Battle of Britain Day petition (please read and sign)

The 2nd December deadline has passed. Has anyone heard anything back from No 10?

Perhaps our Commonwealth readers, and indeed European readers would like to avail themselves of this facility to communicate their feelings on the matter.
http://www.number-10.gov.uk/output/Email_The_PM_Form.asp
Hope it helps.:D
Be lucky
David

Just out of curiosity has anyone from t’commonwealth tried this method ?
Be lucky
Dave

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Hi everybody!

I still need your help to get Gordon Brown to re-recognise Sept 15th as Batlle of Britain Day.

Please sign my petition at http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/battleofbritain

Thanks
Andrew Russell

😀 I’ve dund it
dakota

Just don’t try and force other people to do the same.

That would be a dictatorship you are talking about then wouldn’t it mate.

We are FREE to a certain extent now just take a minute to consider why.

Every one of the signature were signed willing and knowing what the men and woman that have gone before did for us. Those who want to remember such dates should be allowed and not told to move on or whatever.

We as a nation should be a lot more free that we actually are and so it passes our government are passing more and more laws that inhibit our freedom to live in our own country.

I am sorry but sometimes I feel our own country is losing its way in what the brave souls were actually fighting for.

I agree with the comments, so i’ve done it!

Dear Mr Taylor

Thank you for your message.

I am not trying to get Battle of Britain Day Back on the map to have major celebrations on a National scale every year. It would be nice for calendars and diaries etc to have sept 15th listad as BoB Day just so the signifigance is not forgotten (eg: the Saints Days etc). Obviously I have the utmost respect for Nov 11th and this is fully justifiable in the attention it gets. The Few must never be forgotten not only by the UK but also the rest of the free world. I do not wish to upset anyone but please dont let The Few think that we couldn’t give a sh*t about them.

Regards
Andrew Russell

Fair do’s then!

The whole mentality behind the reasoning for the Arrows not to appear is so STUPID. We must be the only country in the World where we consider it bad to be PROUD to be a citizen of that country. Can you imagine, for instance – the Americans being told not to fly the Stars & Stripes at their events cos it might upset other countries/cultures? They’d be laughed off the face of the Earth. How infantile this all is.
If I’m not as proud to be British as I used to be – it’s because we have idiots like the one’s spouting this rubbish up there in our government…:mad:

Hi
I always found that strange when we were in england.
We emigrated to vancouver about a year ago, and meet many people walking around with CANADA in big letters on their clothing, canadian flags fly everywhere.
Cars here have little canadian flags on the aerials,
and apparently there is a law …
you can fly any flag as much as you want as long as it is …..
a canadian national flag 😀
or your province flag, 😀

any others and you have to apply for permision first.:)
seems the opposite of the UK from what we remember.
cheers
Jerry

Petition

Signed!

petition

signed in

FAO Simon Taylor

Dear Mr Taylor

Thank you for your message.

I am not trying to get Battle of Britain Day Back on the map to have major celebrations on a National scale every year. It would be nice for calendars and diaries etc to have sept 15th listad as BoB Day just so the signifigance is not forgotten (eg: the Saints Days etc). Obviously I have the utmost respect for Nov 11th and this is fully justifiable in the attention it gets. The Few must never be forgotten not only by the UK but also the rest of the free world. I do not wish to upset anyone but please dont let The Few think that we couldn’t give a sh*t about them.

Regards
Andrew Russell

I would like to raise a question here, and before I ask this I just want to stress that I am not trying to offend or upset anyone on this issue, but to pick up on the point raised by Leornato, we already have rememberence day on the sunday nearest Nov 11. There’s also VE day and VJ day, not to mention other minor events that take place around the year to mark other events that happened during the war.

So, do we really need yet another day of official recoginition?

This is not to say I am ungreatful for any of the sacrifices that were made by any of the serving men or women in any of the forces during that time. But the point I’m trying to make is that if we keep adding more and more official days of recognition I fear that instead of these events being better recognised by the public, it will have the opposite effect and merely dilute the importance of the days we already have (if that makes sense?).

So, is this really a good idea in light of all the other days of recognition we already have?

Perhaps our Commonwealth readers, and indeed European readers would like to avail themselves of this facility to communicate their feelings on the matter.
http://www.number-10.gov.uk/output/Email_The_PM_Form.asp
Hope it helps.:D
Be lucky
David

petition

Battle of Britain Day………………….Should never go unrecognised. Thanks Mr. Blair, for deciding, its too expensive!!!!
So is petrol you berk……. Mr. Brown do something about both ( primarily Battle of Britain Day!!!!)

Thank you to everoyone who has signed the petition.

Please do not argue over it though. The last thing I want is to cause ill feeling with aviation enthusiasts.

Regards
Andrew Russell:

I dont think you have caused ill feeling,if anything I think you have given the majority a platform to do somthing positive & show those few veterans still alive they aren’t forgotten.:)

Battle of Britain Day Petition

Thank you to everoyone who has signed the petition.

Please do not argue over it though. The last thing I want is to cause ill feeling with aviation enthusiasts.

Regards
Andrew Russell:

Just found this

count me in I signed…….too bloody right I did

Chris

Fly the Flag and be proud

I ALWAYS fly the RAF Ensign from my home from the 8th Sep through to the 21st Sep each year in recognition of this proud moment in British aviation history in respect of ALL those who served in whatever part of the defence of Britain…………i am 20 yrs ex RAF so im a ‘crab’ through and through and the B of B is particularly important in my bias opinion!

Yes, people do ask whats it for and i do tell them ….. to date, 99% are in support of it being remembered more actively so, i support the instigator of this thread 100%…………….Hurrah! …Well Done Sir.

Fly Safe, as always

Signed up as well, as its a worthy cause. Indeed, in my view, if Gordon Brown wants a British National Day, I can think of no better date than 15th September.

However, Andrew, if you want this ‘to fly’ (pardon the expression), you’re going to have to publicise it much more widely and stress that winning the Battle of Britain was the key to Nazi Germany’s eventual defeat in WWII and that its ultimate importance is that it ensured the freedom that many of us can enjoy in the world today!

Good Luck

Signed – many thanks creating the petition.

Sensitive issue

Gentlemen, Let’s keep a clear head when we post as emotions can get in the way on this topic. You can’t force someone to sign a petition but you can provide them with the information and let them make a decision to sign it or not. I disagree with it being a UK resident only petition as there are countless others that would probably sign it that live overseas but are unable to.

We have a similiar problem over here in Canada that there is a petition out to have Nov 11 made into a national holiday so that families can take part in the rememberance day services. This has split into Yes we want to have it made a national holiday and No from most veterans saying people will use it as a family day holiday or just a paid day off and they would then be unable to do visits at the various schools.

Straying a bit here but on closing would just like to say that ANYTHING that can be done to honour our beloved vets gets high marks in my book.
Peter.
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