I used to be "British"; I didn't vote for devolution - in fact I voted against it. Despite my heritage, I believe we need less government, not more. Now you are "English" and I am "Scottish". I preferred being "British". (PS, my dad was Irish. He came from Dublin; he joined the RAF in 1938 and was lifted off the beach at Dunkirk in May 1940: in September 1944, at Arnhem, he was shot down and captured. In 1948/49, he spent a year keeping people alive via the Berlin Airlift . In 1954, some twit in Whitehall wrote to tell him (he served in the RAF until 1968) that he needed to fill a bunch of forms in to remain in the UK, or he would be deported). Sorry; bad night; fatal RTA (RTC?) (19 years old) just this side of our mutual border.