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| Flags from the windows, flags flying from cars, bunting from the guttering. If Pickles’s tweet is representative of a new patriotic mood, cheap fifa 15 coins that Faragist farrago, soon those obligatory stars-and-stripes lapel badges that US politicians wear to cement their allegiance to American hubris will have their transatlantic parallel. Oh man, say it ain’t so. Even Labour leader Ed Miliband was induced by this dictatorship of sentiment, by his witless pursuit of every other muppet’s news agenda, to say that he felt “respect” whenever he saw a white van or a house draped in St George’s flags in an attempt to defuse allegations that his party “sneers” at working-class voters. Really? How much better it would have been if he had said this flag waving makes him sick, especially when those flags bear the imprimatur of the Murdoch press. How thrilling it would have been too had he exploded the myth of white-van man as somehow the unerring symbol of working-class Britain, arguing rather that it was a Sun-sponsored, politically reactionary invention. How much better too, http://www.utfifas.co/ if Miliband had dared point out that what George Orwell said about patriotism is a lie. “By ‘patriotism’ I mean devotion to a particular place and a particular way of life, which one believes to be the best in the world but has no wish to force on other people,” wrote Orwell. | ||
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