Rule Britannia - Last Night of the Proms 2009

Rule Britannia as taken from the poem by James Thomson

Set to the music by Thomas Arne.

Conducted by American, David Robertson
Sung by Sarah Connolly

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[Crisp1987]

@95jjs You are right. I'd much rather decapitate our aristocracy like the French. Murder our way to power like the Russians. Have a holocaust like the Germans. Torture and execute at will like the US. Kill off millions in the name of revolution like the Chinese. Commit atrocities throughout the pacific like the Japanese. Why can't we have a Hitler? or a Castro? Napoleon, Franco, Mussolini, Stalin, Ghaddafi, Bin Laden, Vlad the Impaler? All those cool people and we have what? Magna Carta?

[BasilFawlty4444]

@CatorsCinema Yes, but the Commonwealth lives on.

And we have a proud maritime history!

If you came here to slag the country off, you can piss off.

[england1413]

@goodgirlkay are you joking? you stand and listen to your national anthem. we sing it. Watch English National Anthem Euro 96 that is an example of how proud we are. We do not need lessons in how to say "woo".

[flipmandem87]

@MarkramUK LOL yeah, after hundreds of years of raping, stealing and throwing them off in the atlantic! You have some nerve justifying UKs slavery because they decided that it was time Africans have had enough. What did you do then? The scramble of Africa. You sent companies to rule over civilizations and steal all their precious metals and resources! LOL

[MarkramUK]

@flipmandem87 Great Britain was the first country in the world to abolish slavery. All slaves under British control and any slaves captured from French ships were immediately set free.

[95jjs]

@manhunt48 Aye, great judgement!

[manhunt48]

@95jjs So all you can do is spam that 1 comment on all videos?. . . What a sad little troll you are.

[manhunt48]

@TRomecki94 It's an eight-week event in the summer season consisting of daily orchestral classical music concerts and other events. It's held annually, predominantly in the Royal Albert Hall in London.

[beechey145]

@SiriusRKW The UK's exports got us £244.5bn in 2008 alone, which is almost the same as Greece's GDP. You must have no idea what you're talking about.

Tourism counts for nothing now either? In 2005 we made £14.2bn from tourism.

If we're talking economy, let's talk debt. America's debt - £15tn, recoverable or not, thoughts?

I apologise for the very late response.

[beechey145]

@TheSaintAza Well said, that guy is just another arrogant American, I guess.

[TheSaintAza]

@goodgirlkay Britons are far more patriotic then you will ever know, jumping up and down screaming like a little girl isn't patriotism, look up the word.

[purplesiegfried]

@Crisp1987 Don't worry, you have genocide in Tasmania to be proud of!