Originally Posted by cassie

Oh no! Let's indulge ourselves! There [not 'they're' or 'their'!] are typographical errors and . . .

All that is being suggested here is that people signify their support for England by nominating St George's Day but you'd rather expend much greater time and illiterate effort finding excuses not to do that simple thing!

Perhaps if the expenditure on Education per capita in England had matched that in Scotland and Wales for the last fifty or so years (ie preceding the Barnett formula being introduced to institutionalise hitherto ad hoc arrangements), we might have fewer [NB Not 'less'] individuals on this board who, wittingly or otherwise, betray their inability to write correct English.

We all make spelling errors from time to time, but in too many cases, the evidence goes well beyond that! We even have the odd individual posting the phonetic error of "would of" when they should have written "would have" ~ of course!

Nit picking rules! OK!

Originally Posted by rjt

I am not in favour of it because I think it would not achieve anything. It is a gimmick, nothing more nothing less so the best thing to do is to have the debate about how to get a fair settlement for England and thus strengthening the Union.

Originally Posted by cassie

HEAVY man!

Originally Posted by rjt

I have to agree with the last contirbution, what would be its purpose?

Originally Posted by youcanhandlethetruth

Like all cheap political stunts, the purpose is to gain cheap political favour and push the myth's about Britain being "proud" and "great" whilst the government f**k up the country and our lives as much as they can.
Every time the government act like they are so good and take the moral highground the truth is always the exact opposite...
It's called P R O P A G A N D A.................

So I say f**k your "British" day Gordon, give us our referendum (you traitorous scumbag)

Originally Posted by rjt

I would rather look at the real problems facing The UK today then waste my time on silly things like this, so I suppose that is a bit Heavy Man!

Originally Posted by cassie

Which poses the question: Why have you wasted your professedly ultra valuable time pouring cold water on this?

As I said early on, your are nit picking, by your own definition. I'm filled with admiration! [For the avoidance of doubt, this is irony.]

Originally Posted by Ayn Rand

"Socialism is the doctrine that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that his life and his work do not belong to him, but belong to society, that the only justification of his existence is his service to society, and that society may dispose of him in any way it pleases for the sake of whatever it deems to be its own tribal, collective good."

Originally Posted by Britannist

I support St. George's Day/Shakespeare's Birthday being made a Bank/public holiday in England.

But there is also a need for a Bank Holiday sometime in the Autumn. At present, in the long period between the end of August and Christmas Day there is not one single Bank Holiday.

I think that people would welcome a Bank Holiday in November which some might use to do some of their Christmas shopping (assuming that many shops are open on that day).