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How about all the cabbies in London being told they couldn't wave have their little st george cross car flags on display from their cabs during euro2004?
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I can find a reference from 1999 here:
http://www.flagwire.com/display_article.asp?id=7242
which suggests it was to do with that year's England-Scotland games.
And there's a thread on Usenet* about it, which suggest that it's a long-standing rule that you can't fly *any* flag on them. Campaign against it if you like, but it's not exactly evidence of a mass attack on Englishness.
*Monster URL, so if you're interested go to Google Groups and search for
Black cab drivers in London cannot display flags etc in their cabs
There's no refutation of it, but the thread is full of barking mad Little Englanders. Quite entertaining.
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How many Welsh and N Ireland presenters do you know of?
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Lots. To whit:
Eamonn Holmes is from Belfast (and since the population of N. Ireland is about 1/45th that of England we're entitled to 45 non-bumptious-Man-United-supporting eejits on our screens, although I must confess to liking his Radio 5 show)
Patrick Kielty
Gloria Hunniford's from Portadown, her (sadly late) daughter Caron Keating too
Roy Walker was born in Belfast
John Thomson, but that's an obscure one lifted from sad man scanning of IMDB.
Wales, well, obviously Sian Lloyd the weather woman (she's a bit past being a weather girl)
Ian Hislop was born in Swansea (but raised in Hong Kong)
Keith 'Vindaloo' Allen was also born in Swansea
Jeremy Bowen, the BBC chap, was born in Cardiff
Huw Edwards, other BBC chap, Bridgend
John Humphrys, BBC self-promoting hard-questioner, Cardiff
Julian Cope the musician
Peter Greenaway the film director
Ioan Gruffudd
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I could go on (you may note I got up to 'G' in the alphabet), but at least three senior BBC broadcast journalists from Wales is a fair old representation of five million people, while Northern Ireland is positively bursting with talent, and Eamonn Holmes.
*Edit: Ooh, and I forgot Colwyn Bay's finest, Terry Jones, who's excellent Medieval Lives is worth a watch.