Anthony Barnett (London, OK): "There are no plans to introduce a national day at the present time" Michael Wills has stated in a parliamentary answer reported in today's Telegraph.
Shadow justice secretary Nick Herbert said: "First a national motto, then an oath of allegiance, now a patriotic day - one token initiative after another in Gordon Brown's Britishness agenda has sunk without trace".
Without trace may be optimistic. But with Wills defending the database state on yesterday's Panorama programme how much of Brown's Green Paper agenda for restoring trust in politics can survive?
Oops: oh dear, the denial has been denied, it's on again and we are not to confuse being comotose with rigor mortis - thanks for the comments and see also Rumbold - silver? perhaps there is a case for uranium.
