The reason why the English don't have a strong sense of national identity is because we have never been under threat from an oppressive regime.

What? The nation has been labouring under the Norman Yoke for nearly a thousand years and they're still here, sitting in their stately piles, owning land they took from ordinary folk after the invasion, not lifting a finger to help the lot of the common man or woman.

As for being royalist, thank the maker lots of English song is not - and for the royal family, along with the landed gentry - up against the wall with the lot of 'em I say. Knock down that Victorian eyesore outside Buck Pal and put up a statue of Harry Cox. Knock down Buck Pal and turn it into the Gerald Winstanley allotments. Let people graze their livestock in Green Park and turf the Marquis of Bath out of Longleat and open the grounds (minus lions!) for sustainable organinc farming co-operatives so people can grow decent food to feed their children.

Repeal the Acts of Enclosure!

Wassail!

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