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  • UK: Cripes! Boris's plan to celebrate St George (and to blazes with what the PC brigade think)

    03/22/2009 2:06:23 AM PDT · by Stoat · 18 replies · 1,046+ views
    The Daily Mail (U.K.) ^ | March 22, 2009 | Simon Walters and Brendan Carlin
    London Mayor Boris Johnson is to defy the politically correct brigade by staging a week-long festival in the capital to celebrate St George’s Day, with the red and white cross of England’s patron saint flying proudly from his City Hall offices. The move follows a series of incidents in recent years in which people have been banned from displaying the English flag on the grounds that it is racist and could offend Muslims because of St George’s association with the Crusades.But Mr Johnson believes such arguments are unjustified and plans a series of events around St George’s Day on...