uk, pol-ish?
the BBC is dropping the lyrics to "rule britannia" at the last night of the proms
the right is yelling about it being because the song sounds colonial as fuck and that people "shouldn't be ashamed of our glorious history of empire" and "the left just don't want us to have this"
the actual reason it's being dropped is the fact that a dozen people singing it in an otherwise empty albert hall will sound at best depressing, at worst just shit
uk, pol-ish?
@troubleMoney haha polish thats me
uk, pol-ish?
@troubleMoney 'glorious history'
uk, pol-ish?
@troubleMoney I mean it's insufferable to listen to and so is LoH&G, and IVtT,MC is tons better anyway given it was literally played over Churchill's corpse wait where was i going with this
oh yeah. They get their singalong next year and nothing's stopping them from doing a live virtual choir this year other than the absence of techie gammons. Their point?
At least I got called a wet today by the PM, which is brilliant. I liked that bit.
uk, pol-ish?
also the wide range of atrocities of the empire is definitely something to be at least embarrassed about but that's not actually the reason behind this one