How dare you English!

Oh dear, I missed this one from Simon Jenkins in the Guardian:

Yesterday's [the ashes] victory was laboriously attributed to "England". The flag of Saint George waved everywhere over its celebrations. This was as absurd as that "England's" World Cup team should be beaten by Northern Ireland, and that what is really Britain must face the world explicitly to the exclusion of Scotland and Wales.

Americans do not stage a knockout competition to decide which state should represent it abroad. Bavarians and Catalans, with far more autonomy than Wales or Scotland, do not exclude themselves from their national teams. British cricket has always respected the United Kingdom, and even its governors have felt obliged to add Wales to their formal title. For goodness sake wave the union jack and let this glorious game belong to the nation as a whole.

Laboriously attributed to England? Holy smokes, the English can’t even win a sporting event without the haters coming out of the closet. That’s how bad things have got. How dare the English wave their dirty flags in the very faces of those poor innocent bystanders?

Jenkins reveals himself as a Unionist of the worst kind; the kind that loves the Union in spite of England.

Via Nicholas at British Nationalists in Wales WATCH who has this message for Jenkins:

Fetch me a bucket - the Brit Nat just can't stop! Which nation? Wave the union jack - is this some kind of joke? Get over it Jenkins. Britian is on its way out. The English cricket team are rightly proud of their win. Let the English celebrate it. Stop stuffing your British Nationalism down the throats of liberal-minded English and Welsh people, and why not catch up on some international politics whilst your at it.

It’s an interesting tactic that Jenkins employs to try and smooth over the cracks appearing in the Union. Laborious condescension and absurd demands for the Unionisation of the English cricket team.

Posted by John at September 20, 2005 12:40 PM | TrackBack