"You're only English in your head. By any external measure you're Australian."

By whose external measure? Define the criteria that makes someone English. Where is this scale of external measure? Yours?

In the same way WAV shouldn't decide who stays and who goes why should anyone else decide who is English or not? He was born here so that gives him some claim to be English. In fact, if both his parents are English he might be more English than me, as my Mum's Welsh. So where I am on both yours and WAV's tick-box list of criteria for being English?

I was born in Hampshire, moved to when I was 18 months odd and raised in Brum until I was 16 and have lived 26 years in the north - what does that make me then? I know where I feel I come from, but you tell me where I fit in.

Jesus.