Psuedo-philosophical thoughts of a rather ranty dragon. Ye have been warned!

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This seems to be another invention by Labour and Crash Gordon to try to destroy the last shreds of national pride we actually have on this frigid little island. Right after getting rid of our own currency that is. Right now the economy is in the shitter, we're run by a bunch of faceless eurocrats who were appointed without public consent, a prime minister who wasnt voted into power and an incompitent sleaze-ridden government that couldnt manage a pub quiz let alone a world power. Right now we need every little bit of national pride we can get, if only to cool building tempers. Generally the British are stoic and not inclined to panic or go apeshit over anything except the footy, but by now the government should be getting worried. If they have any sense of self-preservation that is.

So why chip away at what makes us... us? We all know; its a kind of brainwashing in perperation for forcing through the EU constitution without a referendum. The government are doing this all over the place; getting rid of flags, stopping parades, changing our coinage, introducing a serise of politically correct mandates that very nearly infringe upon our rights as free citizens and eroding piece by piece at the culture they took a solemn oath to protect and improve upon. Preferably by not selling it wholesale.

One of the rediculous little things they have impressed upon us is something called Post imperial Guilt, which is quite the most idiotic thing since the second-hand condom shop opened. Apparently being successful is now something to be ashamed of. Order of the day was empires; the bigger the better, and Britain had the biggest. Ever. Not even Alexander the Great came close; at its height Britain goverened (clearly not under Gordon Brown) about a quater of the world's landmass and a third of its population.

There is no denying that there were some really shitty things about the regieme; Umboto Gorge to list just one. At the same time though it can be said that there was a bit more stability in the world. There were no suicide bombers, no one was threatening to lob nukes at each other and whilst empires squabbled they also brough things like infrastructure, education and medical care to places where sanitation consisted of wiping your ass with a different hand to the one you ate with. Since the Empire was dissolved most of the former colonies have gone back to year 0 with a vengeance, and more often than not ended up with a brutal dictator running the show and a population on the verge of starvation. All things considered the world would be better off if the Empire was still around.

So, what exactly is so criminal about being proud of past accomplishments that have virtually no bearing on the modern world? Surely everyone has to be proud of their heritage and who they are, or then you will want to be someone else. Like Michael Jackson.