Happy St George’s Day
I bet many of you haven’t realised that it’s St George’s Day today. For some reason there is huge amount of publicity about other countries national days but not much for the English one.
So dig that flag out from last year and stick it in your window or on your car.
If you are reading this in a place other than England or you aren’t English or don’t consider yourself English then please ignore this public announcement.
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April 23, 2012 at 01:36 -
There was a time when the British were British and the rest of the world was foreign.
No need for regular waving of ritual flags – and now it is England down to just this one.
And next – just a web site?-
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April 23, 2012 at 19:25 -
But now, according to our ruling elite, the British are diverse & multicultural and the English are foreign…
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April 23, 2012 at 05:50 -
I’ve got a day off to help out at my mother’s active age club’s annual St George’s Day Party. Lots of flags will be flown
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April 23, 2012 at 05:58 -
I know it is St. George’s Day……..and accordingly will be sitting down at a black tie dinner on Friday.
Does anybody else out there despise the use of the pejorative, ‘Little Englander’ epithet?
It sickens me – and I pull up anyone who uses it.
If it wasn’t for ‘little Englanders’ the world would be a far worse place.
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April 23, 2012 at 07:13 -
A fair point. Think of modern India with its legal system, laws of contract, railways, abolition of wife murder and now really successful economy etc thanks to the little Englanders of the nineteenth century.
Now think of the culturally authentic indigenous people’s culture that is Afghanistan that the little Englanders never quite managed to supress.
If it’s worth celebrating anywhere, they should hoist some flags in Bombay.
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April 23, 2012 at 09:09 -
There was a comment made by the President of Georgia a few years ago that he wished his country had been part of the British Empire, because then he would have no problems trying to explain the benefits of a judicial system that operated without fear or favour.
I don’t think we should regard ourselves as inherently better than anybody else – we aren’t, but we have made our contribution to the betterment of human existence in many parts of the globe over the last few centuries, and I don’t think we should be apologising for it.
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April 23, 2012 at 11:07 -
It’e very true – all the time we (as in “England”) have to apologise for all our sins against other nations, the wonderful things we have done are not celebrated. EG – It is also Shakespeare’s birthday today, the one artist of all media who has best covered the human condition in all its various manifestations.
I’d also add all the sports we gave the rest of the world – Football. Cricket & Rugby, and with them the ideal of sportsmanship – a good one, however cynical you may be.
What is English? My Father was brought up in Dublin until the age of 10; my mother’s side from Cornwall way back, which has never considered itself to be part of England. Yet having spent my life here, my culture is English (not British, whatever that is), and I like it.
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April 23, 2012 at 11:35 -
It is also the anniversary of Shakespeare’s death strangely enough!
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April 24, 2012 at 01:05 -
It’s also almost always misused. The term was coined to describe empire doubters who wished for less English (or British) involvement overseas.
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April 23, 2012 at 09:10 -
Save it up for the Last Night of the Proms – then make the BBC really suck it up….
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April 23, 2012 at 11:22 -
Happy St George’s day. Radio Scotland has mentioned it loads this morning. They even had a phone in about national identity for the occasion.
You should be proud of who you are. After all you cannot change it. Your language is spoken the world over & your sense of law, justice & government has changed the free world for the better.
Pride in your past, culture and achievements should fill your heart. Such a small country has achieved much. Ignore these multiculturalist muppets who only think cultural identity is only positive if you are an ethnic minority from the barbaric third world.
If possible, we in Scotland, would appreciate it if you could be a bit shit at football in future.
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April 23, 2012 at 11:53 -
………and rugby!
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April 23, 2012 at 11:55 -
St. George? That Plantagenet Euro import foisted on us by a conquering lot of French speaking bully boys and found also in Milan and Venice and such like. Some of us would like to see The White Dragon, and Hwat to you too.
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April 23, 2012 at 14:40 -
I have been sporting my red rose buttonhole today. I work in The City and must have walked past over a thousand people. I’ve only seen two others doing the same. Patriotism and national pride would seem to be close to extinction in England.
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April 23, 2012 at 15:52 -
London is neither Britain nor England
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April 23, 2012 at 16:45 -
Great comments here & yes, a glorious History mostly beneficial to the World
But we were vastly different people then. I could go on but would be preaching to the converted.
Where are the Etruscans today?
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April 23, 2012 at 17:43 -
Hmmm. You, and many like you, seem to miss the point that If you are a Scot or an Irish person in England, you might want to gather with some people of similar background at least one day a year. Pubs and hotels all capitalise on that. Ever witnessed St Patrick’s Day in Ireland? A very drab affair. St Andrew’s Day in Scotland? Similarly drab. It’s the Americans who have capitalised on the St. Patrick’s day hoohah to the point where real Irish people will not go near it with a barge pole.
Frankly, All those St. George’s flags scare me. I don’t like flags, but the St. George’s one seems to be flown mainly by football thugs and EDL/UKIP rightwingers. Of course, the right is in a state of perpetual victimhood, so St George’s day is being done down in comparison to other Saint’s days. It is not so, gentle readers, it is not so. If you want your St. George’s day to resemble the Saint’s Day’s in the other countries, well, it already does. Of course, you *could* always go and live in another country and boost St. George’s Day while you are there… that would suit you, wouldn’t it?-
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April 23, 2012 at 18:41
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April 23, 2012 at 18:12 -
England doesn’t really need a patron saint because God is English , isn’t She?
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April 23, 2012 at 22:12 -
Nope, I won’t be displaying this flag in my car today or any other day until the sands of time run out, lest I am thought to be a fan of football.
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April 24, 2012 at 00:47 -
I bet many of you haven’t realised that it’s St George’s Day today. For some reason there is huge amount of publicity about other countries national days but not much for the English one.”———————–Stop whining
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April 24, 2012 at 09:55 -
My wife and I opened a bottle of wine with our evening meal and toasted the memory and spirit of St George. Then we remembered it was also the birthday of William Shakespeare. So we opened another bottle!
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