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April 26, 2005
St George's Day
With quite a lot on my plate at the moment, I sort of lost sight of my intention to flag up St George again! At least I wore a rose and marked the day myself - and in common with the vast majority of people in and around Tewkesbury, Cheltenham, and Gloucester! At least in the West we have not forgotten our Patron Saint.
It is good to see so many people now flying the English Flag - often in defiance of the Council Planning Officers who scurry about demanding the removal of flags and flag poles as they may cause offence. I was gratified to hear one busybody being told in Gloucester to make themselves scarce and shut their "gob" before they found themselves decorating the top of the pole, flag and all! Even better, the idiot was wearing a Labour Party badge. My cup ran over for a while there!
Scotland celebrates St Andrew, the Welsh celebrate St David, and the Irish, St Pat, but anyone in England wanting to celebrate St George is promptly told "it's nothing special" and that Chinese New Year, Diwali, Eid, St David, St Andrew, or any other "ethnic" minority group is more important than the celebration of our "oppressive" past. Thus it was gratifying to find that most of the pubs in my area at least have, in defiance of the Licencing Authority" done something to mark the occassion, as have almost all the parish churches.
Whatever Mr Blair and his thoroughly discredited bunch of parasitic cronies say, the English are slowly beginning to get annoyed at having their history, traditions, and culture torn apart and destroyed by his aparatchiks. He should take care; the last time they got this annoyed they decorated a lot of bridges, borders, and buildings with the heads of those who annoyed them!
Posted by The Gray Monk at April 26, 2005 10:38 AM