St George's Day - England's Day

Happy St. George's Day. My daughter has gone to school to celebrate with face painting and decorating biscuits. It's something she's been looking forward to. Children from all kinds of backgrounds will be joining in and having fun.

I really hope the people of England can now begin to realise that celebrating being English is as good as celebrating being Irish, Chinese or Caribbean. People from these lands know who they are and are justly proud of it. I've never heard anyone say there was anything suspect in a St. Patrick's Day parade. I wonder when we are going to have a St. George's Day parade. I bet if I asked for the streets of Birmingham to be cleared for a jolly flag-waving meandre through town some flinty-eyed pointy-head would react and say it would be a problem.

When the English Democrats launched their general election in Dartford, some fresh-faced copper lunged forward and started to suggest that the very sight of an English flag would be provocative (to some people he had in mind!). He tried to follow this line of argument, but was persuaded of his ridiculousness and he withdrew.

Isn't it a crying shame that the police, council officials and other such people are now infected with this crazed notion that to be English is somehow offensive. It isn't, but these political Pharisees are continuing to infect our politics, our country and who we are.

I want to see a new lot of MPs who will cast aside this political incorrectness and bring back common sense and decency. Being English is not about DNA mixtures but about a sense of values and of belonging. Those who impugn Englishness as they do are decidely not very English in their attitudes. In fact, it's all an alien doctrine they are trying to impose.

Tolerance and decency. That's being English. Ever known a politically correct apparatchik to be tolerant and decent?