Now This Is More Like It!

English and proud of it! London Mayor Boris Johnson is to defy the politically correct brigade by staging a week-long festival in the capital to celebrate St George’s Day, with the red and white cross of England’s patron saint flying proudly from his City Hall offices, the move follows a series of incidents in recent years in which people have been banned from displaying the English flag on the grounds that it is racist and could offend Muslims because of St George’s association with the Crusades, but Mr Johnson believes such arguments are unjustified and plans a series of events around St George’s Day on April 23 to honour the historical achievements of England and the English, on St George’s Day itself, Mr Johnson – who shares Turkish roots with England’s patron saint – will raise the flag of St George above his headquarters opposite the Tower of London and then set off on his double-decker for a feast of English food and drink at the City’s historic Leadenhall Market, the similarities might not immediately be obvious, but Boris Johnson has something in common with St George, the obscure saint is most likely to have been George of Cappadocia who, like Boris Johnson’s forebears, hailed from Turkey, according to Gibbon’s Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire, St George – who became a figurehead for the Crusades – sold bacon to the Roman army in the 3rd Century AD, having ‘raised himself by the talents of a parasite’ and secured the lucrative contract by flattery or bribery, I have always been a little embarrassed at having Boris as a mayor, the way he shamefully refused to back one of his workers in a race dispute when he first came to power and his public humiliation on national television when he appeared on a game show, but now all is forgiven - bring it on Boris!