Happy St George's day!

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.

It is unfortunate but its life and something that needs to be dealt with separately and not just upon punishment of St Georges day, i dont know anybody english or otherwise who thinks english people shouldnt celebrate St Georges.

Even the Arch Bishop of Canterbury was on radio 2 earlier telling us all to celebrate it and he was rallying england to have a national holiday, the floodgate is opening for us to celebrate england and all the hypersensitivty around it 'for fear of upsetting' is nonsense according to our first black bishop of england!!!!

Lets hate the BNP and not the occasion they are celebrating eh?