What is Britishness is a very difficult and emotive question to answer. Where I come from in the UK, Scotland. You are not allowed to be British and are put down at every opportunity by a media with an agenda. Especially if you profess a love of all things British like I do. I’ve always felt a closer affinity to my English, Welsh, and Northern Irish brothers than to Jacobite Scottish Nationalists.
To me my Britishness comes from the shared experiences of my antecedents and all that they have passed down to me regards British history. Whether that history is to do with the Empire or either of the 2 world wars, or simply just the family background.
It also carries with it the expectation that I will act in the correct way as befits my moral Christian upbringing. The very type of upbringing that certain members of the Liberal elite are trying desperately hard to eradicate from our culture.
Sorry if this sounds like a rant, but as I said, it is an emotive question.
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I live the life of a happy man. I just hope he doesn't wan't it back.
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