.... I'll make it easier... I do not think the average citizen of England, Scotland, and Wales is anti-Irish. Ok? I do believe however that a certain percentage of the population of those countries define their Britishness according to an ideal that is, or should be defunct in the modern World. I also know that Protestant shipyard workers have exactly the same mortgage worries, etc. that Nationalists now do, and yet I am not I am not anti-Protestant. I am very careful (always have been) about what I hate and why I hate it. To be honest, I hate nothing, or no-one. I just despair of symbols. And the average English person can hold the key to that. If they, too, examine the meaning of the term
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