Triggered

Over the weekend, a false story appeared on that the BBC was considering replacing Land of Hope and Glory and Rule Britannia at Last Night of the Proms.

It was a made up story then, but of course, Trumpflakes and Brexiteers have run with this as an example of the so-called “cancel-culture”.

Amazing how they laugh at those on the left for being snowflakes, when they are so easily triggered by something like this, or having to wear a mask, just to keep everyone else safe, just not them?

In keeping with current Government COVID rules, there will be no singing at LNOTP, but this hasn’t stopped many of today’s papers leading that the BBC has stopped the singing the line: “Britain never, never will be slaves.”

The British Empire, and so so its wealth, was built on slavery. Or a third of it was: supplying slaves for the Americas, produce from there to the UK and finished goods to the rest of the world, ensured companies like the East India Company always had the holds of their ships full, making money, lots of money on each leg. And made it’s members and owners, and the country, very very rich.

And a lot of the art, the stately home, the pageant of this country is built on the money obtained over the bodies of slaves. Even when it wasn’t from slaves, some pretty dreadful stuff went on, all to make the motherland rich, or its already rich elite, richer still. And it was all legal.

People could own slaves, kidnap people to make slaves, transport them over the ocean, thrown them overboard if they thought the trip loss-making, sell them. And it was all legal in the eyes of the English legal system.

Many of the items in museums were either stolen, or just taken from where they were made, and now the UK refuses to return them.

Until the country comes to terms with its history, we will be in denial about things like the statue removal in Bristol. Colston wasn’t a law-breaker, some kind of fugitive from justice. He did what the law allowed and grew rich on that. Why not put some of those statues in museums, replace them with statues of slaves, at least acknowledging that part of our past?

And God Save the Queen is a dirge, should be replaced. By almost anything. And also has that little sung 4th verse emploring “The rebellious Scots to crush”. OK, just looked at Wiki, and its more interesting and complicated than that.

Anyway.

Getting triggered by a non-story. So very 2020.

And helps distract from the 67,000 additional deaths or the PPE contracts from their mates or the subversion of our democracy.

But do go on.....