Why is it we can never see
How fortunate we are
We mock we condemn
We talk down what good we have
We live in a Free Society
We have Free Speech
We have Free Schools
We have the NHS
Yes, even I am guilty
At times of running our
National Health Service down
But compared to other Countries
We have Free Healthcare
Oh we pay our National Insurance Stamp
We pay our Taxes
There maybe a lot wrong
With “The Old Country”
But its Home, my Home
There were Wars this Country have fought
There were times when She stood alone
But the Country got through
Now we are being divided
Divided because the majority voted
To Leave the European Union
After Forty odd Years
And those that do not want to accept
The Democratic Vote
Are causing trouble
Trying to force us back to Europe
We have People from the Middle East and beyond coming here
And now some say there is hated here
Violence against these people
I accept there is some
But it is not rampant
As some would have it
We are not all racists
Say one word about them being here
And “you’re a racist” is said
The Flag of England cannot be flown
The St George Cross
As People say its
A Racists Flag
What a load of crap
This is my Country, England
I was Born in England
And proud of it
If I want to fly the Flag of England
No one has the right to stop me
Attack it from outside
Or Inside and I will defend it
There maybe a lot wrong
With “The Old Country”
But one thing is sure
There is a hell of a lot right with it
It’s this pc madness taking deep root, Anna. If you say anything that they disagree with, they will shout you down, and try to shame you. Old, marxists methods at work here. From “1984”: ‘freedom is the ability to say two plus two is four’. Unfortunately, there are times that we can no longer say this.
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You are so right, at times I wish I could turn the clock when this country was more polite.
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I can hear the pride in your voice, Anna. 🙂
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I know I have the Irish blood in me from my parents, and you know how much I love Ireland. My blood boils when I hear people attacking this Country in such a way, I always say if its that bad go elsewhere. When I went to Canada and applied for my first British Passport my Father told me on its arrival “don’t lose that girlie, there are people out there who would give anything for it”, I couldn’t see that at the time, I do now. He was so proud of this Country yet he came from Blarney loved Ireland, his eldest Brother blown up the British in “The Troubles” by the “Black and Tans” which were scum, yet he would never run down this Country, I guess I have inherited that. Better get off my “soapbox”.
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That reminds me. I need to get a detailed description of where your dad lived so I can keep my eye out for it when we go to Blarney Castle next year!!!
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When you go into Blarney Village, there is a row of little Houses outside the gate of the Grounds in one of those Houses (I’ll tell you later which one) my Father was born. There is, or was, a “Green” outside the houses the children played there and in the grounds of Blarney Castle. He never kissed “The Blarney Stone”, neither have I ( and I still talk a lot!). One warning “Don’t kiss the Stone”, it is a fact that those who work there and hold you while you kiss the stone, have urinated on the Stone before the Tourists are let in. (saw an Irish programme where that was said).
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