What has the UK become?

[BrianW]

Just as the really hard lads don't tell you they are hard, the really patriotic don't call themselves patriots.

'Standing as I do in view of God and Eternity, I realise that patriotism is not enough, I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.' Nurse Edith Cavell, the night before her execution, 1916.

 

[Gray]

No longer the country I was born into.

 

[domalino]

I don't ever recall St Georges Day being widely celebrated when I was growing up.

No of course not.

I’m 32 and this is the first St George’s day March I’ve ever heard of, certainly the first ever getting national news coverage.

 

[domalino]

Just as the really hard lads don't tell you they are hard, the really patriotic don't call themselves patriots.

Countries with the word democratic in their name are never democracies.

 

[bluethrunthru]

obviously fake - like these is a village somewhere that has a bank branch that hasn't been closed

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

No of course not.

I’m 32 and this is the first St George’s day March I’ve ever heard of, certainly the first ever getting national news coverage.

There’s been one in Manchester for years. It’s just not a big thing.

 

[BrianW]

The argument used to be put that we had a St Patrick's Day Parade, why did we not have a St George's Day Parade?

I am not entirely out of sympathy with this, but the truth is that most English people aren't interested.

You might as well ask why we don't have an English Madonna of the Rosary Procession. Answer, because it was born of Italian culture, not English culture.

 

[Gray]

Another 58 illegals landed, waved off by the French police.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Another 58 illegals landed, waved off by the French police.

If we had people leaving our country for France, would you be advocating stopping them?

 

[abu13]

Its become a shithole.