Land of Hopeless Glory
They are trying to restrain me from saying this.............
Here's the controversial programme for the Last Night of the Proms, Saturday, 12th September 2020, 8:00 pm Royal Albert Hall, featuring South-African soprano Golda Schultz with the BBC Symphony
Orchestra under its Principal Guest Conductor Dalia Stasevska.
Mozart's Overture to the Marriage of Figaro, Richard Strauss' Morgen!, Tarrodi's Solus, Sondheim's A Little Night Music, Sibelius' Impromptu for Strings, Vaughan Williams' Lark Ascending, Henry Wood's Fantasia on British Sea-Songs (includes Rule Brittania), Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance March (Land of Hope and Glory, Richard Rodgers' Carousel, Hubert Parry's Jerusalem, and the National Anthem.
Crowd-pleasing, stirring stuff, jingoistic even without the words which we know so well.
Back in 2007, this is what they were listening to:
Dvorak's Othello, Rachmaninov's 14 Dances, Ravel's Tzigane, Ades The Tempest, Elgar's Spirit of England, Bellini's La Sonnambula, Fucik's Entrance of the Gladiators, Lehar's Giuditta, Ponce's Estrellita, Strauss' Morgen!, Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance March - Land of Hope and Glory, Wood's Fantasia on British Sea Songs, Parry's Jerusalem, and the National Anthem.
Here's Land of Hope and Glory (2007)
Yes, all -white, embarassing, kitsch, but it works - hair standing up on the back of the neck, a lump of national pride in the throat - the BBC do this sort of thing brilliantly, manipulating every emotion shamelessly.
And, from 2009, Rule Brittania - azure waves and not being slaves and all that - here's a bit of fun - check out the strap-on, mr verge -
All of the above by way of introducing this little piece by stranislav, parked up in his plumbing van and conducting the last night of the proms, mourning Britain signing away yet more of its sovereign rights to Europe. Re-discovered by mr verge -
a stanislav order-order comment, reposted by some random blogger, 13th December 2007, on the signing of the Treaty of Lisbon:
Stanislav get pull over in van from Old Bill. Is drive down road listen to last night of English proms cd and wave arms around to conduct invisible orchestra in God Save fucking Queen. Fuck me, is blue lights flash and get pull over like had home sec Big Jacqui Snotbun up in cab. Anyway Old Bill see is Stanislav, friendly and cheap plumber off Internet, accept fifty quid bribe for coppers Christmas fund, and send on way on urgent plumbing mission. And next song is Rule Britannia, Britons never never never shall be slave. Up until today and Lisbon Concordat. Is very sad day for Anglophile. Rule Britannia, Britannia rule wave, Briton never never never shall be slave. Stand-up alone to Nazi bastard when French army and everybody else (apart from good Poles) bend over and say, yes please Hermann, stick Luger up my arse please, ooh, yes please, surrender ? Not half.
Over here is eat spam and powder egg and melt down frying pan to make hand grenade and spitfire, fight on beach and kick arse off landing ground, go in bed and get blow-up in fucking blitz from Luftwaffe, go down on knees to fucking Nazi US Congress for few rusty old destroyers, fight on alone and hungry and in France frogs all collaborateur and say, oh yes Mr Himmler, I know where is fucking jew bastard and help SS men round up and beat and send off to death camp, vive la Belle France, eh, mes amis. And in Holland is same, Oh yes Mr SS is some nasty jew children hide over here, come and find and send away from la Belle France. And oh yes Mr speer use these slave labourers and not make waves, is only filthy slavs and fucking jew and thieving gippo, not real human. In Italy oily spaghetti chompers is run away from own shadow and hide in Momma skirts, surrender first time someone shout Boo! And fucking Pope Nazi Twelfth join in Jew round-up, too, Dominus Vobiscum. Well they-ah kill-ah the-ah Christ, eh, say-ah so inna Holy Bible. Now we are all unite in One Great Brotherhood belong to Global Banking Corporation. Independence of great British nation go down shithole. In my country is Molotov cocktail time for government of thieving treacherous cunts like this, spit on heroes, spit on history, shit in face of decent citizen.
And on top of that read in Trannygraph that BBC researchers (ie rent boys and scrubbers on make) is ring around like fuck to find republican to speak ill of Good Queen Brenda on night of her unfortunate death. Even diehard republican like David Hare, famous communist playwright, say go off and fuck yourselves, this is shit, even by dismal pisspoor BBC standard. Stanislav is right bolshy bastard and republican as fuck but this BBC is work of fucking Devil.
Not Brenda’s fault is born Queen, very idea of slag off on night of death is fucking repellent to anyone with hole in arse. BBC should go in Tower of Fucking London and DG Nancy Thompson hang up by neck off lamp post and feed poxed-up body to dogs. Fuck me, give country to Eurocunts like Prodi and Mandelstein and Blair and rehearse post mortem slander of old lady. All on same day. With what rapture must they congratulate themselves tonight. A whole neo-Nazi continent delivered and not a shot fired.
Over here is eat spam and powder egg and melt down frying pan to make hand grenade and spitfire, fight on beach and kick arse off landing ground, go in bed and get blow-up in fucking blitz from Luftwaffe, go down on knees to fucking Nazi US Congress for few rusty old destroyers, fight on alone and hungry and in France frogs all collaborateur and say, oh yes Mr Himmler, I know where is fucking jew bastard and help SS men round up and beat and send off to death camp, vive la Belle France, eh, mes amis. And in Holland is same, Oh yes Mr SS is some nasty jew children hide over here, come and find and send away from la Belle France. And oh yes Mr speer use these slave labourers and not make waves, is only filthy slavs and fucking jew and thieving gippo, not real human. In Italy oily spaghetti chompers is run away from own shadow and hide in Momma skirts, surrender first time someone shout Boo! And fucking Pope Nazi Twelfth join in Jew round-up, too, Dominus Vobiscum. Well they-ah kill-ah the-ah Christ, eh, say-ah so inna Holy Bible. Now we are all unite in One Great Brotherhood belong to Global Banking Corporation. Independence of great British nation go down shithole. In my country is Molotov cocktail time for government of thieving treacherous cunts like this, spit on heroes, spit on history, shit in face of decent citizen.
And on top of that read in Trannygraph that BBC researchers (ie rent boys and scrubbers on make) is ring around like fuck to find republican to speak ill of Good Queen Brenda on night of her unfortunate death. Even diehard republican like David Hare, famous communist playwright, say go off and fuck yourselves, this is shit, even by dismal pisspoor BBC standard. Stanislav is right bolshy bastard and republican as fuck but this BBC is work of fucking Devil.
Not Brenda’s fault is born Queen, very idea of slag off on night of death is fucking repellent to anyone with hole in arse. BBC should go in Tower of Fucking London and DG Nancy Thompson hang up by neck off lamp post and feed poxed-up body to dogs. Fuck me, give country to Eurocunts like Prodi and Mandelstein and Blair and rehearse post mortem slander of old lady. All on same day. With what rapture must they congratulate themselves tonight. A whole neo-Nazi continent delivered and not a shot fired.
Historical note by mrs ishmael: The Treaty of Lisbon is an international agreement that amends the two treaties which form the constitutional basis of the European Union). The Treaty of Lisbon was signed by the EU member states on 13 December 2007, and entered into force on 1 December 2009. It amended the Maastricht Treaty (1992), and the Treaty of Rome (1957), Opponents of the Treaty of Lisbon, including stanislav, argued that it would centralize the EU, and weaken democracy by moving power away from national electorates.
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Big Brother Watch
“We work to roll back the surveillance state and protect the rights
of everyone in the UK to be free from unfair intrusion.”
Silkie Carlo, Director of Big Brother Watch You may remember that a while back I posted a link to the Coronavirus Act 2020, rushed onto the statute book at breakneck speed, with little opposition, which neatly and thoroughly removed all the progress towards civil liberties in Britain over the last 200 years. Here it is again: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2020/7/contents/enacted
Interviewed by Jeremy Vine on Radio 2 this week, Silkie, without hyperbole, summarised the destruction of Britain's civil liberties by this piece of legislation. This was too much for Vine to comprehend.
He spluttered: but are you saying that Britain has gone mad? All European countries have this sort of legislation.
Exactly so, Mr. Vine. The stage is set.
Big Brother Watch is campaigning to repeal that piece of legislation. Here's a quote from their web site: "Extraordinary circumstances require extraordinary measures, but we cannot let basic rights fall casualty to crisis. Emergency laws have introduced the most draconian powers ever in peacetime Britain."
So, what's next? Here's a salutory offering from mr ishmael in 2015:
TOP-HATTERS' NEWS. UNDER THE SHADOW OF THE NOOSE.
We were just recently talking about hanging and Lo, the Lord sends
us that cunt Micky
Gove, again, the spit-flecked sergeant-major of the Right, as the man in
charge
of our human rights, although, if somebody can be in charge of them we
should
not call them rights but privileges afforded us by our betters until
they are
in a position to withdraw them, as they are now. Amazing how that
happens, that political filthsters abrogate to themselves those powers
which we wrung from their predecessors. Who said the electorate was as
thick as pigshit? I do believe it was mr mike, from a land down under.
Repulsive, toadying little oik, Gove, when he was scribbling at the
Times, obviously wrote whatever Murdoch - please, God, may he die soon,
painfully and his soul roam in terror for eternity - told him to write
and killing criminals, whether they are guilty or innocent, plays well with
those retards who consume the daily shitfest which we call the Sun and its
sister-in-filth, the Times. Gove wrote:
“Hanging may seem barbarous, but the greater barbarity
lies in the slow abandonment of our common law traditions. Were I ever
alone in the dock I would not want to be arraigned before our flawed
tribunals, knowing my freedom could be forfeit as a result of political
pressures. I would prefer a fair trial, under the shadow of the noose.”
The reason Gove and all the other scum so deride the Human Rights Act
is nothing to do with airy notions about Justice but that the HRA
guarantees a citizen's right to privacy, privacy from filthy moneygrubbing
half-wit cocksuckers like himself; it is because the shitsheets are unable to
violate a citizen's privacy on the basis of an order from some cunt like Kelvin
Public Interest McKenzie. Nobody in the 'papers gives a flying fuck
about Abu Hamza and his ilk, nobody in that gang cares about that squaddie,
run-down and chopped-up, in Woolwich; these events just enable them to
rouse the rabble and without them happening the 'papers might have to hire some
proper journalists, people who, for instance, can write, maybe even think
instead of ranting in time to Murdoch's and Dacre's and the Barclay twins'
scandal-mongering cattle prod.
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Here's an interesting conundrum for all you gender-jihadists out there. There's this woman, who likes getting dressed up, wearing make-up and false hair and who (presumably) likes having sex with men, or those who identify as such, or not. So far, so usual. Here comes the interesting bit. She identifies as a transgender gay man and (s) he is being welcomed to compete as a finalist in the Mr Gay England 2020 contest. Chiyo is a drag artist, presenting as male on stage in LGBTQ venues. Organisers recommended he take part in their drag competition as well, but Chiyo thought: "No - before I am a drag artist, I am a man."
Here's an interesting conundrum for all you gender-jihadists out there. There's this woman, who likes getting dressed up, wearing make-up and false hair and who (presumably) likes having sex with men, or those who identify as such, or not. So far, so usual. Here comes the interesting bit. She identifies as a transgender gay man and (s) he is being welcomed to compete as a finalist in the Mr Gay England 2020 contest. Chiyo is a drag artist, presenting as male on stage in LGBTQ venues. Organisers recommended he take part in their drag competition as well, but Chiyo thought: "No - before I am a drag artist, I am a man."
Yes, that's right. Whatever you say.
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Well, I know I said enough with the rhubarb, already, but in celebration of mr dick the prick being drawn out of hiding behind the rhubarb shed, and for all the rhubarb afficionados out there, excoriated bowels and rotting teeth from dipping rhubarb into the saucer of sugar, here's a couple of Yorkshire pictures:
Here's the stuff, muttering and plotting and growing in secret
And here's some being harvested by some fine Yorkshiremen. Did I mention I'm from Yorkshire? And you can grow it outside, as well
The essays by mr ishmael and stanislav the young polish plumber this week are:
Land of Hope and Glory a comment from December 2007
Top-Hatters' News: Under the Shadow of the Noose drafted 11th May 2015
Top-Hatters' News: Under the Shadow of the Noose drafted 11th May 2015