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SONGS OF DIS-PRAISE: BBC Producer Brands Patriots ‘Nazis’ In Rule Britannia Row 

A PUBLICLY Funded and BAFTA winning Songs of Praise producer branded Patriotic Brits “Nazi’s” after they voiced anger at the BBC’s ban on patriotic songs on the Last Night of the Proms. 

Cat Lewis who is the Executive Producer of the BBC’s long-running Songs of Praise religious programme made the remarks on Twitter, and as you can guess… it did not go down well. 

The BBC luvvie asked: Do those Brits who believe it’s ok to sing an 18th Century song about never being enslaved, written when the UK was enslaving and killing millions of innocents, also believe it’s appropriate for neo-Nazis to shout, “We will never be forced into a gas chamber.” #RuleBritannia” 

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The astonishing remark sparked a major backlash among right-wing Twitter in which she was branded a “backwards thinking lemon”. 

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Foxy Tweets said: “I see this thread went well for you. Thankfully, there aren’t many backward thinking lemons like you.”

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Former Brexit Party MEP and regular Jeremy Vine panellist Martin Daubeny gave Lewis a history lesson. 

He said: “Cat * From 1807-1869 the Royal Navy waged war on the slave trade.”

“The West Africa Squad seized 1800 slave vessels, freeing 150,000 African slaves.”

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“In 25 yrs 1587 British sailors died, Britannia helped end slavery! This song rightly marks that.” 

Another said: “As a British person who’s grandmother was a survivor of the holocaust, you disgust me. Don’t you dare compare that song to what my grandmother and my family went through.” 

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Another wrote: “What are you talking about?? My husband is Jewish and you should have seen his face when I showed him this. We will, as a family, be watching the proms and will sing extra loud”

Whilst one Polish Brit said: “I’m fine with this song, being Polish British. I’m also a granddaughter of somebody who died in a Nazi concentration camp and I find your comparison deeply offensive to my grandfather’s memory and millions like him.”

Her comments came as Prime Minister Boris Johnson attacked the BBC for being “Cringe” over the ban.

He told reporters during a business trip: “I was going to tweet about this. I just want to say and they’re trying to restrain me from saying this but if it is correct which I cannot believe it really is.”

“If it is correct that the BBC is saying that they will not sing the words of Land of Hope and Glory and Rule, Britannia! as they traditionally do at the end of Last Night of the Proms.”

“I think it’s time we stopped our cringing embarrassment about our history, about our traditions, about our culture and we stop this general bout of self-recrimination and wetness.”

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