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i work in a secondary school and today i am wearing an england lanyard with my ID badge and put a small st george flag on my office door (i am a headteacher's PA). the school manager (not the head) has come in and told me to 'be careful because this is a BNP area and people might get the wrong idea.' yes, i know that there is a BNP contingent in my local constituency(that i am not a part of, by the way), but it is my country's patron saint's day and i am proud to be english.
what do others think?
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I think it's sad that the BNP have been allowed to claim the flags as their logos
Your manager is allowing them to do so with her comments
It doesn't belong to the BNP.
(And anyway, why does the British National Party use the English flag?)
As a Welshman
I would tell him to P8ss off and do some work. If one by one, the english do not stand up for the cross of St-george then the BNP will claim it.
Then you will have to use the lancs rose and I would not want that!
Fly the flag and fly it proudly!!! Displaying the st george flag today will just remind people of the date - I really doubt people would assume that you're a BNP supporter!!
i have wondered why there is a school manager. having just come from 9 years in the NHS where there were so many managers you would fall over them, it still gets my goat.
the flag is going back on my door (although i had only moved it to my computer.) and i have a rose (albeit false) on my desk - a gift on my first valentine's day with mr tweety
taff - i wore a daff on 1st march, even though i am not welsh.
thank you all.
england ROCKS. and wales ain't bad either
Have to agree with Mrs. Pig on that.
Anyway, happy "choke a migrant day"
Mrs P - didn't think you were. I was just confirming that they don't.
DM - is that in place of 'choke a chicken'?
Ah, I know why. That'll be the alcohol.
(nods wisely)
Was there somefootball last night?
Something about ginger, scouser and own goal is going around my office.................
The only thing going around my office is the faint whiff of stale Kronenbourg.
Still ginger SVT.
<no offense don!>
Fly the flag with pride and threaten to sue anyone who doesn't like it for racial discrimination.
I'm afraid that I don't have a flag, or even arose, to mark the day but have made a point of wishing peeps a 'Happy St George's Day'.
I've sent my kids to school with St George's bobbles in their hair. If anybody tells me that I shouldn't I'll rip their sodding heads off......
I was going to start to a thread about a survey I heard on the BBC this morning. Apparently over 83% of English people feel penalised financially for living in England and think we've got it tough. Only 7% of Scots thought the English get a rough deal....
That's because we're paying for them....
I saw a job advert in the paper yesterday for a PA to a vicar.
I thought that seemed odd - does a vicar really need a PA?
Then I saw that you had to apply to the HR Manager, St Martins......
An HR Manager for a church, for goodness sake??
Wilkie
If that is for St martin in the fields (just a guess) they have a massive staff including staff inthe social care unit, chefs and waiting staff in the crypt restaurant, concert staff, as well as clerical and clergy....
I used to be on it a long time ago.....!! The staff I mean -not the church as that would clearly be dangerous,,,,
And the vicar gets masses of post and also does lots of interesting stuff outside St Ms....
PA to a vicar? isn't that his wife?
Its sad when a country cant celebrate its own heritage because of sheer bureacrasy and councillors who have nothing better to do than bring issues to the public that dont really exist.
Im of dual heritage and on my car I display both a british flag and a jamaican flag in honour of both of my parents culture, id be really vexed if someone told me to remove them as I may offend someone.
I dont get upset when I see non british members of the public displaying thier countires flag, be it on thier cars, on thier t-shirts or on thier face if they want to, it just reminds me of what a great diverse country we live in.
Ive seen it so many times in the past few years, our local Council wanted to change the wording "Christmas Festival" to "Winter Festival "recently as not to offend people who dont celebrate Christmas
. When will it end, its madness. We celebrate it here in England so why on Earth should we put our traditions away. I would never expect to go to another country and expect them to change centuries of tradition because I dont think its appropriate for me and my family.
Display your flag with pride, I for one do not think its an outward sign of racism nor anything to do with the BNP. If someone does then I feel its a chip on thier shoulder, not yours.
***jumps off her soapbox****
St George was a low ranking officer in the Roman army.... probably spoke a dialect of Greek and never set foot in England (he was Anatolian by birth)
George slaying the dragon is a allegorical tale, probably intended to represent the symbolic destruction of paganism by Christianity.
The cross of St George probably originated as a symbol of the city state of Genoa and was adapted as a design incorporated into the sails of English trading vessels to signify that they were trading under the protection of the (and sufferance) Doge of Genoa. The cross became adapted by crusading knights - specifically Knights Templar about the time of the 13thC the cross became the official national flag of England.
Oh don't be daft, how can you make a sweeping statement like that when you don't even know me, do you do the same for everyone!!
You are obviously a true Brit then, are you a BNP member???