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16-02-2019, 01:57 PM
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Good Ol' England

I never usually put poems online, but this one I spotted on another forum made me smile and want to put two fingers up - (V for Victory of course! ahem!)



Goodbye my England, so long my old friend

Your days are numbered, being brought to an end.

To be Scottish, Irish or Welsh that’s fine

But don’t say you’re English that is way out of line.

The French and the Germans may call themselves such

So may Norwegians, the Swedes and the Dutch.

You can say you are Russian or maybe a Dane

But don’t say you are English ever again

At Broadcasting House the word is taboo

In Brussels, it’s scrapped, In Parliament too

Even schools are affected, staff do as they’re told

They must not teach children of England of old.

Writers like Shakespeare, Milton and Shaw

The pupils don’t learn about them anymore.

How about Agincourt, Hastings, Arnhem or Mons

When England lost hosts of her very brave sons.

We are not Europeans, how can we be?

Europe is miles away over the sea

We’re English from England, let’s all be proud

Stand up and be counted - shout it out loud

Let’s tell our Government and Brussels too,

We’re proud of our heritage and the Red, White and Blue

Fly the flag of St George or the Union Jack

Let the World know - we want our England Back.
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16-02-2019, 02:08 PM
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So true - there's no such place as England any more and woe betide if you state that your'e English.

I've had this out with my local council on numerous occasions - why there isn't an option to state that I am English on their forms. I can be of Afro-Caribbean , Asian, Scots, Irish etc ethnicity but not English, only white British.
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16-02-2019, 02:29 PM
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I usually put English and tell them if they don't like it I'll see them in court.
That usually does the trick
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17-02-2019, 01:21 AM
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good stuff
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17-02-2019, 01:55 AM
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Well for the record , I am English & proud of it.
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17-02-2019, 07:05 AM
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I've lost St George in the union jack it's my flag to and I want it back..!

Thank You 'Show of Hands'.... Roots

English not british every time.
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17-02-2019, 11:18 AM
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England is brilliant. I'm really proud to be English and so should all Englanders.
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17-02-2019, 11:46 AM
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I've always said English Never British

If push comes to shove I'm Yorkshire
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17-02-2019, 12:54 PM
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Originally Posted by shropshiregirl ->
I never usually put poems online, but this one I spotted on another forum made me smile and want to put two fingers up - (V for Victory of course! ahem!)



Goodbye my England, so long my old friend

Your days are numbered, being brought to an end.

To be Scottish, Irish or Welsh that’s fine

But don’t say you’re English that is way out of line.

The French and the Germans may call themselves such

So may Norwegians, the Swedes and the Dutch.

You can say you are Russian or maybe a Dane

But don’t say you are English ever again

At Broadcasting House the word is taboo

In Brussels, it’s scrapped, In Parliament too

Even schools are affected, staff do as they’re told

They must not teach children of England of old.

Writers like Shakespeare, Milton and Shaw

The pupils don’t learn about them anymore.

How about Agincourt, Hastings, Arnhem or Mons

When England lost hosts of her very brave sons.

We are not Europeans, how can we be?

Europe is miles away over the sea

We’re English from England, let’s all be proud

Stand up and be counted - shout it out loud

Let’s tell our Government and Brussels too,

We’re proud of our heritage and the Red, White and Blue

Fly the flag of St George or the Union Jack

Let the World know - we want our England Back.
Nothing wrong in being proud of being English, you have much to be proud off , but this sense of a persecuted minority
just isn’t true. Nothing is more annoying to the other nationalities of the U.K. than the use of England when referring to the U.K. The Union flag is just that, it represents all the nations hence the red, white and blue. The BBC default position appears to assume the audience is English. Of course the British Isles are European, it’s geographical nonsense to say otherwise. As for Mons and Arnhem, many Scots, Irish and Welsh fell there fighting with the British Army.
This is the little Englander stuff that does your proud nation no good.
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17-02-2019, 01:16 PM
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Better a "little Englander" than a "nothing person" European assimilated into a neutered collective ruled by a totalitarian collective.
 
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