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Anniebach, you have often claimed on this forum that you were a member of the Labour Party for over fifty years and during that period often attended the annual delegate conference.
In the above Anniebach, you will know that the red flag is always sung at the end of business on the concluding day. Everyone attending is expected to join in, with the words being displayed in recent years on the large screens set at both sides of the platform.
The singing of what is the "anthem of the Labour Movement in Britain" is nothing more than a symbolic and traditional act which takes place on that last day following presentations to those who are retiring from long years of service in the party and broader movement. That singing is as much a tribute to them as to the above-mentioned tradition and symbolism.
So, are you stating Anniebach that when you attended these conferences you never joined in the tributes to those revered members by singing the anthem with all the others in attendance?
I am not a member of the Labour Party but in years past have attended many Delegate Conferences speaking on workplace/industrial safety at fringe meetings. If I have been there on the final morning of the conference I have always gone into the main venue to see those presentations and join in the singing of the Red Flag as a tribute to those members which I always found very enjoyable, poignant and moving.
I also believe that with Parliament being forced into suspension by a dictatorial Prime Minister and his anarchist adviser, that was precisely the right time for that anthem to be sung in defence of the United Kingdoms parliamentary democracy.