tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31265055.post1497506500466734896..comments2023-09-20T14:18:32.900+02:00Comments on Obscene Desserts: Organising a piss-up in a breweryJCWoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02585322642151280666noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31265055.post-42047587936024066622010-04-24T20:41:51.453+02:002010-04-24T20:41:51.453+02:00I have to say, the panel's answers sound prett...I have to say, the panel's answers sound pretty encouraging.<br /><br />I think Billy Bragg was out on the streets in Barking making a similar point.<br /><br />There's also a St. George <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Georg,_Hamburg" rel="nofollow">in Germany</a>JCWoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02585322642151280666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31265055.post-41506286067774023322010-04-24T14:40:40.200+02:002010-04-24T14:40:40.200+02:00One of the panel - celebrate being English - toler...One of the panel - celebrate being English - tolerance = welcoming immigrants - let’s give a big cheer - [everyone cheers].<br /><br />Jack Straw - cheers for immigration. St George would have been an immigrant with a face the wrong colour for the BNP and points out his mixed race parents.<br /><br />Caroline Spellman - irony of BNP parading St George and points out his European and Middle East character. St G stood for justice and courage.<br /><br />As for Sir Menzies Campbell (Scots) - he celebrates all saints, Scottish & Welsh too. So we should celebrate diversity and our union. Laments hi-jacking of St George flag by BNP [loud cheers against BNP] so people are inhibited about waving flag.<br /><br />I can’t stand these silly nationalist saints and flags myself but this seems unexceptionable.KB Playerhttp://www.rosiebell.co.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31265055.post-69305836039369441492010-04-24T05:13:48.604+02:002010-04-24T05:13:48.604+02:00Talking about the parochial, this evening I was li...Talking about the parochial, this evening I was listening to BBC Radio 4's Any Questions while on my weekly hunting expedition. One of the questions was along the lines of:<br /><br /><i>"Today is St George's Day. Can an immigrant celebrate that?"</i><br /><br />Unfortunately, owing to my need to dodge some particularly fuckwitted beasts of the two-legged, four-wheeled and small-penised variety, I didn't pay full attention to the discussion which followed. <br /><br />Maybe one of the assembled politicos pointed out that St George was actually a Levantine, and is today the patron saint of Aragon, Catalonia, Ethiopia, Georgia, Greece, Lithuania, Palestine, Portugal and Russia, as well as England.<br /><br />Or maybe not.Francis Sedgemorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12310279298255158895noreply@blogger.com