Political prisoner, activist, journalist, hymn-writer, emerging thinktanker, aspiring novelist, "tribal elder", 2019 parliamentary candidate for North West Durham, Shadow Leader of the Opposition, "Speedboat", "The Cockroach", eagerly awaiting the second (or possibly third) attempt to murder me.
Saturday, 17 March 2012
Happy Saint Patrick's Day
God Save The Queen.
Like Saint George's Day, Saint Andrew's Day and Saint David's Day, this ought to be a public holiday throughout the United Kingdom, and away with pointless celebrations of the mere fact that the banks are on holiday.
Amen! As my father said, she has a soul to save as well as everybody else. And he was an Irish Republican! He insisted that I respectfully stand for the British National anthem at the Horse Show in Dublin when Britain would win. A big man in every way.
I agree about the Holidays for the national Patron saints.
As an Englishman with a Scottish grandfather, a great lifetime friend who was Welsh, and a close working colleague who is very much Irish, I wholeheartedly agree. Let's strengthen the links between all people on these islands (including the Irish Republic) rather than looking for ways to tear us apart. Save us from politicians with grandiose ideas.
It has never been much to the forefront of my mind before but why should we have a holiday just because the banks are closed; is this a justifiable cause for a public holiday? Especially when we have internet banking and holes in the wall. With these facilities it could be said that banks are never closed - even on bank holidays.
How nice to see EF Pastor Emeritus blogging on here.
Look out, perhaps, for a No vote in the impending austerity referendum.
When told from Brussels and Frankfurt that they have nowhere else to go, the Irish will be able to reply, "Yes we have, and more of us have always lived there than lived here."
90 years is really not very long, and so many of the ties have never even begun to be broken.
Stranger things have happened. Irish "independence" in the first place, for one.
Amen! As my father said, she has a soul to save as well as everybody else. And he was an Irish Republican! He insisted that I respectfully stand for the British National anthem at the Horse Show in Dublin when Britain would win. A big man in every way.
ReplyDeleteI agree about the Holidays for the national Patron saints.
As an Englishman with a Scottish grandfather, a great lifetime friend who was Welsh, and a close working colleague who is very much Irish, I wholeheartedly agree. Let's strengthen the links between all people on these islands (including the Irish Republic) rather than looking for ways to tear us apart. Save us from politicians with grandiose ideas.
ReplyDeleteIt has never been much to the forefront of my mind before but why should we have a holiday just because the banks are closed; is this a justifiable cause for a public holiday? Especially when we have internet banking and holes in the wall. With these facilities it could be said that banks are never closed - even on bank holidays.
How nice to see EF Pastor Emeritus blogging on here.
Look out, perhaps, for a No vote in the impending austerity referendum.
ReplyDeleteWhen told from Brussels and Frankfurt that they have nowhere else to go, the Irish will be able to reply, "Yes we have, and more of us have always lived there than lived here."
90 years is really not very long, and so many of the ties have never even begun to be broken.
Stranger things have happened. Irish "independence" in the first place, for one.
I suspect that we have Bank Holidays because in the land where Mammon is worshipped money is considered sacred!
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