London St. George's Day celebration
 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ade-think.html

The London celebrations include:

* Trafalgar Square event on the theme of English food
* Shakespeare’s Birthday celebrations at the Globe
* the Festival of St George at Covent Garden
* a march past and wreath laying parade at the Cenotaph

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About beeping time.
Finally something "English" happening in England.
Well done Boris.

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That's a celebration???? :confused:

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I don't know. Sounds rather fun.

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Sounds like a good idea. Of course, there will be people all over Edinburgh, Cardiff and Dublin who are wondering why on earth this is considered newsworthy. What a pity that the English have become so coy about their identity that celebrating the national day has the air of controversy about it.

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Now, "BBKing approves of Tory scheme..." is worth a headline. :D

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It does. It's just that I suffer from a mild case of culinary anglophobia :)

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I'm proud to be English and far from coy about the fact. It's our lily-livered, PC obsessed leaders who're responsible for that impression.

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How can St George's day be a week long festival. Isn't it just going to dragon..:Sprint:

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Wheyhey!! Lets go Boris!!

Theres an event for nearly every other country/religion in London except us English, fiinally! i'll be there :D

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The problem with the whole PC thing is the press will highlight a few extreme examples and assert that as a representation of the country as a whole. They will find some minority group who doesn't like this day, or any changes to the plan, and try to make that into another front page 'PC Madness!!!' story.

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Who said it was a Tory scheme?

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Ok, "BBKing approves of a scheme by Boris, who coincidentally happens to be a Tory". ;)

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About time we celebrated the day, instead of trying to sweep it under the carpet for fear of upsetting 'some'

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Who said it was by Boris?

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That's right, because all other towns and cites in Wales, Scotland and Ireland are totally void of people, we only live in those 3 cities don't we.. ;)

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I wonder if the police will be searching everyone for offensive chalk? :D

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The Daily Wail did ... but seeing as you quoted it without criticism I assume you're not challenging its accuracy on this occasion:

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Hello ... comparing and contrasting capital cities ...

Quick, duck, here comes another low flying post. ;)

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Yeah, to be English and proud.

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Just a reminder that not everyone in Wales lives in Cardiff ;)

Anyway I don't see what's so celebratory about being racist.

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Now, I warned you to duck ...

Neither do I. Let me know where the racists are celebrating, then we can go and beat them up ... or pray for them or something ... :D

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What a quack

Actually I'm disappointed, I expected at least someone to bite :D

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Ah, but I was being horrible to you all. While it's perfectly true that Boris is spinning himself to the Mail as the saviour of all that's English, all the other examples I gave were from Ken Livingstone's Mayoralty. Boris is trying to airbrush them from history and I'd like to know why.

Actually, there have been GLA-funded St. George's Day events in London in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008, which was the foodie one. This year's announced celebrations so far are a concert in Trafalgar Square and the traditional open day at the Globe to celebrate Shakespeare's birth. In other words, nothing's changed, Boris is actually continuing what Ken started (there was never an offical SGD before, apparently), so if you were cheered by this, you're a communist newt fancier, arentcha? What's actually likely to happen is that Boris will seek to reduce the cost of the events, either by trimming them back or seeking extra sponsorship, and good luck with that one. He's done that with other festivals already.

It's interesting that ginge51, bopdude and dd11 appear to have swallowed this completely. Guys - nasty people are *lying* to you about mysterious PC brigades and things. That now includes Boris Johnson, to his shame. Grow some critical faculties and check things out - Google is your friend here.

If you look at the GLA website you'll see this for 2008:

http://www.london.gov.uk/mayor/culture/stgeorge.jsp
and this for 2009:

http://www.london.gov.uk/gla/events/

Bishi, if you're interested, is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishnu_Priya

Sounds good. The BNP ought to hate it.

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O how I've missed BB K's sarcasm :-)

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What else is to eat that 's English appart from fish n chips and bangers n mash? :erm::erm::erm::)

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Well, thank the Lords of Cobol for that. BBKing's Tory-hating credentials are re-established and all is well with the universe. :D

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Yes, indeed, Chris. Possibly a few people will be a bit wiser, too. It's a public service, y'know.

It has been fun watching the BNP spin this as 'BNP forces Boris to recognise St. George's Day'.

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Humble pie when your national football team loses?? :D :Sprint:

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Nah, that's a Welsh dish, we only import it when we need it.

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Want me to mention the rugby? ;)

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I think he has a point though, The media are hyping this up as as a rebuke to the PC bridge and it has happen every year without offensive caused to anyone. :rolleyes:

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Goes to show again that all these PC brigade stories are, fundamentally, made up. I ask again - why? Who seeks to benefit from stirring up trouble over nothing?

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The "baddies"..........probably.

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Grrrr! I knew it was them! They are always up to no good !!!

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Hey as long as we beat the racists...erm I mean the English, we don't care ;)

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Russ,

I believe you may have dropped this.....

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2009/03/33.jpg

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Not at all. St George is a racist figure and I'll explain why.

What's on the Welsh flag? A red dragon. What's the legend on St George? He slayed a dragon.

He's clearly a figurehead for an anti-Welsh and oppressing nation of England.

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lolololol sorry, I can't keep that up for long, I'm only having a joke :D

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About time, Now let the party begin before someone complains and gets it cancelled

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Did you expect anything different from the Daily Hate Damien? its their way of having one last pop at Livingstone, the sad part being that unless you live in London and know different, people are going to believe that in Boris "the good old Tories" have saved us all from the "loony left".
Then again as its in the DM hopefully people will think twice before swallowing it hook line and sinker.:D

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Those sandal munching lentil wearing lefties at the BBC have apparently, er, fallen for the 'Boris invented it' line.

This is, of course, because they're under-resourced and badly led, rather than because they're biased.

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This is what the BNP are spinning as 'Richard Barnbrook forces Boris to Celebrate St. George's Day':

So Boris is spinning his backside off when he's doing no more than Livingstone did last year, and the BBC are abjectly awful at reporting the news.