Enough holiday snaps Bruce.....!

I agree with everyone else, its UnEnglish in the extreme.

Theres this bit in King Lear, where Kent has been trying to reason with the daft old bugger. Lear snarls, On your allegiance!
Poor old Kent has to fall down to his knees to show how he subordinates himself to his monarch and what he says is not treasonable.

Do we really need all this bollocks in today's world. A lot of people don't even have allegiance to the sex they are born into, let alone the queen and the duke.

I think we have moved on, and we don't need to plant bombs and declaim oaths to prove how devout we are about our country and its spiritual life - we are more sophisticated. Those of us with a bit of sense, value what we've got. Enough said.

I suspect most of us would fight and die for our freedoms, but lets not get prissy about it. perhaps we wouldn't. In any case we don't want the nobs PRESUMING that we will, and starting wars willy nilly.