English schools having to teach Britishness lessons, when other nations schools do not.

Check out Wales. What else do you think compulsory Welsh lessons are for? As far as "Britishness lessons" goes, those are a measure of immigrant numbers - Wales and Scotland are notably short on immigrants compared to English cities.

England being split up into regions.

It's a big place, with a lot of people. Where I live in Cambridge has a lot in common with London and Kent economy-wise. Where I lived before in Stafford is a very different place. And Lancashire (where I was brought up) is different again.

- English having to pay for prescription charges.
- English students having to pay for student top up fees.

Each area has a limited pot of money, and it depends on how they choose to spend it. Both of those come at a cost of other services.

FWIW, the Scots also have a legitimate grievance in that North Sea oil and gas is *Scottish* not English. Scotland is supporting England in that respect, not vice versa.

Being told that the English don't exist as a nation.

Are we? Certainly the papers like to try it, but that's usually as a straw man to push the argument the other way.

Graham.