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July 31, 2008
English Flag Found Unsafe
There is more than one reason to ban the English flag. Not only is it "offensive and racist," but there are safety considerations:
A retired teacher says she was banned from waving her Cross of St George flag during a Proms performance on health and safety grounds.
A steward told Rosalind Hilton to put the five foot flag away during the Last Night of the Hallé Proms event at Manchester's Bridgewater Hall.
She and sister Susan Stanyard were preparing to hoist the flag above their heads for Land and Hope and Glory in the rousing finale, having unfurled the flag over the balcony by her seat. She was later told it could have been a danger to those below.
It's as if Benny Hill took over the country and turned it into a sarcastic skit:
Ridiculing the assumption that dangling flags were dangerous, she plumped the furled-up standard on the manager's head and asked him: "Would that really hurt if it fell on your head?"
She said the interruption last Saturday "ruined the whole evening" and commented: "Who wants to get up and sing, 'Britons never, never shall be slaves,' when the health and safety Nazis are making a mockery of our freedom?"
Why are flags bad, really? Because we are to revere the government, not the nation. England's Cross of Saint George is particularly egregious because there is no English government to speak of, so its use instead of the Union Jack explicitly refers to the English nation — which won't be around for long, if moonbattery prevails.
On a tip from mega.
Posted by Van Helsing at July 31, 2008 10:31 AM
Comments
Oh VH, you can't talk about people supporting their nation. That makes you a nationalist and, as everyone knows, a nationalist is just a nazi in poor disguise. Everyone knows it! Everyone!
There's a reason for my rant. I've been called racist and nazi and a whole bunch of other things simply for beleving that the English nation has a right to self determination. I expect it from the left. you can ignore a bunch of ignorant retards and multicultis spouting emotive nonsense about racism, because that's all they know how to do. It's like monkeys flinging poop... it's when it comes at me from the right flank that I get annoyed.
I am proud of my nation. I would be flying a flag right now if I didn't know the police would arrest me for doing it or - worse - sic the planning inspectors on me for violating building regulations. The thing is, I would get attacked as much from a coningent of the right as I would from the left, from people who seem to believe that nationalism, or even just pride and reverence for a national ideal, is automatically bad. From the left I expect to be treated like shit, but people who I would have thought of as allies also turn on any display of patriotism as some sort of evidence of resurging nazism, which is stupid... and worse, it makes it hard to morally argue for the right to fly a flag when people who are ostensibly on "my" side are siding against "me".
(And no I wouldn't vote for the BNP... their manifesto is socialist and I don't vote for socialists.)
Posted by: Archonix at July 31, 2008 11:30 AM
"Health and safety" could be the new cover for "it might offend Muslims".
Posted by: Bob Smith at July 31, 2008 11:45 AM
England is the only nation ( we call them home nations ) not to have its own parliament/assembly. The current socialist government governs by support from Wales and Scotland ( they received less votes than the right of centre Cosnervatives in England at the last general election - though due to inbuilt bias in boundaries won more seats ).
Everything to do with England is suppressed by the left, and what we call guardianistas (translation=moonbats who read the Guardian newspaper - a left of sanity rag).
Its not a position that going to last.
Posted by: Man in a Shed at August 1, 2008 1:27 AM
Agreed that it is an excuse to not "offend" the Islamists. Also, that displaying the flags of one's sovereignty slows the progress of the New World Orderites.
Posted by: Rosie at August 1, 2008 6:50 AM
@Archonix
(And no I wouldn't vote for the BNP... their manifesto is socialist and I don't vote for socialists.)
Well, with the BNP you may have a socialist nation, but you'll at least still have a nation, which is more than you'll have if things keep going the way the are.
Priorities: vote to save your nation first. You can argue about the socialism later.
One thing's for sure - it'll be a lot easier to repeal socialist policies than it will be to repeal mass immigration.
Posted by: Anonymous at August 1, 2008 7:48 AM
@Archonix
(And no I wouldn't vote for the BNP... their manifesto is socialist and I don't vote for socialists.)
Well, with the BNP you may have a socialist nation, but you'll at least still have a nation, which is more than you'll have if things keep going the way the are.
Priorities: vote to save your nation first. You can argue about the socialism later.
One thing's for sure - it'll be a lot easier to repeal socialist policies than it will be to repeal mass immigration.
Posted by: Anonymous at August 1, 2008 7:51 AM
