A 12-Year-Old Girl in Britain Is Prevented From Making a Speech About Being British While Wearing a Dress of a Union Jack
Whereas in your country the national flag gets a good innings all year round, in the United Kingdom we are pathetically squeamish about ours, be it the Union Flag which symbolizes England, Scotland and Northern Ireland (Wales has its own beautiful dragon ensign) or — even worse — the flag of England, a simple red cross on a white background alleged to date back to Richard the Lionheart.
The Union flag is made “acceptable” for a few weeks every four years by the Olympics — but you’d better get it down PDQ after the closing ceremony, lest you be marked out as a knuckle-dragging Neanderthal. Remember the days when a pop star could wear a Union Jack dress? She’d be cancelled on the spot now.
The English flag is “allowed” during football matches — but the morning after the event it must be shunned like an unvaccinated viper playing kiss-chase. This has dramatically changed recently; every day there are a proliferation of national flags in the street, some Union flags but more England flags, flying from motorway bridges and spray-painted on roads, thousands of them on lampposts, going on for miles.
It’s thought to have started in mid-July after a 12-year-old schoolgirl was prevented from making a speech about what being British meant to her while wearing a Union flag dress — just like Ginger Spice did — at her school’s “Culture Celebration Day” to which pupils were invited to wear their national dress. The school has since offered “unreserved apologies” to the child, but too late.
As the story spread on social media, a crowd-funder raised thousands of pounds to be spent on national flags, to be hoisted up in public places as part of a popular and peaceful protest movement calling itself “Operation Raise The Colours.”
The Left-wing ruling class have reacted risibly, as though a gang of ruffians has urinated en masse on their antimacassars.
These are the anti-patriotism mob once fingered so mercilessly by George Orwell: “England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality… almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during ‘God save the King’ than of stealing from a poor box.”
They’d better get used to it, though. This is part of a political sea-change which started with the fall of the Red Wall to the Tories in support of Brexit; now every time some over-paid know-all sneers at the flag, another Labour vote dies.
The Union flag is made “acceptable” for a few weeks every four years by the Olympics — but you’d better get it down PDQ after the closing ceremony, lest you be marked out as a knuckle-dragging Neanderthal. Remember the days when a pop star could wear a Union Jack dress? She’d be cancelled on the spot now.
The English flag is “allowed” during football matches — but the morning after the event it must be shunned like an unvaccinated viper playing kiss-chase. This has dramatically changed recently; every day there are a proliferation of national flags in the street, some Union flags but more England flags, flying from motorway bridges and spray-painted on roads, thousands of them on lampposts, going on for miles.
It’s thought to have started in mid-July after a 12-year-old schoolgirl was prevented from making a speech about what being British meant to her while wearing a Union flag dress — just like Ginger Spice did — at her school’s “Culture Celebration Day” to which pupils were invited to wear their national dress. The school has since offered “unreserved apologies” to the child, but too late.
As the story spread on social media, a crowd-funder raised thousands of pounds to be spent on national flags, to be hoisted up in public places as part of a popular and peaceful protest movement calling itself “Operation Raise The Colours.”
The Left-wing ruling class have reacted risibly, as though a gang of ruffians has urinated en masse on their antimacassars.
These are the anti-patriotism mob once fingered so mercilessly by George Orwell: “England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality… almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during ‘God save the King’ than of stealing from a poor box.”
They’d better get used to it, though. This is part of a political sea-change which started with the fall of the Red Wall to the Tories in support of Brexit; now every time some over-paid know-all sneers at the flag, another Labour vote dies.
70-79, M
