Yay! I have been posting for years that the working class and poorer English copped as much shite as the Irish and Scottish - Nice to see that at last some people are agreeing. I keep saying over and over again on various threads that the ordinary folk like you and I are not enemies. Never have been. Never will be. It is the landlords, money-men and power brokers that are causing all this grief. The sooner we stop arguing amongst ourselves and face the real problem the better off everyone will be!

Having said that (and having a love of rhetoric anyway!) I must take you up on a point, Epona. The British have not treated everyone as sub-human. By the admission of Lil' Kiwi on this thread (I think!) the Maori peoples of New Zealand have always been fairly teated and have in fact benefited from a British drawn treaty which entitled them to their own lands and stopped others invading them! Wonder what was different then? Perhaps we realy were at the zenith of our empire? Gone steadily downhill since;-)

Cheers

DtG