English Team insult to The Queen!
October 6th 2010 07:51
1: Royal Cyper of Queen Elizabeth II as Head of the Commonwealth
I sat, dumbfounded, watching the medal ceremony for the swimming, an English boy won, fair enough, our boys have been lacking in the pool for some years now. But, that is not what dumbfounded me; it was the 'anthem'. I first thought the idiot controlling the anthem music had gotten it wrong again.
But no, after hearing the entire piece of music, Jerusalem, which comes close to the Italian anthem in ludicrous length, we find out that the English team CHOSE Jerusalem as their anthem!!!
HUH????????
Since when do teams choose their own anthem?
This isn't some backyard bash, this is the COMMONWEALTH GAMES!!!!
The Games is a competition for the nations within the Commonwealth of Nations, it is traditionally opened by...HRH QUEEN ELIZABETH 2!!!!
Each time the medals ceremony happens, the winning team's national anthem is played, because that is who they are representing at the Games, just as happens at the Olympics.
So what ON EARTH is going on?
And WHO ALLOWED the English team to select a piece of music that is not their official national anthem?
Okay, so England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland all participate as separate identities in these Games, unlike at the Olymplic level, and technically there is no 'official' anthem for England, or Scotland for that matter.
God Save the Queen is the official anthem for the united isles, Britain, but, to allow the team to choose an "unofficial" anthem to be played, such as Jerusalem, Land of Hope and Glory, or even I Vow To Thee, My Country, (used in the past) reads, to my mind, as a backhander to their sovereign, HRH Queen Elizabeth 2.
To my knowledge, no other national team in the Games has done this.
What would Aussies think if our athletes chose "Another one bites the dust" by pop group Queen?
I do not think it would go over very well at home somehow.
Is this yet another example of those low life, craven, faceless, government bureaucrats having a go at Her Majesty?
SHAME ON THOSE ANTI MONARCHIST BASTERDS!!!!
BRING BACK GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!!!
What these fools in the British Government choose to ignore is, the majority of their tourist dollars, well, pounds in their case, comes from people wanting to see the Queen, her Grenadier Guards, her palaces and some pomp and ceremony.
2: HRH trooping the colour
Hard as it might be for these tools in government to understand, tourists do not find grey monolithic public housing estates inviting, nor gasometers, nor telecom towers, nor motorways, nor ruddy nosed and bloated bureaucrats in the least bit attractive and certainly not something that they would travel vast distances to see.
3: WHAT! They're NOT playing MY ANTHEM?!!
Without the Queen, the Royal Family and their somewhat eccentric and colourful pageantry, England would be an overcast, drizzling, grey and gruesome patch of misery, even with the deep fried Mars Bars, oh that's right; the Scottish invented that pinnacle of gastronomy.
Love the Scots!
ENGLISH TEAM REINSTATE THE PROPER ANTHEM!!!
AND GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!!!!
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Royal Cyper of Elizabeth II as Head of the Commonwealth
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Author: sandpiper; Released into the Public Domain by the author. Cropping of original photo by Silk Tork HRH Elizabeth 2 trooping the colour This release does not suggest that the author agrees with, supports or shares the opinions stated within this online article.
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