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| Remainers at the Proms singing Land of Hope and Glory Source: BBC |
I wonder what Sir Malcolm Sargent would have made of it.
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A self-proclaimed 'Queer girl with a nose ring' waving the pride flag after singing Somewhere Over the Rainbow to "unify" an audience already unified in music.
The proceedings were brought to a close with the utterly incongruent spectacle of 'Remainers' in EU berets singing Land of Hope and Glory while waving EU flags.
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| US mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton waving a Pride flag to "unify the audience". Source: BBC |
Political activism gone mad.
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Love is the thing. Presiding bishop Michael Curry drawled it out at the marriage of Prince Harry to Meghan Markle.
Liberal infiltrators into Anglicanism continually talk of love, conveniently rolling all forms of love into one.
The BBC is at it too.
US mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton has been elevated to the status of national treasure having 'unified' the nation under the gay pride flag rather than the traditional Union Flag as she sang Rule Britannia at the BBC's Last Night of the Proms.
Yesterday I received a promotional email from the BBC celebrating love as portrayed at the Proms.
They are also telling school children ‘There are more than 100 gender identities’.
Discover more with the BBC!
Clearly not very clever if they can't see the contradiction.
ReplyDeleteI was more shocked by what appears to be a chap with a baseball cap on; or perhaps he identifies as a woman and therefore deems it acceptable to wear a hat indoors.
It is surely possible both to love one's country and be pro-EU. Many of our German, French and other foreign friends don't see that as a contradiction.
ReplyDeleteBut the EU has the notorious "moving to an ever close union" clause. The inevitable consequence is a European super-state.
DeleteWell, what at present we unambiguously have is a British super-state inevitably, because of population, dominated by England. I always thought that being part of the EU somewhat countered that imbalance!
DeleteA British super-state?? Dominated by England?? What???
DeleteLW
Exactly that.
DeleteAnd yet England is unable to have its own parliament! England is ruled by the UK, whilst Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have some measure of self determination.
DeleteI think you make a very pertinent point. The devolution process has effectively left England constitutionally out on a limb, a situation which seems oddly anomalous.
DeleteGiven the size of England, both geographically and in terms of population, and its very considerable diversity, there might be a case for devolution into two or more regions rather than just one, but I don't think that the status quo is defensible long term.
May I also say that, whatever your feelings may be about Jamie Barton waving the rainbow flag, she did not do so after singing "Somewhere Over The Rainbow". She only revealed it later, during the last refrain of "Rule Britannia": "I've got rhythm" and the rest of the "Fantasia on Sea Songs" came in between. (Of course other people had draped the rostrum with one or more rainbow flags).
ReplyDeleteYou are the voice of calm and reason on this blog, Baptist, and I really appreciate your postings. Typical of AB to have conflated the truth of what happened with the waving of the flag. He sees only what he wants to see and is single issue - namely, homophobic exegesis wherever he thinks he can get away with it. Thank you for pulling him up short.
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ReplyDeleteFifth columnists active again, I see.
ReplyDeleteBob
So we now have +Cherry Monmouth. I thought the machinations of AN Electoral college were supposed to be confidential. So how was an archdeacon from the Church of England Diocese of Manchester available to be photographed immediately after her election?
ReplyDeleteMertyr Organist
DeleteI think that is a rhetorical question. Stitch up?
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