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Let's make St George's Day a holiday!
ukip.org ^ | 22nd April 2013 | ukip

Posted on 04/23/2013 12:52:57 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper

A call for St George’s Day to be declared a national holiday has been made by UKIP.

”It is just crazy that Scotland and Ireland have national holidays for their patron saints and a huge thing is made each year for St David in Wales but poor St George hardly gets a look in,” said the party's deputy leader, Paul Nuttall MEP.

”It is long overdue that a national holiday should be given for England. We have so much to celebrate in this country and UKIP believes that April 23 should be properly marked.

”I love to see the few patriotic souls who proudly wear a red rose each St George’s Day and this is a tradition which we want to encourage.

”I appreciate we are in the middle of a recession but a red rose costs far less than even a pint of beer and shows the world that we are proud to be English.”


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Happy St George’s Day English FReepers!

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1 posted on 04/23/2013 12:52:57 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Weird. I was just reading about a British music critic who has been calling for this. He considers himself English, not British. Anyways, I think St. George would not be popular in that sceptred isle today.


2 posted on 04/23/2013 1:04:31 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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I believe it is also William Shakepeare’s birthday.

While it’s not a holiday, it is observed by native-born English people so it does not really go unobserved, just at work rather than at home (if a week-day).


3 posted on 04/23/2013 1:43:48 AM PDT by Peter ODonnell (It wasn't this cold before global warming)
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4 posted on 04/23/2013 1:43:50 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (You Must be Hated by Evil.)
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To: Peter ODonnell

A good thing to honor England’s saint! Fly the Red Cross banner and wear the red rose! There will always be an England!


5 posted on 04/23/2013 2:35:23 AM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll)
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To: nickcarraway

There’s more appreciation for this legendary saint in Georgia than modern day England. It’s a nice idea, but the government can hardly fit another holiday onto the calender, what with “LGBTQRXZ Awareness Day” and “Hug A Hijab Day” and “Pedophilia Sensitivity Day” in the works. I mean, who has to time to celebrate heritage with all the persecuted minorities who we need to make feel special?


6 posted on 04/23/2013 2:41:21 AM PDT by Viennacon
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To: Peter ODonnell
"Shakespeare"

I think a Richard III day would be appropriate as well. Everyone could go around affecting a limp while uttering ala Sir Larry "a horse...a horse...etc. Kind of like talk-like-a-pirate day.

7 posted on 04/23/2013 3:30:39 AM PDT by driftless2
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Your Muzzies ain’t a-gonna like it.


8 posted on 04/23/2013 4:38:41 AM PDT by Flintlock ("The British are coming--to TAKE OUR GUNS"--Paul Revere)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Thanks! I got my red rose on!


9 posted on 04/23/2013 8:14:43 AM PDT by Vanders9
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To: Peter ODonnell
No one exactly knows if it is Shakespeare's birthday, as birth certificates did not exist then. All we have is a christening date, which seems to imply he was born on or around 23rd April. He definitely died on April 23rd.

It would be singularly appropriate for Shakespeare, our greatest playwright and poet, to be born on the patron saint's day, in a town that is pretty much the geograhic centre of the country.

10 posted on 04/23/2013 8:18:00 AM PDT by Vanders9
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To: Viennacon

Fortunately, the good St George got around a lot. He is revered by a great many people, including curiously, muslims.


11 posted on 04/23/2013 8:19:19 AM PDT by Vanders9
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