How Can I be Guilty of Treason?

Given the recent announcements about the changes to Disability Benefit (the sort of policies that would have made Tebit blush) the image is particularly helpful. Michael Greenwell has it right over here...No Child of Mine

“How can I be guilty of treason when England is foreign to me?”

If it wasn’t enraging it might be funny. The author of the report stated …

He also stressed that he could not see why Republicans would not want to swear an oath, even though they may not believe in the present system of government.

He probably can’t see why vegetarians don’t just eat hamburgers, lesbians don’t just sleep with men and Noel Edmonds doesn’t just get a 24 hour channel to himself.

Apparently it is all to help remind us of our ‘responsibilities’ and to remind us that we live in a tolerant and free society, ask you average asylum seeker how true that is.

I also wonder if those responsibilities include trivial things like, I don’t know, say getting legal authority to wage war or abiding by the European Convention on Human Rights?

The verses of the God Save the Queen that aren’t often sung are also possibly going to be changed. I think this is meant to be some sort of sop to the Scots in that they probably want to remove the fourth verse…

Lord, grant that Marshal Wade,
May by thy mighty aid,
Victory bring.
May he sedition hush and like a torrent rush,
Rebellious Scots to crush,
God save the King/Queen.

I think it should have been changed long ago but I don’t see it as my national anthem anyway and do they really expect people to say that thats fine then. Forget Scotland getting the shitty end of the financial stick and all the invasions. Forget Scotland being used as a nuclear dumping ground. Forget Scotland being used as a guinea pig whenever it suits London, forget Scottish history, forget Scottish culture and get involved in the all-new London-centric, cash at all costs, warmongering clusterfuck of a country that is the modern United Kingdom.

And make sure you rejoice while you do it. They have cameras to make sure you do.