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[Politics] The government is urging children to sing this song on June 25
- Thread starter Dick Head
- Start date
****ing Hell. Is it too strong a sentiment to wish that someone would take this government out? This is sinister.
clapham_gull
Legacy Fan
- Aug 20, 2003
- 25,491
Been doing a bit of reading...
- Nothing to do with the Government, the campaign has been round for a few years. Started by an ex policeman who was born in India, who trade marked it in 2005. Nothing sinister about it, just to me very archaic and (quite obviously) badly named.
- It has "links" with some Conservative MPs who have popularised it although I think at least one Labour MP has endorsed it too.
- A question was brought up in PMQs this year asking the PM for support who unfortunately instantly politicised it and used it to have a pop at the SNP.
- Yesterday, another Tory MP followed it up in parliament and asked Gavin Williamson to endorse it this year.
- Department of education put out tweet.
Another cock up by the Minister For Education who appears to one of those MPs who thinks everything is solved by waving a flag.
- Nothing to do with the Government, the campaign has been round for a few years. Started by an ex policeman who was born in India, who trade marked it in 2005. Nothing sinister about it, just to me very archaic and (quite obviously) badly named.
- It has "links" with some Conservative MPs who have popularised it although I think at least one Labour MP has endorsed it too.
- A question was brought up in PMQs this year asking the PM for support who unfortunately instantly politicised it and used it to have a pop at the SNP.
- Yesterday, another Tory MP followed it up in parliament and asked Gavin Williamson to endorse it this year.
- Department of education put out tweet.
Another cock up by the Minister For Education who appears to one of those MPs who thinks everything is solved by waving a flag.
It certainly won't go that well in the Mountbatten-Windsor-Markle household in California.
beorhthelm
A. Virgo, Football Genius
- Jul 21, 2003
- 35,406
dont let a bit of reading get in the way of good old daily mail style outrage.
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The children already learn about these values in my daughter's school. It's a nothing new.
lawros left foot
Glory hunting since 1969
It’s not the values (does she really learn how to be ‘proud’ of Britain by the way) it’s the horrific song and website. If you think this is nothing new, I’m assuming you’ll be celebrating on Friday with you daughter with Union Jacks flying everywhere whilst dueting the song for your neighbours in the front garden?
Fignon's Ponytail
Well-known member
What a load of F*****g B******s.
severnside gull
Well-known member
Reminiscent of the Hitler Youth and the Horst Wessel Lied isn’t it?
Supported by the Dept for Education so very much “to do with government”
Expect them to back away when they’ve gushed public reaction then come again from another angle. It’s how fascist states work.
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
Neville's Breakfast
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I had a work colleague in Singapore who was called into school one morning to collect his son. They were quite a rarity amongst expats in that they sent him to a local school. Every morning the kids got in early to sing the national anthem. Apparently my colleague’s kid had been singing with too much gusto. Typical bloody Aussies !
Neville's Breakfast
Well-known member
What the fluck ?
As an Aussie, the phrase "One Nation" is for me synonymous with "racist scum".
Neville's Breakfast
Well-known member
Thank you. It’s good to have some actual facts although a lot of people are enjoying their fact free outrage.
I'm more than happy to compare it to both. Indoctrination of the young is a tenet of extremism from Nazism through to communism.
Shame on any head teacher that allows this to happen.