Scots are Scots the Welsh are Welsh and the Irish are Irish. They are all proud of it and have their national identity including a stirring song that they play at the start of the 6 nations rugby for instance. They have their own parliament (assembly) of course. As an Englishman I feel a bit cheated. What identity do we have - what do we celebrate together? What are we proud of? What song do we play at the rugby to unite us - to stir us up? We have the National Anthem - which actually belongs to all four nations - and I have always felt - inappropriate for us to grab for ourselves. Anyway it does not do the job. I hope Englishness will reassert itself and the West Lothian question be properly dealt with after the Scottish referendum.
As an after thought - if we can develop and grow some true English passion our sorry footballers might do a bit better. We can hope!
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