According to a new report in Britain schoolchildren could soon “swear an allegiance” to the Queen. I can hear the cries of “hogwash” ringing around the realm now; rising only slightly above the hysterical laughter.

To what do we owe this latest lunacy?

To promote Britishness of course!

And to whom do we owe these pearls of wisdom?

Gordon Brown and former Attorney General Lord Goldsmith!

Under the proposals a new public holiday will be created in time for the Olympics in 2012 and that (and I quote)” schoolchildren should take part in the same kind of ceremonies for foreigners taking British nationality.”

Please reread the above paragraph and see if you see the same glaring flaw that hits me in the face like a dead and decomposing fish……

How do you promote “Britishness” by copying foreigners?

To the Crazy Englishman; Britishness was the stuff of Thomas Savery, Sir Issac Newton or Aneurin Bevan to name only a tiny few.

Savery gave the world the steam engine; Newton’s gift to the world was physics and Aneurin Bevan’s vision was a free quality health service copied throughout .the world.

Just three from an enormous cast of British heroes renowned throughout the world yet we apparently need to copy someone else’s ideas…

What a wonderful suggestion from a government which still fails to acknowledge the English as a race. I have another; declare St. Georges day as a public holiday and recognise the English before you celebrate “Britishness” without them.

Lets see how this so called pledge of Allegiance could possibly go…..

I pledge allegiance to the Queen of Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Commonwealth and the European Union and any other “Johnny Come Lately.”

And to the Monarchy, For which it Stands.

Multitudes of races (but not the English,) under millions of gods; idols; and despots (delete as applicable)

Divided (unless we forgot somebody)

With liberty and justice for all (except the English but including everyone else)

Doesn’t have quite the same ring does it? T.T.F.N.