The National Anthem

Yellow Submarine is easy to sing, let's have that.

Not Britain?

No rosesarered, I mean the UK

But if you want rousing, there's always Tomorrow Belongs to Me.
That's the trouble with anthems....

Alice the Camel is a good one

Jerusalem? Ooooh, dodgy....

teg most of the wheels have fallen off so that is no good.

not much left really..and most people can't reach the high notes#yetanotherreasonwhyididn'tjointhewi. How about the Wheels on the Bus?

We couldn't have that anyway - it only refers to England!

and the burning spear, and the arrows of desire and......

...and the Jerusalem bit as well, perhaps....

How about the WI anthem? Maybe minus the dark satanic mills?

He certainly had something very much to do with it.

you mean Wales?

God didn't make this country mighty ,

I'm with Elgar re the words of Land of Hope and Glory. They suck.

Wider still and wider shall thy bounds be set
God who made thee mighty make thee mightier yet

needs a bit more than tweaking.

I think we already have one, albeit it needs a bit of tweaking of the words in parts:

Land of Hope and Glory

A pity that cosmetics firm that sells soap has pinched it
(although I do like their shower cream)

It's a National Anthem which has more to do with the monarchy than anything else. I dislike it for that reason. I don't give a stuff about the queen - she can call herself what she likes but I don't see why people should be expected to glorify the monarchy if they don't agree with it.
It's rubbish to suggest that those who won't join in with the singing of it are traitors and hate their country.
Maybe it's time for someone to write a new anthem! (I'm not volunteering, btw)

This gets funnier and funnier.
So - if he ever becomes PM will he refuse his weekly audience with HM?

Fuel for thought:
If it ever happens and he becomes PM, he could be in dire need of her sage advice.

I am beginning to feel so sorry for him. I do hope he will be OK, poor man.

Anyone who doubts whether the National Anthem unites people in singing didn't watch the Last Night of the Proms.

I hope Jeremy Corbyn never gets his hands on that.

ps Gracesgran no-one ever sings all six verses of the National Anthem, and I have only ever known the first two sung. It's a red herring to mention the one about the Scots!

Most of the verses were of their time and not appropriate.

ps I haven't read all the thread, so I may be repeating what someone else has said.
No harm in me reiterating it, though.

Should he sing it?

I think so, then perhaps agitate for a new anthem on the lines I suggested above.

I agree, it is a dirge.
However, it is supposed to be the National Anthem which unites the country in singing an anthem to our Head of State. It's all we have at the moment for the whole of the United Kingdom.

I think England should have an anthem, Scotland should have an official one (Wales has a very good one), has NI? {not sure, please excuse me on that one}.

Perhaps we need a new anthem for Great Britain that encompasses all that is great - the country, the land, its people - and HM.

He's a little upstart when you consider how long the UK Parliament has been in operation (which he seems to think he can change )

#donttakeondear