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

[Machiavelli]

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

They're just a bunch of petty nationalists, swiftly morphing into Little Englanders. Their focus is on nationalism and the culture wars to distract attention away from 40 years of proliferating inequality and insecurity, climate breakdown, etc.
The electorate love it though

 

[Machiavelli]

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?

Flag-shagging

 

[Knocky's Nose]

Yep, let's have faith in our now pissy little island economy as we... oh, I really can't be arsed.

Too little, too late.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

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

A good pal of mine was a forensic social worker. He has interviewed many people resident in 'secure hospitals' (like Rampton) when they request release on the grounds of 'no longer being unwell'. His strategy was just to let them talk. Eventually, and more often than not, they would come out with something that would inform the decision. One time, after a 30 minute pleasant chat the inmate leant across the table and said to my pal "When I get out, I'm gonna find you and stab you".

The present government is the political equivalent of a Rampton inmate, now thinking about seeking release. I mean re-election.

 

[Randy McNob]

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.

any examples of this?

 

[Pinkie Brown]

You have to wonder about an organisation who use a slogan (one Britain one Nation) that gives a nod to a certain youth organisation of the 1930's (Ein Volk Ein Reich) plus a promotional video from so called patriots that has the union flag upside down.

Aside all that, Britain isn't technically a nation and they appear to have omitted Northern Ireland in their concept. It has a clumsy feel of North Korean & DDR era jingoistic brainwashing of young minds. Akin to the young pioneers forced to march down Karl-Marx-Allee with cheesy happy smiles, waving to the grey faces of the politburo on the podium.

The words of that song are also disingenuous gumpf in modern day post Brexit Britain. Would be nice if they were true. Sadly not.

 

[Hugo Rune]

One Brighton One Station

Rubbish.

London Road, Preston Park and Falmer are Brighton stations always ignored. How do you think the good people of those stations feel when all they hear about is Brighton bloody station?

Also - we should reinstate the Kemptown station so that tourists could can be properly distributed along the seafront. You should be concentrating on that instead of your one station campaign!

 

[withdeanwombat]

Now Portslade, that’s one station.

And don’t forget Fishersgate.

I believe there are one or two more.

 

[A1X]

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

You have a point, this song thing is unifying an awfully large part of the country together. Just not in favour of the song...

 

[Postman Pat]

Rubbish.

London Road, Preston Park and Falmer are Brighton stations always ignored. How do you think the good people of those stations feel when all they hear about is Brighton bloody station?

Also - we should reinstate the Kemptown station so that tourists could can be properly distributed along the seafront. You should be concentrating on that instead of your one station campaign!

OI What about Moulsecoomb!!!

 

[severnside gull]

Thank you. It’s good to have some actual facts although a lot of people are enjoying their fact free outrage.

Sadly “wrong facts”
Dept for Education are directly promoting this nationalist tosh and have “advised” schools as well as circulating widely on social media

 

[studio150]

I'll be glad when the flag goes up
We'll sing new songs and invent new slogans
There'll be a party and we'll burn the old pictures
I'll finally have some fun
I'll be glad when the flag goes up
New uniforms if they know my sizes
I'll make new friends when I go to the meetings



Welcome to Global Britain

 

[midnight_rendezvous]

Sadly “wrong facts”
Dept for Education are directly promoting this nationalist tosh and have “advised” schools as well as circulating widely on social media

The DfE can promote and advise all they like, it won’t be happening in my classroom.

 

[zefarelly]

One Brighton One Station

And Hove




oh, Preston Park



London Road



Moulsecombe?

 

[zefarelly]

Flag-shagging

great isn't it ;-)

https://newsthump.com/2021/03/23/are-you-a-flag-shagger-take-our-interactive-test-to-find-out/

 

[zefarelly]

Now Portslade, that’s one station.

And don’t forget Fishersgate.

I believe there are one or two more.

Shoreham had 2 once upon a time, there was a stop for the airport.

 

[nicko31]

Does the One Britain include Northern Ireland?

 

[schmunk]

One Brighton One Station

Ein Volk's Drei Bahnhöfe!

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

The DfE can promote and advise all they like, it won’t be happening in my classroom.

Exactly. I trust our excellent teachers to make their own decisions as they/you are quite entitled to do.

 

[zefarelly]

Ein Volk's Drei Bahnhöfe!

fünf!