re the what is English comment

Ask someone fron Scotland, Wales or Ireland what they are, so why can't I be English? In my dictionary English is belonging to England and an Englishman is from England.
I am not from Ireland Scotland or Wales so that makes me English and proud to be so! If you are saying there is no such thing as England and English people don't excist then you are being racist, which I don't think for one minute you are.
The term English is one that Tony Blair and the Labour Party shuns away from using, I wonder why?