Thank you, Ginro
Toque
Cross of St George Witanagemot Club
Englisc Fyrd
Wonko
Guthrum
[Apologies to those I've missed out here.]
This was 2004 when the flame was relit.
Ways you and your family can celebrate this day
No need to go to work today - it's our national day.
English National Anthem for now
Audio file here
[or you can listen from the left sidebar whilst reading this post]
Petition for Anthem 1
Petition for Anthem 2
English Claim of Right today
You can do your bit here to call for an EU Referendum.
The Telegraph today - England Arise"In the early years of the last century socialists in England used to sing a hymn about their liberation from exploitation and under-representation: its title and opening line serves as the perfect envoi today. "England, arise! The long, long night is over!"
Labour might never govern in England again, which would serve it right, given the contempt it has shown for the English. It might well precipitate the end of the Union itself.That was a process started in 1997 by Labour; and it has a logical conclusion of separation which would, once an English parliament were created, be clearly in sight.
The Conservative Party has its head in the sand on this issue, as on so much else: which is odd, given the sheer misery such a process would cause for Labour.
The Tories' prevalent and infantile cast of mind associates English nationalism with racism and other forms of evil.
Since the creation of an English nation would create an English citizenship equal to all who legally reside in that country, whatever their origins, such fears are groundless.
At the moment, the word "English" when applied to people is a badge of ethnicity; after independence it would become a badge of nationhood."
Some historyGeorge was probably first made well known in England by Arculpus and Adamnan in the early eighth century.
The Acts of St George, which recounted his visits to Caerleon and Glastonbury while on service in England, were translated into Anglo-Saxon.
Among churches dedicated to St George was one at Doncaster in 1061.
George was adopted as the patron saint of soldiers after he was said to have appeared to the Crusader army at the Battle of Antioch in 1098.
Many similar stories were transmitted to the West by Crusaders who had heard them from Byzantine troops, and were circulated further by the troubadours.
When Richard 1 was campaigning in Palestine in 1191-92 he put the army under the protection of St George.
The European Union is the new enemy
England has fought off aggressors for centuries - the Bonny Bunch of Roses was always a plum target, to Napoleon and Hitler and now to the EU Monster which appears certain to succeed. Let there be no doubts in anyone's mind that they are the new enemy.
As Robert Winnett, at the Telegraph says:
England has been wiped off a map of Europe drawn up by Brussels bureaucrats as part of a scheme that the Tories claim threatens to undermine the country's national identity.
Check the map for yourself:
This will not stand.
You can do your bit here to defy the EU from consuming England.
Today is the day the EU is defied and eventually the monster will be mortally skewered, as he always has been in the past.
England will once more rise to nationhood, the ancient counties resuming their rightful subordinate places in the whole.
England rattles no sabres and offers no hostility to other home nations as long as they take care of their affairs and leave England to take care of its own.
St Andrew's, St Patrick's, St David's and St Piran's days are also important in the calendar and are respected, just as ours is. [I personally am a friend of Cornish independence.]
This below is, of course, Beowulf rather than St George
Nu sceall billes ecg,
hond ond heard sweord ymb hord wigan.'
Beowulf maðelode, beotwordum spræc
niehstan siðe: `Ic geneðde fela
guða on geogoðe; gyt ic wylle,
frod folces weard fæhðe secan,
mærðu fremman, gif mec se mansceaða
of eorðsele ut geseceð.'
A sweeter note
To leave you with, the Nature of being English, according to Tiberius Gracchus:
The story really isn't the point here though - its the individuality, its the eccentricity (in England's that's a virtue) - there is a line in the Lord of the Rings when Gandalf tells Frodo that what's worth fighting for is all the absurd Bolgers and Boffins and Bagginses- that's the same sense you get from Wallace and Gromit.
These two characters are crackers, they are mad, their lives revolve around inventions, cheese (particularly Wensleydale) and tea- but in some sense they are the essense of the whole of Western civilisation. Civilisation isn't just Michelangelo and Machiavelli, its Wallace and his efforts to get to the moon, its loving Wensleydale and its a dog knitting in a chair and rats with shades over their eyes, its merry eccentricity which is a value all to itself.
The absurdity of life is in many ways its essence - when we talk about freedom often we lose sight of the fact that freedom isn't just a political issue - its a personal issue as well.
To all English at home and abroad - greetings to you and may it be a happy day to remember. To our other friends - back soon.
WES THU HAL !
ReplyDeleteGod thee mid sie
ReplyDeleteStick it to´em boys!
ReplyDeleteHappy St George's Day James.
ReplyDeleteI went to St George Girls High School and we always celebrated this day with great fanfare, despite being in the Antipodes.
Ic þē þancie, kind readers.
ReplyDeleteEnjoy THE day.
ReplyDeleteOn Shakespeare's 444th birthday and
ReplyDeletethe 392th anniversary of his death:
Happy St. George's Day. :)
err ... 392nd.
ReplyDeleteRaise a glass to England,
ReplyDeleteWaes Hael Englalond!
Thanks for the shout out and have a great day.
If you want a chuckle look at what those naughty Eng Dems have put out today :D:
http://www.saintgeorgesday.org
Made me laugh my head off!
Happy St George's Day :-)
ReplyDeleteTo all - thanks.
ReplyDeleteHoots James.
ReplyDeleteFor some reason I have teh idea of Saint Gromit becoming the patron Saint of Preston, St Wallace would preside over Wensleydale and Jacobs crackers of course!
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