Can you write an oath of allegiance?

[STEED]

http://timesonline.typepad.com/comment/2008/03/so-lord-goldsmi.html (http://timesonline.typepad.com/comment/2008/03/so-lord-goldsmi.html)

I pledge my allegiance to Queen and common man but not those pigs at Westminster who will be publicly flogged when the revolution comes, liberal PC criminal rights will be swept away in the name of the people.

I pledge to fight the EU and destroy it and rip its filthy Black heart out.


Every man women and child will be given the Union Flag to put up in there gardens and feel proud and smile.

[Letum]

I pledge to adopt healthy and vigorous cynicysm to all things, including this pledge.

[Stealth Hunter]

I pledge to create my own living space that has no gods or kings, only pure and untamed man.

[Sailor Steve]

Brown really doesn't get what it is to be British, does he? It isn't about American-style oaths of allegiance to the flag, or little Stars and Stripes lapel badges or flagposts in the front garden. It's about a quiet sense of pride, "patriotism" as opposed to "nationalism".
Posted by: Margaret on the Guillotine
And America really should never have been about oaths of allegiance to the flag either. Fight it, boys.

[Friedmann]

Pledges of allegiance are garbage. I've never made one to Australia and I never will. I don't have to prove my patriotism and I would feel being asked to do so demeaning.

[Platapus]

I just wish our PoA reverted back to its original form :cry:

[August]

I just wish our PoA reverted back to its original form :cry:

I like ours just the way it is, thank you very much.

[Platapus]

Thats why we should be given a choice :yep:

[Tchocky]

I very much don't like pledges.

Enforced patriotism is one of the silliest things a government/nation can do. It says - we neither trust nor believe you.

[jumpy]

Does Daniel think this has anything to do with Britishness ?
It's just Brown closing a flank that is exposed to the West Lothian question.Labour has lost Scotland for now and we might wake up to the fact that England, which does not have it's own Government, is run by people who's seats are in another country and call themselves,when convienient, Scots.
No doubt Daniel imagines that yesterdays headline about the troops ,underfunded by Brown,wearing their uniforms in public was to be taken at face value.The ban in Peterborough was a year ago and was resurected and trumpeted by Brown so he could lead all in praise of the people he has consistantly ignored.
One would expect journalists to display some of their legendary cynicism, especially when the "face"of these initiatives claims to have a moral compass.

Posted by: robert everitt | 11 Mar 2008 13:41:49 (http://timesonline.typepad.com/comment/2008/03/so-lord-goldsmi.html#comment-106601742)


How very true. :down:

Personally I feel that any comments like 'one nation, indevisable, under god' etc etc is so much bs as regards the UK anyway; we are not one nation for a start, nor are we indevisable (last time I checked) and don't get me started on 'god' or in this case gods seeing as we have so many diverse multicultural peoples scrounging here.

Yet more Nulab desperation I'm afraid.

[Brag]

I'll drink to the punch of allegiance, or the plunge of allegiance, the plonk of allegiance, ;) May as well add, The Steed of allegiance.:eek:

[AVGWarhawk]

Steed,

I had to laugh at some of the response of their pledges. Very funny indeed.

[Jimbuna]

I laughed as well, despite the fact I have sworn an oath of allegiance (to the Crown) and am a signatory to the Official Secrets Act.

Many do so because they are patriotic to their country, others do so simply because they want to.

Some people have no choice once they choose certain vocations in life.

As long as they are forewarned what is expected of them prior to the event, what's the problem.

There's an old WWII saying here in the UK which goes something like...."You shouldn't have joined up if you can't take a joke" ;)