British Values

[muuranker]

ExMemSec just asked me if I could name the 'five British values' (according to HM Government).

Let's see if I can still do the LJ cut thing, so you don't have to read what they are, until you've thought for yourself (see value 3 below)

Comments

[rustica]

I tried to work out what the 5 British (well, strictly speaking, probably English) virtues might be, never having heard of such a concept. I came up with

- Tea
- Apologising (including to inanimate objects)
- Cynicism
- Homosexuality*
- Not Mentioning The War

I have just been eating raw garlic from the jar (it's wonderful; you should try it) so I am feeling very tolerated right now thanks to your post ;-)

* or is that a vice? I get those mixed up.

[muuranker]

My lovely boss once told me to drink a tea made with raw garlic, grated ginger and lemon. I felt very ill before, and afterwards very ill with a new edge after.

The English/British thing struck me, too. For me, English is a subset of British, the way British is a subset of both European and Commonwealth.

[rustica]

Ugh. I can't tolerate ginger nowadays except in very small quantities, so that tea would have made me horribly ill too, and I don't reckon the other ingredients would have helped either.

[wellinghall]

Your number four should have had rum and the lash alongside it

[muuranker]

I got a bit confused, and thought that 'your number four' was 'my number four'. I thought perhaps you meant that the British DID invent cuisines, and that rum and the lash was an example.

I think actually it does count as an example of my number four. It's a demonstrably effective management system. Probably only works in a limited cultural context, though. Rather like Quality Circles.