British

[brionon]

Just heard on News :-''Just 14% of Scots describe themselves as British'. What do you think ? Are you British or English or What ? Americans are invited to take part. ie Scottish American etc.

[reachesme]

English to the core, if they get their way and get devolution, can we send all the jocks back up to kiltsville and not have to put up with Alan Hanson commenting on English football anymore. Build Hadrians wall back up and charge them to come here. They wouldn't have a pot to pee in it it wasn't for us selling thier oil, ha ha.

[RATTER15]

Im English, British and proud of it!!! But the country is slowly going to the dogs!!!

[annie0000]

Definitely Scottish - Don't have any particular issue, I just don't feel British.

[jake-the-peg]

Lets see born in London to a father born in New York to a Grandmother born in Canada. I Married an Irish Girl daughter of Austrian Jewish refugees.

Somehow I just can't seem to get worked up about nationality any more than the town I happen to live in.

It does seem to matter to a lot of people but for the life of me I can't see why!

[reachesme]

Your from nowhere, you don't know what it's like for people from other places come to your country to live and do nothing but slag it off. I can tell you it gets right up my nose.

[NJOK]

Well said, jake-the-peg. It baffles me too.

As for Alan Hansen discussing English football, reachesme, you have a great point!

What would this 8-time English league champion, 3-time English League Cup winner, 2-time FA Cup winner, and 3-time European Cup winning player with English team Liverpool possibly know about the English game?

Give me Lawro anyday. Oh no, he was Irish...
Er... Andy Townsend? Damn, also Irish...

Oh, I know. Garth Crooks.

[reachesme]

That is beside the point, he is Scottish, he didn't play for England did he? Plus i can't understand half the things the Scottish say, it's like phoneing a call centre in India most of the time when they talk. I don't dislike them, they just wind me up, slagging this country off when they are earning a crust or maybe scratching on down here, it goes against the grain.

[NJOK]

Jimmy Hill.

40 years as a football pundit.
England caps - zero.

[smudge]

English, born & bred!

(Although there's Irish on me Granny's side).

[jake-the-peg]

Didn't Al Murry do a routine that wen't something Like

"I'd fight for Britain...Well England that is, apart from the Northerners or Brummies....But London, yeah I'd fight for that aprt from those scum south of the river..or those posh gits up west or those other weido's but I guess my brothers OK I'd definately fight for him"

Oh but you wouldn't have seen him reachesme I doubt you'd use a Jock invention like TV

I love this your country idea frankly I think nationalism just a ploy by clever politicians to control people who are, well ...less clever than them.

[cruella]

I am Scottish. No extreme views either way and so glad that I tolerate any nationality.
As for our accent, then it is fair to say, different areas of Britain have their own accents or dialects. I do not!
Live and let live, that is my motto.
Oh, by the way, My other half was born in England, lived in Scotland for 15 years before returning back to Yorkshire and Newcastle.
Since we married, obviously he lives in Scotland now. He looks on himself as Scottish. He does not have a Scottish accent either.
I would never dream on discriminating against anyone because of their birthplace.

[reachesme]

We fight each other when we are not at war, then we kick bottoms when we are at war, together.
I have sent an email to a Scottish friend of mine to read this, he would love it, he brings the flag of the opposing nation playing football against England, in the pub, we have a good time. We like to slag each other off, (celts vrs Engand) don't start getting all left on this point, we were made to argue with one another, it keeps us alive.

[hibeeslass]

I had to call O2 the other week about something or other i thought i was calling India imagine my horror it was Birmingham and no th chap was not Asian just very broad. I honestly could not make out a word he was saying. So it';s no just us Scots that talk funny. Incidently my brother is married to a half English half Welsh girl i support England when they play footy and my brother is disgusted with me lol. It's a girl/Beckham, thing hee hee xx

[Bellringer]

Grandfather a Scot, father a Yorkshireman, me born in Durham.
Now that's mixed race.

[annie0000]

I don't really see what the issue is, what percentage of English people describe themselves as british? If it is higher then so what, they can choose to call themselves English or British. I don't see that calling yourself Scottish means that you are anti English or for that matter Anti British - I am sure that people would even go further and call themselves Brummy or Glaswegian rather than English or Scots. As long as we are not beating each other heads in with bottles, what does matter? LOL

[jollygreen]

I was born in Scotland, have scottish parents and live in Scotland. But I write "British" when asked nationality on a form...

[jenstar]

Not ANOTHER "what nationality are you" question!? Haven't we exhausted this already?

[Marvelman]

100% English.

[Skreecheeboy]

I likewise was born and bread in Scotland to Scottish mother adn English father although my dad sees himself as Scottish now too. I always say I'm british though unless I'm abroad and somebody asks if I'm English, then I am most definately Scottish - I'm not getting tarred with that brush thank you very much. Englishmen abroad don't know how to behave themselves!

[jake-the-peg]

Well we're all European now aren't we so what's the problem?