Oct 21 2007
Gordon Brown struggles to show belief in England as he backs the EU
Gordon Brown managed a red tie and a white shirt yesterday, as he strove to support his recently adopted team.
He will find it even more difficult to come out showing his support for the EU, after years of Eurosceptic briefing. I am not expecting to see him anytime soon sporting a twelve stars blue tie humming the Ode to Joy - he would rather have to sing God save the Queen and stick with the red and white of England.
Yet the truth is Gordon Brown shows much more commitment to the twleve stars of Europe than he does to the red rose of England. This is the man who
Denies English votes for English issues in the Commons
Who insisted on a Parliament for Scotland which has become a predictable dagger in the heart of the Union now it is run by Nationalists
Signs up to a disgracefully federalist EU Treaty, denying it is the old Constitution re packaged
Ensures England has a bad deal within the Union on anything from cash allocation to planning
Refuses us a vote on the EU’s power grab
If he were an honest man he would have worn an EU twelve stars tie to the rugby yesterday, and claimed his mission was to woo his French hosts, as they will now play such an important role in the government of England.
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We all saw him at the match yesterday. He tried, oh how he tried, to sing the national anthem. But he couldn’t quite manage it.
Very true. As an Englishman I feel that my country is being short-changed by the Scottish cabal that run the Labour party. I’m just glad that Brown didn’t have the nerve to wear ‘our’ proper shirt but being a Scot he would probably have died rather than put a real England shirt on his back. The way we English are treated is a disgrace, we have become second-tier citizens in our own land.
What a joker, seriously. Quite a few people in the pub booed him when he appeared on screen for pretending to be English.
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Tony Makara: “As an Englishman I feel that my country is being short-changed by the Scottish cabal that run the Labour party.”
from wikipedia -
“David Cameron was born in London, but brought up at Peasemore, near Newbury, in the English county of Berkshire,[7] the son of stockbroker Ian Donald Cameron and Mary Fleur Mount the second daughter of Sir William Malcolm Mount, 2nd Baronet.[8] His father was born at Blairmore House near Huntly, Aberdeenshire,[9] which was built by Cameron’s grandfather Ewen Donald Cameron’s maternal grandfather Alexander Geddes[10] who had made a fortune in the grain business in Chicago and had returned to Scotland in the 1880s.[11] The Cameron family were originally from the Inverness area of the Scottish Highlands.[12]”
If being a Scot is a disqualification for PM of England, why replace the current Scot with another?
APL - well said.
This is dangerous nonsense, stirring it up against Brown due solely to his place of birth.
I can’t speak for the Welsh or (Northern) Irish - but could you honestly imagine Thatcher, Major or Blair wearing a Scottish shirt of, by some miracle, they had made it to the final ever? Be honest.
Or IDS? Hague? Howard? had they been PM.
There’s no point pretending that is is uniquely challenged by teh quandry of multiple British identities. You should be encouraging that, not using it as a line of attack.
And is this really the site to be making remarks about the ability to sing national anthems..?
Reply: I did not say Gordon Brown should have worn an English rugby shirt. No I do not think Conservative PMs would have worn Scottish shirts if they had gone to a final to support a Scottish team. I do think he looked uncomfortable, as many have remarked.