St. George’s Day and St. David’s Day Bill

Sponsor Mr. Nadhim Zahawi (Stratford on Avon)

Summary

The Bill would amend the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971 to provide that 23 April (St. George’s Day) or nearest working day should be a bank holiday in England but not in Wales, and that 1 March (St. David’s Day) or nearest working day should be a bank holiday in Wales but not in England.
The Bill would enable the Secretary of State to designate an alternative date for the St. George’s Day bank holiday if it fell on Good Friday or Easter Monday.
The Bill would address the grave injustice of inequality that exists across the United Kingdom that allows only the Scots and Northern Irish to celebrate their saint days.

Mr. Nadhim Zahawi MP for Stratford on Avon withdrew his bill after a short debate because Minister Mr. John Hayes announced that the DCMS strategy allowed for a consultation on moving the May Day Bank Holiday, and one suggestion is that it might be moved to St. George’s or St. David’s day.

In my opinion Mr. Zahawi should not have withdrawn his Bill and England should have no confidence that the outcome of such a consultation will result in a St. George’s Day bank holiday, because rather than try to confirm it the withdrawal of this Bill if anything as done the opposite, and could more or less have guaranteed its failure if the mood of the short debate this Bill had continues into that consultation. While the Bill stood England could guarantee the full support of Wales, and Mr. Jonathan Edwards (Carmarthen East and Dinefwr) confirmed this when he stated that it was a grave injustice that the Scots can celebrate St. Andrew, the Irish in Northern Ireland can celebrate St. Patrick, but the English cannot celebrate St. George, and in Wales they cannot celebrate St. David, and added that he wanted it put on record that the entire Welsh nation strongly supported the Bill.

Mr. Zahawi who was himself co-founder of the YouGov market research firm also stated that his Bill received 68% support in one of their polls and 89% in a Facebook UK Democracy page he had teamed up with that had had a response rate 800% higher than usual.

With all this public support in both England and Wales to right the wrong of what is another UK divisive and destructive policy you would have expected MPs that claim to support the Union would have given this Bill a favourable response, but when you think that the Bill if passed into law will give England at least some sort of formal recognition the Little Britishers are not so keen. Step up one of our own Labour Black Country MPs Mr. Ian Austin of Dudley, who hypocritically declared his support and then set about trashing the idea or got totally confused that the debate was about England and Wales and inequality and not Britain, has he continually ranted on about Britishness and what it meant to him to be British. The saying goes that the Cuckoos sing in May and obviously this man is one and has got into our Black Country nest, and is one who we can not rely on for support in any consultation process; he wants a British Trafalgar or Falklands Day holiday instead. If this is Ed Milliband's policy for connecting with England then the imerging Blue Labour movement has a mountain to climb to convince the electrate his Labour Party is any different from that of Gordon Brown when it comes to dealing with England, and from this debate we can have no confidence in David Cameron’s Tories either, as another West Midland MP a Conservative Mr. Christopher Pincher (Tamworth) who also wanted a Trafalgar Day gave an example of why the people of England should not be represented by these British MPs when he set about trashing all the virtues of England’s St. George when asking why do we not celebrate Trafalgar day rather than the day of a mythical Greek who went around slaying mythical beasts?
When the May Day bank holiday was mentioned in this short debate Mr. Mark Lazarowicz (Edinburgh North and Lieth) said he hoped that it was not being suggested that the May Day holiday should not continue, because he said if that approach were to be associated with introducing St George’s day or St David’s day, it would destroy the otherwise bipartisan approach to the debate, and added that he thought that Mr. Zahawi would not want that either, which beggars the question why Mr. Zahawi withdrew his Bill.

One year into a new government and its no change for the English

For thirteen years British MPs representing England in the United Kingdom Parliament have sat on their backsides and watched what were virtually Scottish led New Labour governments destroy all that was good about Great Britain. These so called English MPs were so engrossed in lining their pockets with fools Gold after being allowed to fiddle their expense sheets, dig out their Moats and the refurbish their Duck Houses that they had no time to consider the consequences of what was happening to the country they represented, and as long as a blind eye was being cast over their dealings they couldn’t have cared less, and only when it was too late did they realise that the Scottish tail was now wagging the English dog. The United Kingdom is now a shadow of its former self, and those British MPs who represented England over that period have disgraced themselves and have a lot to answer for; they sat back and watched and said nothing when successive British governments denied England its ability to have a voice in parliament and never protested when our nation, historically one of the first unified nations on Earth was treated with contempt and even denied its existence, and it was good riddance when a third of them were sent packing in 2010, a pity it was not all of them.

When the country went to the polls to elect a new government in 2010 it was reasonable of us to expect that the influx of new blood would reflect on passed mistakes and would make every effort to right the wrongs and forge in roads into re-uniting a Kingdom that had started to tear itself apart. Although no one party had won an outright victory in the election and we ended up with coalition government it was still our assumption that preserving the Union would be the first priority of such a government, but it seems we were mistaken, and far from trying to unite the nations the policies coming from the coalition is doing the opposite and appears to be designed to tear them further apart. Faced with an economic deficit and debts of crisis proportions caused by the collapse of the banks and failures of the last government, the first priority of any new government would obviously be to balance the books, and what better opportunity could there be for a government wanting to create unity than making everyone of her majesty’s subjects pay their equal share of the debt. This is not happening, and what we are seeing is a continuation of the last governments policies in making an unrecognised England pay far more than its fair share of the debt, and like the last government they ignore England’s cries for a fair and honest hearing in the devolution process while at the same time handing out gifts to Scotland and Wales that encourages their independence. Lies, Lies, more Lies and hypocrisy can only be used to describe a government that spouts rhetoric of unity yet commits actions of separation, none more powerful than the act of allowing Wales to gain further power to make laws of discrimination against the Queen’s subjects in other parts of the United Kingdom, the brunt of which will fall directly on our unrecognised English Nation already reeling from the hypocrisy of a coalition who agree with the discrimination against England’s students, and the discrimination of our sick by the other nations. Anyone of average intelligence and you would expect that would apply to a British MP would know that given a choice a nation will always take the one in which it can decide its own destiny, so why did they act surprised when Scotland voted for the SNP and Wales voted for law making powers for their assembly, Lies, Lies, and more Lies THEY CAN’T BE THAT STUPID.

If the British want the Union to survive they must now start looking for some type of federal or confederal solution before it’s to late, because Wales will eventually follow Scotland down the national path, and we in England are not alone going to be palmed off into taking on their failing British Identity. If this British Government is serious about saving the Union it should drop its intensions of forming separate committees to look for answers that prevent England gaining its identity, and HOL reform, and instead should immediately set up a Select Committee with a view to finding a federal solution to the UK problems.
If that is not forth coming it’s time then for all Unionists to realise that the Union is over, because have no doubt for reasons already given Scotland will vote for independence given the chance, and the fight will then be for an English England or British Britain

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