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[danohu]

[Edit: as predicted, this was a case of a misleading article in the Guardian. See i_am_toast's comment.]
Plans to make schoolchildren take part in citizenship ceremonies pledging allegiance to the Queen

Yes, it's the Guardian selling papers by angering liberals, and somebody's always willing to say idiotic things to get himself back in the news. But it still leaves me feeling sour - and yes, these things can matter.

Worse - I hadn't realised (or had forgotten) that we make immigrants swear to "be faithful and bear true allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second, her Heirs and Successors, according to law"

sorry; I will stop posting so much about politics eventually. I just seem to have remembered in the past few weeks how beautiful the world is, and therefore also how fucked up chunks of it are

Comments

[the-alchemist.livejournal.com]

What a shame we didn't have that when I was at school. I would have very much enjoyed refusing.

[oedipamaas49.livejournal.com]

yes. I've been idly wondering which of my schoolfriends would and wouldn't have refused.

[mirabehn.livejournal.com]

Not that I was one of your schoolfriends, but I would have refused. I'm not sure that anybody else would have done, though perhaps I'm doing them a disservice.