[Politics] The government is urging children to sing this song on June 25

[Swansman]

Strong Britain......great nation....Strong Britain......great nation....Strong Britain......great nation....




Anyone else singing this today?

Far better than any eurovision song contest song IMO, and written by kids.

Cant say I am

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

Strong Britain......great nation....Strong Britain......great nation....Strong Britain......great nation....




Anyone else singing this today?

Far better than any eurovision song contest song IMO, and written by kids.

I'm one of the 48% l'm afraid.

 

[Deleted member 2719]

"Now Fatherland, Fatherland, show us the sign
Your children have waited to see
The morning will come
When the world is mine
Tomorrow belongs to me
Tomorrow belongs to me
Tomorrow belongs to me
Tomorrow belongs to me"

I prefer the kids song.

 

[Blue Valkyrie]

No. I'm not a fan of being brainwashed so will give it a swerve.

Lol.

 

[ATFC Seagull]

We can agree it is a bad song. I would also add a bit embarrassing. No-one is going to get ‘indoctrinated’ by it though. To compare it to Nazi Germany or Communist East Germany is farcical. I think you will find that their songs were backed up by propaganda filled curriculums and teachers, neither of which we have in this country. The reaction to this story is just complete distortion and political mischief making.

I fully agree that if this government tried to sneak in fascism through the back door they'd do an incomplete and ineffective job of it!

 

[beorhthelm]

Agreed it's not formal DfE policy that can be enforced. It's also completely false to disassociate it with government almost entirely. Don't do Twitter a disservice - it's quite clearly becoming the main mouthpiece for political policy and direction across the spectrum and in fact worldwide. If the official twitter of a government department tweet support of something, that is not an insignificant thing.

it is and it isnt. twitter has a lot of reach, low cost, low barrier communications. so a noddy minister likes a cause, they ask for a tweet in support. its hardly a statement of policy. personally i think government should stay well away from it except for formal information and policy, but people like the touchy feely, and they oblige.

 

[Deleted member 2719]

I'm one of the 48% l'm afraid.

Qué?

 

[Sid in the Sharknado]

I'm one of the 48% l'm afraid.

I think you're in larger company than that in thinking this is utter crap.

 

[ATFC Seagull]

it is and it isnt. twitter has a lot of reach, low cost, low barrier communications. so a noddy minister likes a cause, they ask for a tweet in support. its hardly a statement of policy. personally i think government should stay well away from it except for formal information and policy, but people like the touchy feely, and they oblige.

I agree to a point - but this wasn't a junior government minister "liking" a tweet. It was a coherently-written tweet in suggesting schools take part in this from the official DfE account. Whilst it has no formal constitutional status, that to me is a de-factor policy statement from government.

 

[Deleted member 2719]

No. I'm not a fan of being brainwashed so will give it a swerve.

Lol.

Go on bash out a few verses, you will be at one with all around you.

Love they neighbour

 

[Peteinblack]

More Right-wing virtue-signalling and flag-sh*gging; anorther salvo in the Tory culture wars intended to divert attention away from growing inequality, poverty wages, lack of affordable housing, elite-level corruption and tax evasion, growing reliance on food banks, and sundry other problems facing ordinary hard-working Brits (the very people our government claims to love and respect)

I expect to see these sort of nationalistic "Worship the Fatherland which loves you" stunts in awful regimes like the fromer Soviet Union and present-day Cuba or North Korea. Straight out of Orwell's 1984

Incidentally, I wonder how many of the school-kids being urged to take part on Friday are the same school-kids who our 'patriotic' government voted to deny free-school meals earlier this year?

 

[portslade seagull]

They have some weird ideas

 

[zefarelly]

Started what ?

complete distortion and political mischief

 

[Deleted member 2719]

As well as astoundingly incompetent, this Government is really ****ing WEIRD at times too.

So reuniting the country in exceptional times is a bad thing?

Perhaps we should bin off the jocks?

I don't mind our wee friends personally and have strong feeling for kirsty Gallacher, as long as they keep the kilts at a reasonable length, we can all get along fine.

 

[Deleted member 2719]

More Right-wing virtue-signalling and flag-sh*gging; anorther salvo in the Tory culture wars intended to divert attention away from growing inequality, elite-level corruption, reliance on food banks and homelessness.

Incidentally, I wonder how many of the school-kids being urged to take part on Friday are the same school-kids who our 'patriotic' government voted to deny free-school meals earlier this year?

Mate, there has been liberal leftie teachers spewing their politics for decades, to brainwash the young and vulnerable. Fortunately when they leave school they get a real perspective of the world and our country, hence the proper drubbing labour and the liberal continue to get.

 

[hart's shirt]

One Brighton One Station

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

I fully agree that if this government tried to sneak in fascism through the back door they'd do an incomplete and ineffective job of it!

They would probably forget to invade Abyssinia or some similar schoolboy error

 

[GT49er]

One Brighton One Station

One Brighton Three Stations actually, I believe.

 

[Deleted member 2719]

Another cock up by the Minister For Education who appears to one of those MPs who thinks everything is solved by waving a flag.

Is there anything wrong with a bit of flag-waving then

 

[JBizzle]

Is there anything wrong with a bit of flag-waving then

It depends what they're waving it for.