Tomorrow is the European elections and it's entirely possible that the country has lurched so far to the right a xenophobic, mysoginistic and homophobic party could conceivably win these elections. We could, as the UK, be sidelined in Europe by an electorate voting for an ex-public school, ex-stockbroker, ex-tory establishment figure that has convinced the disillusioned people of England that he's some sort of maverick when in fact he's the opposite; the product of empire and a political anachronism. He's received blanket coverage from the media, who love him for his 'straight talking', bumbling, nice-but-dim, boozing, smaggo persona that designed to bridge the gap between the likes of him and the rest of us. He's a PR genius and not without some oratorical ability. He's also a hypocrite of the highest order, a shill for the establishment.

It's also looking like the Scots are finally going to shake of the Westminster Yoke and vote for independence later in the year. Already they are beginning to deny their role in empire, preferring to blame the English for their collusion in the oppression of empire but as anyone who has ever been to Edinburgh know (a city of empire if ever there was one), the Scots were willing and eager partners in empire, leading a renaissance in science, trade and art which established the modern Scottish state and provided the foundations of what will hopefully become a vibrant and progressive Scottish nation in years to come.

Meanwhile, the Welsh are established in devolution and the long, torturous road to lasting peace in the north of Ireland is being worked on and is indeed desired by all but a few on out islands; the long-term outcome remains uncertain but hopefully it will be achieved peacefully. The Cornish are finally given minority status and there is how some measure of devolution might follow with the long-wished for re-establishment of the Stannery.

So where does this leave England? The UKIP effect is already being felt as the ordinary people of the EU are beginning to see us a bunch of racist ignoramuses, small-minded and mean-spirited. As a people the English have totally lost their identity which has become muddled with the worst excesses of Britishness and has been hijacked by nationalists that are inevitably right-wing in outlook.

As a nation the English have lost the sense of themselves. Why is this? Possibly because the ordinary folk of England, as with the folk of all our islands have been under the Norman Yoke for a 1000 years and seem unwilling or unable to shake the parasitic aristocracy off their backs; even the Scots want to keep the ultimate benefit cheats in Buck Pal as their royal masters. These people are nothing to do with the ordinary folk of our islands, yet our politicians still serve them and their new oligarch masters with equal fervour. The church has some culpability here too, growing fat and rich and gobbling up land.

The dominance of the south-east of England has become so complete that when the union breaks up a large part of England will essentially be left to the mercy of the Westminster political/media/business mafia.

So here's what I think. We need to remember who we are. For starters, there are only one people on these islands, and we have divided ourselves culturally. This is fine and it's wonderful of course but we must remember that every person living here is a mongrel, and we are adding more diversity to our character every day. From the first people to cross after the retreat of the glaciers 14,000 years ago via the beaker people, celts, romans, norse, saxons, jutes, Jews, huguenots, Africans, Asians, the Windrush generation, Romanians, Polish and whomever comes next; we are a fantastic amalgamation of all these.

We are better than these right-wing oafs. This is the land of Stonehenge, Avebury, Arbor Low and Castlerigg, of Boudicca, the Battersea Shield and druids, the Lindisfarne gospels and Sutton Hoo. Under our hills Arthur still sleeps and in our woods the wild hunt sounds it horns and from lofty, vaulted ceilings the green man looks down on the ebb and flow of ordinary people still labouring under the heel of the privileged few, although now business has swelled the ranks of the wealthy and powerful. England is the land of Watt Tyler, Winstanley and the diggers, the chartists, luddites and suffragettes (in 1918 40% of men could not vote in the UK, and it was not until 1928 that women got the vote - it's been a long struggle for ordinary people). Shakespeare, Blake, Wilberforce, Darwin, Pankhurst, the Rochdale Pioneers and the Tolpuddle Martyrs all were pioneers that prove that we are a people equal to our brothers and sister nations on these islands in being able to claim to be progressive and humane, at least at the level of the ordinary folk. We need to understand why people hate us, and address it as best we can.

The English can do better than the boorish, tiny-minded tosspots of UKIP and the other right-wing loons. We deserve to take our place in a confederation of the isles as equal partners with all the home nations. We are all one people on these islands and those at the high table have been trying to divide us by religion, economics and the promotion of myopic self-interest for a millennia.

Time to change.