Every worker employed in public office will have to swear an oath of allegiance to British values under plans to defeat extremism.
Communities Secretary Sajid Javid said it was impossible for people to play a ‘positive role’ in public life unless they accepted basic values like democracy, equality and freedom of speech.
Oh, my word… I am a great believer in British values – and one of those is that no one is forced to take a damned silly oath of allegiance. We leave that kind of bollocks to the colonials.
Amen to that.
He seems to have missed the point about ‘British values’ not including coercion. Not that that seems to have stopped the nanny-staters in our midst.
Some would say that’s because he’s not really British. Pity he gave ammunition to such people.
If they need to take an oath, they shouldn’t be in public life – in fact they shouldn’t be in the UK.
Indeed.
It rathe3r depends on who defines ‘values’ – if it is diversity, equality etc etc then it just enforces the current regime.
I often swear oaths, generally ones four letters long. However, if you volunteer for a job that requires sworn loyalty, wouldn’t a clause in your contract of employment do just as well and be more binding? Swearing oaths is just theatre.
The British, in particular the English, used to know who they were. They didn’t need to fly a flag. If they invented a sport the rules were set by the modestly named local club that thought them up. It showed a people that were confident in themselves, (sometimes mistaken as arrogance by foreigners).
Contrast that with ‘the Americans’, for instance. They are so unsure of themselves that the flag flies in nearly every yard and their president put the word ‘American’ into every second sentence when he speaks. Their sports are run by Inter Galactic Federations that only cover 50 states.
Then the Bastards-that-be decided that ‘we’ had to be ‘multi-racial’ and ‘multiculural’ and that we had to import and submit to a vile alien death-cult that has never done any peoples any good anywhere in the world. Not that we were asked.
And of course it is these new people who are ‘British’ and it is their values that we are being told to sign up to. The fact is that we were never British anyway, it goes back to the sports club idea, we were ‘of the village’ where our roots were. We knew that we could live in a place for forty years but still never belong to it, we knew our place.
Yet now a Pakistani BBC-stooge can be flown to the UK for urgent medical treatment, after being shot by fellow cultists, and confidently declare, “I am a Brummie!”. No dear, never in a million years. British, a currency of no value now.
Bravo, well put.
Perhaps the elites are losing their way and think that the American lack of confidence is the future, hence the Brexit shock.
Absolutely right !
Oaths were thought to be worth something in the days when most people really believed in God. It was thought that people thought that God would know that they were lying even if nobody else did. Even then people rationalised that God would understand why they had to lie and wouldn’t be such a meanie as to send them to hell. So basically, this is a stupid idea proposed by people who don’t know any better.
Of course neither Anjem Choudary or Abu Hamza were employed in the public service.
Given how many MPs are appalling narcisstic, self interested liars, I wonder whether Sajid Javid appreciates the full irony of getting public servants to sign a solumn oath of allegiance.