Just because your paranoid ?

[MrGongGong]

Oh dear Doris
What on earth are you on ?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/ann-widdecombe-claims-it-was-easier-to-be-a-nazi-or-communist-in-postwar-britain-than-a-christian-today-9520343.html

[Serial_Apologist]

The new religion from now on will be British Values - which David Cameron, a Christian, thinks it is a very good idea indeed to be teaching children in schools.

Anyone for British Values?

Anyone know what they are?

[vinteuil]

Anyone for British Values?

Anyone know what they are?

... mint sauce with lamb; mutton with caper sauce; cucumber sangwidges; patum peperium; lardy-cake.

[ahinton]

The new religion from now on will be British Values - which David Cameron, a Christian, thinks it is a very good idea indeed to be teaching children in schools.

So all British values are Christain values, are they?

Anyone for British Values?

Anyone know what they are?

Not I, sir! David Cameron has claimed that Britain is a Christian country, which I can only interpret as a roundabout way of stating that Protestant Christianty is the "established" official religion in Britain, which says little for non-Protestant Christians or those of other faiths and none in that country, some of whom might even be Conservative voters! Since Christianity did not originate in Britain, it's hard to credit a logic that seeks to persuade anyone that British values and Christian ones are somehow synonymous and that other values are by implication inferior. If he thinks that Christian / British values - whatever they may be - ae nonetheless broadly synonymous and should form a fundamental part of the British school curriculum, might he not thereby imply a belief on his part that all school teachers in Britain should be Christians in order to represent those values? - and, if so, would they all have to be card-carrying ones?

Ahem...

[jean]

...cucumber sangwidges...

Reminds me of a new fashion I've just become aware of - Parisian afternoon tea, which is pretty much the same as the British sort with sandwiches of various sorts, and cake - only with a glass of champagne to begin with (and if you're lucky, unlimited supplies of it throughout).

[ahinton]

Reminds me of a new fashion I've just become aware of - Parisian afternoon tea, which is pretty much the same as the British sort with sandwiches of various sorts, and cake - only with a glass of champagne to begin with (and if you're lucky, unlimited supplies of it throughout).

Oh, I don't know that it's all that new, really; it's been possible to partake of champagne afternoon tea at Bath's Pump Room, accompanied by the Pump Room Trio, for years as far as I am aware!

[MrGongGong]

So all British values are Christain values, are they?

Like arms dealing
and going to war ?

Hummmmm

I don't think he has thought this through

[teamsaint]

Like arms dealing
and going to war ?

Hummmmm

I don't think he has thought this through

I bet his highly paid advisors have.

Tactic 1. Divide and rule.

If that fails, try divide and rule.

If that fails, start a war somewhere else and blame anybody who you dont like the look of, but who you probably supported with arms and funds for a while, while you sought to destabilise the previous bad guy.

[Ferretfancy]

Reminds me of a new fashion I've just become aware of - Parisian afternoon tea, which is pretty much the same as the British sort with sandwiches of various sorts, and cake - only with a glass of champagne to begin with (and if you're lucky, unlimited supplies of it throughout).

There's also burger afternoon tea, a burger in a bun with iceberg lettuce, chips, and a glass of pink champagne -so slummy dears!

[ahinton]

There's also burger afternoon tea, a burger in a bun with iceberg lettuce, chips, and a glass of pink champagne -so slummy dears!

I don't think that this is ever served in Bath's Pump Room accompanied by the Pump Room Trio...

[Serial_Apologist]

I don't think that this is ever served in Bath's Pump Room accompanied by the Pump Room Trio...

That would depend on the pump and the circumstance.

[ahinton]

That would depend on the pump and the circumstance.

Or even whether it would be served during March, perhaps; however, I take leave to doubt that, on the grounds that they'd not such things there as a matter of principle, any more than they served a fine malt to the legendary man who asked for a whisky there in long bygone days when all that was customarily served there was "the waters" (and anyone who's tasted them will be a dire need of a fine malt if for no better reason than to take their horrid taste away)...

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/quiz/2014/jun/10/how-british-are-you-values-quiz-michael-gove

[french frank]

"Not British enough. You need to work on your surliness and depressive tendencies if you want to fit in. This isn’t Utah."