Dates that will be actively celebrated in Birmingham in 2009 are as follows:
Sunday 1st February Chinese New Year
Sunday 15th March St Patrick’s Day
Saturday 25th April St Georges Day
Late April Vaisakhi
Saturday 23rd to 25th May Gay Pride
Monday 25th Lord Mayors Show
Mid July Eid Mela
Early September Gardners Weekend
Late September Eid Al Fithr
Saturday 10th October World Mental Health Day
Mid November Diwali and Christmas Lights
Mid November to December Frankfurt Market
Thursday 31st December New Years Eve Fireworks
Sunday 1st February Chinese New Year
Sunday 15th March St Patrick’s Day
Saturday 25th April St Georges Day
Late April Vaisakhi
Saturday 23rd to 25th May Gay Pride
Monday 25th Lord Mayors Show
Mid July Eid Mela
Early September Gardners Weekend
Late September Eid Al Fithr
Saturday 10th October World Mental Health Day
Mid November Diwali and Christmas Lights
Mid November to December Frankfurt Market
Thursday 31st December New Years Eve Fireworks
Can you see any obvious omissions? Yes, that's right, Easter and Christmas are not there!
Christmas is included in Diwali and Christmas Lights, which of course is only to incorporate Festival of Lights with the turning on of the city lights. The new C word seems to be all but erased with the council's ongoing agenda of replacing Christianity and Englishness from the record books and replacing them with non-christian non-English events, to ingratiate themselves with the ever growing hordes of non-UK colonists encamping themselves within our shores. The surprise is the emergence of St George, probably because of the controversy of our neighbours in Sandwell and their own St Georges day celebration.
Not only that, but there's also a 3 day weekend to celebrate THE most unnatural of all things, the homosexual. I am not homophobic, and have several openly gay friends, but I say to them (in a similar way that Mr Frank Forte so eloquently put it at a lecture recently) "You can do whatever you like in the privacy of your own Closet, but do not inflict your unnatural acts and ways upon me and my family"
[I envisage a point where The Glorious City Council may vilify The Evil George and his actions against that heroic Muslim dragon that martyred himself in the name of Allah]
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