North Of Heaven

"If y'want the position o' God, then tek t'responsibilty."

Stephen Baxter

"LOTS of planets have a North..!"

Only in the North, and in Northern people and in Northern Hearts have I ever encountered have I ever encountered actual Englishness, the much-vaunted, much-lauded "British Values", Loyalty and Quiet Pride, Modesty, Warm Humour and Wit, genuineness, radicalism and agitation, GOTH, a sense of self, place and nation, bravery, stoicism and cheek.

They are our best and only Tribe of unrepentant patriots - but their loyalty, always is only to The Nation, and it's People, and to the story of this land.

Not to The Court.

Not to the usurped and tainted Crown or its office-holders, Mistresses and Favourites, Viscountesses, false-pretending Pomp and Circumstance 

Not to the Privy Councillors and Toilet-Room Toadies in WestMinster

Not to The City, it's Banks and Guilds and Corporation or Toxic (Human) Assets.

And not to the bloody BBC LicenseFree Enforcement and Revenue Recovery Unit - Jog on, pal.

It's Grim Up North

by The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu

Bolton,

Barnsley,

Nelson,

Colne,

Burnley

Bradford,

Buxton,

Crewe,

Warrington,

Widnes,

Wigan,

Leeds,

Northwich,

Nantwich,

Knutsford,

Hull,

Sale,

Salford,

Southport,

Leigh,

Derby,

Kearsley

Keighley

Maghull,

Harrogate,

Huddersfield,

Oldham, Lancs,

Grimsby,

Glossop,

Hebden Bridge,

It's Grim Up North,

It's Grim Up North.

Brighouse,

Bootle,

Featherstone,

Speke,

Runcorn,

Rotherham,

Rochdale,

Barrow,

Morecambe,

Macclesfield,

Lytham St. Annes

Clitheroe,

Cleethorpes,

The M62,

It's Grim Up North,

It's Grim Up North.

Pendlebury,

Prestwich,

Preston,

York,

Skipton,

Scunthorpe,

Scarborough-on-Sea,

Chester,

Chorley,

Cheedle Hulme,

Ormskirk,

Accrington Stanley,

and Leigh,

Ossett,

Otley,

Ikley Moor,

Sheffield,

Manchester,

Castleford,

Skem,

Doncaster,

Dewsbury,

Hali-fax,

Bingley,

Bramall,

Are all in the North.

EARTH + AIR + FIRE + WATER

And did those feet in ancient time
Walk upon England's mountains green?
And was the holy lamb of god
On England's pleasant pastures seen?

And did the countenance divine
Shine forth upon our clouded hills?
And was Jerusalem built here
Amongst these dark satanic mills?

Bring me my bow of burning gold
Bring me my arrows of desire
Bring me my spear, o clouds unfold!
Bring me my chariot of fire.

I will not cease from mental fight
Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand

Till we have built :

JERUSALEM

In England's green and pleasant land.


THE NORTH SHALL RISE AGAIN