunny, son}