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Thrasher:
Please note that the Welsh do not take March 1st as a holiday .... in fact they are lumped in with "England and Wales" ......

Also note :

In January 2007, the St Andrew's Day Bank Holiday (Scotland) Act was given royal assent, making 30 November (or the nearest Monday if a weekend) a bank holiday in Scotland.

In 1903, the Bank Holiday (Ireland) Act added 17 March, Saint Patrick's Day, as a bank holiday for Ireland only.

You'll have to split "England and Wales" up before we get our own lol ....  :twisted: Oh and there appears to be no lieu for the Irish one ...

mmgemini:
A thought for those of you that pay taxes.
You pay for
A Scottish Assembley
A Welsh Assembley
A N I Assembley
A BRITISH parliament.
An european parliament.

You do not pay for because you do not have an English parliament.

Remember our foney friend that thinks he is president and two Jags John have both said there is no such place as ENGLAND.

I shal fly my Cross of St George from my front window on Monday.

screwy:
Some good replies!

Thrasher: I say again, what's your point? Do you give days off for Christmas then? Are all your employees practising Christians? Do they all know the christmas message and references? I dont understand why a day cannot be made a holiday based on the knowledge of a limited cross section of the public, seems an odd train of thought. Surely by making St George's Day a national holiday and celebrating it in the same way St Pats is for the Irish, an understanding would come from it, not the other way round??

And a point of correction. The Welsh asembly is/has been disucssing the possiblity of a day holiday for St David and Wales  is not even a nation! Wales is a principality and has never been a soveriegn nation state, yet the Welsh peoples have a strong identity, their own assembly government, a national anthem, a national flag and good luck to them. Now when can the English have the same respect??

Dr Strangelove: I too am proud to be part of the Union of my bretheren in Ireland, Scotland and Wales (see below) and therefore British. But I am English by birth and should be able to, as do the rest, celebrate that fact without predjudice against the union or its member nations. Agree 100% with the rest of what you say!

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