Will, are you against the Scots, Welsh and Irish celebrating too?

I'm neither for it nor against it - for any of us - Lizzie. :-)

I just think there's often a lot of jingoistic clichés associated with such "national" days when, actually, people are far more complex than the obvious associations would have us believe. (I also have fairly near Irish and Scottish ancestry, as well as English and probably a little Dutch further back!) I would just say: whatever your national day is, celebrate it with being good to someone - and then of course get riotously rat-arsed!