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Originally Posted by jonbxx
There's an interesting poll out from YouGov for the BBC on Englishness. One question threw up answers that I didn't expect - was England better in the past, best now or will be better in the future?
For better in the past, you see 35% of remain voters saying yes against 64% of leave voters. What stood out though is that 20% of remain voters said the country will be better in the future vs. 15% of leave voters. This is the opposite of what I would have expected.
Here is the BBC summary - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-44142843
Here is the underlying data - https://d25d2506sfb94s.cloudfront.ne...or_website.pdf see the bottoms of page 4, 5 and 6 for the results of that question |
I saw the news item, and what was depressing was the focus on Englishness over Britishness - there were factual inaccuracies, such as mentioning English History not being taught at Cambridge, when in fact British history is part of the History Tripos.
I am proud to be British, and think our best days are ahead of us, but, like a lot of non-English Brits, get peeved over our apparent non-existence when things like this are discussed.
Remember, it was the British Empire, ruled over by Great Britain, not the English Empire - people hark back in longing for something that didn’t exist.
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speaking as some who has lived in England for 3/4’s of my life, served in the Armed Forces, and has 2 offspring born and bred in Yorkshire)