Happy St George’s Day From the British Prime Minister Who Can’t Bring Himself to Say ‘England’

Nobody who is in charge of a Western country is in as much hot water right now as Sir Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. It’s so bad, France’s Macron heard Starmer ask to hold his beer, Germany’s Merz is hiding behind a tree, and not even the risible and much despised PM of Australia, Anthony Albanese, comes close to the amount of incoming fire Starmer is receiving on every conceivable front from every conceivable angle, friend and foe.

It couldn’t have happened to a more deserving weasel.

In addition to twisting in the wind over his various stances on the current Iranian conflict and being flayed alive by the American president, Starmer is teetering on the edge of his literal Prime Minister’s seat as every new revelation in the ongoing scandal over his appointment of Epstein intimate Lord Peter Mandelson as Ambassador to the US bubbles to the surface.

Everyone wants to know how a man of such ill repute and who had failed his security vetting for the job was elevated in spite of that to such a prominent position?

Calls for a no-confidence vote and/or Starmer’s head are bouncing all around Whitehall and Parliament.

‘It is time for him to go’ – Tory leader backs call for no confidence vote in prime minister

Badenoch gives way briefly to the SNP’s Stephen Flynn, who asks the Tory leader if she believes there should be a vote of no confidence in the prime minister.

“I think he is right,” Badenoch replies. “Because I don’t believe the prime minister has the intention of doing the honourable thing himself, even though that is the standard to which he held everyone else.”

Conservatives even started what’s known as an ’emergency debate’ over the matter, which lasted nearly three days.

On Monday, Sir Keir denied accusations he had misled MPs when he told them last year that “full due process” had been followed during the appointment.

The government rulebook says ministers who knowingly mislead Parliament are expected to resign, while any inadvertent error should be corrected “at the earliest opportunity”.

But the prime minister insisted he would have acted differently had he been informed at the time about the results of the UKSV vetting.

Even so, the Conservatives secured an emergency debate on Tuesday, at which they argued Sir Keir should face a vote of no confidence.

Normally docile and timid Labour MPs were stepping forward to diss the party leader.

‘Dude’s gotta go before the election’ seems to be the overriding sentiment.

Brash told GB News: “I just think we need to get a handle on this because people out there are worried about their cost of living, they’re worried about their NHS, they’re worried about crime on their streets.

“We’re completely consumed by this scandal. And it’s completely…

— Politics UK (@PolitlcsUK) April 22, 2026

…”We’re completely consumed by this scandal. And it’s completely unacceptable. And as I’m sure you can tell, I’m quite angry about it”

Beege ADDS: Another one I just caught

🚨NEW: Hartlepool MP Jonathan Brash calls for Keir Starmer to resign on GB News. 🔥

‘I’m fed up to the back teeth with the psychodrama’

‘It’s not a case of if but WHEN’

‘I don’t think anybody reasonably expects him to lead us into the next election’. pic.twitter.com/Qm016Vv2a4

— Lee Harris (@LeeHarris) April 22, 2026

This all played out against those looming local elections coming up on 7 May that had already looked to be an epic wipeout in the making for Labour.

Predictably, the past week’s Peter ‘Prince of Darkness’ Mandelson/Starmer melodramatic scandal playing out live on the BBC and in the screaming headlines of the British papers has started to cost Labour support in polling in the last bastion they had left – London itself.

[CUE: panic alert]

Now even London turns on Starmer: Bombshell poll predicts Labour will suffer huge losses in the capital at next month’s local elections as Greens and Reform UK surge https://t.co/op50uW5Xa0

— Daily Mail (@DailyMail) April 22, 2026

If there’s one thing anyone can count on Keir Starmer to do well, that is absolutely not to rise to the occasion.

The milquetoast, mewling, perpetually prevaricating prime minister went on national TV and social media to wish everyone a Happy St George’s Day. Yes, the very patron saint of England whose flag Keir Starmer has had his Starmtroopers ripping from British hands and off light stanchions for a year, while threatening those who would dare to wave it with fines and imprisonment.

St George’s flag stands for unity over hatred and decency over division.

Those are the values I will always fight for.

Some try to hijack our flag to spread hate, I reject their plastic patriotism. https://t.co/b0V8dhKGjL

— Keir Starmer (@Keir_Starmer) April 23, 2026

And, boy, did the preachy, virtue-signalling wanker ever lay a dragon’s egg with his address.

Keir Starmer has used St George’s Day to attack people who fly the English flag.

He accuses them of hijacking the flag to spread hate and brands it “plastic patriotism”.

On England’s own national day, the Prime Minister is openly condemning ordinary patriots.

This man truly… pic.twitter.com/Rb4FS1JcbP

— British Intel (@TheBritishIntel) April 23, 2026

…This man truly despises traditional Britain.

On England’s national day, he never said ‘ENGLAND‘ once as he ripped up the English people for being unapologetic racists who were rejecting his woke world.

And how did Keir Starmer celebrate St George’s Day

By telling English people they’re racist and horrible if they don’t want to live in a multicultural, DEI, woke, retarded England. pic.twitter.com/hYwGHgP74J

— Basil the Great (@BasilTheGreat) April 23, 2026

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch said Englishmen should be proud to be part of one of the ‘greatest nations’ the world had ever seen.

Happy St George’s Day.

Be proud.

Fly the flag 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 pic.twitter.com/VErmHJY0MQ

— Kemi Badenoch (@KemiBadenoch) April 23, 2026

The Japanese ambassador to England was so delightful in contrast to the harping, scolding, ugliness of the British Prime Minister.

The Japanese Ambassador to the UK has a much classier and patriotic St George’s Day message than our own Prime Minister. https://t.co/uJQW2G07hP

— Chris Rose (@ArchRose90) April 23, 2026

Plastic flags. Appalling.

Starmer wishes everyone a happy St George’s Day by slagging off ‘plastic patriots’…while standing in front of cheap plastic flags. pic.twitter.com/99xg5lLGPo

— Patrick Christys (@PatrickChristys) April 23, 2026

Even Larry the Cat knows what the St George flag means as opposed to the sod he has to share that house with.

“The game’s afoot: follow your spirit, and upon this charge, cry ‘God for Harry, England, and Saint George!’”
Wishing all my followers a very happy St George’s Day x pic.twitter.com/B9iBJzjRKm

— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) April 23, 2026

And Proud of Us UK whipped up one of their delightful claymation history lessons to explain how a martyred Cappadocian (modern Turkey) Praetorian Guard commander from 303 AD became the beloved patron saint of England.

It’s pretty great, as all their short films are, and, as with all romanticised legends, subject to some historical revisions itself. See Winston Marshall’s Xweet below it.

The flag was not Genoese in 1099. Nor did richard the lionheart sign a treaty with them. That’s a Victorian myth. The earliest evidence that Genoa used a cross insignia is from 1218. Barbary pirates didn’t exist yet.

The Red Cross on white banner had by then long been the symbol…

— Winston Marshall (@MrWinMarshall) April 23, 2026

303 AD. The Emperor orders him to persecute Christians.

He refuses. Walks into the throne room. Tells the Emperor his order is cruel.

They offer him his life back. Gold. Land. His old command.

He refuses again.

23rd of April, 303. They behead him.

1,723 years ago today.

The flag was Genoese. 1099. Their navy was so feared that Barbary pirates turned home at the sight of it.

In 1190, Richard the Lionheart signed a treaty. English ships could fly the cross for protection.

We flew it so long we forgot it wasn’t ours.

In 2018, the Mayor of Genoa wrote to the Queen asking for 247 years of back rent.

She didn’t reply.

Edward III makes George our patron saint.

Henry V cries his name at Agincourt.

A Roman soldier from Cappadocia became the name Englishmen died for.

We didn’t inherit our patron saint. We chose him. And we chose a soldier who refused.

That is your history.

This is who we are. 🇬🇧

We find what Britain has forgotten. And we tell it properly.

…The Red Cross on white banner had by then long been the symbol of the Knights Templars. 

But the Cross of St George was in fact originally ours. The earliest place anywhere in the world that the Red Cross on white field is explicitly named “the cross of St George” is in England in 1277.

Not a dragon in sight, either, and I prefer that version.

GOD FOR HARRY, ENGLAND, AND ST GEORGE!

Oh, if they lose that for good, they are truly lost.

But when you’ve a prime minister who can’t bear to say ‘England’?

How far from the edge are you?

I will wish them Happy St George’s Day while we still can.

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