[Mrluvaluva]

......but it's ok if you are a Pole


Pubs banned English drinkers from marking St George’s Day with a pint yesterday but kept their doors open for Polish immigrants.

The Punch And Judy pub in Covent Garden, central London, barred anyone wearing the cross of St George, the English flag. Even a lapel badge was enough for a reveller to be shown the door.

In London, barred drinker Lisa Rathbone, 29, fumed: “We are not thugs, we have come out to celebrate St George’s Day and have a normal drink.

“Who the hell’s country is this now?”

A spokesman for Spirit Group, which owns the Punch And Judy, said: “We had problems last year.

“We stopped people coming in to protect the safety of other drinkers. This wasn’t intended to offend anyone.”

A similar ban sparked a riot in Boston, Lincs – where a quarter of the population now are immigrants – after a pub put up a sign saying: “No English.”

Shops were looted, a police car was torched and windows smashed by enraged yobs.

Rioters caused £1million damage in Boston after the “No English” sign was put up at a pub in the town after England lost 2-1 to France at Euro 2004.





Original article here

[Lauren]

"but kept their doors open for Polish immigrants." - Umm... why did they mention Polish immigrants? Why Polish? Why Immigrants? They're legal, they don't need mentioning. They didn't specifically encourage Poles into the pub.

Furthermore, good on them. The only way the English know how to celebrate St Georges day is to troop down the street en masse in flags (as a cape) made in India, to go into a pub to drink Foreign beer, and finish it off with a nice Italian pizza. Nice one English, you have no identity.