A happy St. Georges Day to all!
Yesterday on Monday 22nd April 2024, the British Bashing Commissariat reported upon a parade in York, thus:
“Hundreds of young people and volunteers took to the streets in North Yorkshire for a St George’s Day celebration parade……..”
GOTO: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-68869701
The BBC reporter failed to comment upon the small matter of the date! The celebration took place on the day before!
Many commentators in England and around the world have commented upon the relative lack of interest in celebrating the nation’s patron saint.
For instance, can you imagine the Irish not celebrating on St. Patrick’s Day 17th March each year? Or celebrating it on the 16th instead?
Let is suppose I travelled from Cornwall to Boston. Not here:
Boston, Lincolnshire, but here, Boston, Massachusetts:
Let us suppose it was the 1st July and I spotted a group of US Marines so I walked up to them with this suggestion:
“I say chaps. I couldn’t help noticing on your TV here that there are a quite a few people demonstrating on some local university campuses, which includes burning the Stars & Stripes. So I have a suggestion. How about using this flag:
I’ve had made? It doesn’t mean anything and thus can’t offend anybody. Furthermore, if you changed the date you chaps celebrate US Independence from my country, Great Britain, and made it a day earlier on 3rd July and not the 4th July, that’s going to annoy even fewer people! How about it chaps?”
I rather think that these gallant gentlemen would quickly deposit me in Boston harbour, just like their forebears did with some tea!
For further information about England’s patron saints, past and present:
GOTO: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_the_Martyr
GOTO: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_the_Confessor
GOTO: https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/Edmund-original-Patron-Saint-of-England/
GOTO: https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/St-George-Patron-Saint-of-England/