The Empire has gone too, along with the belief that one Englishman was worth three Germans or four Belgians or whatever
jingoistic nonsense we cared to invent.
It's an annual event in patriotism without ever being embarrassing or
jingoistic.
Jingoistic England football fans who, like Basil Fawlty, are fond of mentioning "the War".
Also, they are
jingoistic, the full quote as I remember it from my school days being ``We don't want to fight, but by jingo if we do...'' An unfortunate choice of epithet considering the war talk to which we are now daily subjected by his political master in Downing Street.
If we are having a new civic car it should be made in Britain." But the Labour leader of the city council, Coun Jon Holmes - who drives a Mercedes - said: "If we followed Coun Jame s's
jingoistic 'Buy British' line we would restrict ourselves to buying a Morgan, a TVR or a three-wheeler Reliant for the Mayoral car."
"It's a classic example of a Labour politician just not getting some of things people like to do to celebrate culture and identity and a great British institution." The BBC-backed concerts, which run for two months and last year attracted a record crowd of 272,000, culminate with Union Jack flag waving and renditions of
jingoistic songs such as Rule Britannia.
Quote: ``I don't want to be involved in anything that's
jingoistic or sensationalistic.
THANK heaven that all this
jingoistic flag wavingseems to over and done with - for the time being at least.
The Master of the Queen's Music, Dr Malcolm Williamson, would also like to see changes to the anthem, which was written as a
jingoistic rooaiser as George II's troops fought Bonnie Prince Charlie's army in 1745.
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JINGOISTIC spat has broken out over Bank of England plans to put the face of Scottish economist Adam Smith on the back of its new pounds 20 note.
But in the case of the Italians, they are already stereotyping themselves without any help at all from a
jingoistic English press.
I DO not begrudge Barry Davies a deserved retirement - he was more than a decent football commentator - but I take issue with his remarks about so-called
jingoistic commentary.
