Petitions tagged with 'St George'

• Declare St George's Day an English National Holiday
  I strongly believe that St George's Day (23rd April), should be declared an English National Holiday so that every Englishman/woman can celebrate their Patron Saint. England is the only country within the UK that does not have an official Holiday to [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• Statue of Adam Clayton
  A statue of Adam Clayton, to be built in Huddersfield Town, preferably in St George's Square. The Statue will have Clayton feeling his beard in a pleasurable fashion. [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• St. George's day & St. David's day bank holidays!
  In England we have no real recognition for St. George's day currently and this is wrong. Most nations celebrate their patron saints with pride, but we are currently denied that opportunity. This needs to change. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Tuesday 2 December 2014, Signatures: 276
• Immigration
  Protect the 5.5 Million British Migrants that have moved to other countries. [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• Celebrate St. George's Day
  We want St. George's Day to be a public holiday. It should be a celebration of all things England. Ireland celebrate St. Patrick's Day, so why shouldn't we be able to celebrate St. George's Day? [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Tuesday 29 April 2014, Signatures: 45
• Service and Burial of King Richard III should be held in a Roman Catholic church or Cathedral.
  Richard III was a Roman Catholic and upheld the Roman Catholic Church as the Ark of Salvation just like all English Kings had done for nine hundred years and more before him, and two Kings (until Henry Tudor's change) after him. Richard III did not [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Friday 29 August 2014, Signatures: 330
• That King Richard III's Roman Catholic Faith be recognised and respected.
  Richard III was a Roman Catholic and upheld the Roman Catholic Church as the Ark of Salvation just like English Kings had done for nine hundred years and more before him and two Kings (until Henry Tudor's change) after him. Richard III did not and [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• TO HAVE AN ENGLISH DAY BANK HOLIDAY ST GEORGES DAY
  You are one of many thousands of people in England that love their country and want to celebrate St. George's Day with a bank holiday on 23 April. We are a group of unpaid volunteers that promote England's national day and lobby MPs and local [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• Petition to get Radstock Town Council to fly the St George's flag, as it is not offensive to Muslims
  A council in Somerset banned local residents from flying the national flag on Armistice Day, after a councillor sparked controversy by claiming it offended Muslims. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Sunday 17 November 2013, Signatures: 8
• Make St. George's Day A Public Bank Holiday
  The aim of this E-Petition is to establish the demand for St George's Day to be adopted as a Public Bank Holiday in England, on par with St David's Day (Wales), St Andrew's Day (Scotland) and St Patrick's Day (Northern Ireland). The United Kingdom [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• Democratic right to vote on important issues by the electorate by email
  In light of the recent spending of an estimated ten million pounds by the government for the funeral of the late Lady Thatcher. We request the right for all the electorate to given the opportunity to vote electronically to say yes or no if they want [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Wednesday 16 April 2014, Signatures: 4
• Make St George's Day a Bank Holiday
  We the undersigned call on the government to make St George's day a bank holiday in celebration of our patron saint...... [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• King Arthur's Day instead of St George's Day
  King Arthur was a true leader or Britain, with many tales of his knights, round tables, sword in the stone, the lady of the lake, merlin and stonehenge and the list goes on. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Saturday 12 April 2014, Signatures: 4
• st georges day bank holiday
  I beleive it is a matter of National pride that we should have St George`s day as a bank holiday, every other UK country has their saints day as a public holiday. I am aware of the impact of another bank holiday, so why not change one of the two May [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• Make St George's Day a Bank Holiday
  The Irish have a Bank Holiday to celebrate St Patrick's Day. Quite frankly I am astounded the 23rd of April, isn't a National Bank Holiday for England to celebrate and remember St George. [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• Make St George's Day a Public Holiday.
  St. Patricks Day has been a bank holiday in Ireland for 100 years, St. Andrews Day was recently made a bank holiday in Scotland and Wales have St. Davids Day. It is obviously unfair that the English should not be given an opportunity to celebrate [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• Make St. George's Day a bank holiday
  We celebrate Ireland's national day, so we should celebrate our own as well! [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• Surrey University and St George's Hospital Medical School
  This petition calls for the government to encourage the merger of these two institutions. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Wednesday 2 October 2013, Signatures: 1
• Make St George's Day a Public Holiday.
  Our cultural heritage needs to be celebrated, make St George's day a public holiday and unite England! [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Saturday 28 September 2013, Signatures: 421
• Make St. George's Day a bank holiday in England
  St Patricks Day has been a bank holiday in Northern Ireland for 100 years, St Andrews Day was recently made a bank holiday in Scotland. It is obviously unfair that the English should not be given an opportunity to celebrate their patron saint on 23 [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Saturday 24 August 2013, Signatures: 193
• Separate Teams for England, Scotland, Wales at Rio Olympics
  When Hoy won gold in cycling his parents waved a sign with the Scottish flag, when Jones won gold in taekwondo she paraded a Welsh flag. None of the English competitors waved St George flags. Only the English truly support Team GB. It's time for us [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Saturday 17 August 2013, Signatures: 4
• Staff of St George of England and St Wilfrid’s dismissed!
  Staff at St George of England Specialist Engineering College and St Wilfrid’s R.C High School, in Bootle, have been issued with ‘termination of employment’ notices from Sefton Authority. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Friday 5 July 2013, Signatures: 900
• Make Ace Rimmer the Patron Saint of England
  As St George has been taken over by the far right , we need a new patron saint for England . Ace Rimmer is the type of stiff upper lip gungo ho Englishman we need as a role model for our young therefore I propose that he is make the new Patron Saint [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• Copyright the British Flag
  Copyright the British flag and flag of St George so that products/merchadise bearing this symbol can only be manufactured in Britain by British manufacturers. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Wednesday 6 February 2013, Signatures: 4
• Make St George's Day A National Holiday
  St Andrew's Day is a Bank Holiday for Scotland. [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• St. George's Day, Magna Carta Day and Trafalgar Day should all be annual national holidays.
  St. George's Day (23 April), Magna Carta Day (15 June), and Trafalgar Day (21 October) should all be annual national holidays. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Wednesday 7 November 2012, Signatures: 14
• Allow a "Made in England"/Cross of St George mark on English goods.
  Give people the choice to buy goods produced in England rather than just the UK. It would help English businesses as many English people will buy goods made in England. In Scotland, the Flag of St Andrew is used to distinguish between Scotlands and [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Sunday 16 December 2012, Signatures: 11
• Wales to be included in the Union Jack
  Wales had never been included on the British flag.. The crosses of St George, St Andrew and St Patrick are all there. I WANT THE GOVT TO INCUDE THE CROSS OF DEWI SANT (ST DAVID0. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Saturday 22 September 2012, Signatures: 10
• English Flag
  I want the goverment to change to union jack. why not have the cross of ST George as our nation flag as the welsh and scotland have there own. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Sunday 16 September 2012, Signatures: 8
• 'Sectarianism' and the Anti-English culture of Irish football clubs in Glasgow and 'Sectarianism'.
  In support of the ideal that the mere Anti-English culture of Irish football clubs in Glasgow (i.e. Rangers/Celtic) is not misrepresented as 'sectarianism' by political opportunists hoping to distract Scots from their own legitimate Anti-Scots [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Thursday 8 March 2012, Signatures: 2
• Saving Wandsworths Metropolitan Open Land (MOL)
  I object to appeal APPH5960A11/2156427 of refusal of Springfield Hospital Planning Application & Listed Buildings Consent 2010/3703/6. Support regeneration of SW London & St. George’s Hospital mental health facilities at Springfield. Accept patient [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• Make St. George's Day a national holiday
  Many countries have national holidays for their saints, so why shouldn't England have one? [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• Reclaiming England and her Youth
  Prison reform [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• Make St. George's Day a Bank Holiday
  A day for England. and it should be celebrated properly. The Irish celebrate St. Patrick's, The Scots celebrate St. Andrew's. So why don't the English celebrate St. George's? It's about time this changed and show our loyalty to this great and humble [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• 3 more annual Bank Holidays Please
  I would like the UK Government to consider the idea of introducing 3 more annual Bank Holidays: [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• Make St George's day a bank holiday.
  Scotland has St Andrew's day, America has the 4th of July, Australia has Australia day, so too should the English have a day to celebrate our nation. [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• St. George's Day to be a Bank Holiday in England
  In Scotland, St. Andrew's Day is a Bank Holiday, which means the Scots have one more Bank Holiday than the English. In Ireland (although not part of the UK), St. Patrick's day is a Bank Holiday. As usual, the English lose out. So, let's make St. [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• Make st. George's day a bank holiday
  Make st Georges day a bank holiday. Other saint days are more popular and I feel this would help make st Georges day a more celebrated occasion. [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• Make St. George's Day a Public (Bank) Holiday
  We petition the Government to make the 23rd April a public holiday in England in homage to England's patron saint St. George. [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• Bank holiday for national saints (St George, St David etc..)
  Each country should be given an additional bank holiday each year, on the date of their national saint. This will bring national pride about your country back to all walks of life, contributing to the Big Society and also causing minimal risk to [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• Make a bigger deal of St George's Day - Increase National Pride
  I would like to propose that a larger deal is made of ST George's Day. [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• Make St. George's Day a Public Holiday
  In Scotland, St. Andrew's Day is a public/bank holiday, the same is true for St. Patrick's Day in Ireland (and Orangemen's Day specifically in Northern Ireland). The English constituent of Great Britain currently have very little to be proud of. A [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Sunday 5 August 2012, Signatures: 4266
• St. George's Day parade in London
  We do not have a parade for our own patron saint in England, however we are happy to host one for St. Patrick's day (London) There should be one for our own patron saint where everyone can celebrate the fictonal but influential St. George. [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• Reclaim Our National Flags - Legislate!
  We demand that the Government takes back our national flags - The Cross of St. George, The Cross of St Andrew, and the Union Jack; from extremist groups now and forever! [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• Stop improper use of st George or British union flag
  It should be illegal to use the Great Britain Union flag or st George's flag to represent racist organisations or xenophobic political parties. This would ensure the flags are seen promoting a positive image at home and abroad. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Thursday 8 January 2015, Signatures: 2
• Bank holidays
  The United Kingdom has one of the lowest numbers of bank holidays across Europe. We believe not only is this unfair but also unproductive for the British public. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Monday 30 March 2015, Signatures: 19
• Petition to 'the right' of each British citizen to fly the flag of "The Union" and "St. George" outside of their residences.
  To guarantee the right of individuals to fly the Union Flag or the flag of St George, outside their place of residence. Days of flying the flag to be considered by Parliament. Suggestions being the national days of each country in the UK, days when [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• Build a multi-level car park at St George's hospital in Tooting.
  The car parking situation at St George's is woefully inadequate to deal with the size of the current hospital and its needs. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Monday 30 March 2015, Signatures: 6
• Please Don't Close St. George's RAF Chapel of Remembrance Biggin Hill
  By March 2016,the Royal Air Force/Ministry of Defence are withdrawing all support from the Chapel. If no one or group takes on the responsibility of this magnificent Memorial Chapel, it will be closed without access to the public or church [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Monday 30 March 2015, Signatures: 30884
• St George's day
  England needs to have a bank holiday on St George's day. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Monday 30 March 2015, Signatures: 1
• Thursday, April 23 - Public Holiday - St George's Day
  Scotland, Wales and Ireland all recognise St Andrew's Day, St David's Day and St Patrick's Day respecfully as Public Holidays. I think it's about time that we made St George's Day a public holiday so that England too can celebrate it's national [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Monday 30 March 2015, Signatures: 44
• create a new national holiday of sir winston churhill day
  Sir Winston Churchill did more for the country and world than St George, So there is a valid argument for the creation of a National Holiday to commemorate this Greatest of Britain's. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Monday 30 March 2015, Signatures: 1
• Does Ben Thaler Know The Rules of Rugby League?
  On 26/6/11 & 4/7/14, Nathan Brown was fined £2k (est.) for stating that, with Ben Thaler in charge, anything could happen in a Rugby League match. The RFL, in their self-assigned capacity as judge, jury and executioner, fined Brown to punish & [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• St George's day should be a bank holiday.
  We should all be proud to be English and have this day to celebrate it. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Thursday 21 January 2016, Signatures: 1042
• Make st George's day (April 23rd) a national bank holiday as it should already!
  April 23rd is an important and often overlooked day in the United kingdom,a lot of people scoffing at the thought, but why? We celebrate st Patrick's day without a second thought why has our own patron saint been forgotten? [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 0
• Make St.George's Day, 23rd April, a Bank Holiday in England.
  The Irish celebrate St.Patricks Day (17th March)-many English join in; the Scottish celebrate St.Andrews Day (30th November) and the Welsh celebrate St.Davids Day (1st March). The English don't hardly celebrate and many don't even know when [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 0
• Make St George's day (23rd April) a Public Holiday.
  It used to be celebrated on the same level as Christmas Day back in the 15th century. A number of other countries celebrate their "national" day and i believe that England should as well. In recent years the popularity of St. George's Day appears to [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 0
• To help establish St George's Day as a national holiday for England.
  I wish to start the petition to help gain support for St George's Day becoming a national holiday, a day to celebrate and reconnect with our roots and to celebrate the life of England's patron saint. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Sunday 24 July 2016, Signatures: 828
• Make St. George’s Day an interchangeable National Bank Holiday.
  England is one of a very select few who do not yet hold the privilege of being granted their National Patron Saints day off work as a Bank Holiday. We are suggesting that St. George’s Day be introduced as an interchangeable national bank holiday, [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Monday 1 August 2016, Signatures: 2333
• Introduce a Bank Holiday for St. George's and St. David's Day
  Since 1903 Ireland/Northern Ireland have had a Bank Holiday for St. Patrick's Day and since 2007 Scotland have had a Bank Holiday for St. Andrew's Day, however England and Wales unlike the rest of the United Kingdom do not have a Bank Holiday for [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Monday 8 August 2016, Signatures: 58
• Make St George's Day a bank holiday
  St George's Day should be a bank holiday we should celebrate the day Ireland celebrate St Patricks day Scotland celebrate St Andrew's day so we should be able to [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 0
• Make st George's day a national public holiday in England
  Other countries (Scotland) in the uk have a more recognised patrons day than England and have a public national holiday for st Andrews day. England is long overdue a national public holiday for st George's day. [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 0
• Make St George's Day a Bank Holiday and God Save the Queen!
  Let us the people celebrate the fact we are English and make St George's day a bank holiday! [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 0
• Get Nigel farage a knighthood
  Nigel farage is the only leader being patriotic and the only one that cares about britains values and st George's day he only thinks of Britain not every other country [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 0
• St George's Day in England to become an official Bank Holiday in England.
  England will then be aligned with the position that pertains in Wales, Scotland and Ireland with their Patron Saints. [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 0
• Take pride and be fair to the English - make St. George's day a Bank Holiday.
  If the Scots get a St. Andrew's Bank Holiday (not to mention free university tuition compared to £27,000 for the English) and the Irish get a St. Patrick's Bank Holiday - why do the English lose out again in not getting a St. George's Bank Holiday? [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 0
• To make August Bank Holiday Monday reclassified as ‘England Day.’
  Given the rich and illustrious history of England, I propose that this day be given a new name and purpose and call it 'England Day?’ By a stroke of good fortune, historical evidence suggests that this time of year coincides with the emergence of [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Thursday 22 December 2016, Signatures: 18
• Let's get Apple to add the St George's flag to the emoji's
  Apple have added most the flags around the world but no St George's flag??? [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 0
• Wales to be recognised in the Union flag for the UKs new start after brexit.
  There has been calls for Wales to be recognised in the Union flag for some time and now is the time for it to happen. [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 0
• Reinstate St.George flag.
  England is clearly on its own after seeing Scotland and Northern Ireland wanting to remain in the EU. [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 0
• Make St George's day a public holiday.
  Theresa May's first act as Prime Minister should be to make St George's day a public holiday thereby uniting all of England through patriotism as well as helping to boost the British Economy. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Saturday 21 January 2017, Signatures: 12
• Make it illegal to use national flags for party political purposes.
  National symbols, e.g. the Union Jack and St George's Cross, are often used by political parties wishing to add legitimacy to their views. This means that symbols that should represent everyone, regardless of politics, ethnicity or religion, have [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Sunday 29 January 2017, Signatures: 17
• Bring in a law to stop any more buildings over 30 floors being built in London.
  London isn't Manhattan. Our original environment is dwarfed by mega-towers that no-one lives in. Let's ask the Government to bring in planning law to prevent any more towers over 30 floors being built in Central London. Those extra floors aren't [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Monday 13 March 2017, Signatures: 11
• We want to make St George's Day an English Bank Holiday.
  St George is the patron saint of England and we want to recognise his importance and what he did. It is also the birth and death day of William Shakespeare, an amazing writer. Other countries celebrate their saint day and we think that it is only [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 0
• Stop passport checks on pregnant NHS patients
  The proposals by St. George's University Hospital Trust, and backed by the Home Office, that pregnant people would be subject to mandatory passport checks before being able to access care to crack down on "health tourism" are deeply worrying, steeped [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Friday 14 April 2017, Signatures: 44
• Make St.George's Day a national holiday, countries celebrate their Saint's Day
  Now we are going to become an independent country, let's make us great again, and come together to celebrate our Saint George in style, and have a national holiday to celebrate every year, even if we swap it for, say, MAYDAY, bring it forward [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Thursday 1 January 1970, Signatures: 12
• Make St George's Day the Public Holiday everyone wants it to be.
  For years I have seen the people of Great Britain wanting St George's Day to be a day of celebration. Let get the people's voice to parliament. Let's get our voices heard and maybe we can make a change [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 0
• Declare St George's Day (23rd April) as a paid Public Holiday
  Today I celebrate St Patrick's Day but get 'fed up' with people saying 'Why doesn't England celebrate St George?' - in truth I do not know the answer? [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 0
• Make St George's day an official holiday
  I don't think I'm alone in wanting St George's day a national holiday. [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 0
• Leave St George's chapel at Biggin hill as it was during the War.
  The local council plan to ruin the chapel by knocking part of it down in order to build a museum. Build the museum somewhere else. Leave the chapel as it is. Airmen, ground crews and families prayed their before and after vicious dog fights over our [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 0
• To replace St George with St Cuthbert as the patron saint of England.
  St Cuthbert would make a much better patron saint for England, because: [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 0
• Make St. George's day a national holiday in England
  It should be a national holiday for our national saint [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 0
• Make St George's day and St David's Day a national holiday
  Make St George's day and St David's Day a national holiday like St Patrick's Day and St Andrew's Day [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Thursday 1 January 1970, Signatures: 6
• Make St George's Day in England and St Andrew's day in Wales public holidays
  Scotland and Northern Ireland both get public holidays for their patron saint, why should England and Wales not get the same privilege? [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Tuesday 10 July 2018, Signatures: 9
• Make St. George's Day, 23rd April, a Public Holiday
  St. Patrick's Day is a public holiday in Northern Ireland, why shouldn't the English celebrate their Patron Saint's Day with a Public Holiday? [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Thursday 26 July 2018, Signatures: 29
• Electrocardiogram (ECG) scans should be made compulsory for all young people.
  Test every teenager for deadly undiagnosed heart defects that kills 12 people every week in the UK. 80% of heart defects are found through ECG scans, as there are no symptoms - meaning hundreds of lives would be saved each year. One in 500 people [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Sunday 26 August 2018, Signatures: 12
• Make St. George’s Day a public holiday in England
  I strongly believe it should be a public holiday in the England because it seems unfair that we don’t. For example, Ireland have St. Patrick’s off, same as Scotland have St. Andrew’s Day off, etc. So why shouldn’t we? [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 0
• make St. George’s day a national bank holiday
  We should make a big thing of celebrating st George’s day and we should be proud of the country we come from [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 0
• Make April 23 St George's Day a Bank Holiday in England
  Our country has a proud tradition of being patriotic. [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 0