Mike, I think you MAY have been a tad presumptuous old bean. Corbyn hadn't been elected to do anything except perhaps to give ms May a back rub, and the attitude regarding Trump seems pretty universal and transcends traditional political divides so not an 'English' thing. I actually don't have much a view either way, and while I'm quite sure there are Trump admirers in the U.K., I haven't yet honestly met one.. (Try using the UK terminology Mike - it's the correct one.) Even though there is technically a place now called England, and much of this region's history was dominated by such a place, I myself was born here and yet I cannot register as "English" on an official form because we're all citizens (subjects whatever) of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The Great Britain bit includes England Wales & Scotland. So, they brought us up to be 'British' and nowt else. Of course, the Scots don't like that idea at all, so they're Scottish and have a fully devolved parliament that administer purely Scottish issues, The Welsh have a partially devolved parliament that administers purely Welsh issues, and the Norther Irish, yes, you've guessed it. They can also all claim their respective nationality on official forms. But not us, 'our' Parliament administers U.K. Stuff, so until/ if complete devolution happens England does not officially exist as a State. And, here's the rub: all of the MPs from those devolved states get to vote on 'English' issues!
There, it's quite simple, isn't it' :shifty:
And quoting the Old 'Currant Bun?' Is that the, ahem, newspaper your British friends use?
PS I've taken so long to write this in between home, the day hospice and home again, and on a poxy mobile phone, I wouldn't be at all surprised to learn that Charles has become Queen.:laugh:
However, I'd much prefer actually adopting that as a tactic than falling back on something akin to Chamberlain's "solution".
