Is from jamie off from Blood and Treasure on how to best celebrate Ruth Kelly’s (ministry of not very bright ideas) proposed British Values Day:
…we should just maintain a very British frozen, embarrassed silence until the whole wretched notion curls up in a corner and dies.
Palau
June 6, 2007 at 2:51 amAnd about 4 o’clock a little hopeful voice will pipe up. “Tea”?
Cue a nationwide sigh of relief and a stampede to the kettle, causing a power drain on the grid that’ll knock out the whole country.
Now would be traditoonally British: boredom, incompetence and an unparalelled talent for disaster, all rolled up in one handy national day.