Great song and very true, we need roots! And its true that we are denied our roots. Its all part of the world plan of the global elites, cut us off from our roots and we will die. Our country is being bled dry by some very intelligent parasites.. The Zionist Jews... look how its oK for them to be nationalists in Israel but no-one elese is allowed to be because then we are labelled as Nazis... good trick they did on us all eh.
@Leofricson Rest assured the SoH guys would tell you to piss off with your BNP rhetoric. Reminds me of a similar situation where the guys at Imagined Village found out that Griffiths was a fan, they got the audience to chant some anti-BNP thing. Folkies don't like their beautiful romantic messages warped to hateful ones.
show of hands never dissapoint live, saw them at wells cathedral last year, was absolutely beautiful. love steves knightleys track - crooked man and phils inoccent song.
@WilyWonkaSoundSystem Thank you for your comment about the Crooked Man song. I have just looked up the song on here and enjoyed a very pleasant surprise indeed. Yet another brilliant song by Show of Hands that I didnt know about. What a really amazing band they are. Best wishes. Steve (UK)
@hurranwulf Lol, but songs like this won't exist in 100 years when white people are officially a tiny minority in this country, with the way our low european birth rates are going and continued mass third world immigration.
So fuck you, you marxist prick. Go and live in Sudan, Nigeria, the Congo, Afghanistan or China if you hate this country...and with your death to the EDL and BNP comments, you must be an anti-white self loathing moron.
Young English people (like myself) need to know more about our heritage, culture and history. Music, literature and art. Engineering and architectural feats. Inventions and scientific break throughs. English history is FULL of these things that we should be very proud of but do very few young English people know and appreciate our past.
I believe that is a very strong cause of why we feel threatened or perhaps even jealous of foreign cultures and religions in our country. This song sums it up.
@Braddurs So true, I would love to know all of our heritage and I would love to be proud of our country and the people that are here. It seems like the country has been robbed from us because we can't even keep our traditions without some religion or race hating on it, saying it's racist and then trying to get rid of it completely :/
It's sad really because we will not be an original and different country... We will just be another island on the map with no independence or originality
@ALCx3CAH It's not so much that we can't keep our traditions for fear of some religion or race 'hating' on them, I think it's more to do with general ignorance and lack of education on our part. Traditions are passed from generation to generation. It only takes one generation to miss out on learning them to lose them forever.
@Braddurs I think SoH make a very good point in this song by referencing australian soaps, american rap and prancing teens etc - I think those lyrics highlight the imported weak culture we have replaced our traditional one with.
@somonelse666 How nice to see a young person talking so much sense for a change...well said! Its a shame that people dont talk about the 'music' and not just the politics in this song. For whats its worth I think that they are fabulous thought provoking musicians that capture the essece of modern folk music. Now as someone one said "why cant we just get along with each other?". Brilliant band thanks for sharing this. Steve (UK)
some dick didn't listen to the lyrics, this is as far away from right wing racist rhetoric as you can get, and just being proud to be English or even British, Many racist dickhead Nazi organisations have high jacked OUR flag! and we want it BACK! That's what Steve Knightly is saying here.
White Britons are not the new Jews, British Muslims are the new Jews they are being persecuted in exactly the same way the Jews were being persecuted just before the war. Folk against Fascism!
Good song about national pride (not fascism), there's few left with skill in popular music. The talent in underground now in Folk, Metal, Classical etc.. all shunned by the mess of a 'society' we have now.
also, immigrants, illegal or not, normally come from countries where we can only imagine the suffering, so maybe, as more often than not it is British foreign policy that has at least indirectly caused them to suffer, it is a bit hypocritical to say that they are causing problems in our country.
also, just reminding all that no matter where a person is born, he/she is still human, and it is those who say otherwise that are less so.
Just to say the song is about being anti immagrants or pro british or whatevs its about enjoying are cultured instead of all the cheesey imported shit. SOH had to ask the Bnp or some english nationalist to take it off their videos becuase they don't surrport their party.and btw to be English or british or whatevers you have to be born here. just saying.
A Scotsman says: this is brilliant. IMHO England needs more of this, not the nationalism which has been hijacked by the nutters but PRIDE. England has so much to be proud of, SOH is just one of them! I for one am pleased to have England as a neighbour.
@ENGLISHDOGSOLDIER You'll give yourself ulcers going on like that! Lighten up buddy. If we all accepted the hand of friendship when it was extended the world might be a better place.Greetings from Scotland.
@ENGLISHDOGSOLDIER Lighten up my Anglo Saxon arse - Lol. I'm proud of my Essex roots (really!) Pity you're not proud of your roots. If you were you wouldn't be letting them down so badly. Your language, immaturity and petulance are at least balanced out by the chips on both shoulders. Take care there , mate. The hand of friendship is still extended.
@ENGLISHDOGSOLDIER Immaturity and petulance - despite the good laugh you have given me, I'm afraid I have to file you under 'nutter'. Youtube's full of them, you're just another one. Have a nice day.
@ENGLISHDOGSOLDIER Cock - Ha! You're like the English equivalent of Yosemite Sam, dagnabbit ye 'ornery critter! And just as ridiculous (and impotent). Was there any need for any of this? Show Of Hands must be horriffied their music has been hijacked with all this hate-filled bile. Way to go. Still, it gives you a reason to get up in the morning.
England must survive, but to do it we need to ditch 200 years of failed thinking the results of which are so eloquently described in the track. I'm not optimistic.
Love this song. Don't give a shit about immigrants; frankly, they have never caused me any harm, and I see no loss of 'English' culture, whatever that may be. The vast majority of our culture derives from an amalgamation with the French/Nordic/Saxon invaders. There is no one English culture. Every one of your arguments are irrelevant and even more pathetic. This whole debate is pathetic.
i love show of hands man it is so good and what i hate is when you get some old people that go ohhh look at that little boy they all listen to that drugy music well geusse what i dont i like hunting and i like my senareis and country music so there you you go not everyone is the same xx
Immigrants are deliberately imported by the ruling class and cynically used in order to make the suppression of the British, and particularly English working classes look in some way righteous. Quote British Army Officer "Why is it when they send us half way round the world to fight for the freedom of ungrateful foreigners they call us heroes, but when we stand up for the libert and rights of our own people they call us racist and fascists?" White Britons are the new Jews.
I suspect that if you really pushed people in England to find an English folk song that they could sing, Scarborough Fair would feature quite high in the list, mainly and ironically because the Simon & Garfunkel version is quite well known.
I live in Australia. Whilst I think that most Australians can sing at least a bit of Waltzing Matilda, I suspect that you're more likely to hear an Australian bush ballad sung in Ireland than in Australia.
Irksome in the sense that Show of Hands are clearly NOT knowing their roots by filming most of this in Cornwall, which, whatever the maps and wiki may tell you, has never been part of England. In fact it was there long before England was created. Just an observation. I'm sure I'll get plenty of abuse but there you go. The history and facts are there...
@WarpedFlange you must be really stupid....if you did not know original roots of Briton is from Cornwell.. that's WHY they probably have chosen this location for filming...
My father said his ancestors arrived here with William the Conquerer and settled in Staffordshire. Does that make me English enought to love this song?
@wobblejam Lol, my Grandfather who I never met said that too, my Gran told me. Of course you're English enough. Us English people are a mix of germanic tribes and Celts, Saxons, Jutes, Normans, Vikings for example, but we're not a mongreloid nation like the liberals will say, and us and the Celts you can argue are the indigenous people of Britain. Anyone white european who's family goes back generations upon generations here is an ethnic, native Brit. Blacks/Asians cannot be "English."
@ENGLISHDOGSOLDIER What the fuck are you on about. Yes, I'm a muslim rat working for bollocks pressTV, you idiot....
Why fear the English so much you hate us? What are you talking about, I am of mostly English blood you dickhead.
As for "hate-filled and backwards," so you claiming you're an "English Nationalist," obviously don't have a problem with mass immigration, the rate of which our white, native, English population is declining and other general things. You tool.
@EnglishNationalist13 Your lack of good manners and foul abusive language does more to convince me you are a multi channel "troll" trying to cause division and scare normal English people away.
There is a rise in English awareness and this is getting stronger by the year and no more so than those who want to keep the English "in their place".
English separatism is our only chance of freedom and freedom is what many outsiders and traitors within are trying to destroy.
@EnglishNationalist13 You are not one of those halfwits who hang around with Warren Smash are you.Please say yes so I can fall off this seat with hilarity.
Is he still playing the I'm a Muslim Brit with a joint Canadian passport thing?
No wonder the poor little sod is confused.
Please tell me you are one of his "minions" that would be Ace!!!
@ENGLISHDOGSOLDIER What are you talking about?? What are you smoking? Some strong shite if you ask me....
You're a joke anyway, how can you be an "English Nationalist?" In other words, English separatist, like the SNP of England, when you don't care about the Ethnic English people though?
Just another neo-con (or left wing idiot) who doesn't care about the things that really matter and make England what it is.
I know this,you know this and now anyone reading this knows this.
You are here to create confusion and drag in the unwary.
For who and why you do this is a moot point (moot being an Anglo Saxon term).
Our nation is full of people like yourself keeping a foot on our throat.
The internet is not as anonymous as some believe.Words,set phrases and dialogue style always come through and yours is familiar with other user names of course.
@ENGLISHDOGSOLDIER You know fuck all, you're a troll. You started writing a load of bollocks to me. What makes me a troll exactly?
I only have one youtube account you mug, and it's this one, you're making up a load of shit because in my opinion you don't agree with the ethno-nationalist politics I have talked about, instead you're one of these bogus "civic nationalist" types you get in english democrats and UKIP.
They don't give 2 fucks about English people, heritage or culture. BNP
That's as daft as being Scottish nationalist or Irish Nationalist and supporting the union.
You are a multi channel Troll trying to defeat legitimate and logical argument via "Trolling" or playing one side against the other to defeat open and free debate.
You are afraid of truth and real frank and open debate because you KNOW that debate would be very short and very conclusive.
@ENGLISHDOGSOLDIER Listen here YOU TROLL. You started this so I'm going to FINISH IT.
My name is EnglishNationalist, because I am ETHNICALLY ENGLISH, albeit with tiny fractions of Scottish, Italian and possibly Irish blood in me, but most of blood is Jutish/Saxon Germanic blood. I am an Englishman, my family goes back generations in Hampshire and Sussex.
The nationalist in my name is because I am a nationalist. Ok maybe i'm not a bogus "civic English nationalist," I am an Ethno-Nationalist.
@ENGLISHDOGSOLDIER I used capitals in my last post, you idiot....Maybe I used them to emphasise my point a little further, that you're starting to piss me off with your bullshit!
@EnglishNationalist13 By the sound of you not only are you not an English nationalist but you are probably Muslim.They seem to walk around "offended" as a full time job.
You and yours are going to get much more "offended" as time moves on because every right minded native of this Island is sick of your moaning faces with stretched out hands.
I am very blessed to have met those wonderful in people in person-they and their fans greeted me warmly and they surley have nothing agains any immagrants etc-for they asked me if I would not want to stay in england.......
The military-industrial complex cannot can participatory entertainment and sell it back to us, so their lackeys deride folk traditions. 'Folk' itself is canned as a 'genre' to be performed by stars, whilst the rest of us sit politely and passively. What is called 'missing the point'.
I see many people complaining about loss of culture, but I see nothing being done about it. For good reason, as there is nothing we can do about it. So how about we all just quit complaining and enjoy the good music, eh?
@JohnPurchaseArt Cool. What exactly are you doing? Complaining on a YouTube video? WELL DONE YOU CLEVER LITTLE BOY. I think it is you who should should the fuck up, as EVERYTHING you said was incorrect. Let me correct you. You are NOT protecting anything; our soldiers in Afghanistan are protecting our nation. Secondly, I am not a 'lazy defeatist' or a 'traitor', clearly, as any intelligent person could see. Clearly, this rules you out. And defeated by what? Traitor to what? Sit down you moron.
@ENGLISHDOGSOLDIER People in England aren’t being murdered by the Taliban, or any other extremist group, people in Afghanistan are, it’s our moral obligation as decent human beings to help people who can't help themselves.
Also they aren't fighting Muslims, they are fighting drug lords and terrorists.
@XZedong Out moral obligation as decent human being is to keep our nose out and look after our own people.
You sound very "morally justified" to send other people to fight war you believe in!
If you feel that strongly about it join up and fight them yourself.
As for drugs which are killing people the main traffickers are Muslim.They turn thousands of our most vulnerable women into whores and young men into slaves.
@ENGLISHDOGSOLDIER Well you can't just say that the main traffickers are Muslims without any evidence, but even if it is, a large portion of the Heroin imported into Europe comes from Afghanistan, why wait until the Heroin gets to the UK before dealing with the problem.
British people aren’t in need of help like Afghans are. You seem to think the UK should just shut its self of from the world.
And as for joining up I’m in the application process but I’m considering the French Foreign Legion.
@XZedong French Foreign Legion !!!Are the French even fighting anyone?The nearest tour of duty you will get is a brothel! The French army is the only one that thinks VD is a wounded in action!
I can buy Heroin from a dealer of Pakistani origin less than five miles from where I live.The proof that our so called "Muslim British" country men are peddling this poison is overwhelming as is the racist child grooming.
I don't want to cut ourselves off just not get involved in others shit
@ENGLISHDOGSOLDIER Your clearly an idiot. If you are right then why waste your time commenting on YouTube videos, why not found a Political Party and we will see how well you do.
@XZedong If people like me force a change politics will not come into it.
You called me an "idiot" because you have no coherent responses to the truth of what is happening on our Island.Or you know the truth and don't want to concede the point.
Our biggest enemy live here and some of them are our own.
If no one will protect us we must protect ourselves or lose everything.It's that simple and that brutal.
Any war we should fight should be at home not thousands of miles away.
@ENGLISHDOGSOLDIER No I called you an idiot because of your statement on the French military.
And could you just clarify, who exactly are the enemy?
People have always been trying to blame different groups for the world’s problems, whether its Jews, Communists, Catholics, Gays or Muslims, it’s just the same shit again and again.
too true bro we are germanic sorry iv got far too much too say on all this to put it on here but dont loose heart people my views would be banned so much for free speach but they are MY views and their u have it ,u can have freedom as long as u do with it what is expected ov u lol
The concept of welcoming immigrants, is that they embrace your culture and laws, not colonize, establish "no go zones" and their own laws. That is the difference between assimilation, and conquest, between being a guest and being a parasite that eventually kills it's host. Law abiding citizens being murdered by looting mobs is when you call out the troops and use real bullets to restore order, if the hoodlums don't like it offer them free passage back to the land of their fathers.
What a sad thread of comments. These guys are trying to mourn the loss of English musical culture. You may have strong feelings about the UK's immigration policy, and, at the risk of inviting unwarranted and ignorant acusations of racism, you may have a valid point, but that has nothing to do with the theme of this song. I think the inability to disagree without resorting to profanity and personal insult is even more lamentable than the message that these chaps are trying to get over.
im from devon phil beer plays in my local quite often, personally i consider myself of celtic stock and not english ,id like to see the southwest(devon ,cornwall,somerset and dorset) have its own assembly like wales england can take a run and jump! we got more in common with the welsh than the english
@simonking195 what other problems??? and whats difficult about wanting to be self governing???? fed up with it all englands a joke. maybe your the difficult cunt!!!
@rollerballrico if you see britain as seperate countries your a difficult cunt lol. other problems? all those foreign fuckers from europe and middle east!!!!
@simonking195 exactly kick those fuckers out there the real cunts! :) lol maybe people like myself would feel more content but down here where i live its still like i remember it growning up not the melting pots like london and the midlands where your a foriegner in your own country. where do you live?
@simonking195 nice place sussex, stepdads from there near hailsham. exeter myself, and belive me its diferent down here poorest wages in the country and second highest utility bills fucking joke.
"I've lost St. George and The Union Jack, it's my flag too and I want it back." Too true. To dick-head racists and bigots who don't what it is to be English.
@TheEditingShop Shut up. Let me guess, your a "proud to be English socialist who likes being English but thinks immigrants have the right to settle here in their droves, eroding our culture in the process!?!?"
@EnglishNationalist13 Well we did enough settling in other countries through military brutality and invasion over the years. I'm proud to be tolerant and accepting, which are both modern English traits. You sir, are a sewn-shut fool who blankets everything and everyone the same way.
@TheEditingShop Oh here we go, another left wing student tosser (judging by your profile) who bleats on about our past colonialism and wrong doings in other country! So what! I don't like what we did in Ireland, ok! But we built the USA, we built Australia, we built a huge amount in India, and although we committed some wrong doings there, a lot of indians are grateful for what the British did in India.
They're not modern English traits. Your just another liberal-elite type moron.
@EnglishNationalist13 *sigh* Go on then, oh anachronistic one, tell me what's wrong with an accepting, liberal attitude and judging people as individuals instead of generalising all foreigners into spicks, kikes, niggers, sand-niggers or pakis? Go on, genius, enlighten me (even if this is just the internet and this discussion means fuck-all in the long run).
@TheEditingShop No I can't be bothered, because the conversation will get nowhere. I will always be a nationalist and i'm sure you'll always be a liberal. What's wrong with liberalism? Well funny that. Look at the London riots. My mother is pretty left wing and even she's saying decades of liberalism has caused this. A generation of youth raised with no discipline, no responsibility, no respect for society, no morals. Everyone is saying liberalism has caused all this. I could go on...
@EnglishNationalist13 True, it won't go anywhere. As for the riots? Nothing to do with liberalism, there have ALWAYS been riots, and always will. People from time to time will always occasionally "rise up" and overthrow whatever OR (in this case) have a bunch of know-nothing scumbags who'll look for any excuse to indulge their criminal urges. The good thing is the majority are getting smarter and realising there are sane solutions to issues, not burning down your own city.
@TheEditingShop Everyone is saying it's due to liberalism, and this soft-touch attitude our political elites have held for years. What are you smoking? Just read the comments on riot articles on the BBC (the bbc is no right wing news source) and all the comments with high-rating are of a conservative viewpoint. Just like all the callers on London's LBC radio.
@EnglishNationalist13 Whatever, man. If a million say a stupid thing, it's still a stupid thing. It's not down to liberalism, it's about progress. To progress as a society there will be these stupid disputes and upsets but we move past them, we grow stronger as a people as a result and there you have it; progress. Going back to how things were 50 or 60 years ago isn't the answer, coz whoever heard of stepping forward 1 step and jumping back 2 ever counted as productive?
@TheEditingShop Cool, let's progress then, as you say. Let's progress and stick with our current open-door immigration policy of 200-500,000 third worlders/eastern europeans every year. Let's progress with our rapidly growing muslim population. Let's progress like this up until 2066 when apparently due to current immigration rates and immigrant birth rates, white british people like me will be a minority (under 50%) in my own country.
@EnglishNationalist13 You're catching the wrong end of the bitter stick, matey. You might wanna look into that, bitterness can actually cause sickness. Just a thought, try and be a little more positive, might help see things in a wider perspective. Also, don't you think you're getting angry with the wrong people? Surely it's not the fault of the people who come here, more the fault of those who let them in?
@TheEditingShop I'm not bitter, lol, I am a nationalist, and I care most for the majority of this country, the English, the native people. Please don't now lecture me on how we're all mongrols, yes I realise the English are made up of mostly Germanic tribes, and yes I know about the celts etc etc....
Yes, of course it is the fault of the people who let them in. That's why I detest organisations like the UAF 100 times more than organisations like Muslims Against Crusades.
I've listened to this song 3 times in like, 10 minutes. It's not about tossing the "foreigners" out, it's about knowing your roots, passing down those stories and protecting that identity from forces like Walmart, Starbucks... all the commercialization that threatens to turn us all into one unhappy homogeneous blob. Of course, hating on Asians is easier, so let's do that instead :-/
I shouldn't need to ask this, but could we please have a statement from Phil Beer or Stven Knightly saying this is not a pro-BNP song? I like Show of Hands, but it's depressing to see this song hijacked by that sort. Please vote up if you agree.
I,ve lost St.George and the union jack, fantastic song, sums up what most people think,
I really dont mind people coming here to live, find shelter, find work and bring their culture, but, remember it's England,lets remember our history and celibrate it.
Because England is being swamped with immigrants, our people and culture are being replaced with mass immigration, if we were native Indians we'd get sympathy but because we're white we're branded racists. We have the right to a culture and identity.
@Svenkrone I agree with you. The only thing he says about other cultures is that they remember their own cultural sings were as the English dont. Saying that the other cultures have got it right with remembering their songs in their culture. Awesome song and a valid point.
@Svenkrone In my experience, immigrants are not the ones who run down or try to suppress English culture, either in England or in Canada. It's a bunch of daft White 'liberals' who think all nationalism is bad and use the presence of immigrants in our countries as an *excuse* for suppressing our traditions.
@Oswulf1 Depends on the "immigrant" from my point of view.
Yes I agree England's biggest enemy are born in England.They may well be English by birth but not by heart nor belief.This land is nothing more than a "Gypsy caravan park" to them and all surrounding them not of them.
I'm ENGLISC an older name of my of my people the English.
Our duty is to protect our people and land from enemy's within and without regardless of their place of birth,race or creed.
@Svenkrone A lot of us posting about immigrants here care for our roots, which are being destroyed pretty quickly by a combination of EU laws, immigration and a loss of beliefs and morals.
@Svenkrone only just heard this song this morning, but bought a tear my eye. As for your point why should people like me have to sit in souless pubs where the baseball capped majority listen to mindless beats,auto tuned pop crap, spewing obsenities out of their mouths with visual distraction on a 50" wide screen because they can't hold a conversation without using their fists, not really a folk fan or a sports fan, but this song has some real truth in it. Shame on us all : (
The majority of shots in this video were shot in my hometown. Every time I listen to it makes me think of home! ...And the sadness of my generation :(
I love this song... I hate it whenever a pub closes... Also hate tvs in pubs and how the right wing have taken the St George's cross. I feel guilty if I wave it because to many racist skin head thugs have decided that to be patriotic you have to hate people who look different to you. There is no "indigenous" English people, I mean come on we have been invaded enough times, but that doesn't mean there isn't an English heritage which I am proud of. In our folk music etc it lives on!
Nice song :D ... just a quick mention though MUSE happen to be a uk band ... Justin bieber and american rap are not the only things the steryotypical UK knows
This is the best song. Sums up pretty much everything I feel about this country, were losing everything, beautiful country pubs shutting, cafe's opening, it's a sorry sight
Great song and very true, we need roots! And its true that we are denied our roots. Its all part of the world plan of the global elites, cut us off from our roots and we will die. Our country is being bled dry by some very intelligent parasites.. The Zionist Jews... look how its oK for them to be nationalists in Israel but no-one elese is allowed to be because then we are labelled as Nazis... good trick they did on us all eh.
jahtruthom 4 days ago
used to go see them in Dorset in the 90's...a lifetime ago...they only get better. Have moved to the US and my friends love them
faithrogers31 4 days ago
Fantastic music. This is the way music should be done!
StoreaHassas 1 week ago
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he didn#t know it but he wrote a nationalist song for us well done Roots,spirit of 66
edwards21416 1 week ago
@Leofricson Rest assured the SoH guys would tell you to piss off with your BNP rhetoric. Reminds me of a similar situation where the guys at Imagined Village found out that Griffiths was a fan, they got the audience to chant some anti-BNP thing. Folkies don't like their beautiful romantic messages warped to hateful ones.
jannerick2 1 week ago in playlist folk
Everyone Ought to get behind the ethos of this truly superb song!! Its a pity we've seem to be loosing All our national Identity!!
Moletrapper1 2 weeks ago
@Moletrapper1 Good comment – spot on!
Lissadell1916 1 week ago
show of hands never dissapoint live, saw them at wells cathedral last year, was absolutely beautiful. love steves knightleys track - crooked man and phils inoccent song.
this is folk music at its best.
WilyWonkaSoundSystem 3 weeks ago
@WilyWonkaSoundSystem Thank you for your comment about the Crooked Man song. I have just looked up the song on here and enjoyed a very pleasant surprise indeed. Yet another brilliant song by Show of Hands that I didnt know about. What a really amazing band they are. Best wishes. Steve (UK)
NightingaleHMP 3 weeks ago in playlist Folk music (mixed)
Fabulous band - this is the music we should celebrate. Oysterband are great as well.
123Boudicca 4 weeks ago
Great song. Sod the politics, bring on the music.
Thisbloodypave 4 weeks ago 2
the man with the black hair is my dad
Bulverton 1 month ago
who ever dislikes this is a bitch
Bulverton 1 month ago
Death to the EDL, Fuck the BMP this what "England" is about (A)
hurranwulf 1 month ago 5
@hurranwulf Could'nt agree more mate.
Thisbloodypave 3 weeks ago
@hurranwulf Lol, but songs like this won't exist in 100 years when white people are officially a tiny minority in this country, with the way our low european birth rates are going and continued mass third world immigration.
So fuck you, you marxist prick. Go and live in Sudan, Nigeria, the Congo, Afghanistan or China if you hate this country...and with your death to the EDL and BNP comments, you must be an anti-white self loathing moron.
EnglishNationalist13 2 weeks ago
Young English people (like myself) need to know more about our heritage, culture and history. Music, literature and art. Engineering and architectural feats. Inventions and scientific break throughs. English history is FULL of these things that we should be very proud of but do very few young English people know and appreciate our past.
I believe that is a very strong cause of why we feel threatened or perhaps even jealous of foreign cultures and religions in our country. This song sums it up.
Braddurs 1 month ago
@Braddurs So true, I would love to know all of our heritage and I would love to be proud of our country and the people that are here. It seems like the country has been robbed from us because we can't even keep our traditions without some religion or race hating on it, saying it's racist and then trying to get rid of it completely :/
It's sad really because we will not be an original and different country... We will just be another island on the map with no independence or originality
ALCx3CAH 1 month ago
@ALCx3CAH It's not so much that we can't keep our traditions for fear of some religion or race 'hating' on them, I think it's more to do with general ignorance and lack of education on our part. Traditions are passed from generation to generation. It only takes one generation to miss out on learning them to lose them forever.
Braddurs 1 month ago
@Braddurs I think SoH make a very good point in this song by referencing australian soaps, american rap and prancing teens etc - I think those lyrics highlight the imported weak culture we have replaced our traditional one with.
Braddurs 1 month ago
@somonelse666 How nice to see a young person talking so much sense for a change...well said! Its a shame that people dont talk about the 'music' and not just the politics in this song. For whats its worth I think that they are fabulous thought provoking musicians that capture the essece of modern folk music. Now as someone one said "why cant we just get along with each other?". Brilliant band thanks for sharing this. Steve (UK)
NightingaleHMP 2 months ago
some dick didn't listen to the lyrics, this is as far away from right wing racist rhetoric as you can get, and just being proud to be English or even British, Many racist dickhead Nazi organisations have high jacked OUR flag! and we want it BACK! That's what Steve Knightly is saying here.
White Britons are not the new Jews, British Muslims are the new Jews they are being persecuted in exactly the same way the Jews were being persecuted just before the war. Folk against Fascism!
andyrosstate 2 months ago
Good song about national pride (not fascism), there's few left with skill in popular music. The talent in underground now in Folk, Metal, Classical etc.. all shunned by the mess of a 'society' we have now.
laelius3 2 months ago
Sing It Boys! Solidarity!
MrBondrobin 2 months ago in playlist More videos from CatnessBean
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IH8LAGamer20 2 months ago
@XZedong have you ever watched something called the news?
IH8LAGamer20 2 months ago 3
Al-Qaeda kicks so much ass
XZedong 2 months ago
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MattRuaneBlog 2 months ago
also, immigrants, illegal or not, normally come from countries where we can only imagine the suffering, so maybe, as more often than not it is British foreign policy that has at least indirectly caused them to suffer, it is a bit hypocritical to say that they are causing problems in our country.
also, just reminding all that no matter where a person is born, he/she is still human, and it is those who say otherwise that are less so.
somonelse666 2 months ago in playlist show of hands
We've lost more than we'll ever know on the rocky shores of England..........love these guys, telling it like it is, always !
Benjiboyo21 2 months ago
Just to say the song is about being anti immagrants or pro british or whatevs its about enjoying are cultured instead of all the cheesey imported shit. SOH had to ask the Bnp or some english nationalist to take it off their videos becuase they don't surrport their party.and btw to be English or british or whatevers you have to be born here. just saying.
13amiiee 2 months ago
We've lost more than we'll ever know.
tevtail1 2 months ago
maybe they could write a song about immagration into the uk ,but they probably wont ,not very pc
edwards21416 2 months ago
love it
gazrobbo53 2 months ago
A Scotsman says: this is brilliant. IMHO England needs more of this, not the nationalism which has been hijacked by the nutters but PRIDE. England has so much to be proud of, SOH is just one of them! I for one am pleased to have England as a neighbour.
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ENGLISHDOGSOLDIER 2 months ago
Respond to this video... Pride come's before a fall and we are well and truly falling.
We should not be proud of our past but draw on it for inspiration to do something now.
How can we have pride when we run and hide every time someone whispers the magic words "racist" for being English?
We are afraid of a word that more often than not is a bare faced lie.
As for being pleased to have us as a neighbour so you should be as we pay the mortgage on your nation.That's a mug not neighbour.
ENGLISHDOGSOLDIER 2 months ago
@ENGLISHDOGSOLDIER Uh oh - another Youtube nutter. All the best anyway.
killie04 2 months ago
@ENGLISHDOGSOLDIER And I'll guess you are from PressTV? It's the Scottish PLO connection that gives it away every time.
You call me a "another nutter" yet people who support violence down as friends.
What is it about the English you hate so much and where is the historical basis in fact for that hatred.
As Gorgeous George Galloway is a big Scot's nationalist and PressTV supporter you has better ask the boss before answering.
ENGLISHDOGSOLDIER 2 months ago
@ENGLISHDOGSOLDIER You'll give yourself ulcers going on like that! Lighten up buddy. If we all accepted the hand of friendship when it was extended the world might be a better place.Greetings from Scotland.
killie04 2 months ago
@killie04 Lighten up my Anglo Saxon arse.
Some of you skirt wearing halfwits have got in bed with anyone who hates the English.You always have and always will.
The term "buddy" hardly seems Scots either does it?
If organisations are at work to destroy our people in our own land they can expect no mercy no more than I would expect in Iran.
It would be a really good idea for PressTV to fuck off or end up pig food.
ENGLISHDOGSOLDIER 2 months ago
@ENGLISHDOGSOLDIER Lighten up my Anglo Saxon arse - Lol. I'm proud of my Essex roots (really!) Pity you're not proud of your roots. If you were you wouldn't be letting them down so badly. Your language, immaturity and petulance are at least balanced out by the chips on both shoulders. Take care there , mate. The hand of friendship is still extended.
killie04 2 months ago
@killie04 I do not let down "my roots" at all.
I am an English man no more and no less.
If I want lessons in "immaturity and petulance" I can learn all I want from the Anglophobic bastards that you admire so much.
If you or your terrorist supporting mates put a "the hand of friendship" out to me I'll be looking to see what the other hand not "extended" is doing.
We let Wolves disguised as sheep into our nation it's time we started hunting them down.
ENGLISHDOGSOLDIER 2 months ago
@ENGLISHDOGSOLDIER Immaturity and petulance - despite the good laugh you have given me, I'm afraid I have to file you under 'nutter'. Youtube's full of them, you're just another one. Have a nice day.
It's still cracking song tho'.
killie04 2 months ago
@killie04 I'll file you however under Anglophobic fuck.
Tell George when he's finished Islamic cock I have one here for him that's bigger and whiter!
ENGLISHDOGSOLDIER 2 months ago
@ENGLISHDOGSOLDIER Cock - Ha! You're like the English equivalent of Yosemite Sam, dagnabbit ye 'ornery critter! And just as ridiculous (and impotent). Was there any need for any of this? Show Of Hands must be horriffied their music has been hijacked with all this hate-filled bile. Way to go. Still, it gives you a reason to get up in the morning.
killie04 2 months ago
@killie04 You started the insults you terrorist supporting dickhead :)
Get used it you fuckers are a popular as smallpox.
Are you getting up in the morning to do a noisy protest during the silence tomorrow with all your bearded mates?
ENGLISHDOGSOLDIER 2 months ago
England must survive, but to do it we need to ditch 200 years of failed thinking the results of which are so eloquently described in the track. I'm not optimistic.
goatshredder 2 months ago
Love this song. Don't give a shit about immigrants; frankly, they have never caused me any harm, and I see no loss of 'English' culture, whatever that may be. The vast majority of our culture derives from an amalgamation with the French/Nordic/Saxon invaders. There is no one English culture. Every one of your arguments are irrelevant and even more pathetic. This whole debate is pathetic.
15niall 3 months ago
@zrkzrk777 Very true
ENGLISHDOGSOLDIER 3 months ago
i love show of hands man it is so good and what i hate is when you get some old people that go ohhh look at that little boy they all listen to that drugy music well geusse what i dont i like hunting and i like my senareis and country music so there you you go not everyone is the same xx
lewisg3696 3 months ago
Immigrants are deliberately imported by the ruling class and cynically used in order to make the suppression of the British, and particularly English working classes look in some way righteous. Quote British Army Officer "Why is it when they send us half way round the world to fight for the freedom of ungrateful foreigners they call us heroes, but when we stand up for the libert and rights of our own people they call us racist and fascists?" White Britons are the new Jews.
Leofricson 3 months ago 8
HAIL THE NECROWIZARD
goatshredder 3 months ago
I suspect that if you really pushed people in England to find an English folk song that they could sing, Scarborough Fair would feature quite high in the list, mainly and ironically because the Simon & Garfunkel version is quite well known.
I live in Australia. Whilst I think that most Australians can sing at least a bit of Waltzing Matilda, I suspect that you're more likely to hear an Australian bush ballad sung in Ireland than in Australia.
AmandaSamuels 3 months ago
Irksome in the sense that Show of Hands are clearly NOT knowing their roots by filming most of this in Cornwall, which, whatever the maps and wiki may tell you, has never been part of England. In fact it was there long before England was created. Just an observation. I'm sure I'll get plenty of abuse but there you go. The history and facts are there...
WarpedFlange 4 months ago
@WarpedFlange you must be really stupid....if you did not know original roots of Briton is from Cornwell.. that's WHY they probably have chosen this location for filming...
jingle56757 3 months ago
My father said his ancestors arrived here with William the Conquerer and settled in Staffordshire. Does that make me English enought to love this song?
wobblejam 4 months ago
@wobblejam Lol, my Grandfather who I never met said that too, my Gran told me. Of course you're English enough. Us English people are a mix of germanic tribes and Celts, Saxons, Jutes, Normans, Vikings for example, but we're not a mongreloid nation like the liberals will say, and us and the Celts you can argue are the indigenous people of Britain. Anyone white european who's family goes back generations upon generations here is an ethnic, native Brit. Blacks/Asians cannot be "English."
EnglishNationalist13 3 months ago
@EnglishNationalist13 I'm guessing you are a Troll then?
How many channels Do you have?
Are you Muslim working for PressTV?
I'm pretty sure you are a bullshitter trying to tar English nationalism and the English as racist,Xenophobic and as hate filled and backward as you.
Why fear the English so much you hate us?
Your sussed now "foxtrot Oscar" to use the phonetic alphabet!
ENGLISHDOGSOLDIER 3 months ago
@ENGLISHDOGSOLDIER What the fuck are you on about. Yes, I'm a muslim rat working for bollocks pressTV, you idiot....
Why fear the English so much you hate us? What are you talking about, I am of mostly English blood you dickhead.
As for "hate-filled and backwards," so you claiming you're an "English Nationalist," obviously don't have a problem with mass immigration, the rate of which our white, native, English population is declining and other general things. You tool.
EnglishNationalist13 3 months ago
@EnglishNationalist13 Your lack of good manners and foul abusive language does more to convince me you are a multi channel "troll" trying to cause division and scare normal English people away.
There is a rise in English awareness and this is getting stronger by the year and no more so than those who want to keep the English "in their place".
English separatism is our only chance of freedom and freedom is what many outsiders and traitors within are trying to destroy.
I believe you are not of us.
ENGLISHDOGSOLDIER 3 months ago
@EnglishNationalist13 You are not one of those halfwits who hang around with Warren Smash are you.Please say yes so I can fall off this seat with hilarity.
Is he still playing the I'm a Muslim Brit with a joint Canadian passport thing?
No wonder the poor little sod is confused.
Please tell me you are one of his "minions" that would be Ace!!!
ENGLISHDOGSOLDIER 3 months ago
@ENGLISHDOGSOLDIER What are you talking about?? What are you smoking? Some strong shite if you ask me....
You're a joke anyway, how can you be an "English Nationalist?" In other words, English separatist, like the SNP of England, when you don't care about the Ethnic English people though?
Just another neo-con (or left wing idiot) who doesn't care about the things that really matter and make England what it is.
Race, culture, heritage, history, traditions, values.
Muppet.
EnglishNationalist13 3 months ago
@EnglishNationalist13 You are a TROLL.
I know this,you know this and now anyone reading this knows this.
You are here to create confusion and drag in the unwary.
For who and why you do this is a moot point (moot being an Anglo Saxon term).
Our nation is full of people like yourself keeping a foot on our throat.
The internet is not as anonymous as some believe.Words,set phrases and dialogue style always come through and yours is familiar with other user names of course.
Go away you are sussed :)
ENGLISHDOGSOLDIER 3 months ago
@ENGLISHDOGSOLDIER You know fuck all, you're a troll. You started writing a load of bollocks to me. What makes me a troll exactly?
I only have one youtube account you mug, and it's this one, you're making up a load of shit because in my opinion you don't agree with the ethno-nationalist politics I have talked about, instead you're one of these bogus "civic nationalist" types you get in english democrats and UKIP.
They don't give 2 fucks about English people, heritage or culture. BNP
EnglishNationalist13 3 months ago
@EnglishNationalist13 zzzzzzzzzz zzzzzzzzz get back under the bridge a Goats coming!
ENGLISHDOGSOLDIER 3 months ago
@EnglishNationalist13 You can not be a English nationalist and support the BNP.
That's as daft as being Scottish nationalist or Irish Nationalist and supporting the union.
You are a multi channel Troll trying to defeat legitimate and logical argument via "Trolling" or playing one side against the other to defeat open and free debate.
You are afraid of truth and real frank and open debate because you KNOW that debate would be very short and very conclusive.
Otherwise you would engage in it :)
ENGLISHDOGSOLDIER 3 months ago
@ENGLISHDOGSOLDIER Listen here YOU TROLL. You started this so I'm going to FINISH IT.
My name is EnglishNationalist, because I am ETHNICALLY ENGLISH, albeit with tiny fractions of Scottish, Italian and possibly Irish blood in me, but most of blood is Jutish/Saxon Germanic blood. I am an Englishman, my family goes back generations in Hampshire and Sussex.
The nationalist in my name is because I am a nationalist. Ok maybe i'm not a bogus "civic English nationalist," I am an Ethno-Nationalist.
EnglishNationalist13 3 months ago
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ENGLISHDOGSOLDIER 3 months ago
@EnglishNationalist13 You keep USING CAPITAL LETTERS WHY????I can read lower case just as easily.
Why hound people making legitimate points by pretending to be what you obviously are not?
What have you started and just what are you finishing because what you are writing makes no sense?
Go away and find a responsible adult who's not on medication so I can have an adult conversation please :)
ENGLISHDOGSOLDIER 3 months ago
@ENGLISHDOGSOLDIER I used capitals in my last post, you idiot....Maybe I used them to emphasise my point a little further, that you're starting to piss me off with your bullshit!
Fuck off you troll.
EnglishNationalist13 3 months ago
@EnglishNationalist13 By the sound of you not only are you not an English nationalist but you are probably Muslim.They seem to walk around "offended" as a full time job.
You and yours are going to get much more "offended" as time moves on because every right minded native of this Island is sick of your moaning faces with stretched out hands.
ENGLISHDOGSOLDIER 3 months ago
@EnglishNationalist13 Please send the adult the mad Muslim arsewipe is still online:)
ENGLISHDOGSOLDIER 3 months ago
I am very blessed to have met those wonderful in people in person-they and their fans greeted me warmly and they surley have nothing agains any immagrants etc-for they asked me if I would not want to stay in england.......
unfortunately I cant take the cold there :)
Yokita6669 4 months ago
GREAT BAND AND GREAT SONGS NO MATTER WHAT THE TRUE MEANING!!!
toopoogang 4 months ago
The military-industrial complex cannot can participatory entertainment and sell it back to us, so their lackeys deride folk traditions. 'Folk' itself is canned as a 'genre' to be performed by stars, whilst the rest of us sit politely and passively. What is called 'missing the point'.
angrycodger 4 months ago
kind of crap
MisterIanPickering 5 months ago
I see many people complaining about loss of culture, but I see nothing being done about it. For good reason, as there is nothing we can do about it. So how about we all just quit complaining and enjoy the good music, eh?
15niall 5 months ago
@15niall
I'm doing something about protecting our nation as are others who aren't lazy defeatists and traitors. Now why don't you shut the fuck up.
JohnPurchaseArt 5 months ago
@JohnPurchaseArt Cool. What exactly are you doing? Complaining on a YouTube video? WELL DONE YOU CLEVER LITTLE BOY. I think it is you who should should the fuck up, as EVERYTHING you said was incorrect. Let me correct you. You are NOT protecting anything; our soldiers in Afghanistan are protecting our nation. Secondly, I am not a 'lazy defeatist' or a 'traitor', clearly, as any intelligent person could see. Clearly, this rules you out. And defeated by what? Traitor to what? Sit down you moron.
15niall 5 months ago
@15niall Our soldiers are being "diverted" and used to line others pockets while the real enemy runs amok in our native homeland.
Our soldiers if they new the truth and were brought home would "run amok" in Parliament and start putting traitors down and defending their homeland.
They are being killed for nothing other than money,greed,vanity and treason and it is deliberate.
Why fight Muslims living half a planet away when we have home grown threats?
ENGLISHDOGSOLDIER 3 months ago 2
@ENGLISHDOGSOLDIER People in England aren’t being murdered by the Taliban, or any other extremist group, people in Afghanistan are, it’s our moral obligation as decent human beings to help people who can't help themselves.
Also they aren't fighting Muslims, they are fighting drug lords and terrorists.
XZedong 3 months ago
@XZedong Out moral obligation as decent human being is to keep our nose out and look after our own people.
You sound very "morally justified" to send other people to fight war you believe in!
If you feel that strongly about it join up and fight them yourself.
As for drugs which are killing people the main traffickers are Muslim.They turn thousands of our most vulnerable women into whores and young men into slaves.
If that is not an act of war what is?
ENGLISHDOGSOLDIER 3 months ago
@ENGLISHDOGSOLDIER Well you can't just say that the main traffickers are Muslims without any evidence, but even if it is, a large portion of the Heroin imported into Europe comes from Afghanistan, why wait until the Heroin gets to the UK before dealing with the problem.
British people aren’t in need of help like Afghans are. You seem to think the UK should just shut its self of from the world.
And as for joining up I’m in the application process but I’m considering the French Foreign Legion.
XZedong 3 months ago
@XZedong French Foreign Legion !!!Are the French even fighting anyone?The nearest tour of duty you will get is a brothel! The French army is the only one that thinks VD is a wounded in action!
I can buy Heroin from a dealer of Pakistani origin less than five miles from where I live.The proof that our so called "Muslim British" country men are peddling this poison is overwhelming as is the racist child grooming.
I don't want to cut ourselves off just not get involved in others shit
ENGLISHDOGSOLDIER 3 months ago
@ENGLISHDOGSOLDIER Your clearly an idiot. If you are right then why waste your time commenting on YouTube videos, why not found a Political Party and we will see how well you do.
XZedong 3 months ago
@XZedong If people like me force a change politics will not come into it.
You called me an "idiot" because you have no coherent responses to the truth of what is happening on our Island.Or you know the truth and don't want to concede the point.
Our biggest enemy live here and some of them are our own.
If no one will protect us we must protect ourselves or lose everything.It's that simple and that brutal.
Any war we should fight should be at home not thousands of miles away.
ENGLISHDOGSOLDIER 3 months ago
@ENGLISHDOGSOLDIER No I called you an idiot because of your statement on the French military.
And could you just clarify, who exactly are the enemy?
People have always been trying to blame different groups for the world’s problems, whether its Jews, Communists, Catholics, Gays or Muslims, it’s just the same shit again and again.
XZedong 3 months ago
too true bro we are germanic sorry iv got far too much too say on all this to put it on here but dont loose heart people my views would be banned so much for free speach but they are MY views and their u have it ,u can have freedom as long as u do with it what is expected ov u lol
rascal4721 5 months ago
too true bro
rascal4721 5 months ago
@zrkzrk777 too true bruv
rascal4721 5 months ago
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if you value the meaning of being English, Scots, Welsh or Irish, DON'T support the likes of the English Defence League or any of their ilk!
thealbionbands 5 months ago
We've lost more than we'll ever know..
JohnPurchaseArt 5 months ago
Support the English Defence League
mickeymcgregor1 5 months ago
@mickeymcgregor1 I do! My best friend is a member
ImperialLobster 5 months ago
@ImperialLobster how sad
thealbionbands 5 months ago
The concept of welcoming immigrants, is that they embrace your culture and laws, not colonize, establish "no go zones" and their own laws. That is the difference between assimilation, and conquest, between being a guest and being a parasite that eventually kills it's host. Law abiding citizens being murdered by looting mobs is when you call out the troops and use real bullets to restore order, if the hoodlums don't like it offer them free passage back to the land of their fathers.
LinnTractorNut 5 months ago 2
can't we all just get along?
LibraHorse1 5 months ago
@LibraHorse1 ERR....NO!
yorkie6687 5 months ago
What a sad thread of comments. These guys are trying to mourn the loss of English musical culture. You may have strong feelings about the UK's immigration policy, and, at the risk of inviting unwarranted and ignorant acusations of racism, you may have a valid point, but that has nothing to do with the theme of this song. I think the inability to disagree without resorting to profanity and personal insult is even more lamentable than the message that these chaps are trying to get over.
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snaphappyexpat 5 months ago
I feel like a real man when I listen to Show of Hands...
NativeAlternative 6 months ago
Listening to Show of Hands makes me feel like a real man...
NativeAlternative 6 months ago
mixeddupp your a loser
DiiRTYDOLPHiiN 6 months ago
@DiiRTYDOLPHiiN if you're going to call me a loser, at least be a man and tag my name.
miixeddupp 6 months ago
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This song reminds me of Cornwall and the sea crashing against the rocks, It sends a shiver down my spine! Love!
TheJagoBoy 6 months ago
@miixeddupp Im Exactly the same!
I used to love NDubz I like Dubstep, Drum and Bass and I LOVE Show of Hands and Fishermans Firends! [: cus us 14 year olds are cool...
TheJagoBoy 6 months ago
Saw these guys at the abbotsbury folk festival, pretty sweet, but a horrible vile excuse for a video
jestercom 6 months ago
im from devon phil beer plays in my local quite often, personally i consider myself of celtic stock and not english ,id like to see the southwest(devon ,cornwall,somerset and dorset) have its own assembly like wales england can take a run and jump! we got more in common with the welsh than the english
rollerballrico 7 months ago
@rollerballrico
Thats pretty much how I feel.
I feel more at home in Europe than I do in the home counties and English cities.
The south west is very different to urban Britain.
cornishhh 7 months ago
@cornishhh its about time cornish and devon got together :) make abetter case for independence that way!
rollerballrico 7 months ago
@rollerballrico I'm sure Steve and Phil could come up with a suitable national anthem for us!
cornishhh 7 months ago
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JohnPurchaseArt 6 months ago
@rollerballrico we're all british stop being a difficult cunt and look at our other problems... theres many more out there.
simonking195 6 months ago
@simonking195 what other problems??? and whats difficult about wanting to be self governing???? fed up with it all englands a joke. maybe your the difficult cunt!!!
rollerballrico 6 months ago
@rollerballrico if you see britain as seperate countries your a difficult cunt lol. other problems? all those foreign fuckers from europe and middle east!!!!
simonking195 6 months ago
@simonking195 exactly kick those fuckers out there the real cunts! :) lol maybe people like myself would feel more content but down here where i live its still like i remember it growning up not the melting pots like london and the midlands where your a foriegner in your own country. where do you live?
rollerballrico 6 months ago
@rollerballrico down south in sussex. not so bad here ;) there are several places that have been locally renamed as *place*istan aha greets :)
simonking195 6 months ago
@simonking195 nice place sussex, stepdads from there near hailsham. exeter myself, and belive me its diferent down here poorest wages in the country and second highest utility bills fucking joke.
rollerballrico 6 months ago
Love it
15niall 7 months ago in playlist Show of Hands
"I've lost St. George and The Union Jack, it's my flag too and I want it back." Too true. To dick-head racists and bigots who don't what it is to be English.
TheEditingShop 7 months ago
@TheEditingShop Shut up. Let me guess, your a "proud to be English socialist who likes being English but thinks immigrants have the right to settle here in their droves, eroding our culture in the process!?!?"
EnglishNationalist13 5 months ago
@EnglishNationalist13 Well we did enough settling in other countries through military brutality and invasion over the years. I'm proud to be tolerant and accepting, which are both modern English traits. You sir, are a sewn-shut fool who blankets everything and everyone the same way.
TheEditingShop 5 months ago
@TheEditingShop Oh here we go, another left wing student tosser (judging by your profile) who bleats on about our past colonialism and wrong doings in other country! So what! I don't like what we did in Ireland, ok! But we built the USA, we built Australia, we built a huge amount in India, and although we committed some wrong doings there, a lot of indians are grateful for what the British did in India.
They're not modern English traits. Your just another liberal-elite type moron.
EnglishNationalist13 5 months ago
@EnglishNationalist13 *sigh* Go on then, oh anachronistic one, tell me what's wrong with an accepting, liberal attitude and judging people as individuals instead of generalising all foreigners into spicks, kikes, niggers, sand-niggers or pakis? Go on, genius, enlighten me (even if this is just the internet and this discussion means fuck-all in the long run).
TheEditingShop 5 months ago
@TheEditingShop No I can't be bothered, because the conversation will get nowhere. I will always be a nationalist and i'm sure you'll always be a liberal. What's wrong with liberalism? Well funny that. Look at the London riots. My mother is pretty left wing and even she's saying decades of liberalism has caused this. A generation of youth raised with no discipline, no responsibility, no respect for society, no morals. Everyone is saying liberalism has caused all this. I could go on...
EnglishNationalist13 5 months ago
@EnglishNationalist13 True, it won't go anywhere. As for the riots? Nothing to do with liberalism, there have ALWAYS been riots, and always will. People from time to time will always occasionally "rise up" and overthrow whatever OR (in this case) have a bunch of know-nothing scumbags who'll look for any excuse to indulge their criminal urges. The good thing is the majority are getting smarter and realising there are sane solutions to issues, not burning down your own city.
TheEditingShop 5 months ago
@TheEditingShop Everyone is saying it's due to liberalism, and this soft-touch attitude our political elites have held for years. What are you smoking? Just read the comments on riot articles on the BBC (the bbc is no right wing news source) and all the comments with high-rating are of a conservative viewpoint. Just like all the callers on London's LBC radio.
EnglishNationalist13 5 months ago
@EnglishNationalist13 Whatever, man. If a million say a stupid thing, it's still a stupid thing. It's not down to liberalism, it's about progress. To progress as a society there will be these stupid disputes and upsets but we move past them, we grow stronger as a people as a result and there you have it; progress. Going back to how things were 50 or 60 years ago isn't the answer, coz whoever heard of stepping forward 1 step and jumping back 2 ever counted as productive?
TheEditingShop 5 months ago
@TheEditingShop Cool, let's progress then, as you say. Let's progress and stick with our current open-door immigration policy of 200-500,000 third worlders/eastern europeans every year. Let's progress with our rapidly growing muslim population. Let's progress like this up until 2066 when apparently due to current immigration rates and immigrant birth rates, white british people like me will be a minority (under 50%) in my own country.
Let's progress...
EnglishNationalist13 5 months ago 2
@EnglishNationalist13 You're catching the wrong end of the bitter stick, matey. You might wanna look into that, bitterness can actually cause sickness. Just a thought, try and be a little more positive, might help see things in a wider perspective. Also, don't you think you're getting angry with the wrong people? Surely it's not the fault of the people who come here, more the fault of those who let them in?
TheEditingShop 5 months ago
@TheEditingShop I'm not bitter, lol, I am a nationalist, and I care most for the majority of this country, the English, the native people. Please don't now lecture me on how we're all mongrols, yes I realise the English are made up of mostly Germanic tribes, and yes I know about the celts etc etc....
Yes, of course it is the fault of the people who let them in. That's why I detest organisations like the UAF 100 times more than organisations like Muslims Against Crusades.
EnglishNationalist13 5 months ago
Crackin' song, brilliant band.
clydewell 7 months ago
I've listened to this song 3 times in like, 10 minutes. It's not about tossing the "foreigners" out, it's about knowing your roots, passing down those stories and protecting that identity from forces like Walmart, Starbucks... all the commercialization that threatens to turn us all into one unhappy homogeneous blob. Of course, hating on Asians is easier, so let's do that instead :-/
pondmud 7 months ago
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pondmud 7 months ago
I think that a lot of Australians could use a song like this. :)
456Torchwood 7 months ago
@456Torchwood australians were originally british... so they can use this song.. :)
simonking195 6 months ago
I heard this on 2day. Love it!
mistascoles 7 months ago
@mistascoles So did i, now i can't stop playing it. :)
TaxiRED 7 months ago
I shouldn't need to ask this, but could we please have a statement from Phil Beer or Stven Knightly saying this is not a pro-BNP song? I like Show of Hands, but it's depressing to see this song hijacked by that sort. Please vote up if you agree.
Svenkrone 7 months ago
brillant love it, great song, cheers The Makem Folk Singer
TheMakemFolksinger 7 months ago
Good show boys! Cornish and English forever!!
DanFalmouth 7 months ago
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avonbeg 7 months ago
@DanFalmouth Then why not go across the border and live in england
avonbeg 7 months ago
I,ve lost St.George and the union jack, fantastic song, sums up what most people think,
I really dont mind people coming here to live, find shelter, find work and bring their culture, but, remember it's England,lets remember our history and celibrate it.
MrStoatman 7 months ago
@MrStoatman It is actually "We've lost St George IN the Union Jack." Different meaning.
Svenkrone 7 months ago
People get upset about Islamification, but that's a joke - Muslims aren't trying to turn the country to Islam. Americanisation is the problem.
Karateworm 7 months ago
How come so many people reply about migrants? This sound has nothing to do with immigrants. It's about native English culture.
At no point does this song attempt to "blame" the "loss of culture" on migrants.
It's a message to the English (whoever they may be) not to neglect their roots.
Svenkrone 8 months ago 25
@Svenkrone
Because England is being swamped with immigrants, our people and culture are being replaced with mass immigration, if we were native Indians we'd get sympathy but because we're white we're branded racists. We have the right to a culture and identity.
JohnPurchaseArt 6 months ago 2
@Svenkrone I agree with you. The only thing he says about other cultures is that they remember their own cultural sings were as the English dont. Saying that the other cultures have got it right with remembering their songs in their culture. Awesome song and a valid point.
odiebarsanti 5 months ago
@Svenkrone In my experience, immigrants are not the ones who run down or try to suppress English culture, either in England or in Canada. It's a bunch of daft White 'liberals' who think all nationalism is bad and use the presence of immigrants in our countries as an *excuse* for suppressing our traditions.
Oswulf1 5 months ago 16
@Oswulf1 Depends on the "immigrant" from my point of view.
Yes I agree England's biggest enemy are born in England.They may well be English by birth but not by heart nor belief.This land is nothing more than a "Gypsy caravan park" to them and all surrounding them not of them.
I'm ENGLISC an older name of my of my people the English.
Our duty is to protect our people and land from enemy's within and without regardless of their place of birth,race or creed.
One of Warren Smashes mate eh?
ENGLISHDOGSOLDIER 3 months ago
@Svenkrone A lot of us posting about immigrants here care for our roots, which are being destroyed pretty quickly by a combination of EU laws, immigration and a loss of beliefs and morals.
ImperialLobster 5 months ago
@Svenkrone
hear hear
toobshmoob 5 months ago
Respond to this video... I just hope that was a folk festival and not a BNP rally. It's all about the context ;)
toobshmoob 5 months ago
@toobshmoob English nationalism is NOTHING to do with the BNP it's in the spelling!
English nationalist v British Nationalist.
It's not hard if you try is it???
ENGLISHDOGSOLDIER 3 months ago
@ENGLISHDOGSOLDIER You are obviously not reading the spelling mate.
English is NOT British how hard is that to understand?
The BNP are 100% pro British union.ENGLISH NATIONALIST want an end to the "Jockoracy" we have been living under since the act of Union.
Britain can kiss my English arse as can the BNP.
ENGLISHDOGSOLDIER 3 months ago
Also, heaven forbid, people might enjoy watching Sky Sports in a pub. Whats the point here- that people should be forced to listen to folk music?
Svenkrone 8 months ago
@Svenkrone only just heard this song this morning, but bought a tear my eye. As for your point why should people like me have to sit in souless pubs where the baseball capped majority listen to mindless beats,auto tuned pop crap, spewing obsenities out of their mouths with visual distraction on a 50" wide screen because they can't hold a conversation without using their fists, not really a folk fan or a sports fan, but this song has some real truth in it. Shame on us all : (
WongFeiFox 7 months ago
Why all the fucking whining? Over a quarter of a million hits on this video would suggest folk music is as strong as ever.
Svenkrone 8 months ago
The majority of shots in this video were shot in my hometown. Every time I listen to it makes me think of home! ...And the sadness of my generation :(
thesamcroninproject 8 months ago
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my 3 year old is a great fan of Show of Hands. The Galway Farmer, Roots and Port Isaac are her favourites ("that one again mummy"). There is hope!
helsbelscc2 8 months ago
my 3 year old is a great fan of Show of Hands. The Galway Farmer, Roots and Port Isaac are her favourites ("that one again mummy"). There is hope!
helsbelscc2 8 months ago
@helsbelscc2 good for her.
Thisbloodypave 7 months ago
GREAT song!
MrMusic44yay 8 months ago
I love this song... I hate it whenever a pub closes... Also hate tvs in pubs and how the right wing have taken the St George's cross. I feel guilty if I wave it because to many racist skin head thugs have decided that to be patriotic you have to hate people who look different to you. There is no "indigenous" English people, I mean come on we have been invaded enough times, but that doesn't mean there isn't an English heritage which I am proud of. In our folk music etc it lives on!
GoblinJuiceII 8 months ago 3
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Our wonderful folk music will always LIVE ON!!!
Abredan 8 months ago
I weep.
TheMetalPenguin 8 months ago
@TheMetalPenguin Me too my friend!
yorkie6687 8 months ago
Nice song :D ... just a quick mention though MUSE happen to be a uk band ... Justin bieber and american rap are not the only things the steryotypical UK knows
TheRatFromHell 8 months ago
This is the best song. Sums up pretty much everything I feel about this country, were losing everything, beautiful country pubs shutting, cafe's opening, it's a sorry sight
al24121989 9 months ago
Love this song
LundyIsle 9 months ago