BBC latest project: who can WE vote for ?

Auguste | 29.11.2001 17:13

The BBC has begun to cast around for nominations for whom they call "Breat Britons". I didnt take any notice until I saw thay were giving rather heavy handed "hints" for the "preferred bidders".

So heavy it could hardly be called subliminal. Essentially, establishment figures apply for the pst, Monty Python style, but they are the type only fit to cover banknotes : Scott of the Antarctic, Imperialist Queen Victoria, Issac Newton. Set incongrouously to the stains of a Great German Composer...
Question is, who could WE nominate ? Most activists who might appeal are either not sufficiently household names, or are simply not British (not enitirley clear how defined, that)! Winstanley, Ludd, Glyndwr, Tyler, a bit obscure, and other possible nominees are a bit to close to establishemnt histiriography, such as the Pankhursts. Frankly, Id rather nominate Mary Millington ! In fact I might...
But I think we need a tactical vote; we need someone who appears to be 'establishment' but who held quite radical views. I nominate John Milton, poet of the Republic, and perhaps only second to Shakespeare (himself a formidable political critic)

VOTE FOR JOHN MILTON !

Unless you can think of a better choice. probably can.

Auguste
Homepage: www.bbc.co.uk/greatbritons

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Sic . obviously "Great Britons"

29.11.2001 17:26

Auguste

vote 4

29.11.2001 17:47

ronald biggs !!!!!!!

ronnie

plenty to choose from

30.11.2001 00:51

I reckon Marie Stopes would have to be a contender. Or...what about Guy Fawkes? And who's that bloke who owns Harrods, the one whose son killed the princess - yeah him, I reckon he'd be a good nomination.

do they mean English by any chance...

30.11.2001 02:27

Hey,

what about the Pankhursts?

:-)

mustermann

Parkhurst (IOW) ?

30.11.2001 09:06

John lemon Paul macfartknee John Peel now there's a geezer who is something .......

Gale bird

nominationa

30.11.2001 12:40

i think it applies to anyone born in the british isles - does not have to be strictly english establishment.

i nominate james connolly, irish marxist leader of the easter rising - though i know he won't get in.

the problem is too many people see churchill as a great man and you just know he'll be pushing for the top, if not a certainty.

depends who votes i guess,

ben

ben

Dic Penderyn

30.11.2001 13:29

It's gotta be Dic Penderyn, iconic martyr of the Merthyr rising of 1831...and while we're at it he can have a pardon, too...160 years too late, but better late than never...

Jim
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VOTE FOR HARRY ROBERTS

30.11.2001 14:39

Shut up the lot of you there's only one person who deserves this prize and that's HARRY ROBERTS!

rebel

HARRY ROBERTS

30.11.2001 17:45

Totally! The Harry Roberts for 'Greatest Briton' campaign starts here!!! Tell everyone you know to cast their vote for this glorious example of what it means to be British!

And then fuck a pig!

Mrs Poopee

????

30.11.2001 20:04

who the fuck is harry roberts

!!!!!

We are many .....they are few

30.11.2001 20:57

Robin Hood, John Ball, Captain Swing, Rebecca, The Notts Captain, Jeremiah Brandreth, Shelley, John Frost, Tom Paine, John Lilburne, Percy Topliss, the unknown soldier, the unknown Digger, the unknown Leveller, the unknown peasant, the unknown Chartist, the unknown Suffragette, the unknown naval mutineer, the Tolpuddle Martyrs, the Peterloo martyrs,............we are many, they (heroes of the establishment) are few !

King Mob

Who is Harry Roberts/

01.12.2001 23:29

Who is Harry Roberts? England's greatest hat-trick hero that's who? Scoring three in the Cop end (not to be confused with Kop End) Harry Roberts sealed his place in sporting history by three superbly placed shots which threw the opposition into complete confusion. Harry's name could be heard on terraces throughout England right through the 1970's and beyond. They think it's all over? It's not yet!!!!!!

Beehive Skinhead.