January is a splendid time of year for most people.

It’s chock full of public holidays, the weather is warm while the pool is cool and things are generally more relaxed.

Sure, that going back to work business is a bit of a downer but you soon get over it.

The joy doesn’t extend to our mates on the Left, however. January is peak outrage time for them.

Not only do they enter the month having celebrated a Christian festival, but they have to deal with Australia Day, too.

Oh, I mean Invasion Day. My apologies.

It’s in this period that their moral posturing goes into overdrive. Their political correctness takes over. And they can’t help but use our national day to push their trendy barrows and broadcast how horrible we supposedly are.

Poor devils. It must be hell living in a nation where people so openly celebrate the fact they won the lottery of life.

Don’t they realise they’re to blame for every atrocity to have been committed on these lands?

The powers that be in the Socialist People’s Republic of Melbourne jumped on the PC bandwagon and put up a billboard — featuring two women wearing hijabs — to promote Australia Day.

Where were the Sikhs? What a disgraceful lack of cultural diversity.

After a social media backlash and receiving a number of complaints, QMS, which owns the billboard, took the advertisement down.

media_camera The billboard has been taken down after complaints were made. (Pic: Supplied)

But how did the ABC spin it? It was all the doing of “far right groups”.

“The United Patriots Front, a far-right group opposed to immigration, published an image of the billboard on its Facebook page on January 13, which has since been widely shared,” a report on the ABC News website reads.

Ah, I get it. Right wing. Anti-immigration. Islamophobia. Very bad. Please. We all know what was going on there. It’s not as if someone from the Victorian government ran out into the street and snapped a shot of the first two people they could find.

They couldn’t resist hijacking an ad for the national day to make a political point. The government has to show us how much better it is than the great unwashed and why its ideas are superior.

Muslims make up less than 3 per cent of Australia’s population. Anyone with an ounce of sense could smell the backlash coming a mile off.

And it won’t stop there. Someone of note will tell us the date of Australia Day should be moved.

A group of bleach-white uni students from Surry Hills will stay indoors all day and tell the Twitterverse how they despise this awful celebration of colonialism, patting each other on the back so hard they dislocate their shoulders.

Some washed-up, middle-aged coot will take the opportunity to call for a republic. He will repeat all the same lines as last year and, once again, nothing will happen.

We mustn’t forget the necessity to change the flag and the national anthem, either. They’ll surely get a run.

And the rest of us — the majority, dare I say — will take a few moments to reflect on this great nation, have a barbecue with family and friends and watch the cricket.

Because as much as the moral posturers love to bash this country on Australia Day, we all know there’s nowhere else we’d rather be.

Sure, it’s not perfect. We could make some improvements. But so could every nation in the world and we’re streets ahead of them all.

There’s no better place for anyone, regardless of their status as a minority, to make something of their life.

The sensible majority see Australia Day as unifying. One day in the year when we can all be grateful.

Why the Left persists in creating division is anyone’s guess. They’re no friends of the minorities they purport to help and they divide with such alacrity that you can only conclude they want to do it.

Have fun on Australia Day, but don’t get drunk on your own virtuousness.