"England would be great without the English." "England is a fine country. Its just a pity that it is full of the English."

I've often heard these comments before, but always about France and the French. Usually from people who go to France because they enjoy the food - produced by those French people they would be happy to banish. Do they believe that France is still rightfully part of England (and should belong to the English crown and be full of the people of England, who are so disliked by some posters to this thread)?