The suggestion that making school pupils swear allegiance to the Queen would foster a 'sense of belonging' has been rightly pilloried everywhere.
I mean, what the fuck? Neither Orwell nor Huxley in their darker moments foresaw our rulers trying to turn the country into one giant Scout camp, did they?
"It has been the misfortune of this age, that everything is to be discussed, as if the constitution of our country were to be always a subject rather of altercation than enjoyment." - Edmund Burke anticipates the Neverendum
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