DR SHOLA MOS-SHOGBAMIMU has expressed outrage about Saint George’s Day, alleging that the patron saint would be “trafficked to Rwanda” in modern-day Britain.
Every April 23 brings with it the repeated gloats that the patron saint of England was Turkish, in attempted snubs at such traditional views that, as put by G K Chesterton, “St George he was for England, and before he killed the dragon he drank a pint of English ale out of an English flagon”. Additional ammo was offered this year in the form of the Government’s new immigration policies.
It was confirmed last week that hundreds of migrants who illegally cross the Channel will be transported to Rwanda for processing.
Boris Johnson asserted that the idea will undermine the economic model of “vile” people traffickers who has transformed the Channel into a “watery graveyard.”
Today, he shifted his focus to Saint George, around whom “we come together with pride” to commemorate “everything that makes England a fantastic part of our United Kingdom”.
But for writer and lawyer Dr. Mos=Shogbamimu, the celebration of the dragon-slayer today is “disingenuous”.
She said in a post on Twitter: “Saint George is a Palestinian/Turkish immigrant who would be trafficked to Rwanda today by this British Government.
“Unlike me, he wasn’t British.
“The English aren’t loyal to who and what Saint George is but claim him as patron. Disingenuous.”
Dr. Mos-Shogbamimu added, jokingly: “Happy Saint George’s Day.”
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