How do you make an emotional appeal for a united United Kingdom? So far, unionists have tried flag flying, resolutely refusing another referendum and bussing members of the royal family north of the border. All to no avail. The one thing that hasn’t been tried so far? A song. Today, on One Britain One Nation day (nope, me neither), children around the country are being encouraged to sing in support of the Union:
It reminded me of the communist songs that Chinese schools inculcates in its young children, a so-called ‘patriotic education’ that I also went through; and not least because ‘One Britain One Nation’, or ‘OBON’, sounds uncannily like Xi Jinping’s flagship policy One Belt One Road (OBOR). As perhaps the most powerful propaganda machine in the world, the Chinese Communist party is not a bad model to learn from, if that’s your thing (after all, Chinese leaders are also no strangers to using propaganda to tackle irritable separatists).
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