From: DMcG - PM
Date: 27 Nov 17 - 02:29 AM

"No king, no country"? No, we don't have a 'king' at present, we have a queen. And we are still a country, no matter how much you try to belittle us.
Are you 'British'? if so you obviously have no pride in this, our nation

I always find lines like this worrying. They bring to mind Samuel Johnson's "Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel" and Owen's

You may have missed the fact that I was responding directly to Steve Shaw's comment: We will be buying stuff from the EU for decades, brexit regardless. We can't suddenly scrap half of our trade. We don't have deals with other potential trading partners and we are a very small fish. No king, no country, no Biggles, no empire, Nige. You have yet to come to terms. Typical Tory.

I did not bring the subject up.