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@mooks
I'm having a whale of a time here today - for the past few years, the BNP here have held their own St George's Day celebrations, which invariably involved Richard Barnbrook donning a suit of armour, riding a white horse through Barking, to "slay" a papier mache "dragon" in Barking Park.
This year, the Council, in all its wisdom, has decided to run a St George's Day event in every ward in the borough to try and hijack it from the BNP, apparently oblivious to the fact that the BNP are instead claiming to have sewn the seeds of patriotism in Barking and Dagenham and that if they're elected as majorioty party at the next election, they'll make these celebrations bigger and better (and probably even more racist).
Every car seems to have one of those stupid England flags flying, while there are even more flags draped out of windows and babies covered in St George's Cross blankets than I've seen before.
I don't have anything against St George's Day per se, but when it's being done in such a ham-fisted way in a borough where the racial tensions are especially high, I don't think it's such a good idea for the Council to be lending validity to what's essentially (in this Borough) a BNP construct.