How can Britain survive such stupidity?

Oh for crying out loud. This is exactly wrong. Britain is a union of countries. If you are born in or naturalised to one of those countries you are British. I'm perfectly happy for people to call themselves British, English-British, Irish-British, Scottish-British or Welsh-British, anything else can only continue to weaken the whole idea of Britain. To wear one of these new government allotted labels is an admission of a failure to integrate. Someone has to move on the issue and the government is suggesting that it is Britain that does the moving.