[单项选择]Perhaps we could have our children pledge allegiance to a national motto. So thick and fast tumble the ideas about Britishness from the Government that the ridiculous no longer seems impossible. For the very debate about what it means to be a British citizen, long a particular passion of Gordon Brown, brutally illustrates the ever-decreasing circle that new Labour has become. The idea of a national motto has already attracted derision on a glorious scale-and there’s nothing more British than the refusal to be defined. Times readers chose as their national motto: No motto please, we’ re British.
Undaunted, here comes the Government with another one: a review of citizenship, which suggests that schoolchildren be asked to swear an oath of allegiance to the Queen. It would be hard to think of something more profoundly undemocratic, less aligned to Mr. Brown’s supposed belief in meritocracy and enabling all children to achieve their full potential. Today you will hear the Chancellor pr
A. It is more or less paradoxical and satirical.
B. It has been accepted by the whole nation.
C. It shows a refusal of the definition of Britishness.
D. It displays the nature of British values.