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What is Britishness?
How do you personally define it?
Would you consider yourself firstly as a British, then Scottish, Welsh or English? Or simply the other way round?

Have a look at this website:
What is Britishness? Citizenship, values and identity - Red Pepper

The Bear

Britishness is not what it was. It can never return to what it was. it is now New Britishness (thanks largely to New Labour)

Get used to it, and deal with what it now is. That’s all any of us can do.

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I am an old man. I have eaten much salt.

Wessexman

I consider myself Cornish and Scottish. I don't really consider myself British.

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"A steady patriot of the world alone, The friend of every country but his own. "
-George Canning

I am an aristocrat. I love liberty; I hate equality.
-John Randolph

A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
-Edmund Burke

Leopold Kohr.

The Bear

Exactly. I consider myself English.

BTW - off to Gwithian Sands for a self catering break in a couple of weeks. It's a bit of a schlep from Norwich, but well worth the drive.

Crab sandwiches in Marazion, Pasties from the pasty shop on Market Jew St. Penzance, a really good Chinese in Newlyn, BRING IT ON!

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I am an old man. I have eaten much salt.

g hall

Hope you've offset your carbon footprint and please be aware of the traffic

and what's wrong with Cley, Wells, Cromer, Sheringham, Hunstanton etc.,


I'm British I only started signing English when the PC brigade started the Scottish/Welsh/Irish or British scenario.

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"That government is best which governs least."
"This is a sharp Medicine, but it is a Physician for all diseases and miseries".
"To be "matter of fact" about the world is to blunder into fantasy --and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful."
TANSTAAFL TANJ

Little Englander (sour)

Only Gordon Brown knows or even, cares.

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Little Englander (bigoted)

Wessexman

I don't see what the Scottish, Cornish, Welsh et al daring to talk about our differences has to do with PCdom. It seems anti-PC, we aren't universalists and multicultralists.

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"A steady patriot of the world alone, The friend of every country but his own. "
-George Canning

I am an aristocrat. I love liberty; I hate equality.
-John Randolph

A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
-Edmund Burke

Leopold Kohr.

g hall

BonnieDundee
Once upon a time when British people stated their nationality we were all unequivocally British and then some organisation or person decided that people could declare their Scottishness or their Welshness or their Irishness but not their Englishness
What it has to do with PC-dom is that the only person who cannot complain about being victimised is the white working class English male

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"That government is best which governs least."
"This is a sharp Medicine, but it is a Physician for all diseases and miseries".
"To be "matter of fact" about the world is to blunder into fantasy --and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful."
TANSTAAFL TANJ

a swansong 4 europe

It is an 11 letter word easily spoken, less easily explained and openly sh*gged by the ivory tower elite.

Little Englander (sour)

And long may it be sh**ged by all and sundry.

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Little Englander (bigoted)