Happy St Georges Day

[El Kabong]

[Beanz]

Can't you restrain yourself for one day? The man is a wanker

[brocktonblockbust]

The man is a hero

[Fenster]

Do people still celebrate, display the flag in more smaller rural type areas? In London you'd probably get duffed up if you sported the flag, certainly be deemed an evil racist.

[X]

I live in rural Somerset now, and lots of people fly the Cross of St George all year round. There is no underlying politics to it as far as I can tell - ie they are not racist or stupid or anything.

Anyway, as a proud Welshman, happy St George's Day to my English brethren on here

[Batman]

Do people still celebrate, display the flag in more smaller rural type areas? In London you'd probably get duffed up if you sported the flag, certainly be deemed an evil racist.

I walked past my local yesterday and it was fucking covered in flags, everyone was dressed up in silly hats with oversized flags draped around them and they were all fucking leathered.

It was nice to see

[Fenster]

Do people still celebrate, display the flag in more smaller rural type areas? In London you'd probably get duffed up if you sported the flag, certainly be deemed an evil racist.

I walked past my local yesterday and it was fucking covered in flags, everyone was dressed up in silly hats with oversized flags draped around them and they were all fucking leathered.

It was nice to see

I can honestly say I wouldn't go into a boozer like that, it would be deemed a BNP pub, certainly full of Tommy Robinson's (bear in mind there's no regular old fashioned boozers left in London, all flats, places of worship or complete and utter ponce gaffs).

[Beanz]

Do people still celebrate, display the flag in more smaller rural type areas? In London you'd probably get duffed up if you sported the flag, certainly be deemed an evil racist.

You will not find too many in Cornwall, after all many do not consider Cornwall to be part of England at all (and they have history on their side if you look into it) but all over Devon and Somerset like X has said, it's not uncommon. I have seen it in and around London too, and if people think that makes you an evil racist, then that's their problem. My mate Chaz who is a local Sikh Councillor usually borrows a horse and rides around with it and himself dressed in the England flag

[Gandalf]

"I've been dreaming of a time when
To be English is not to be baneful
To be standing by the flag not feeling shameful, racist or partial" - Morrissey

[Master]

Well King Arthur was born yesterday. That is if they name him, Arthur.

[Beanz]

"I've been dreaming of a time when
To be English is not to be baneful
To be standing by the flag not feeling shameful, racist or partial" - Morrissey

The trouble with Morrissey is that not only is he racist the man is a liar.

In an interview with American music magazine Spin published on his new site Morrissey Central, the singer said: “London is second only to Bangladesh for acid attacks.

“All of the attacks are non-white, and so they cannot be truthfully addressed by the British Government or the Met Police or the BBC because of political correctness.

“What this means is that the perpetrator is considered to be as much of a victim as the actual victim.”

It is a familiar trope churned out as often as Asian Rape gangs. The reality?
There is a common understanding of acid attacks in the UK that goes something like this: the attacker is male; the victim female. Both are South Asian, and the violence has something to do with the man’s so-called ‘honour'.


But the most comprehensive set of data yet on acid attacks in London paints a different picture.


Statistics released by London’s Metropolitan Police to the BBC provide a breakdown of every recorded acid attack over a 15-year period by age, gender, ethnicity, borough, hate crime and outcome. It’s the fullest picture yet of the capital’s suspects and victims.


The findings include:

• The suspect was male 74% of the time and victim was male 67% of the time
• Just 6% of suspects were Asian
• Only one so-called ‘honour’ attack was recorded in 15 years
• Four out of five violent offences never reached trial

The figures appear to contradict a belief that a relative majority of acid attacks involve the South Asian diaspora.


“Definitely not,” said Detective Superintendent Mike West, the Metropolitan police lead on acid attacks, who has reviewed the figures. “That does not ring true. It’s very mixed from various religions, backgrounds, different victims, different offenders.”



So as usual those actually living in England are actually reprimanded for celebrating living in England or being English, by those who are not living here, who seek to prescribe what their idea of England should be. Two Yanks and an Ex-Pat insisting that reality does not fit into their narrow minded definition of what England should be.

[Fenster]

My mate Chaz who is a local Sikh Councillor usually borrows a horse and rides around with it and himself dressed in the England flag

Depending on the area, he gets battered by a bunch of muslims or battered for being muslim*

((*just so this joke doesn't go over the head of the PC jobsworths and anti-muslim on here - i'm making fun of genuine ignorant racists that would regard a sikh man celebrating St George as muslim and ignorant racist religious fools))

[Beanz]

My mate Chaz who is a local Sikh Councillor usually borrows a horse and rides around with it and himself dressed in the England flag

Depending on the area, he gets battered by a bunch of muslims or battered for being muslim*

((*just so this joke doesn't go over the head of the PC jobsworths and anti-muslim on here - i'm making fun of genuine ignorant racists that would regard a sikh man celebrating St George as muslim and ignorant racist religious fools))

Maybe someone should give him a sword then. Down here it's more likely someone would try and nick the horse.

[Master]

My mate Chaz who is a local Sikh Councillor usually borrows a horse and rides around with it and himself dressed in the England flag

Depending on the area, he gets battered by a bunch of muslims or battered for being muslim*

((*just so this joke doesn't go over the head of the PC jobsworths and anti-muslim on here - i'm making fun of genuine ignorant racists that would regard a sikh man celebrating St George as muslim and ignorant racist religious fools))

On a similar note:-


UK's top diplomat caught up in blunder after calling the Sikh Golden Temple a mosque

Britain’s chief diplomat has apologised after mistaking one of the most sacred sites in Sikhism as a mosque.

Sir Simon McDonald, the permanent under-secretary at the Foreign Office, admitted that he made a blunder on Monday when referring to the Golden Temple in Amritsar, India, as the “Golden Mosque”.

The distinction between mosques being the place of Muslim worship and temples or gurdwaras used by Sikhs was not initially made clear.

The gaffe took place on Twitter where Sir Simon claimed that a photograph of the Queen at the “Golden Mosque” had been given to a colleague.

Realising his mistake, he admitted that he should have said "the Golden Temple or, better, Sri Harmandir Sahib."

The Golden Temple, constructed in the 16th century, is so sacred to Sikhs because it is considered to be the main site of pilgrimage for the faith.

The mosque tweet has therefore enraged many on social media, particularly British Sikhs.

Bhai Amrik Singh, chairman of the Sikh Federation, said: “This was a major gaffe by a top civil servant and totally unacceptable.

He added: “In our view, a public apology and admitting the mistake is not enough.

“What we need is a commitment from the UK Government and senior civil servants to root out such ignorance and discrimination or we will continue to face hate, abuse and threats of violence.”

The Queen had visited the site in 1997, 13 years after a deadly and extremely controversial assault by the Indian army took place, which was aimed at expelling armed separatists who wanted a separate Sikh homeland.

Jeremy Corbyn has vowed that if he were to become Prime Minister he would launch a probe to investigate Britain’s role during the raid in the party’s next manifesto.

The scale of the UK’s involvement in the assault, which reportedly left thousands dead, is currently under intense scrutiny, making the blunder even more awkward for Sir Simon.

Addressing a Sikhs for Labour meeting in Watford, Mr Corbyn remarked: “You can be very sure that, whenever the election comes, it will be in the next manifesto … it’s a commitment that’s going to be there and we will honour that commitment.”

Sir Simon has been on a visit to the Northern Indian city of Chandigarh, where he has been meeting students and politicians.

Dr Jasjit Singh, a researcher at Leeds University, questioned if the diplomat had been thinking of the Golden Mosque in Rochdale, which is an actual place of Muslim worship.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...osque-blunder/