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Originally Posted by Northumbrian
'Those are the great qualities of England in my opinion, that will always trump the shallow politically correct amalgamation called Britishness....
I do not believe for one moment that any of the people of Great Britain have lost their greatness ... After all, democracy means “voice of the people”, and this is what I hope will soon re-awaken in Britain.'
Classic confusion between English and British. Don't worry, we'll work on it  |
No confusion whatsoever, and no need to work on it. It's a very deliberate choice.
If anyone asks me what nationality I am, I say English. If I ever refer to myself as British again, it won't be the pseudo-British claptrap that comes out of Westminster. In the same way that they say our national flags have been co-opted by fascists and racists, they have co-opted British to refer to something very different from what it did ten years ago. When I see it now, it means "Prepared and Ready to join the EU". I used to be proud to be British, but they have sullied that. Their treatment and ignorance of the public disgusts me, as does their shattering of the military covenant.
When they are gone from office and Great Britain is back on the road to recovery as an independent set of nations, I'll be happy to use that term again.
As far as I'm concerned, my country is Great Britain, which encompasses all of the Home Nations, and praises all the achievements each has contributed over the centuries of our combined history. To say the English have driven and accomplished everything within our great land is unfair and untrue, and mocks the accomplishments and sacrifices of Ireland, Scotland and Wales.