Oh, and just to kind of stir things up, there *are* people in Scotland and Wales who *do* hate English people. Look up the actions of the various Scots and Welsh nationalists. Some of them aren't able to distinguish between the actions of a Parliament based in London (which has sometimes crapped on both, although equally often it's also crapped on England), and people coming from England. Some of them just want an excuse for a punch-up.

I don't know any Welsh nationalists, but I do know Scottish nationalists whose definition of Scottish is basically "not English". It's great winding them up! ;-) And if we quote the UK National Anthem as having bits in the later verses (which no-one knows) about Scotland/Wales/Ireland - well that was written many years ago, but the Scots consciously chose, 10 years ago, an anthem celebrating their victory over an English army about 700 years ago, instead of anything celebrating "Scottishness" (although for those people I referred to earlier, "beating the English" would be the very embodiment of Scottishness). Go figure.

So things ain't that simple either... :-/

Graham.