Who are the British..?

[Tarot]

Ding Dong, who doth the bell toll for; the Euro.

[computedshorty]

England my England

Goodbye to my England , So long my old friend

Your days are numbered, being brought to an end

To be Scottish, Irish or Welsh that's fine

But don't say you're English, that's way out of line.

The French and the Germans may call themselves such

So may Norwegians, the Swedes and the Dutch

You can say you are Russian or maybe a Dane

But don't say you're English ever again.

At Broadcasting House the word is taboo

In Brussels it's scrapped, in Parliament too

Even schools are affected. Staff do as they're told

They must not teach children about England of old.

Writers like Shakespeare, Milton and Shaw

The pupils don't learn about them anymore

How about Agincourt, Hastings , Arnhem or Mons?

When England lost hosts of her very brave sons.

We are not Europeans, how can we be?

Europe is miles away, over the sea

We're the English from England , let's all be proud

Stand up and be counted - Shout it out loud!

Let's tell our Government and Brussels too

We're proud of our heritage and the Red, White and Blue

Fly the flag of Saint George or the Union Jack

Let the world know - WE WANT OUR ENGLAND BACK !!!!

[maxxi]

You should know better shorty - Shaw?

[El Pibe]

Just on the point of beauracracies, I spotted this in Private Eye

- ..has now launched a 24 page survey, consulting on the "code of practice on noise from ice cream van chimes etc" ... listing a number of ways the code could be tinkered with - including allaowing a slight increase in the maximum length of musical chimes to 12 seconds and permitting slightly later chiming based on anecdotal evidence that children now go to bed after 7pm as well as widening the rules slightly to allow other sellers of persiahable food to use chimes.

Brussels "straight bananas" regulators going mad?

Stand up our very own Defra.

Eurocrats, beauracrats, councillors ... choose your poison; same shit different shit.