The Talking Clock: What do New Labour know about patriotism anyway?

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Friday, 14 August 2009

What do New Labour know about patriotism anyway?

Health Secretary Andy Burnham is in the news headlines... again. He seems to be in the headlines all the freaking time of late. Is some mysterious force propelling him into the spotlight for any particular reason, we wonder?

Maybe he could get our water fluoridated or something?

Anyway, we won't talk too much about the individual. However, we have noted that he has accused Dan Hannan of being 'unpatriotic' after Hannan publicly questioned the NHS while in America.

Anyone who knew anything about Dan Hannan at all would know that his views are not even news. He published them months ago in a book called 'The Plan'.

Though is this accusation of being 'unpatriotic' not somewhat interesting, coming from a New Labour politician?

Unpatriotic... as in handing our sovereignty to a foreign power?

Unpatriotic... as in ignoring the Declaration of Rights? Magna Carta? Habeas Corpus?

Unpatriotic... as in branding UKIP extremists because they stand up for British sovereignty?

Who needs lectures in patriotism from New Labour? It is they who have turned the Houses of Parliament into little more than a Town Hall while giving rule over this nation to megalomaniacs in Brussels whose names and faces no-one even knows.

It is they - New Labour - who would have our national anthem become Beethoven's 'Ode To Joy' and our national flag become a ring of gold stars on a navy blue background.

It is they - New Labour - who would relegate Her Majesty The Queen from her position of Head of State of a proud nation into a 'citizen' of the European Union.

Patriotism? New Labour know nothing about it. In fact, most people who feel an ounce of patriotism in Britain are scared of voicing it in case we get locked up indefinitely for daring to care about the land in which we were born.

Our once proud Britain, that New Labour has ransacked then gifted to the European superstate.

So we take no lectures in 'patriotism' from New Labour!

Dan Hannan has more patriotism in his receding hairline than the whole of New Labour can muster throughout the entirety of their collective crapistocracy*.

* Yes, we did just invent that word. It seems to fit where New Labour are concerned.

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Forever... Diana

...genuine goodness is threatening to those at the opposite end of the moral spectrum.

"And when I look at people in public life... I'm not a political animal but I think the biggest disease this world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved, and I know that I can give love - for a minute, for an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that."
- Diana, Princess of Wales, 1996

"I think the British people need someone in public life to give affection, to make them feel important, to support them, to give them light in their dark tunnels. I see it as a possibly unique role, and yes, I've had difficulties, as everybody has witnessed over the years, but let's now use the knowledge I've gathered to help other people in distress."
- Diana, Princess of Wales, 1996

"Diana was the very essence of compassion, of duty, of style, of beauty. All over the world she was a symbol of selfless humanity, a standard-bearer for the rights of the truly downtrodden, a truly British girl who transcended nationality."
- Earl Spencer

"..she was our guardian, friend and protector. She never once allowed her unfaltering love for us to go unspoken or undemonstrated. She will always be remembered for her amazing public works. But behind the media glare, to us, just two loving children, she was quite simply the best mother in the world."
- Prince Harry

The People's Sovereignty

"...our membership of the European Union has removed our democracy; it has taken away the right of the British people to elect and dismiss those who make their laws. Our system of representative parliamentary democracy, for which millions have died over hundreds of years, has been frittered away. It no longer serves the people. That is why the time has come to give power back to the people. They deserve it anyway; it is their power and it belongs to them. Before long their anger will overflow if they do not get it back."

- Former UKIP leader Lord Pearson in the House of Lords, 5th February 2009

British resistance and liberty

"We British have in a very special way contributed to Europe. Over the centuries we have fought to prevent Europe from falling under the dominance of a single power. We have fought and we have died for her freedom. Only miles from here, in Belgium, lie the bodies of 120,000 British soldiers who died in the First World War.

Had it not been for that willingness to fight and to die, Europe would have been united long before now - but not in liberty, not in justice. It was British support to resistance movements throughout the last War that helped to keep alive the flame of liberty in so many countries until the day of liberation."

- Margaret Thatcher, Bruges, 1992

Friday, 14 August 2009

What do New Labour know about patriotism anyway?

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