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He refused to come on as a substitute in a Champions league game, fucked off to play golf in South America, only came back when we stopped paying his wages. I also remember him slyly dropping all the City scarfs as he went up to collect the FA Cup in 2011 as captain. My guess is that he has no...

Let's leave the Greens out of this.

Maybe because we were so succesful. If City were mid-table there'd be no 115 charges. Envy, is an all too human characteristic and it doesn't respect any National boundaries.

And there's me thinking we were just celebrating our pride in our country on the feast day of our patron saint.

Who are 'they'?

There goes the thread...

A girl! I need to think. I'd never even considered that :-)

One word for them is 'inconsistent'. I can think of lots of other words too.

https://thecritic.co.uk/the-enigma-of-englishness/

Only in Scotland, and possibly Islington.

We're a mongrel nation and the better for it. Both my parents were Irish but my brother and me were born here and consider ourselves 100% English. That's as it should be. Open societies welcome outside ideas and people and succeed as a result. Insular societies wither and die.

Association football, the Industrial Revolution and the abolition of slavery would be a good starting point.

Maybe if he wins the Euros and then gets assassinated....

Bloody predictive text ;-)

Candidates must be dead or fictional. Also not completely lacking in charisma, talent or leadership abilities.

We don't want it to descend into frivolity. I'd suggest there's only room for one fictional bear on the ballot. Paddington for me.

Good one. Although Bake Off fans might not be able to get behind him. What with that business with the cakes.

As George doesn't seem to be to everyone's liking, we could pick someone else... King Arthur, Robin Hood, Peter Pan, Winning the Pooh, Paddington, ... I feel a referendum on this subject could unite the country around a single candidate. A bit like the one we had in 2016; you never hear...

Spiked is playing a blinder today... https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/04/23/why-im-proud-to-be-english/ ... just need Stewart fucking Lee's input for balance now.

I thought he was English!