'It's time to spread the love for England's patron saint!' Why the West Midlands should all be putting out the flags for St George's Day
What are you doing for St George's Day, then?
Nothing much? Well I don't suppose you will be alone. One of the things that has made me increasingly sad over the years is how muted the celebrations for England's patron saint have become.
I'll admit, I should do a bit more myself. My car club used to mark the occasion with a celebratory dinner, but that sort of fizzled out after lockdown.
Walk around almost any town or city centre on St Patrick's Day, and you will see pubs decked out with shamrocks and folk who have never set foot on the Emerald Isle knocking back the cut-price Guinness. Anybody with the most tenuous link to Wales finds it necessary to mark St David's Day, and it would take a brave man to tell the Scots to pipe down on St Andrew's Day.
Yet when it comes to St George's Day, the celebrations are half-hearted at best. I will probably stick a couple of flags on the car, and a clip of Vera Lynn on Twitter, and that's about it.
Personally, I blame the slebs.
