Since most of people ran off from the UK to seek freedom, when is this going to be reversed and that the UK has an independence day?
This is the most boring country, most of its people think life stinks and so take that everywhere we go, would it not be better to fix what is broken?

The National Day is often taken as the date on which a state or territory achieved independence. Other dates such as the country's patron saint day, or a significant historic date are sometimes used. Most countries have a single National Day per year, though a few, for example Pakistan, have more than one. Besides that, each of the two special administrative regions of the People's Republic of China, namely Hong Kong and Macao, celebrate the day of the establishment of the special administrative region, as well as the National Day of the People's Republic of China.

The importance attached to the National Day, and the degree to which it is celebrated, vary enormously from country to country. In France, for example, National Day is 14 July and is known as Bastille Day. It is widely celebrated and the French Tricolour is much in evidence, while the President of the Republic attends a military parade on the Champs-Élysées of Paris. In the United States, the Fourth of July celebrations are widely celebrated with fireworks and BBQs. In the Republic of Ireland, St. Patrick's Day, March 17, has been the National Day and a Public Holiday for many years, and in recent years it has been observed as a full Public Holiday in Northern Ireland too. However, in the rest of the United Kingdom the constituent countries' patron saints' days are low-key affairs. In recent times campaigns have commenced to promote the National Days of England, Scotland and Wales, with St Andrew's Day being designated as an official bank holiday when the Scottish Parliament passed the St Andrew's Day Bank Holiday (Scotland) Act 2007.

Most countries have a fixed date National Day, but some have movable dates. An example here is Jamaica, which celebrates its National Day on the first Monday in August. This commemorates independence from the United Kingdom which was attained on Monday, 6 August 1962 - the first Monday in August of that year. Another example is Thailand which celebrates the birthday of the King on 5 December. This date will change on the accession of the heir to the throne

so with this thought in mind should we not celebrate saint Georges day with more energy and pressure the UK Government in to making it a public holiday

Yes we should have more saints days for sure, it shows in places like Spain how it makes the people more friendly; having a special reason to remember each day, is good for morality...It also encourages more community.....

This is my problem with the independence day it is the actual cause more so, as in after watching the patriot and realizing that it was British peoples (Americans) against our own British aristocracy and so reality against pompousness??
Which is what the English peoples ran off from, to begin with; why hasn't England been renovated with the current knowledge we now know from America and Australia that works and what not.
Such as more social gathering and efforts to make more community always and things that make for a better country.
We still have so much of the old English bureaucracy (with its unhappy lonely peoples); it's all still within our social system here and it doesn't function and cause more chaos.
As in where is any sense of pride from us English, any more? we all feel it's a sham... unlike most Americans who are very proud of their heritage and life styles we all still feel impoverished by our own system.
Do you see what this is getting as the system is rotten here and needs updating with new faster streamlined laws....
very much like the computer coding it adapts and is refined to what is quicker and easier (you never make more paper works and more code, always less!)........ we are not doing this within our politics and our life styles, of how to share and bring communities together from ideas that work, seen within both countries whom have sought a new life and independence and have one, yet England is still an old miserable whingeing pomm?? .


Maybe if we got volunteers from Australia and America to talk to people on buses here, as they think it usual to do so, where as most English still think its strange if you even sit next to them on a bus....

Just any ideas to get the life flow going again, as England appears stagnant and from what many say whom I have asked it would definitely help to make England more user friendly and interesting....


can't we have "Disney Palace England"??