This always makes me smile....

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I’m not sure that either attending oxford or working in the civil service have any relevance to a commitment to republicanism. Self-esteem, on the other hand, is very relevant!

Don’t particularly care for the republican/monarchy debate (it’s not broken), but if North Korea had our national anthem we’d be taking the out of them.



God save our gracious leader, long live our noble leader, god save our leader



What’s that got to do with the country?

I'd never thought of it that way, but you're absolutely spot on.



So, the question now is how do we get it changed?

Land of Hope & Glory

I'm not sure about that. Any other family would be labelled as completely dysfunctional.

The Queen pays 20% on her personal income, voluntarily, after years of paying no tax what so ever. Her legitimacy as a monarch is only down to the arcane rules by which we live. There is no reason what so ever that the people of this country should not be given the choice, by referendum, to keep the monarchy or not, just as there is no reason for the government not to rewrite the statute book to make the personal income, of the monarch, or any benefit in kind, taxable. In this day and age we need to slim down the cost of monarchy and to stop pretending that they are the chosen ones of God. At the very least we need to hold our ruling class to account for what we provide for them.

Italy are having a debate about replacing their Rossini penned anthem with one from Verdi. We would probably replace GSTQ with a medley by Queen. What about "we will rock you"?

We'd probably end up with a national anthem written by One Direction

I have to laugh at posts like this and the people that comment. I guarantee that a proportion of people who think our majesty has done wrong are the people who will lay a few bricks or unblock a toilet at the weekend for cash without declaring it



Regards



King James

Not forgetting lots of pension pots sit abroad.

No England teams in any sport should sing GSTQ. That’s the anthem of the United Kingdom Of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, England doesn’t have an official NA but I’ve always thought it should be Land Of Hope And Glory. And we have played that before England internationals before now, although not sang it as an anthem.



But why not?!

The National Anthem is a song about the monarch and rock all to do with the country and its so bloody dull (the anthem, not the country).

Having said that, we have tried Jerusalem and Land of Hope and Glory at Internationals and while thel are more uplifting musically, the is not much in the way of crowd participation.

Yet more cr@p from the self appointed "king", another strong argument for getting rid of the monarchy