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?

Happy St.George's Day!

Today is St.George's Day. I wonder how many people remembered. To be honest I nearly forgot, what with my mind on other things. Terrible, and me blogging on such things as an English parliament and constitutional fairness for the English and people of England.

I put it all down to the fact that we live in a society that doesn't feel at ease with such stuff. If I had my way today would be a public holiday. Scrap the May Day red flag nonsense of Old Labour and celebrate something worthwhile, honest and decent.

The BBC is doing its bit, but I see they have a picture of a man in a suit of armour dragging a dragon past Buckingham Palace. If that's the sort of publicity we need to raise awareness, so be it, but I would hope one day we can all look forward to a really fun day of celebration and national pride.

St.George and the New Dragons

Today is St.George's Day. I hope everyone will have a happy day. Of course, that depends if people remember. It is all too easy for the English to forget in their busy lives. After all, its a fairly muted affair. The BBC mentioned the day, but suggested that more people celebrate Guy Fawkes Night than bother with giving St.George much attention. He got the short straw in the patron saint stakes. Some wags have even suggested he didn't exist.

However, as the 21st Century dawned so too did a re-awakening in being English. What is so wrong in being proud of one's heritage, country and culture? Nothing! Everywhere else celebrates and has parties, so why not us?

Today in the Daily Mail, Justice Secretary Jack Straw bemoans the fact that right-wing groups have hijacked the flag. He says we should all be proud of the English flag and St.George's Day. He says they had a great party in Blackburn. Well OK Jack, good on you, but it's not as rosy as you paint the picture. Bradford Council, and their chums down at the police station, got into a hissy fit about it. Some silly talk of riots. And there's more across the country.

If Jack Straw wants England to celebrate England, let him apologise for New Labour. St.George still needs to slay a few dragons. New Labour dragons.

There are three lined up. Political correctness, political dissembling, and political unfairness. All three either pushed or condoned by the apparatchiks of the regime.

Political correctness - nothing correct about it, just political censorship basically.
Political dissembling - most of the Cabinet have taken truth-bending to the boundaries of direct lying.
Political unfairness - England gets the rough end of a devolution dog's dinner! And there's all the rest, like the 10p tax band, the post code lottery, and arbitrarily closing post offices.

St.George still has work to do. England has a good patron saint. We need to give him proper recognition!

See the website of The Royal Society of St.George

Political correctness breaks out in Bradford (again!)

Bradford Police in West Yorkshire have had a double dose of political correctness come their way. It seems they can't abide anything English. The gobbledegook stuff they come up with is "health and safety" when they succeeded in banning a St.George's Day parade. The mean-spirited plods, who were in collusion with the council chiefs (a bunch of ne'er-do-well plonkers), just rabbitted on about this one issue. Shame on them. Why don't they go to China to enjoy themselves?

Bradford City councillor Quasim Khan said, "We were told by the police at the meeting that the original route had not been risk assessed and if we wanted a march to go ahead on that date, St George's Day, we would have to accept a smaller, different route. The police officers were getting quite animated, saying things like 'look, this just isn't going to happen'." Police and council officials said they did not have sufficient warning of the event. Nonsense. Apparently these apparatchiks thought it would cause a race riot. What rubbish!

Are we living in England or in a police state that was once England? We need to get rid of these people before they make our lives more of a misery. This parade was supposed to bring the communities together. Now all it has done is spoil everything for children who were looking forward to dressing up and all the community groups who had planned to stage the multi-cultural event. 1,500 schoolchildren were due to take part. Not now.

Hey kids! The mean old spoilsports ruined your party.