That was a protest whilst the musicians played the EU athem.... "What sort of protest is OK?" None, I believe showing some respect when an anthem is played is not too much to ask for. Ever seen football players turning them back as some "sort of protest" when anthem of the other team is played? They have other ways to show protest, vote against a law or project they do not agree with.
They said it was a countries National Anthem, that is why they turned there backs the EU is not one country yet even if it aspires to be - it was not a National Anthem did you see the Catalonian crowds outside protesting?
The eu is a management company, not a country. When is the last time your managers had an anthem and asked you to stand?
Wouldn’t voting just be them doing their job - I hope they do. Perhaps all protests are disrespectful in some way to someone.
So was John Major and Tony Blair. In Thatchers day, she had back channels to the IRA, and if you are being fair about it, she was trying to kill them. That’s what happens in a war. No big surprise they had a go at killing her. Out of interest how many innocent people is the British Government allowed to kill, both directly and indirectly through collusion with illegal groups before you think its unacceptable?
So if Gerry Adams wasn’t speaking to MPs and making no progress politically, do you think pIRA violence would have been less or more? Do you think Gerry Adams would have been more or less likely to get the pIRA to agree to the cease fire?
Got to agree with you here Exy baby, but to be fair “god save the Queen” is the anthem for a union of countries as well as being England’s anthem. Still no justification for calling the EU a country though
This is interesting: IRA murdered people. Thatch murdered people. How did Corbyn decide which gang of murderers to collude with? I reckon was a case of "Heads or Tails" … and that somehow involved Diane Abbott. Urgh.
