Wouldn’t you just know it: there’s another row about Last Night of the Proms. Apparently the Scots in their open air Last Night weren’t given the opportunity to sing Jerusalem and Rule Britannia, whereas the Welsh and Northern Irish were. Which just adds to the popular perennial row about EU flags versus Union Jacks at the event.
It’s all a bit baffling if you were actually there. I was, and all my little prejudices about it were well and truly seen off. It was the most joyful affair. There were indeed people giving out free EU flags to the Prommers which may have accounted for the fact that the EU flags outnumbered the others but, you know, it’s a free country and there was nothing to stop Ukip or whoever handing out free Union Jacks; someone missed a trick.
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My daughter just wanted a flag, any flag, and so vociferous were her complaints that the lady in front of us handed over her own Union flag which she brandished enthusiastically throughout.
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