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🎻 Last Night of the Proms and EU Flag Waving 🎻

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Channel: Jeff Taylor · 2017 · News & Politics

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Some people were angry that the EU flag was waved during the Last Night of the Proms. Me? I’m just saddened and at the same time just a little amused by it all.

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So, some Remainers handed out European Union flags to Last Night of the Proms attendees on Saturday using the slogan “Thank EU for the Music EU”.

They claimed that they were supporting EU musicians performing in the UK.

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Now let’s put the Proms in context. The proms has a long history having been founded in 1895, which is just a bit before the EU and is a significant event in British culture. The waving of the Union flag is therefore an integral part of the event. That flag is being waved in support of a British cultural event.

I also wonder how much of that music actually came from the European Union as an entity.

There’s also the persistent claims by the Remainers that the EU is just an economic trade area, not a budding nation state, so why wave that flag at all?

Why not celebrate the world’s musicians by maybe waving the flag of the United Nations, or NATO perhaps?

In fact, isn’t the waving of the EU flag in support EU musicians making assumptions about those musicians from EU states who may prefer their own national flag instead, as well as being ‘offensive’ to those musicians who come from outside that bloc. How about the Russian musicians for example?

As a side note, I did a quick search on the web and looked through images from the recent Notting Hill Carnival and didn’t see any EU flags being handed out or waved there.

Anyway, back to the Proms. Why weren’t they handing out flags in support of the International Grains Agreement, or the Australia New Zealand Free Trade Area or the Greater Arab Free Trade Area?

The truth is that these people have something that they would actually hate to recognise in themselves, but recognise it they must - By choosing to distribute and wave the EU flag at an iconic British event, they have shown a fervent nationalistic feeling for the EU. And if they were British themselves, they have displayed a nationalistic fervour for the EU that goes way beyond any love they may have for the UK.

It saddens me to think that these people cannot just celebrate a truly British event and it amuses me to see how exclusive to the musicians from the rest of the world they are …. now there’s a word for that isn’t there?

So, what do you think about these EU flag wavers?

Please leave a comment below.

Thank you.


Sources:

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/sep/10/eu-flags-at-last-night-of-the-proms-anger-farage

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/852229/EU-flags-Last-Night-of-the-Proms-BBC-Royal-Albert-Hall-Brexit

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Proms

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