My long anticipated first blog

I would like to begin by acknowledging the work of two well established bloggers who have inspired me to put fingertip to keyboard. I refer of course to Bob Piper, a much loved and consistently insightful councillor and theatre aficionado here in the Abbey ward and also Brummie Tory, who is a Tory from Birmingham. I think. Cheers lads. Anyway, on the long and achingly tedious bus journey from the social democratic citadel that is my house to Dudley College (where I am, among other things, a student) I have noticed a number of BNP signs affixed to lamposts - a remarkable feat when you consider the average British National Party activist's lack of opposable digits - bearing the snappily inane slogan 'People like you, voting BNP'. Firstly I would suggest that most people like me would require a significant incentive ( a gun to the head/testicles springs to mind) to mark their cross next to an incompetent gaggle of fascists; secondly, I notice it is St George's Day on Monday and, as uncomfortable as some creatures of the left are with the concept of patriotism, I think it's important that everybody who shares a vision of Englishness that denies nobody the right to belong are prepared to come out to celebrate and present a positive alternative to the BNP's unrelenting diet of poisonous lies, childlike perversions of logic and crap folk tunes. We owe it to our communities and to ourselves.