Religion and Ethics Forum
General Category => Politics & Current Affairs => Topic started by: Nearly Sane on June 22, 2021, 02:56:36 PM
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If you can listen to the 'song' without throwing up, you are probably deaf.
https://www.onebritainonenation.com/campaigns/obon-day-25th-june-2021-campaign
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I'm not deaf. Good grief.
I've got nothing, sorry.
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Oh dear, its so silly! ::)
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OBON shite supported by UK Govt
https://twitter.com/educationgovuk/status/1406990765906145281?s=19
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OBON shite supported by UK Govt
https://twitter.com/educationgovuk/status/1406990765906145281?s=19
The link starts off with a post from the UK government Department of Education, which is of course the education department for England & Wales, since education in Scotland is devolved to Holyrood, which opens with "We're encouraging schools across the UK to celebrate One Britain One Nation Day on 25 June". Which won't work where I live (East Dunbartonshire) because schools here (and in several other areas of Scotland) break up for the summer holidays at 1pm on the 24th, and in most other areas of Scotland they break up around lunchtime on the 25th - and many secondary school kids just skip the last half-day anyway.
The irony here is that these 'One Britain One Nation' proponents presumably forgot to check with the Scottish Government that schools across this mythical 'One Britain One Nation' would all be open for business on their preferred date - and this information is easy to find on-line, in just the same way that I have just discovered that schools close for summer in England & Wales at the end of July: a full month later than schools here in Scotland close for the summer holidays.
So a UK Government supported ''One Britain One Nation' initiative involving "schools across the UK" fails to take into account that school holidays in Scotland have always started a month earlier than in England & Wales: it would be funny if it wasn't so fucking pathetic - another illustration of why some of us here in Scotland have contempt for the UK, and we want out.
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Is this OBON thing something to do with Brexit?
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Is this OBON thing something to do with Brexit?
Doesn't seem to be.
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Ein volk, ein reich, ein fuhrer.
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Ein volk, ein reich, ein fuhrer.
It doesn't appear to be any such thing. I think it's drov but it isn't Nazi drivel.
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It doesn't appear to be any such thing. I think it's drov but it isn't Nazi drivel.
Well, clearly not - I was just pointing out the slightly alarming similarity between the slogans. However, anything supported by the lovely Joanna Lumley can't be bad, and this 'ere Lord Patel seems like a good bloke, judging by his Wikipedia entry.
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Doesn't seem to be.
Albeit it does feel very Brexity from their website, and certainly seems to push all the little Englander buttons that the current Leave obsessed government like.
A couple of points - first if you look at who is involved, it isn't one nation at all (even if that nation is England rather than the UK. From the first page of their testimonials it is basically a Bradford-based organisation, plus Joanna Lumley.
And on the latter (to disagree with Worblehat) anything that Joanna Lumley supports cannot be any good - just look at her support for the idiotic Garden Bridge.
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Albeit it does feel very Brexity from their website, and certainly seems to push all the little Englander buttons that the current Leave obsessed government like.
A couple of points - first if you look at who is involved, it isn't one nation at all (even if that nation is England rather than the UK. From the first page of their testimonials it is basically a Bradford-based organisation, plus Joanna Lumley.
And on the latter (to disagree with Worblehat) anything that Joanna Lumley supports cannot be any good - just look at her support for the idiotic Garden Bridge.
The second and third pages of testimonials covers rather wider than just Bradford. I can see the UK govt using it as a sort of Brexit balm but I can't see anything in the site that associates it with Brexit.
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The second and third pages of testimonials covers rather wider than just Bradford. I can see the UK govt using it as a sort of Brexit balm but I can't see anything in the site that associates it with Brexit.
Yes I know - but page one is massively Bradford-centric and realistically three pages, of which the first is pretty well all Bradford doesn't really suggest a nationwide organisation.