article_snippet.sent: Nigel Farage's Ukip insist St George would have been welcomed to Britain because of St George skills as a dragon slayer .
article_snippet.sent: St George was a foreigner born in Turkey.
article_snippet.sent: But Ukip has insisted St George would have been welcomed to Britain because of his skills as a dragon slayer.
article_snippet.sent: But at the policy launch, Patrick O'Flynn Patrick O'Flynn faced questions on whether St George would have been welcomed by a 3rd-century Ukip.
article_snippet.sent: Whenever the issue of St George's Day comes up - and I can predict this on Twitter today - there will be many left-centre people who will tweet the fact that St George was from what's today known as Turkey as if that is the start, finish of conversation and that makes St George Day irrelevant or illegitimate or ridiculous. '
article_snippet.sent: I'm not particularly hung up on where St George came from.
article_snippet.sent: I'm more interested in what St George's Day can represent. '
article_snippet.sent: He said that people who celebrate St George's Day should not be seen as 'racist'.
article_snippet.sent: St George is thought to have born in in the late third century in Cappadocia, which is now part of Turkey.
article_snippet.sent: St George was a soldier under the Emperor Diocletian but became an early Christian martyr after St George refused to take part in the systematic persecution of Christians ordered by the emperor.
article_snippet.sent: St George was tortured and executed in 303 AD.
article_snippet.sent: The legend of St George slaying a dragon and rescuing an innocent maiden from death is medieval.
article_snippet.sent: As well as being England's patron saint, he is also the patron saint of Georgia and Moscow.
highlights_snippet.sent: Ukip claim they would welcome Turkey-born foreigner St George to Britain .
  