Ill informed rant

My dad, bless him, is a true Brit. He is one of those people who cannot distinguish between Britain and England; in fact I think he still believes in the empire. Maybe this has something to do with his time in the merchant navy during he sixties, or it could be a form of rebellion against his own father who he claimed was “a fucking communist”.
I have tried to explain my views to him, to say its time England stood up and demanded equality within the UK, he sits there and smiles and agrees with everything I say but I know, deep down, that he is happy I’ve finally found patriotism. Yes I do have a few union flags about the house, I also have a few English flags, come to think of it I also have two Scottish, a Welsh, Irish, French and German, Austrian, Australian and an American flag, my son collects flags (he also has a jolly roger). Dad’s completely missing the point.
Yesterday another attempt to answer the West Lothian question was talked out of parliament by the labour government, claiming it was flawed and would create a two class system amongst MPs.
It’s blatantly obvious to all that the whole constitution is a complete mess, every time this subject comes up and it is dismissed the English get more pissed, what started a few years back as a campaign for democratic parity with the other nations of the UK is turning into an independence movement. Fed up with taking the blame for all of Britain’s “evils” the English have had enough, anything from the slave trade to the Iraq war seems to be solely our fault. Its as if the rest of Britain had nothing to do with it, and why should I feel guilty for something done hundreds of years ago that as far as I can work out none of my ancestors benefited from, I can trace the peasants in my family back two hundred years and not one was anything but working class (According to some nearly all British will have some black ancestry dating back to the end of the slave trade so maybe they should be apologizing to us, look at Obama).
It was the labour party that took us to war in Iraq and that’s mostly run by Scots, and even if it wasn’t who made up the majority of the anti-war marches in London? The French? Irish? It couldn't have been the English.
The Americans constantly go on about their war of independence against the English, not the British; we take sole blame for what happened in Ireland. We didn’t invade Wales or Ireland it was the Normans. The Battle of Culloden is attributed to the English but look at the make up of the army. I am not saying the English nation’s hands are clean but come on people! IT WASN’T ME.
Should the people of modern day England suffer for the crimes (guilty or not) of the past?
I digress, back to the subject at hand.
If the cost of democracy in England is the end of the union then so be it, why are we not treated equally across the UK, why should we lose out for the sake of a union that nobody seems to care about (except politicos with something to lose), does it matter if England’s voice is diminished on the world stage. Who cares about the oil and energy resources, we don’t get it for free anyway, what are we really going to miss out on if the UK ceases to exist?

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just a note, why does the spell check not put a capital W on Welsh?

The prison service is making 80 people redundant a...

The prison service is making 80 people redundant and relocating an office because the town is too “British and white”, there goes another town to the BNP.