Tales of Christmas past
December 20th, 2006I was reading the paper on the train this morning and noticed a few thought-provoking stories about how the Christmas experience has changed over the past 50 years. Ok, so I wasn’t around 50 years ago, but I could empathise with a lot of what was said.
For me Christmas is/was about the coming together of people who you cared about, enjoying family times and showing those close to you that you cared for them. It was also about celebrating traditions, namely British traditions.
These days it seems that we can’t even call Christmas by its traditional name, it now has to be “Winter Festival” or some other politcally correct term, as not to offend non-Christian residents (I don’t grumble about Ramadan or whatever…) What’s next, is Santa Claus gonna become outlawed as his red outfit is not appreciated by some minority group. It goes further though. The once merry times associated with the office party: having a few drinks, stealing a kiss with a stranger under the mistletoe now result in a law suit and losing your job, rather than a touch of embarassment and an apology on a Monday morning.
Christmas has been commercialised to the extent that we now get adverts and decorations on sale as early as September and companies such as Debenhams branding the experience with slogans such as “Christmas designed by Debenhams”.
It just makes me sick to the stomach. It seems in the race for politcal correctness, commercialism and creating a mulitcultural society, we in Britain have lost our sense of tradition and nationality. The idea of a common set of beliefs binding together a group of people into one common culture is one pillar of building a nation. We can’t even do that anymore because there is no common set of beliefs, because we have about 10000001 different nationalities overcrowding our small island. I am not saying that I think we should revert to an all-white fascist state, but tightening the door on immigration, severing our ties with that c*nt Bush and taking care of what happens at home rather than spending millions on fighting pointless wars 1000’s of miles away would be a bloody good start.
But I digress…
Couple that with climate change, and the much-treasured notion of a “white Christmas” has become a thing of the past.
Anyway all that aside, I am looking forward to spending time with my family and friends over the Christmas period, having the time to sit down at the table, share a few drinks and laughs and appreciate that we are lucky to have what we do.
Will things change in this country? Will the sense of tradition and what is British be completely lost, I don’t know, but some action is needed pretty smwifly, before this country ends as the sewer for Europe.
Here, here. Watch out Melanie Phillips is all I can say!
Although if I may offer a small nugget of constructive criticism, you seem to be getting a touch muddled with the special relationship, war on terror and the erosion of British values and flood of immigrants; who offer nothing except dilution of our morals, steadfast ways and prop to the pensions and NHS.
Posted on: December 20th, 2006 at 12:13 pmAcross the nation, Christmas lights are being renamed winter lights, Santa is being outlawed, and children caught singing Silent Night are being removed from their families and converted to Islam by lottery-funded lesbian asylum-seekers. Its a shocking disgrace, and goes to show how far this country has slipped since the glorious hayday of the victorian era.
Posted on: December 20th, 2006 at 12:29 pmWhat a bunch of pompous claptrap. I could almost understand your piffling rant if you were an 80 year old miserable man, but you are not!
Posted on: December 20th, 2006 at 1:01 pmWhats the matter with you?
Happy Eid
you epitomyise the winging pomme mentality. The commonwealth no longer exists old boy. Nothing that much has changed in your or my lifetime except for the fact the world is a generally smaller place with greater emphasis put human liberty and equality.
Posted on: December 21st, 2006 at 5:39 amPlease accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes for
an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low stress, non-addictive, gender neutral celebration of the summer solstice holiday,
practiced with the most enjoyable traditions of religious persuasion or
secular practices of your choice with respect for the religious/secular
persuasions and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice
religious or secular traditions at all.
I also wish you a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling and medically
Posted on: December 21st, 2006 at 6:31 amuncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year 2007, but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures whose contributions to society have helped make Great Britain great (not to imply that Great Britain is necessarily greater than any other country) and without regard to the race, creed, color, age, physical ability, religious faith or sexual preference of the wishee.