i know the sewers dont work anymore but will someone please think of the children

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    I can hope any investigation by the BBC goes “they brought EU flags in, they waved them. Recommendations - none.”

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    Oh, those little snowflakes. Poor things. Do they need to retreat to their safe space? What about a kiss on their boo-boos? Never mind those bad pro human rights, pro equality, pro EU people can’t hurt you.

  • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.uk
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    The spectacle of so many EU flags being waved as the hall belted out Rule, Britannia! provoked disgust from leading Eurosceptics.

    Harvey Proctor, a former Conservative MP, said it was a “disgraceful” display and called for an inquiry by the BBC, which organises and broadcasts the Proms.

    Well look who crawled out of the woodwork!

    They’ll properly soil themselves when they find out that Jerusalem isn’t as patriotic as they think it is.

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      The idea of an “inquiry” for this is so utterly hilarious. What is he expecting it to find? That leaving the EU was a disastrously unpopular decision and that anyone can wave a flag?

      Also, they view Rule, Britannia as a modern, relevant, unironic thing? I see that as the British equivalent to when Americans are like “MURICA, fuck yeah, guns and lifted trucks and bald eagles and worshipping the founding fathers!” Which is to say, incredibly cringy.

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    Europeans flying the flag of Europe.

    Hasn’t this happened every proms since brexit anyway?

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      Yes but the Brexiters are so full of shit that they have to shit themselves regularly to avoid serious medical complications.

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      its been on a break since covid and the queens death. I think 3 proms cancelled. This is the first one back and i guess since we officially left

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    Imagine being this upset about a flag. And also going to the lengths of organising a campaign to wave flags just to get a headline in the guardian. 🤣😂😂🤣

    What a complete non story.

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    Saw an article by David Frost in the Torygraph earlier. I genuinely can’t imagine having the energy to get so irate for money about such inane shit.

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        Educated people know you can get information from a search engine these days. Knucledraggers need to be told how to feel about that information. This is where tabloids found their market.

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    Nile Gardiner, a former aide to Margaret Thatcher and a contributor to the Daily Telegraph, posted: “Rule Britannia represents freedom, sovereignty, and self-determination."

    Rule Britannia is a song about British supremacy in global imperialism but that melted brain ghoul worshipping fucking idiot would never grasp that.

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    Federasts “protesting” at the proms, I can’t think of a more petite bourgeois thing.

    And it’s not the “EU flag”, there’s no such thing, it’s the flag of Europe.