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| 400 years on, the Union Jack still flies high, Morrissey discussed - Mirror.co.uk |
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posted by davidt
on Wednesday April 12 2006, @11:00AM
Belligerent Ghoul sends the link / excerpt:
I'M ALL RIGHT, JACK - The Mirror
Excerpt:
By the 19th century, when Britannia ruled the waves and the sun was said never to set on the British empire, it had become a symbol of colonial rule and, among native peoples, a standard drenched in fear.
Later it would become the symbol of the National Front and the British National Party, deemed so offensive in its symbolism that when The Smiths' frontman Morrissey draped himself in the Union flag in 1992 he was accused of racism.
He protested: "I'm really the last in a long trail of unshakeably English pop artists from The Who, The Jam, The Kinks... who were just unswayably English."
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Still, if he wants to wave a flag around I guess he's earned the right, but with his comments about being English, couldn't it have been the St George's Cross?
Ireland has an identity, Wales has an identity, Scotland has an identity, England? Is just an entity full of vomiting youths and a North/South divide. Please, someone, give us back our heritage; you don't need a flag to do it, we just need people standing up and saying they're proud to be English (even if we have done some really shitty things to rest of Britian in the past).