Why isn’t Wales represented on the Union flag?
Because it’s a Principality, not a country. There, problem solved. So let’s stop all of this sort of nonsense now…
As for this
The national anthem is not inclusive and should perhaps be changed, Lord Goldsmith, the former attorney general now leading a citizenship review for Gordon Brown, has suggested. He said that there were problems with some of the later verses of the anthem, which refer to "rebellious Scots" being crushed.
Lord Goldsmith said: "Part of it is not actually that inclusive, but that's if you go on to the later verses. "Some people have suggested we might think about whether there are different words that might be put in place which would be more inclusive."
Now the verse in question goes
God grant that Marshal Wade,
May by thy Mighty aid,
Victory bring,
May he sedition hush,
And like a torrent rush,
Rebellious Scots to crush,
God save the King.
Wade knew how to deal with this sort of nonsense, so should we: politician, rope, tree … some self assembly required
Comments
We don't fly the union jack in Wales anyway so it is immaterial wether Wales is represented or not. If we were independent of the anal-retentive urban lower middle class English establishment I would still have my self loading rifles and pistols.
In the words of Harry Webb " What Wales lacks and has always needed most instead of an eastern border is an eastern coast"
Posted by: GJ | December 3, 2007 3:07 PM
Perhaps the welsh should recall that, like the arabs, they lost, big time!! so they back the EU cos it will be better than being ruled (and taking money from) London. He who laughs last etc
Posted by: chris Edwards | December 3, 2007 10:13 PM
If I lived anywhere else in the EU I would still have my pistols and SLRs and what's more the freedom to use them even to defend me and mine. So please, please expel Wales from this "Septic Isle" where the residue of "Pubic" Schools run the state from behind a perimiter of mealie bags rather like those at Rorkes Drift, scared of what they percieve is outside. If we in Wales have to be ruled by anyone I would rather it be the USA. At least they have a written constitution and the abide by it.
Do you really support this decaying anglocentric increasingly authoritarian state?
Posted by: Gj | December 4, 2007 7:18 AM
Forget the USA ruling Wales. We have enough sheep-shagging socialists as it is, and our teenage pregancy rate is plenty high already.
Posted by: Kim du Toit | December 4, 2007 8:09 PM