Boyne Rover with his take on how Rule Britannia is not really ruling Covid-19.

For many years we have had this age-old problem - 800 to be precise - with England and for all of those years we have fought them; and fought them to reclaim complete Irish Unity and not what we ended up with “some for you and some for them”. 

The Rule Britannia brigade roamed the world for many years laying claim to other people’s land for whatever reason I for the most part fail to understand. Most of these lands offered very little in the way of wealth: few of them had actually anything to offer the world except perhaps Kangaroos, Tea curries and coconuts. We had spuds - it’s not exactly like wining the lotto. And then they brought the beautiful bunny rabbit to Aussie land which posed such an enormous problem the Aussie’s have since spent trillions trying to eradicate them, not exactly forward thinking. The Americans had enough of them as well - they kicked them out a few years back and Gandhi talked the talk and walked the walk to clear them out of India. 

What always amazed me was the fact that these ex-colonies all wanted to remain part of The Commonwealth. So what have England got to offer the world? Some maintain we would have been under Nazi rule only for them. I think the Americans might have something different to say on that subject. Anyway, enough of that rant - let’s get on to where we are now in this horrible nightmare with a virus that is sweeping throughout Europe. Some countries have handled it better than others. The Italians and Spanish are being hardest hit. Ireland has adopted a system called social distancing which seems to be working - the number of fatalities’ are nowhere near what most people had thought at this stage.

England, oh mighty England, what are you at? After watching China, Italy, Spain and ourselves adopt to some type of system ye have come up with a brilliant plan: Boris decided on Herd Immunity, having no idea what that really meant. Only problem with that system is the virus doesn’t see wealth, poverty or borders and can infect everyone and anyone in its way. Herd Immunity is the survival of the fittest used in the wild by all animals. If disease hits a pack or herd they will be isolated from other animals and then let nature take its course. This is what Boris wanted to do having no idea what the outcome would be, and the English people followed blindly behind. Then suddenly he realized that maybe he wasn’t the fittest and maybe he wouldn’t survive so hence the massive turnaround. Boris and his Health Secretary and his Chief advisor have now contracted the virus. Are they fit enough to survive? Only time will tell.

Back in 17th century when a certain plague visited itself upon your land, quarantine was the way to treat the virus. This meant the closing of towns or villages that had the virus and let it take its course. So why did the English who have such a love of their history and culture not adopt this tried and tested method from the beginning of the outbreak?

Maybe after this horrible nightmare is over we should really look at England in a different light because for all their huffing and puffing through the years they really don’t know anything. They don’t seem to have the capacity to take on board common sense. Boris is so consumed with power that he can’t ever see wood for the trees and that goes for lots of English citizens. They are stuck in a different place from the rest of world. They keep regaling us of with their stories about how, with their Bulldog, spirit they have survived two world wars won, something in 1966, got out of Europe and with that same Bulldog spirit they will take this virus head on.

Oh, where next for Rule Britannia?

Boyne Rover is a long standing patron of TPQ

The Bulldog Spirit Old Chap

Boyne Rover with his take on how Rule Britannia is not really ruling Covid-19.

For many years we have had this age-old problem - 800 to be precise - with England and for all of those years we have fought them; and fought them to reclaim complete Irish Unity and not what we ended up with “some for you and some for them”. 

The Rule Britannia brigade roamed the world for many years laying claim to other people’s land for whatever reason I for the most part fail to understand. Most of these lands offered very little in the way of wealth: few of them had actually anything to offer the world except perhaps Kangaroos, Tea curries and coconuts. We had spuds - it’s not exactly like wining the lotto. And then they brought the beautiful bunny rabbit to Aussie land which posed such an enormous problem the Aussie’s have since spent trillions trying to eradicate them, not exactly forward thinking. The Americans had enough of them as well - they kicked them out a few years back and Gandhi talked the talk and walked the walk to clear them out of India. 

What always amazed me was the fact that these ex-colonies all wanted to remain part of The Commonwealth. So what have England got to offer the world? Some maintain we would have been under Nazi rule only for them. I think the Americans might have something different to say on that subject. Anyway, enough of that rant - let’s get on to where we are now in this horrible nightmare with a virus that is sweeping throughout Europe. Some countries have handled it better than others. The Italians and Spanish are being hardest hit. Ireland has adopted a system called social distancing which seems to be working - the number of fatalities’ are nowhere near what most people had thought at this stage.

England, oh mighty England, what are you at? After watching China, Italy, Spain and ourselves adopt to some type of system ye have come up with a brilliant plan: Boris decided on Herd Immunity, having no idea what that really meant. Only problem with that system is the virus doesn’t see wealth, poverty or borders and can infect everyone and anyone in its way. Herd Immunity is the survival of the fittest used in the wild by all animals. If disease hits a pack or herd they will be isolated from other animals and then let nature take its course. This is what Boris wanted to do having no idea what the outcome would be, and the English people followed blindly behind. Then suddenly he realized that maybe he wasn’t the fittest and maybe he wouldn’t survive so hence the massive turnaround. Boris and his Health Secretary and his Chief advisor have now contracted the virus. Are they fit enough to survive? Only time will tell.

Back in 17th century when a certain plague visited itself upon your land, quarantine was the way to treat the virus. This meant the closing of towns or villages that had the virus and let it take its course. So why did the English who have such a love of their history and culture not adopt this tried and tested method from the beginning of the outbreak?

Maybe after this horrible nightmare is over we should really look at England in a different light because for all their huffing and puffing through the years they really don’t know anything. They don’t seem to have the capacity to take on board common sense. Boris is so consumed with power that he can’t ever see wood for the trees and that goes for lots of English citizens. They are stuck in a different place from the rest of world. They keep regaling us of with their stories about how, with their Bulldog, spirit they have survived two world wars won, something in 1966, got out of Europe and with that same Bulldog spirit they will take this virus head on.

Oh, where next for Rule Britannia?

Boyne Rover is a long standing patron of TPQ

16 comments:

  1. Yep the Brits do not seem to be so united as they once were.

    A few observations re Ireland only had spudz -the brits introduced those as Ireland was used as a secondary source for food as well as a security threat - the French or Spanish were as great or greater threat as the Nazis -in fact Cork harbour was the brits main port for naval ship repairs and supplies as it was more accessible than English ports -and Australia has precious metals and gems besides kangaroos -other than tea, spices and precious metals -rubber trees are as coveted as oil fields -given that the rubber and plasitics industry would not exist without them -nor the oil industry.

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  2. People are quietly queuing outside supermarkets 6ft apart for hours as asked. They swerve you on the street (they literally walk in the empty roads to avoid each other if the path is used). It’s hard to see how this fosters a community/bulldog spirit, it’s literally distancing people with fear of each other (however justified it may be).

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  3. Boyne Rover - laughed so much at the mocking approach taken here to Britannia. And yet people suffer and die because of them.

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  4. Cheers AM that was my intention glad you enjoyed

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  5. Someone else picked up on the shopping aspect with a really moving poem:

    https://mobile.twitter.com/RyeAker/status/1246574337307611149

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  6. Poor taste lads ... to gloat on the suffering of others.
    I was never at war with the British people per se, I was at war with the representatives of British establishment. A 23 year old nurse was among the dead in Britain over the last 24 hours. Get a grip ffs!

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    1. Henry Joy - where in the post was there gloating at suffering? Th opposite in fact. It was a mocking of the pretentious hubris of the same British establishment that you were with and which has helped cause so much suffering.

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    2. AM,
      its poor taste ... be as pedantic as you wish. Please delete the above inaccurate hasty reply and repost if you really need to,

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  7. "the same British establishment that you were with"

    Explain?

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    1. Freudian slip AM? (Belfast V 'Middle-Class traditional republicans' heard all that guff before).

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  8. Taste is on the tongue of the taster. I find it mocking and mockery is a great pin in the balloon of the pretentious. So, really nothing pedantic about my view.

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    1. AM,

      in a recent comment you minimised your nationalism ... this pandemic transcend all boundaries; national, social and political. It's a more appropriate time for solidarity than it is for divisiveness. Pricks, prick the balloons!

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    2. A time for solidarity should not be an opportunity to suppress critique. Some admins like the British and the US merit much of the criticism directed their way. To allow solidarity to act as a shield for bad management to ward off scrutiny is remiss. Particularly in this climate where no matter how justified the harsh measures we risk sleepwalking into an authoriatrian culture. The media is virtually complicit when it should be asking the difficult question about porportionality.
      Guff you have heard before, yes, but only if you allow for the echo of your own voice. Try Occam instead of Freud - the simplest explanation is usually the best. In my view you made a quick but wrong call on this. There is nothing of substance in your objection to the above piece.

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  9. Henry Joy
    This article is all about the British governments through the years and their incompetence, their approach to this pandemic is beyond belief Boris standing outside No 10 and making remarks like this is only a flu no risk to anyone and we should keep shaking hands it’s the polite thing to do , unfortunately they still have control of 6 of our counties which make us very vulnerable to pathetic non actions to control this virus, even Arlene seems embarrassed by his non action, I have relations working in the NHS one of them said to me Boris is a clown and around a clown you build a circus , unfortunately Henry Joy their will be lots more deaths and suffering because of the clowns


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  10. Perhaps the silver lining in this latest dark cloud of British government incompetence and dishonesty will come from their prioritizing the defense and care of their island homeland over and above the wants and needs of their N.I. zombie lands. No different really than how the U.S. did not prioritize the defense of the Philippines during WWII or Puerto Rico during the last hurricane as the outer lands they were and are. Because if there is a shortage of surgical masks, medicines or vaccines, then rest assured London and Manchester will stand in the queue ahead of Belfast or Derry. What then the price of union?

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