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England - Should we change the national anthem?

Ask the people that really care if we should change it, ask those people that travel the world be it as football fans, fans of other sports or as part of their jobs if we should change it.

The little man sitting at home moaning about everything and anything deserves little voice in my opinion.

 
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Excuse me, people - not just Gem - the national Anthem is NOT an English anthem, it is a United Kingdom anthem!

You mean...the queen...has more than England?!

 
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I'm sure that God save the King was written as a tribute after the Battle of Culloden in 1746.

This battle was not an England v Scotland battle. Many lowland Scots fought on the Hanover side in this battle.

 
erskblue said:
I'm sure that God save the King was written as a tribute after the Battle of Culloden in 1746.

This battle was not an England v Scotland battle. Many lowland Scots fought on the Hanover side in this battle.
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They did indeed, erskblue!  It was really only the highland clans that gathered in support of the so-called "bonnie" Prince Charlie.  (who ran away to Skye and then to France pretty damn quick when things weren't going his way - and left the clans to be slaughtered)

 
Moi: Cheers for that. England v Scotland wars back then and for a long time before were not clear cut.

The Scottish nobility often sided with the English armies and they never really rallied behind William Wallace because he was a commoner.

A few even changed sides during The Battle of Bannockburn in 1314 when they realised early on that Robert Bruce army was most likely to win.

Bruce was from the nobility and I am sure had fought for Edward 1st in earlier campaigns, thought not necessarily in Scotland.

 
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erskblue said:
Moi: Cheers for that. England v Scotland wars back then and for a long time before were not clear cut.

The Scottish nobility often sided with the English armies and they never really rallied behind William Wallace because he was a commoner.

A few even changed sides during The Battle of Bannockburn in 1314 when they realised early on that Robert Bruce army was most likely to win.

Bruce was from the nobility and I am sure had fought for Edward 1st in earlier campaigns, thought not necessarily in Scotland.
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William Wallace was a minor noble, there was nothing common about him. 

 
moi said:
Excuse me, people - not just Gem - the national Anthem is NOT an English anthem, it is a United Kingdom anthem!
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Don't worry moi, you Scots will be out of the United Kingdom soon anyway!

 
Huttsey: I do hope not. I really do hope not. Can't stand SNP and their form of Scottishness.

 
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