Will you get your kids to sing this on June 25th?

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NEW: The government is urging children to sing this song on June 25

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"We are Britain and we have one dream.
Strong Britain great nation"

Am I wrong, or is this really cringey?

It's a song to basically say "Fuck the other countries/ Europe, don't show them any respect or people in 'our country' who identify as such". (And "Hooray for Tory corruption! The people are so stupid! As always!"). Nothing innocently patriotic about it.

Young children love running around shouting "Poo! Bum! Willy! Boobies!", but it doesn't mean we should make it An Official Thing for everybody else to join in.

I dunno. I reckon a bit of co-ordinated running-about-shouting-rude-words might be the best possible way to bond people way right now !!

[quote Icecreamsoda99]@Mollcat "Should we all be nationalists now? "[/quote]

Surely the most British of British values is that we don't do stuff like this, but stand around with our hands in our pockets locking mildly embarrassed?

It is of course possible to be right-wing and have brown skin.

[quote ofwarren]The song was written by Primary school children in Bradford
Why are you criticising a child's song?
twitter.com/1Britain1Nation/status/1402177695241408516?s=19[/quote]
because it's shit? School project - great. Well done. Asking anyone else to sing it? Absolutely fucking not.

It's akin to all those awful mummy poems that suddenly sprang up at the start of lockdown about 'the day the world stood still'. They were shit too but at least we weren't being asked to recite them en masse.

@ResIpsaLoquiturInterAlia

The song is not particularly well written musicality. But anything that unites and bring people together is better than anything that divides. We have enough diversity already so although the song is not that great the concept is to put the great back into Great Britain! Could do and deserve better though!

It has certainly united people in embarrassment and incredulity, so... job done!

Sorry @ZingDramaQueenOfSheeba, great minds

Nonsense. Apart from the fact that it’s a shit song - everyone knows that June 25th 2021 is Junemas. The only acceptable song is “We Wish You a Merry Junemas”!

@user1471505494

Why are other countries allowed to be proud of their country and culture and sing patriotic songs and British people are ridiculed and condemned for doing the same

Because this one is awful.

Are they out of their fucking tree?

Absolutely NO. We are in Scotland, btw.

Does the stilted, strange wording remind anyone else of the national anthem in Borat?! "Kazhakstan is greatest country in the world..."

This is Time Trumpet-esque hilarity.

@AChickenCalledDaal

Young children love running around shouting "Poo! Bum! Willy! Boobies!", but it doesn't mean we should make it An Official Thing for everybody else to join in.

I dunno. I reckon a bit of co-ordinated running-about-shouting-rude-words might be the best possible way to bond people way right now !!

Here's one for you then

Mine are saying that if they are going to be forced to sing anything it'll be Sex Pistols "God save the Queen". Bless their innocent teenage hearts

Who has one dream? Our government didn't when fucking over NI during the Brexit negotiations. The elite who wanted Brexit are now wanting to policies which are totally opposite to what persuaded some people to vote the way they did.
The Country doesn't, or we wouldn't have the benefit reforms we did and the government we do.

I hope if this is forced across schools, walk outs occur and parents of younger children protest.

@megletthesecond

No. Its a load of rubbish. Some mate of Esther McVey and her husband.

I'll play Rage against the machine instead.

That's a great idea. What time is this on? I think we should organise a mass Killing In The Name play at the same time.

Or System of a Down MUST have something equally anti politics that would work

@Itawapuddytat

Absolutely NO. We are in Scotland, btw.

Don't be daft, they meant the other Britain. The English one.

Of course it isn't a coincidence at all that we're supposed to be doing this patriotic singing on the 5th anniversary of the outcome of the referendum that fucked the whole country over.

Not a fucking chance. We're also in Scotland and our schools are out for summer holidays by then already 😂.

Hahaha bunch of bullshit 😂

@JesusInTheCabbageVan

Sorry *@ZingDramaQueenOfSheeba*, great minds

@JesusInTheCabbageVan

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It's not very well thought out if the purpose is to forge a sense of belonging and identity. Calling it 'Britain' excludes Northern Ireland, and on that date the Scottish schools will be on holiday.
So it's really just for England and Wales. So, not the UK, and not Britain.

Sounds like something Hitler would command the schools to implement.

Clearly the origins are genuine and do come from a desire for a united country. The issue with U.K./GB/actual nations I can get past as a kid/kids wrote it.

The current DoE promoting it however, with no background at all, immediately made it sinister and got a "Fuck no!" from me once I established it wasn't a piss take.

Says a lot for our Government. Also bear in mind we can comment like this against that bunch of cockwombles and not get arrested (for now at least).

I'm Jewish, and stuff like this scares the hell out of me. I know I'm going to get flamed but I have a very good reason for being leery about hardcore patriotism. I mean, hardcore patriots don't consider us to be real Brits for a start.

I'm glad I don't have children. I'd be scared for them.

@user1471505494

Why are other countries allowed to be proud of their country and culture and sing patriotic songs and British people are ridiculed and condemned for doing the same

Because some of us don't see North Korea as a role model.