Andy Murray wins tennis Olympic gold with straight-sets destruction of Roger Federer
The Team GB effect has given Andy Murray wings. At Wimbledon today he pulled off one of the most extraordinary results of the modern era, as he destroyed Roger Federer – the king of Centre Court – by the scarcely believable scoreline of 6-2, 6-1, 6-4, to claim a deserved Olympic gold medal.
I don’t think anyone can deny that being on ‘Home ground’ has given Team GB a massive boost and encouragement to reach just that little bit further.
Perhaps when the Games are over and the washup begins and a discussion of lessons learnt opens one for the BBC might be that people are unaccountably attached to their own country or nation, they are proud to be British and proud of British history.
The BBC might reconsider its relentless attempts to malign British history and the culture and historic events that moulded the national character that is so often denied by the Left for their own reasons of ‘Internationalism’.
There still is a national character despite Labour’s imposition of alien cultures upon the country in its attempt to wipe out ‘Britishness’…and all cheered on by the BBC.
Parliamentary democracy did not just happen, the legal system did not just happen, a mainly safe and peaceful nation did not just happen, an NHS, a welfare system, an unarmed police force, a separation of Church and State…all did not just happen. They were the result of hundreds of years of social, cultural, and industrial, scientific and political development…they were the result of conscious efforts by men who wanted to improve life for everyone…and not just in Britan.
Many of these developments have been ‘exported’…often as a result of the British Empire…..it is about time the BBC started to give more time to the good things that have been done in Britain’s name and in her wake….it is time perhaps to stop imposing modern values upon much older societies and judging them for actions that were entirely normal in their own time.
Winston Churchill once described democracy as `the worst form of government, except for all those other forms’.
The BBC should consider the wisdom of that and the several hundred years of history that such a statement is based upon before it gives its unalloyed support to a rabble of Marxist internationalists who proclaim they are from ‘Occupy’ and that…”To do what needs to be done, we must make good use of the actual revolutionary approach of Marx.”
Marx wanted to arm the workers and shoot those who didn’t comply….is Occupy turning to terrorism?
Furthermore, the BBC’s pet project : ALL IS WONDERFUL IN PAKISTAN seems to becoming unstuck as their team is not living up to the heroic expectations the BBC would have had us believe.
Love it!
This fantastic Olympic week must have Labour scrambling back to the drawing board. so many of their “equality, diversity and cultural” stereotyped beliefs have been knocked down by this tremendous resurgence of national pride and success achieved despite 13 years of subversion. Anyone seen a Labourite lately? Wailing and gnashing their teeth no doubt, and saying “Curses Cameron and your Big Society!” it does exist after all.
How proud do we all feel right now?
Don’t worry – after the Olympics, it will be back to business as usual for Al-Beeb…
I think Labour will be pretty happy with the Olympics. Fantastic athletes like Mo Farah and Jessica Ennis have proven that multiculturalism works
Whilst those athletes did incredibly well, I’m not sure what their success has to do with the social, economic and practical aspects of multiculturalism?
The BBC/neo-Marxist wants us to wave a particular type of Union jack, to celebrate a certain type of Unionism; but through promoting this new trendy type of Lefty ‘Britishness’ I feel that they have misread the majority of the populace, who are, in fact, simply desperate to have the chance to be proud of their British heritage and traditions without fear of being branded racist. The majority are not waving the flag to celebrate Dizzee Rascal, or the Windrush or enforced diversity… we are celebrating who we are, where we have come from, what we have given to the world and our glorious history.
I think the surge in patriotism brought about by the sport will backfire on the Lefties… The Left/Marxists, including that unbearable little man, Alex Salmond, will be quietly wishing that the Olympics would just disappear.
“people are unaccountably attached to their own country or nation, they are proud to be British and proud of British history.”
No, no, no. That’s not what they’re supposed to be proud of. They’re supposed to be proud of a Britain held together by modern British, bien pensant-approved values: tolerance, diversity, equality, and the NHS. Yeah, there’s something about free speech, but you don’t really have it, do you? I threw in the NHS based on the Beeboid reaction to that part of the opening Olympic ceremony.
The British history you speak of is certainly not what makes the Beeboids proud.
After all the bitching:
We won’t be ready, Muslims at a disadvantage as its Ramadan, Not enough seats, Plastic Brits, Only Posh people do sports, where are the medals?, Only posh people win gold.
But something went wrong with the script as written by the ethical latte drinkers at the bBC, Instead of having nothing to be happy about . The British population has gone stupid in supporting the Olympics. Did you see how many people watched the Bike race and how many carried the Union Flag. We find that the British public have rallied around the UK team and cheered them on.
At every British gold presentation ceremony , the crowd have sung out loud “God save the Queen’ with pride. Yes Pride, something the bBC will defend is the right for all peoples bar one.
The left has had to change tack from attacking the British to supporting them. Oh they still come out with their backward ways. (The current one is MO the plastic Brit isn’t a refugee but rather somebody born in war torn Somalia who moved to England with his British father)
Oh lets make no bones about this, the Games have been a success , a much bigger success than the bBC and their ilk had hoped for. (You know they wanted it to fail) so over at the Guardian they are putting this down to all the hard work that Labour put into the games. But lets be honest here the reason why these games have been such a success is down to the shed loads on money spent on our athletes by the National Lottery. Now just who was it who set that in Motion? Why that would be boring John Major. Not Blair, Not Brown but Major.
Personally I think the biggest winner in all of this have been the British people who for the past fortnight have broken off the shackles of liberalism and its inane ability for self-deprecation and found something to enjoy. Something which under the remit of the left can only be wrong.
Thank you to the millions of British people who have enjoyed themselves these past few weeks.
Have to admit I do love hearing from the left how the British aren’t multicultural enough in certain fields:
bBC, Sport, Police,Army and the Olympic team.
Yet the team which is currently in second place all belong to a certain racial grouping. Even the hated US has a better mix than the Chinese and they don’t execute 100th of the people the Chinks do. Yet to the likes of the bBC, china is to be admired.
Sorry, but off topic: Have a read of this article, and the many others in the World News section of the BBC website. It concerns those evil Buddhists knocking down a Muslim shrine…. You see people, Muslims never knock
down shrines, burn churches or blow up all and everything… And, according to the BBC, the religion of peace has nothing to do with grooming either, unlike Christianity and Buddhism…
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-14926002
PS Couldn’t seem to find any links about Muslims throwing hand grenades through church windows, blowing up Buddhist statues or blowing up Hindu temples. Surprised? I’m not, this promotion of Islam as the only religion in the world is what I have come to expect from the pro-enricher BBC.
“Muslims are regarded as a separate ethnic group”? Or is that that the separate ethnic group are predominately Muslims? Thought processes need examining here.
Yes, good point David. Well spotted.
“The Sri Lankan Moors (commonly referred to as Muslims) are the third largest ethnic group in Sri Lanka comprising 10% of the country’s total population (approx. 2 million people in 2005). They are predominantly followers of Islam. The Moors trace their ancestry to Arab traders (Moors) who settled in Sri Lanka some time between the 8th and 15th centuries.”
-isn’t wiki a wonderful thing!
Actually there was one Labourite. Dame (how does that fit with equality and socialism) Jowell said she hoped “this government doesn’t squander Labours’ glorious Olympic legacy after the games”. Don’t worry pet, Labour’s Millenium dome legacy is a pop concert white elephant. Somehow I trust this government to do better with the legacy of 2012!
Something I wanted to say about Britishness during the World Soccer, but it’s relevant to mention now Labour/ BBC have been swampled by British pride. I was watching England playing soccer on the TV whilst awaiting my helping of fish and chips in the local chippy. In came a woman with a ten year old boy who was screaming and creating havoc. Mum quickly clipped his ear, saying shut up and sit still, which he did. She told him she was buying him chips but she would share her fish with him as she was hard up. She came over to me and asked about the match which she watched. Then she said: ‘I never watch football, but I’ll watch this ‘cos it is our country’. And I thought, all those BBC lectures on correct parenting, and rejection of British values, had failed.
Lessons learned? I prefer the phrase lessons identified.
And not a few moments ago we had the re-deification by the BBC of Mr Tony Blair. He was allowed, in a completely uncritical interview on the BBC, at a peak viewing point in the BBC’s coverage of the Olympics, to state that he had always maintained that sports in schools was an absolute necessity for us to support, and his demands that the current government immediately increase spending in this respect. He’s apparently just been appointed Labour’s envoy for sport as part of his re-instatement as a real statesman in British politcs (must be the country where he pays taxes on all of his income, then, no ?).
The hypocrisy of Tony Blair in this respect is matched only by the BBC’s own hypocrisy in not reminding him at any point of HIS government’s devastation of competitive sports in schools in so many ways.
Breathtaking.
But, Alan, by the title of your post you have fallen into the lefties’ trap of stopping people mentioning the name of our successful country – Great Britain – and replacing it by an amorphous and meaningless phrase (‘Team GB’).
Nicky Campbell is a useful weather vane of right-on Beeboid opinion – he considers buying a Big Mac as ‘going over to the dark side’.
This morning he shoots the breeze with a Guardian journo. Always important for the ‘men’s lightweights’ to keep up to speed with what they ought to be thinking.
Besides trying to re-inflate various failing left-wing memes, such as Cameron-sporting-jinx (see Guido Fawkes take down of that claptrap) she got in an early pro-SNP ‘just wait for pro-Union politicians to use “Team GB” as a campaign boost.
Talk about get your retaliation in first…..
Pack away those Union Jacks….normal BBC service will (soon) be resumed.
The BBC got their timing exactly right on questionning the number of golds won by athletes that had been privately educated ie before the athletics started.
I watched last night as Denise Lewis, Colin Jackson and Michael Johnson (with John Inverdale) commentated on the 100m and thought ‘why hasn’t the BBBC questioned why a greater proportion of black athletes represent Britain than the general population would suggest’ and then realised that the BBC would never ask it.
Separation of Church and State! You are not living in our world. There are still prayers before Council meetings, and no one seems to know how many votes the head of the Church, the Queen, would get if we had a proper election for the job. Freedom of religion? maybe. Freedom from religion? i.e. do it privately and not in anyone’s face … not quite there yet.