epolitix.
Tory leader David Cameron joined London Mayor Boris for a walkabout in the City this morning to celebrate St Georges Day.I realise that I'm preaching to the converted (mostly) here and I know the BNP had someone dressed as St George at their manifesto launch (and why not he is a national symbol and they are after a fashion a nationalist party) However their symbol is the Union Flag as they are at heart a unionist party, bit like the Lib/Lab/Con pact though more to the left than any of them.
Speaking on the day the British National Party launches its manifesto, Cameron said he wanted to "reclaim" the English flag from the far-right party.
"Today we are celebrating St George's Day, and we are reclaiming St George's Day as an important day I think for good reasons," he said.
"We should be reclaiming the flag from the BNP and saying the flag belongs to the English people, all of them."
This means that although they use the flag of St George occasionally, mostly they use the Union flag as unionist parties do. So it isn't something anyone needs to reclaim as the English already have it back quite nicely and use it for football and other events without a second thought save amongst those who see us as racist fascists and our flag as a banner for all that is wrong with society and the world (socialists mostly)
So Cameron was basically parroting "Righteous" thinking when he said that "We should be reclaiming the flag from the BNP and saying the flag belongs to the English people, all of them." He's really showing his ignorance because it's already ours, it isn't the BNP's nor even the Tory Party's. It has been reclaimed since 1996 by the English people, for the English people and shouldn't be used by politicians to make a political point that's as relevant to the actual facts as bicycling fish.
Is it so much to ask that idiot politicians will stop using our flag as a symbol of their ignorance?
Is it so much to ask that idiot journalists will stop associating our flag with racists as the Independent does here?
If we do need to reclaim our flag, it's from the MSM and politicians, not the English at large!
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I though Cameron was quite impressive in the debate on Thursday.
And then this.
/facepalm
Is it so much to ask that idiot journalists will stop associating our flag with racists as the Independent does here?
Too much to ask them.
You'd think with all this (especially leftie hand wringing) over the need to 'reclaim the flag' it would be thoroughly reclaimed by now. You'd almost think they were trying to link the flag to the BNP.
Forever the St George flag will belong to its rightful owners......the city of Genoa lol
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