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When Scotland’s football team takes the pitch, it’s to the dulcet tones of “Flower of Scotland.” When the Welsh team is playing, the sound system belts out “Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau,” though even Welsh politicians sometimes have trouble with the lyrics.And for the English? It’s “God Save the Queen,” which embraces all of Great Britain (and beyond).Labour MP Toby Perkins says it’s time England got a national anthem just for the English.”It has often seemed incongruous to me that when England has played against other home nations [that make up the British union] on the football or rugby field that, while the Welsh or Scots sing an anthem that reflects their nation’s identity, England should sing about Britain,” he said in Parliament this week. “It reflects a sense that we see Britain and England as synonymous. This not only denies us English an opportunity to celebrate the nation that is being represented but is also a cause for resentment amongst other countries within the British Isles who feel that England have requisitioned a British song.”

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