'We're Not America'
The lead story on BBC News 24 is this one about the creation of a pledge of allegiance to Queen and Country in the schools. A teacher's union representative suggested this was was a bad idea: "This isn't America. This is Britain, and we have a healthy skepticism."
Labels: British life, current events, media
posted by Smitty Werbenmanjensen at 9:03 AM
6 Comments:
Who would want to pledge allegiance to a queen? That's ridiculous. But a FLAG, now that's something that deserves our allegiance!
Those guys already have "God Save the Queen" (not the Sex Pistols version, of course). They don't need anything else for the Queen!
BTW...This is one American with "healthy skepticism". ;)
The thing about a flag is that you can burn it.
Point well taken, OK.
The Guardian ran some letters in response to the story. My favorite: "Why should the kids get all the fun? I want to have the opportunity to refuse to pledge allegiance to the Queen!"
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