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Should "God Save the Queen/King" be replaced as the National Anthem  

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  1. 1. Should "What would you like to see replace it?

    • Nothing. Don't change it
      3
    • Land of Hope and Glory
      7
    • Jerusalem
      8
    • I Vow to Thee My Country
      1
    • Something better than the jingoistic nonsense above
      8


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Oh, and I Vow to thee, My Country is ANOTHER cracking tune with jingoistic words. Holst was mightily pissed off when they were added without his permission.

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Jerusalem is a cracking tune, but the words - while a fascinating example of Blake's poetry - are anachronistic religious tosh.

Land of Hope and Glory is also a cracking tune, but the words are anachronistic imperialist tosh.

As I said upthread, I'd rather we didn't have one at all, but if we must, I'd prefer an instrumental, with no lyrics at all.

And deny the press a chance to excoriate sports people for not bellowing out the nonsense lyrics? Bold but doomed I fear.

An Explosions in the Sky track would be great though. Just ensure everyone chilled the **** out and got along nicely.

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keep it but rework the words to include some French bashing

 

and make all sports people representing the country belt it out , none of this I'm only here for the money looks that we currently get from them

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keep it but rework the words to include some French bashing

 

Almost there in verse 2 of GStQ: 

 

O Lord our God arise,
Scatter her enemies,
And make them fall:
Confound their politics,
Frustrate their knavish [or Popish] tricks,
On Thee our hopes we fix
God save us all
 
The Neil Young version (on "Americana") has the full words. 
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Jerusalem is a great tune.. would prefer that for the new UK anthem once Scotland gets independence 

 

GSTQ is so dull. 

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Land of hope and glory for me.

I quite like the religious mentions in our anthems. After all we are supposed to be a christian country.

 

 

But it doesn't reflect the majority of the populace anymore.

 

 

ooh, a chance for some pedantry....

 

I think the last ONS had it at just over 33 million classifying themselves christian, UK population is 64 million

 

so strictly speaking it does reflect the majority

 

but probably only for the next 18 months or so (on the presumption all those east european immigrants are atheists and muslims)

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