'KEEP CRUSHING THOSE SCOTS' SAYS BROWN

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has rejected calls to amend the British national anthem 'God Save the Queen' which refers to 'rebellious Scots to crush' a reference to the Jacobite uprising.

The national anthem is not inclusive and should perhaps be changed, Lord Goldsmith, the former attorney general now leading a citizenship review for Gordon Brown, has suggested.
He said that there were problems with some of the later verses of the anthem, which refer to "rebellious Scots" being crushed.

Lord Goldsmith said: "Part of it is not actually that inclusive, but that's if you go on to the later verses. "Some people have suggested we might think about whether there are different words that might be put in place which would be more inclusive."

But last night, Number 10 made clear that Lord Goldsmith's plan was not backed by Gordon Brown, himself a Scot representing a Scottish constituency. A Downing Street spokesman said: "This does not reflect the Government's views. We are proud of our national anthem and the traditions it represents."

Lord Goldsmith's suggestion also brought an immediate rebuke from a Tory MP who warned that such a change could lead to the "unravelling all sorts of things". Andrew Rosindell, MP for Romford in Essex, told the Daily Telegraph: "I don't think we need to change the national anthem. It's an historic anthem."

Mr Rosindell, who two years ago complained that the national anthem was no longer played at the end of main programming each night on BBC1, also dismissed calls for the Welsh Dragon to be added to the Union flag.

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Who cares about the Scots and Welsh, that's the 'inner meaning 'of this story. The British flag with it's St George's Cross dominating the front and with the saltire to the rear shows the relative powers within the union. Wales flag is too different so they don't even bother including it.

Dump the anthem, dump the union and dump Gordon Brown a Scot who doesn't even have the bottle to object to his fellow Scots being crushed in the British national song! You can imagine his instinctive response: Mr Brown felt it might be too embarassing (for him) to change the national anthem. "As a Scot I find it a privelege to be crushed by Britain."

Scots Wha Hae should be our national anthem after independence but up till then the people's choice 'Flower of Scotland' must prevail. 'We can still rise now and be a nation again' is a sentiment which has genuine relevance.

Britain and England can have whatever anthems they like because they have no relevance to us anyway, just don't expect us to sing 'em.