Happy St Georges day!
As the Archbishop of York John Sentamu called for St George’s Day to be a public holiday to encourage national unity, poet Kate Fox recited a poem for BBC news on her thoughts about a day that few English people seem to celebrate.
Celebrate being English, don’t see it as our joke,
With our Saint - George, that Turkish bloke,
Fly the flag, it’ll be a new tonic for the English Royal Family, although they’re teutonic,
Press our national flower to your nose,
There’s no bloom finer than a beautiful red rose, originally made in China,
Sing out today at the top of your lungs, with words we’ve nicked from other tongues,
Maybe it’s time to have a modern St George, for the post empire era, now there’s new dragons to slay, and everywhere else in the world has got nearer,
Perhaps, St George of Asda - to mark our love of cheap fashion and shops,
Or St Boy George - cause we’re eccentric and used to be Top of the Pops,
St Gilbert and George - cause we love saying poo,
Or St George Best cause footie and beer is what we do - in the post industrial jungle,
Or St George the hippo from Rainbow, with Gordon Brown as Bungle,
Fly the flag for something or other,
Don’t worry confusion is good in this country that’s eternally poised between a hosepipe ban and a flood,
Wave the flag for thingies and wotsits, for heroes, and toast and tea, and Dickens, and the Bronte’s, and Shakespeare, and “To be or not to be”, and not invading people anymore,
Well not as often anyway,
Fly the flag, for - you know - whatever it is, it’s a powerful semaphore, and any day now we’ll work out just what it is that we’re actually waving it for.
by Kate Fox
I quite liked the rather cynical poem by Kate Fox.
On a more serious note, I think the English should celebrate St Georges Day in a much grander fashion.
So what if St George was Turkish, or Palestinian as some people believe.
In other parts of the world where St George is considered a patron saint, they make a real show of celebrating the day.
If St George is cause for celebration in, India, Genova in Italy, Portugal, Cyprus, Greece, Georgia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Beirut in Lebanon, Ljubljana in Slovenia, the Republic of Macedonia, Qormi and Victoria in Malta , Surbia, Moscow in Russia, Germany, Spain (Crown of Aragon, Catalonia, and Valencia), and several other places round the world, then surely he’s cause for celebration in England.
Unfortunately it seems that English people no longer feel free to openly admit to being English.
They don’t feel comfortable celebrating their Saints day; which is a real shame.
The Irish celebrate St Patrick’s Day, the Scottish celebrate St Andrew’s Day, and the Welsh celebrate St David’s Day.
It seems that Ireland, Scotland, and Wales do not have to live with as much PC nonsense as the English who are constantly being told by officials that they must not offend any one with their feelings about - well, about everything.
England is one of the most culturally diverse countries in the world, and yet there is a campaign of aggressive discrimination against its indigenous population. English people are being treated with contempt, their rights are being ignored, and their history is being trashed.
I’m saddened that in their own land, the English are being turned into second-class citizens - not by an enemy in the traditional sense, but by their own government.
They are killing England.
“England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality.
“In Left-wing circles it is always felt that there is something slightly disgraceful in being an Englishman, and that it is a duty to snigger at every English institution, from horse racing to suet puddings.
“It is a strange fact, but it is unquestionably true that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during ‘God save the King’ than of stealing from a poor box.”
George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair)
Thankfully not every one in the government is against the English celebrating St Georges Day, Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, has been vocal about his desire to get the capital celebrating St George’s Day, and a free concert in Trafalgar Square will be this year’s centrepiece (25 April from 12:30pm).
Contemporary music will be performed by several artists including West Country singer and guitarist Seth Lakeman, Eliza Carthy, Jim Moray, Kathryn and Peter Tickell, Bishi, Demon Barbers, and Netsayi.
Apparently Google has changed its logo for St George’s Day, by redrawing its iconic logo to incorporate England’s dragon-slaying patron saint. 
Oops! I seem to have ramble on a bit … again - when all I really wanted to say was a few words;
Happy St Georges Day!
ENGLAND
