The problem with being British…No-one really knows what it means.
Well they do but it means something different to everyone, though there is a rubber stamped definition, given to us by the establishment media and Government.
An official set of rules and an excepted view bestowed and woe betide anyone who strays or questions this straitjacket.
You tend to find that it often splits down ideological lines and then splits further down by class. The ruling class — and they are always with us — their form and shape shift over the centuries but they are always the ones with the wealth, the assets, the capital, the influence on the levers of power, or just have their hands firmly gripped round those levers, pulling them for their own benefit.
How does British patriotism define itself?
Where does English end and British start? The two seem to have become blurred, mainly by proponents of Englishness:
- Love of country, regardless of what it has and does get up to.
- Love of football.
- Love of being drunk.
- Love of being violent.
