... sorry ted...
... though do feel free to contribute some more of your scintillating sacrasm and rapid repartée...

"Not by race anyway!"

It's a different discussion, Dave.
I'm am not putting 'racism' tags on the Anti-Irishness.

Let's start at seeing why 'British' is so important so some people (passport entries notwitstanding)

"I believe the answer is to listen to the 99.99% of the populations who want nothing more than to live their lives in peace and reasonable comfort, and close our ears to the 0.01% of criminals, idealogues, "priests" and politicians who foment discord to advance their own narrow, bigoted agenda, whether this goes by the name of republicanism, protestantism, Islam or whatever."

The 99.99% have a tendency to elect the 0.01%, Alan.
Yourselves included, as shown by the intransigence of successive British Governments over the years as regards 'The Irish Problem'