"Your suggestion of a Bank Holiday to celebrate St George’s Day has been one of the popular suggestions we have received. However, there are other very popular suggestions, including one for a new ‘British Day’ after Remembrance Sunday to celebrate the contribution of our Armed Forces.' War-Don Brown - unsere Iron Chancellor. Old Welsh saying: Gwae gwr a gasau'r gwlad a'i maco.
It seems we are to have a rubbish bank holiday - a politically bankrupt 'Army Day' to watch chairman Brown and the parade of tanks, regiments and ballyhoo. This pseudo nationhood day is appalling - we want to keep our soggy Britishness, undefined, all things to all men, but basically a lukewarm cup of tea, sympathy and a revulsion from the dogmatist. Leave Remembrance Sunday as it is - quiet and dignified. I gave two dead grandfathers to the "British'. One a soldier - conscripted after eight years of unemployment - he paid full whack died 1942. The other a miner, dying of Emphysema, he had to keep working despite being ill, he was supported by his 'team' but clearly died all the quicker for it, his widow lasted less than 6 months. If you are serious about the British thing - why the delay in payment for thousands of miners industrial injuries by dust?
Gordons Army Day will speed the break-up of Britain. At least for Scotland. The empire is dead - leave it alone as a history. What we want is a nice summery day of beer, morris dancing and chilling out - St Georges Day. Nothing Less. Dim byd llai na hynny. Ond 'hir yr arosir wrth borth y byddar' a'r hen gono ma o sgotyn yn styfnig, yn fyddar ac yn ddall.
