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Is God save the Queen Great Britains National Anthem ?

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Is God save the Queen Great Britains National Anthem ?

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God Save the Queen/King is the national anthem of the United Kingdom. England has no official national anthem, though at various sporting events, the following are used: God Save the Queen – football, rugby union Jerusalem – cricket Land of Hope and Glory – rugby league (but used God Save the Queen until 2005) The matter has been discussed in Parliament, with a Tory MP siging an Early Day Motion in 2008 caling for Jerusalem to be made the English anthem. In 2007, Greg Mulholland, Lib Dem, Leeds North West, signed an EDM calling for a new “English” song to be composed and adopted as the English anthem, and again in 2008 asked for the England Rugby league team to replace God Save the Queen with an English song at the next World Cup. My problem with “Jeruslam” as a national anthem is that it is too closely associated with the Conservative Party (their traditional end of conference song). “Land of Hope and Glory” harks back to empire too much, and its lyrics extol the virtues of it, and ad

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