I guess this is a good example of Billy's later-developed sense of Englishness and his attempt to reclaim nationalism from the right (something that has attracted the ire of a lot of socialists and certainly contradicts the line in his version of 'The Internationale': "...and end the vanity of nations; we've got one earth on which to live").
The only line that I didn't get at first was "Gilbert and George are taking the piss, aren't they?". After looking into it, it turns out Gilbert and George are a pair of artists with openly conservative, Thatcherite and monarchist views. I'm not sure if there's something in particular they said or did that got Billy's blood up, but if anyone knows it'd be nice to hear.
I guess this is a good example of Billy's later-developed sense of Englishness and his attempt to reclaim nationalism from the right (something that has attracted the ire of a lot of socialists and certainly contradicts the line in his version of 'The Internationale': "...and end the vanity of nations; we've got one earth on which to live").
The only line that I didn't get at first was "Gilbert and George are taking the piss, aren't they?". After looking into it, it turns out Gilbert and George are a pair of artists with openly conservative, Thatcherite and monarchist views. I'm not sure if there's something in particular they said or did that got Billy's blood up, but if anyone knows it'd be nice to hear.