Are you British?

@terry wrote:

I’m not British, nor am I anti-British either.

It’s a strange world when there seems to be no pride or faith in the British from the British people themselves.

The Muses, still with freedom found,
Shall to thy happy coast repair;
Blest Isle! With matchless beauty crown’d,
And manly hearts to guard the fair.
“Rule, Britannia!

Don’t dismiss the pride and faith of the British people until you have canvassed them all Terry.

We’re about to enter into an orgy of heart-stirring jingoism that will loosen the nations wallets and fill it’s streets and green spaces with rivers of Pimms and mountains of cucumber sandwiches.

We remain a proud nation, a safe and influential one. A haven for many, envied by more. If measured by the callow values of cash we absolutely rool! Measured by cultural and political diversity we absolutely rock! And measured by charity, care and mutual tolerance we absolutely grow!

A nation which combines enterprise with social care, freedom with responsibility, where these things are recognised by the horror when they are breached. Our relaxed demeanour confuses many and has fooled past enemies into challenging our vigour, only to be thwarted by our steel.

Sure we have replaced ranks of yeomanry providing easy, red-coated targets with a smaller elite of skilled professionals. And we no longer rejoice at killing our competitors, but constantly strive to best them in our chosen fields of endeavour. Our geographical boundaries no longer expand, but our people travel the globe and along with riches earn respect for integrity and endurance.

And at home an easy complacency no longer protects the tyrant and the enslaver (thanks for the line, Ireland) but we continue to wrestle with the challenges of the modern world and create a future, not just for our own children but for the world to which we belong.

Anti-British? The hell we are!!!!

Harrumph!

@Sgt Pepper wrote:

Any chance we can rejoin the UK on a temporary basis?
Just for the weekend like?

We’d do anything for an extra day off!

Wouldn’t we Lucy? :P

Hell Yeah!!

I’ll even put up some bunting