From: WORD_CHEMIST@HOTMAIL.COM   
      
   'Dear old Blunkett could be heard denouncing the "political correctness"   
   that for so long had prevented the English from waving their national   
   symbol.   
   Down with "political correctness" said this ex-leader of Sheffield City   
   Council, and I leave it to you to savour the enormous and blissful hypocrisy   
   of it all.   
      
   These are the same Labour apparatchiks who have spent their political lives   
   trying to banish this symbol from our national iconography.   
   Imagine what would have happened, even three years ago, if you and I had   
   crept into the car park and slapped a St George bumper sticker on the rump   
   of Tessa's ministerial limo. Imagine her horror when she came upon it. Her   
   hands would have flown to her mouth; she would have given a little gasp, and   
   then with feverish fingernails she would have tried to detach this appalling   
   mark of the Little Englanders, and its horrible associations: pitbulls with   
   studded collars and five-bellied owners with buzzcuts and beer bottles   
   thudding on the bonces of foreign football fans; long, hot weed-gardened   
   terraces in Essex with satellite dishes on the walls and nothing on the   
   shelves inside save a few back numbers of The Spectator, and possibly the   
   odd well-thumbed polemic by Roger Scruton or Simon Heffer...'   
      
   http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2006/06/08/do0801   
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