This is one such suggestion.

SING IT FOR ENGLAND

WHEN ENGLAND RULE THE WORLD

…there’s one runaway contender, presuming Cowell and Lloyd-Webber failed to find their anthem-factor. Jerusalem. Words by one of England’s greatest cultural figures, William Blake. Artist, poet, thinker. Music by an English composer. The words actually mention England. A bit too Christian? That might put off some, attract others. But of course the Jerusalem Blake was writing about was a better, brighter society we could call England. A bit political? Come off it, who doesn’t want a better England, the argument is only what we might mean by better.

A shame about the political message at the end (Enoch Powell I think) but hopefully it does not detract too much from the great music and video.

The BBC and Arts Council England have teamed up to commission a new anthem for England. The result is Sam Dunkley’s Made in England.

I am England, England is inside of me.
I am England, England is what I want her to be,
I am England, I am English, I am England to my core,
And wherever you may find me, you’ll find England.
England Forever More!
England, my England, she never lets me down,
Hustle bustle, urban tussle, dancing through the crowds,
Or out in the country, a fresh place for me to breathe,
England my England is always home to me!
Fish and chips in paper, with mushy peas,
Balti chicken, naan bread and onion bhajis,
A cup of tea and toast, roast beef and Yorkshire pudding,
Tastes of our culture, tastes like England to me!
Swing low sweet chariot, God Save The Queen!
Land of hope and glory and of pleasant mountains green,
England’s future, past and today live in our minds on St George’s Day,
England, England, my country!

The Daily Mail calls it ‘banal‘, Cranmer calls it ‘utterly banal‘ and Anthony Barnett says ‘ouch‘.

You can judge for yourself by listening to it here.

An Anthem for England. Obtained ‘honorable mention’ in Social/Political category of the 12th Annual Unisong International Song writing competition.

We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Let England have its own National anthem at sporting events.

Like Scotland & Wales let England have its own National anthem at sporting events. God save the queen to be sung when Great Britain take part in events. Let the good people of England sing out loud how proud they are of their country and of being English. The Scot`s and the Welsh do why can`t we!!??

The creator of this petition is Mr Mark Lloyd and the deadline to sign is 23 March 2010

I am slightly concerned to hear that the Prime Minister is running with the ball when we are talking about football rather than rugby. However, I put it to the hon. Gentleman and the Minister that whatever our views on Team GB—we have different ones here—we should address the absurdity of the Team GB football team singing “God Save the Queen”, which is, wrongly, still the English football national anthem. When will we address that and stop having this identity confusion? When England compete as England, they should have an English national anthem so that when a British team plays, we do not ask its Scottish and Welsh members to stand and sing what they perceive as an English anthem, which is absurd.

We now have the very real prospect of only English players playing for Team GB, and singing the de facto anthem of English football - God Save the Queen.

Does Gordon Brown honestly think that this will help his Britishness quest?