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Tuesday 18 December 2007

Consigning the British to the dustbin of history

A museum is a place where you display items of historical, anthropological or scientific note. It's where one goes to explore the way things were and generally get in touch with objects, people or events that are no longer a part of mainstream life.
For the last few weeks, Not so Flash Gordon has been banging on about the need to emphasise and celebrate "Britishness". He has recently published a book extolling the bravery of British Forces during the second world war. He has asked the great unwashed to share with him their view of what constitutes this elusive quality of being British. And when Lord Baker suggested a Museum of Britshness, Brown jumped on the band wagon so quickly it hadn't even had a chance to start rolling.
The reason for his sudden love affair with Great Britain became clear when he slid into Lisbon on the 13th December for the signing of the Treaty that isn't a Constitution (even though it shares 98% of the same same objectives as the failed Constitution). By putting pen to this document, Brown ceded power in key areas such as immigration, security and justice to the European Union and reduced our own Parliament to the role of second fiddle behind the, unelected, EU Commission. According to the EU web site, this process will improve democracy for us all. What it actually does is reduce Great Britain from the status of a sovereign nation to that of an outpost on the fringes of the Greater European Empire.
So, now we all know why Brown was so keen on the Museum of Britishness. He knew it would be necessary once he had he so recklessly consigned Great Britain and all things British to the dustbin of history.