I quite like the star spangled banner as it goes.
Though Mae Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau is the best. I’ve been to International rugby matches in Cardiff, and 75,000 Welshmen pounding that out is spine-tingling indeed. Very jealous of the Welsh when it comes to songs.
And I'd like it, too, if it would just go away.;)
"God Bless America", and "Oh, Beautiful for Spacious Skies" are so much more fitting, not to mention that most people can actually sing them.;p)
All joking aside, you face somewhat of the same problem we have in Texas. You're being overrun by immigrants who will never be English. They don't want to be, instead, the parasites want to change their host country into the third world hellholes that they left.
Half the immigrants here are illegal wetbacks, and our Republican 'conservatives' (who are kinda sorta like the British Tories) don't want to do anything about it. This mass illegal immigration across our southern border, which most of our politicians, including Jorge Bush II, is bleeding our tax-payed hospitals and tax-payed social services, and Washington won't do a thing about about it.
Although, to be fair, Bush II and the ultra corrupt liberal Ted Kennedy DID propose a ridiculous 'amnesty' bill this year, which would have only rewarded the millions of illegal Mexicans for breaking our laws. After massive, huge phone calls, letters, and protests, the amnesty bill sunk like a lead ballon.
The problem seems to be that if you've let millions of little illegal camels into your tent over the last umpteen years, how in the hell can you kick all of them and their American-born babies out now?
The joke for years is that Bush's Homeland Security doesn't mean a thing if any Arab terrorist can easily cross our Southern border by blending in with the north-bound illegals Mexicans. We protect our airports, while our huge southern border is wide open.
Pardon me for the rant, and now I'll try to climb off my soapbox.:)