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Rise up, Englishmen

Liam Byrne says the English must be less apathetic about  the United Kingdom, and about the threat of Scottish independence that looms in next week’s elections As another celebration of… Read more

  • Marcus Perry

    Bull, I have a thousand years of British ancestry and my wife does too. She was born in South Africa but maintained a British identity. My family is British but Liam Byrne insists on her removal from Britain in spite of our 24 year marriage and here he mouths off about how important being British is. My advice to the Highlanders-run to the Hills and put as much distance between yourselves and the English Government. They are anti-family and anti British.

  • Peter Dunkley

    Byrne is embarrassing himself with this pursuit of Britishness, presumably on the instructions of Gordon Brown. A public holiday to celebrate our ‘Britishness’ is just dreadful. It is amusing that the political beneficiaries of a break up of the Union would be the Tories, the traditional party of union, and that Labour, the proponents of devolution, are now so desperate to get the genie back in the bottle.

    Personally I feel that the Northern Irish, the Welsh and the Scots will feel much happier without the burden of all that resentment against the English. Anyway, along with most English folk, I spend a lot of time on the continent and never venture into Scotland, Wales or NI. Even the French aren’t as anti-English as the Scots…