Cry God for England, Harry, and St. George!

The result of giving the Scots and the Welsh their own assemblies is that the English are feeling left out. So they have responded by flying the red cross flag of St. George to show their English, rather than British, patriotism.

The Labour government and their many minions in the vast British state sector disapprove of this mild rebelliousness. They look down upon nation states and patriotism. Just like our liberals in the US.

And anyway, flying the flag of St. George instead of the Union Jack is considered, well, sort of a “chav” thing.

But with England playing against Paraguay in the World Cup this weekend the flags of St. George, the patron saint of England, are all over London.

And New Labour is caving in to the spirit of Englishness, as Boris Johnson is delighted to celebrate.

Surrender! At last! For you, Blair, the culture war is over. Downing Street yesterday ran up the white flag - the one with the red cross on it. For the period of the World Cup, said a cowed Labour spokesman, the emblem of St George would fly from No 10 [Downing Street].

See what I mean. The Little Englanders are out celebrating. Of course, there are some who have not got the message.

Across England yesterday there were still Leftist forces that were keeping up resistance, oblivious to the Hirohito-like capitulation of the high command. In the country's Labour-controlled urban jungles, the culture warriors fought on with the pointlessness of Japanese privates lost in Burma in 1945.



In Salford City Council there was still a bonkers cell of Marxists, who insisted that the England flag be banned from all vehicles in its control.

So why not go over the top and declare that things will never be the same?

It is the cultural equivalent of the storming of the Bastille or the Winter Palace. It is a revolution that was born among the scaffolders and the taxi drivers and the pub owners, and then spread to the bourgeoisie to the point where the Labour elite knew they could no longer contain it; they had to co-opt it.

All that, just by flying the red cross flag of St. George?

Well, why not? England is meeting Paraguay in the World Cup on Saturday and every good Englishman wants them to win.