Benjamin Zephaniah rejected an OBE in 2003, saying: “It reminds me of slavery, it reminds me of the thousands of years of brutality, it reminds me of how my foremothers were raped and my forefathers brutalised." "No way Mr Blair, no way Mrs Queen. I am profoundly anti-empire.”
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@lisanandy says: “That is the country I want to build, and the Labour Party I will lead. That never accepts the world as it is but the world as it should be. “As Benjamin Zephaniah asks: ‘What happened to the verse of fire?’. We can be far more ambitious.”Prikaži ovu nit
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Labour are the unelectable gift that keeps on giving
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I think she is right. But it is not a battle to fight now if she wants the public to vote for her. Good policy, bad politics.
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Excellent stuff. Let's celebrate the country we have not something long gone
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Yes- evolve and make it relevant
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I agree. The Empire is over. Let alone not exactly sunshine & daisies. The awards are technically about recognition of excellence that many rightly deserve rather being a member of 'club'.
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Labour REALLY don't do patriotism do they ? Doomed Party.
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Can we not be patriotic about the country we have rather than something long gone?
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