WHAT'S GOING ON IN OUR COUNTRY?

By jay2143

Fri, 05 Dec 2014
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Christmas is coming or is it?

Nativity plays declared a danger!!

The powers that be are afraid to offend.

What's offensive about a manger?

 

This is  England we're talking about.

But is it the same as before?

No it isn't and won't be again

If our leaders just watch at the door!!

 

Lessons in Islam what next?

Our Church schools will go, wait and see!

Girls at the back, or kept out of sight

No singing, no music no glee!!

 

England is basically Christian

With all its traditions of old.

If others be offended, hard luck

They'll have to stay out in the cold!!

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Submitted by Ray Schaufeld on

I am not sure if the person in the poem expressing the point of view is identical to the author. Yes this is a point of view and it is clearly expressed.However in my view there are as many English people as there are residents of England. Some of us are Christians, others not. I hope my view does not offend the author.
 

Submitted by jay2143 on

As you say our views are our own I take no offence. Thanks for your comment

Submitted by forest_for_ever on

I wondered if the author was playing 'devil's advocate'.  The piece dares to vocalise an opinon, which is a bold thing to do in these days of political correctness.  Yet I still sense a touch of mischief in the piece.  I may be wrong, but I don't think that the author and the individual within the poem are one and the same...

 

Submitted by jay2143 on

The author and the individual are one and the same. I detest political correctness.

Many thanks for your comment

Submitted by Michael Valentine on

Hi, Jay. I agree with Elsie here. I've read a few of your pieces and it seems to me that these are your personal views (I apoligise if I've misunderstood). These are questions being asked ever increasingly in England, as well as the rest of the U.K as well as wider Europe and America. The sense that 'Britishness' is being sidelined forr multicurturalism. It's a fair anxiety that most people have felt to some extent in their lives - the loss of identity.

Even though I disagree with you (to an extent) politically and socially (on some issues) there's a lot of rawness in your expression (and it's great that you are expressing it creatively!). It's reminiscent of anti-establishment punk.

Submitted by jay2143 on

I do indeed respect your opinions plainly strongly felt. I am far from promoting

far left or right politics as that is a dangerous way to go. I try to observe

what is happening in society today and make my observations.

Many thanks for your comment.