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02/15/2009: "St George's Day parade banned as racist."

A council in the West Midlands has withdrawn its funding for a St George's Day parade after claims it had attracted some "racist elements".

Sandwell Council said it would not fund a parade through West Bromwich on 23 April but it would hold other events.

It said footage of last year's parade organised by the Stone Cross St George's Day Association showed it had been "infiltrated" by the far right.

The organisers have said the parade was "not political" and "not racial".

[ This is normally a huge parade with up to 15,000 people turning up. Really banning the event is racist, as one can be certain that any similar parade by a minority group would be allowed to go ahead regardless of the political persuasion of some amongst them. The so-called "far right" would not provoke any violence or similar illegal activity. But the problem for the State is that this kind of event is useful to recruit people to nationalism as well possibly showing the public illegal violence from racist minorities and Leftists. ]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/7887063.stm