England fail miserably again in a major tournament despite having 'the best league in the world'. One can't help but notice that silly-money signings have done little to bolster the English national squad. Here's some examples gleaned from Jambo Kickback:
James Milner - £24 million
Ashley Young - £18m Wayne Rooney - £27m
Andy Carroll - £33m
On the other hand...
Andrea Pirlo - 12m in 2001 and a free last season.
Despite yon £33m, it's strange that Carroll wasn't trusted with a penalty kick?
How long before the EPL does a "Rangers"? Or to put it in a different and economic-politico context... 'a city of London'?
Fortunately, Scotland remains a Jubilee-frei zone save for two street parties in parts of Edinburgh that could be described as 'middle-class English ghettos' and where people tend to pronounce words like 'clear' as 'klee-ah'. Add to that, some Orange Order events in Glasgow that have been subsidised by the local, newly vibrant yet still stuck in the pastLabour Party - "we like things just the way they are, thanks" - and that more or less is the sum of things.
On the face of things, its been good year for Tories and Unionists to 'celebrate' their Britishness - not just the Queen's expensive shindig but the whole Team GB facade to give us something else to 'unite around'. There's also been the righteous indignation at Argentina making headway on re-gaining the Malvinas. On the downside, bankrupt Britain's debt continues to grow and the mother of fuckups parliaments in Lon-done continues to be mired in sleaze and corruption.
So, here's some art, starting above with Gee Voucher's classic 'Sex Pistols' montage for the Crass release Christ - The Album . That surely has be followed up by a re-visit to Laibach's excellent rendition of GSTQ in the form of 'Anglia'.
Am not sure of the original source of this but... who would've thunk it? Royal Family links to Nazis and Germans!
It also transpired that some awrslicker academics in Glasgow managed to superimpose the Queen's head onto a grain of rice or something of that ilk. The Japanese have done one better than that though. They've produced the world's first Royal Wankmachine. Why waste energy choking yon Bishop of Canterbury when the Queen can give you 'head' so to speak...
Er... sorry. I forgot that in the days of that Queen, Great Britain was a land of huge disparity between rich and poor, ruled by rich Eton-educated white men.
