St. George, the English Flag, and the Left’s Hatred of England

 

The Left cannot leave England alone. Every time they see the Cross of St. George, they foam with rage, as though a red cross on a white background were a personal insult to their politics. They brand it “racist,” “fascist,” or “colonial,” as though the flag of England were nothing more than a crime scene. They loathe it because it is English, and their real enemy is England itself. So they go after its patron saint. The latest sneer is that St. George was “actually Turkish” or “Palestinian.” This is the sort of historical gibberish only the terminally dishonest could peddle. St. George lived in the 3rd century, as a Christian soldier of the Roman Empire. Turkey did not exist until a thousand years later. The idea of a “Palestinian nation” is a 20th-century political fabrication. To call St. George “Turkish” or “Palestinian” is not history, it is propaganda. It is a lie deliberately told to strip England of one of her oldest symbols. And notice the double standard. Nobody tells the Irish to give up St. Patrick because he was not Irish. Nobody lectures the Scots that St. Andrew never set foot in Scotland. Only England is expected to surrender her symbols, abandon her saints, and apologise for her history. Why? Because England, more than any other nation in these islands, is the one the Left cannot forgive. England is the nation that built, defended, and defined this country. To destroy England, they must first destroy her pride. But St. George was not chosen by accident. His legend, the slayer of dragons, the defender of the innocent, the martyr who defied tyranny, is the perfect emblem of the English spirit. That is why medieval knights, Crusaders, kings, and poets rallied under his cross. That is why Shakespeare gave Henry V the cry “God for Harry, England, and St. George!” His flag is not some “racist dog whistle.” It is the living emblem of England itself, flown for nearly a thousand years. This is what the Left hates: continuity, pride, rootedness. They want the English people stripped of memory, ashamed of their own heritage, reduced to consumers with no past and no flag. Their lies about Turkey and Palestine are not about accuracy, they are about humiliation. If they can make you believe your own saint is “foreign,” they can make you believe England is a fraud. The truth is simple: St. George is England’s patron saint because England made him so. His virtues were chosen, his legend embraced, his flag raised. The modern Left has no authority to rewrite that. They are not guardians of history; they are its vandals. Their shrieks about St. George are the death rattle of a movement that has nothing to offer but erasure. So let us be clear: the Cross of St. George is not theirs to slander. It is not Turkey’s, not Palestine’s, not the property of internationalist ideologues who despise nations. It is England’s flag. It belongs to every Englishman who still has the courage to stand beneath it. The dragon we face today is not myth. It is the ideology of shame, the gnawing hatred of our own country, the demand that we erase ourselves in the name of “progress.” St. George’s story is the answer: confront the dragon, and kill it. Fly the flag, loudly, proudly, and without apology. England does not need permission to exist. And her flag does not need an explanation.