I’ve had a great St Georges Day.  I took the day off work – as I do every year – and had a busy day.
This morning I went and got my hair cut and saw lots of English flags on cars and houses and people wearing Cross of St George lapel badges.
I went to the [...]

Happy St Georges Day

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UKIP Telford & Wrekin Branch

Celebrating St Georges Day
on the evening of the 23rd April
at
The Telford White House Hotel
Watling Street
Wellington
Telford
TF1 2NJ
Tickets £12.50 each
Arrival 7.00 – 7.15 Meal 7.30pm
Ends around 10.30pm
Brass Band
Meal
Fish & Chips and Mushy Peas
Apple Pie
This is the time to sing along let your hair down and have fun.
More importantly Fly the Flag
Please forward a [...]

The West Midlands edition of the Politics Show is covering Sandwell Council’s banning of their annual St Georges Day Parade.
Stone Cross St George Association, which runs the event, would like people to write in with their comments.  The programme starts at 12:30 today.
I’ve just sent the following:
Why isn’t Sandwell Council banning all other cultural events? [...]

I’d like to wish all my readers a Happy St Georges Day.

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Telford & Wrekin have confirmed that they will not be marking St Georges Day again this year.
I spoke to them today to find out what they were planning after hearing a couple of councillors at the recent Telford & Wrekin Question Time event saying how pleased they were to be marking Chinese New Year and [...]

I’m off to the pub shortly for a St Georges Day drink with a colleague, I’ve taken the day off work and we’re having a BBQ later.
The Monty Python’s Spamalot the Musical is attempting to break the world record for the largest coconut orchestra in the world.
Staff at Lion Insulation in Kent have been given [...]

There is a poll on the BBC News website asking if St Geroges Day should be a public holiday or not.
The poll currently stands at 85.78% in favour with 4,994 votes.

However, it wouldn’t be the BBC without a bit of anti-English bias – despite 4,280 votes in favour of a St Georges Day public holiday, out of all [...]

Seeing as how St George is under threat once again from the sandals and socks brigade, perhaps this might help …
Our patron, who art in England, St George be thy name, thy kingdom come, England will become, devolved as it is in Scotland.
Give us this day a hospital bed, and forgive those who discriminate against us.
Break [...]

An bunch of god-botherers and navel-gazing, beared, lentil eating, hemp wearing lefty liberal apologists have decided that St George is just too offensive and needs to be reinvented so that he’s more inclusive.
A report called “When The Saints Go Marching Out: Redefining St George For A New Era” says:
“It is time that St George was reclaimed [...]

The Prime Ministers petitions website has a petition for St Georges Day to be made a public holiday.
The petition is here.

Britains most senior muslim police officer (someone actually has a league table?), Assistant Commissioner Tarique Ghaffur, has submitted plans to the Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, to make flag burning a crime.
This is to help the police deal with violent protests apparently.  I thought waving burning rags in a crowd of people was something the police [...]

Patricia Hewitt and John Reid have suggested that England should have a national Shakespeare day just like North Britain’s Burns Night.
They’ve suggested April 23rd as a suitable date which, coincidently, is the date of St Georges Day.
So, if the British government are happy to have April 23rd as a special occassion to celebrate Shakespeare then [...]