When was Britain great?

Cheers to Jonna for the second line. But mostly cheers to the guy who tried to force his Brexit opinions on me earlier today, thus turning my pen into a machine gun: fuck the sword.

UKIP logic part one:

When was Britain great?

Are you British are you proud

Is it in your D.N.A?

To sing “God save our gracious Queen”

And celebrate Saint George’s day?

“What’s wrong with that?” I hear you ask

But please don’t take it personally

I’ve got some questions of my own

And I was hoping you’d tell me

When was the last time Britain was great?

Was it back in eighty four?

When Thatcher took the miners on

And with their faces wiped the floor

And later sold our industries

Even the water that we drink

Our rail and our utilities

Everything but the kitchen sink?

When did Britannia rule the waves?

Was it in the seventies?

When Amin sent bananas in jest

To a land financially on its knees

The Pistols sang “God save the queen

No future no future no future for you”

And Jimmy Saville got away with rape

(Apparently Margaret Thatcher knew)

The nineteen sixties had great bands

The Beatles, The Kinks, The Stones, The Who

John Lennon sang “All you need is love”

And for a while it seemed

That at least was true

Would you rather remember rivers of blood?

Do you think Enoch had prophetic sight?

Have you read the speech

In great detail?

Do you tell it to your kids in bed at night?

Maybe Britain was great in world war two

The bulldog spirit can’t be denied

But didn’t Russia also play a part?

And what about the help

Roosevelt supplied?

And did the British people in Forty five

Really think it was Churchill who won the war?

If he was the greatest ever PM

What the fuck did he get voted out for?

Were things any better before that time

With poverty and debt never far away

Was the general strike of twenty six

A homage to the fairness of the British way?

I remember a story my nan used to tell:

Four older brother’s, lives barely begun

Diphtheria was rife, and whilst they slept

It paid them a visit, and killed each one

Was Britain great in the first world war

When countless youngsters lost their lives

Their sacrifices formalised in

letters sent to mothers and wives

And was it right and was it just

For fifteen year old boys to be

Put to death by firing squad

For running away from the enemy?

Was Britain great when the Titanic sank?

And the poor, being not much more than slaves

Watched as the lifeboats rowed away

As they froze to death in their icy graves

Throughout British history it seems to me

That greatness was something enjoyed by few

For everyone else life was dark and grim

Is that where you want to go back to?

Are you British are you proud

Is it in your D.N.A?

To sing “God save our gracious queen”

And celebrate Saint George’s day?

Is this, your land of hope and glory

A shining example to human kind?

You say you want to make it great again

But it never really was

Except for in your mind