Bloody madness!

[opaline57]

BAN CHRISTMAS. IN FACT, BAN BRITAIN!

Some of you may have seen this madness, but get a load of this if you haven't...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=490925&in_page_id=1770&ct=5

Come on folks, time to get rid of 'Nu Labour' me thinks! Send them to the Tower! I can just see Gordon's head on a stake on Tower

Comments

[wendylady1]

Opaline,
Yes, but this is this is the Daily Mail ...what do you expect ?!!

They are just having yet another hissy fit about some perceived intention to make us all less English !!
What fantastic nonsense !!

If you read between the lines with this article, it will reveal that there is not a lot wrong with their intentions actually, but a whole lot of people seem to have taken it all the wrong way...

It's a well known fact that the Mail thinks that the Government wants us all to give up our essential Englishness, in the interests of racial equality, along with giving up the glorious English Pound ( which, in itself, is only about 28 years old anyway ), which is all a load of twaddle...

Nowhere in the Government's proposals do I see anything about actually doing away with Christmas...and for this newspaper to suggest that they want to ban Nativity plays is sensationalist and arrogant nonsense...

All the Government is proposing is for local councils to recognise other festivals along side those in the Christian calendar, where ever

[opaline57]

I'm well aware of the inadequacies of the Daily Mail! I myself am a Times reader. I picked the Mail simply because it had a fuller story on the internet, but it was on other newspaper sites too including the Times and the Guardian, plus yahoo where I originally found it.

Now, I might agree with you if it wasn't for several things:

1. 'Nu Labour' has been chipping away at our freedom for the past 10 years. You're sometimes better off being the perpetrator of a crime than the victim these days. And as for displaying any opinion outside of the Houses of Parliament, well, we know where that bit of 'freedom of speech' leads you.

2. Birmingham council tried a few years ago to rename Christmas 'Winterval'. Several councils have banned decorations and according to several reports 3/4 of employers don't put up decorations in the workplace for fear of offending other cultures.

3. I worked in ILEA (Inner London Education Authority, as it was known when I was teaching - early 80s) when Nativities were actually banned - and Christian content

[opaline57]

Sorry, I think you updated your post while I was writing mine!!

[wendylady1]

Opaline

[opaline57]

You're right about the Mail and Express. I had the temerity to point this out to a Mail reader once (my step mother-in-law: ouch!) and she was most offended. (I hasten to add that I didn't mean to offend her.) At least we're still in a country where you can make outrageous claims. I find that kind of reassuring.

As for Christmas, good old Bluewater has the decos up and ready to shine on the 8th. Now there's a bit of Christmas - the prematureness of it that is, not the decos themselves - I would love to be rid of!

Thanks for your comments Wendy - it would be nice to see you for real sometime. :)

[wendylady1]

Opaline,
"As for Christmas, good old Bluewater has the decos up and ready to shine on the 8th. "Blimey, that is a bit early !!! I take it that means the 8th October

[opaline57]

No, for 8th November, but they did put them up overnight. No kidding. Last Monday, I popped in during the day - no sign of any decos. Tuesday evening I went in for a drink with Andrew, almost everything - trees, lights, giant reindeer, water decos - in place all over Bluewater.

Now I'm just waiting for the first house along the main road in the next village to light up. They get earlier every year!