Kevin Butcher of Hampshire Fire Brigade - PC Prig or Anti-English Bigot?

Here we go again. Auntie Beeb has just reported this:

A fire service has banned crews from flying England flags during the World Cup because it is afraid they could offend other nationalities.

Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service said the ban has been imposed out of fear that St George's Crosses on the engines could upset some communities.

Fire boss Kevin Butcher said that the fire service had a responsibility to be "inclusive of all nationalities".

But crews said the service had gone too far because of political correctness.

Jim Buck, crew manager at Gosport fire station, said: "I do not think the public would have a problem with the flags as we just want to support our country in the World Cup."

Mr Butcher, who is the brigade's head of operational delivery, sent a memo to all stations in Hampshire advising crews of the ban.

Just who is Kevin Butcher really? A PC prig? An anti-English bigot? For heaven's sake, the Cross of St George has been flying at 10, Downing Street during the World Cup. It is the national flag of England. Is Mr Butcher really telling us that people who choose to live in this country are offended by its national flag and want us to give it up?

The flag is deemed OK to fly above 10 Downing Street, but not on Hampshire fire engines.

Just what IS your game, Mr Butcher?

Update...

I look to John at the England Project as a bit of a voice of sanity when I get stirred up about things, and he has written to Hampshire fire brigade and received this reply. I'm not totally convinced as it does not explain why Kevin Butcher said that the fire service had a duty to be "inclusive of all nationalities" (and therefore not fly England's flag!). But even if this is a whitewash job on the part of the fire service, it's better to offer this reason than to leave Mr Butcher's statement hanging in the air.

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Lib Dem Simon Hughes Says... Or Should That Be "Dictates"?

Simon Hughes - in the running for my Creep of the Week Award...

Responding to the House of Commons Scottish Affairs Select Committee report into the 'West Lothian' question, Liberal Democrat Shadow Constitutional Affairs Secretary, Simon Hughes said:

"Liberal Democrats agree that devolution so far is work in progress and unfinished business. Much greater power to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland has been part of our campaign for years. However, we must now concentrate on handing down power to people in England as well. The new constitutional settlement must work not just for England, but the whole of the UK.

"The break-up of the UK is out of the question. By next year we will come forward with proposals for serious devolution in England. There is also a strong case for parliamentary constituencies across the UK mainland to have the same population. We will not let this issue go away."

Oh Simon - why bother stating that the new constitution "must work not just for England but for the whole of the UK"? So far, devolution has persistently worked against England and your party has been quite happy to let it. All we seek is parity with Scotland! Why keep sucking up to those who already have a much better deal elsewhere in the UK? Why not a bit of outrage about the democratic deficit currently levelled against the 50 million people in England?

Why was "much greater power" for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland part of your party's campaign "for years", and England left by the wayside? Why wasn't parity for the UK nations Lib Dem devolution policy from the start? It only is now because the English electorate is starting to question the situation.

So your party's proposals for "serious devolution" in England will be with us "by next year"? Why's that, then? All we need is an English Parliament. Parity with Scotland. Perhaps independence. Perhaps a federal UK.

And the "break up of the UK is out of the question"? Why? Because Simon says? Because the Liberal Democrats say? It's good to know that everything is open to debate in these post-democratic times, and that the electorate is in the driving seat.


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Tony "I'm Very English - Here's My Cup To Prove It" Blair Comes Unstuck...

"Why aye man, first class gadgie, that's me. And I'd thank you not to make me choke on ma wee cuppa, Ms. Petch. Och, see you?!"

It was all going so well. Here was our dear PM, Tony "Scotland is a proud, historic nation" Blair, as guest of honour on a BBC Radio Five Live football phone-in. Our Great Leader was merrily spouting a load of crap for the not-exactly-intellectual folk who were allowed through the BBC barbed wire barricades.

Then, suddenly, CEP member Della Petch managed to duck under the search beams and ask a proper question... More here...


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Beware Propaganda: We Never Had To Reclaim The Cross Of St George...

I have read a couple of articles recently stating that in the 1990s the English began to reclaim the Cross of St George from the far right. Well, I have a couple of points to make...

1) The Cross of St George was never a symbol of racist groups. I don't even think you could buy that flag in this country. The idea is simply propaganda issued by the Chattering Classes and the New Labour loyals. The racist groups identified with Britain and the Union flag. That flag was the only national flag I ever saw in England in the 1970s and 1980s. And as for the 1960s, take a look at photographs of the country celebrating the 1966 World Cup win. The Union flag was THE flag in England.

2) The return of the St George's flag in the 1990s was simply due to its usage by the national football team, not symptomatic of any "healthier sense of English nationalism" or "reclaiming" of the flag from racist groups. Even if the CoSG had ever actually been the sole preserve of racists, the notion that anything so interesting as its wresting from their evil talons occurred in the smug 1990s is ridiculous. That decade thought itself wonderful without ever lifting a finger to be so - simply because it wasn't the 1980s.

3) After its re-emergence as a sporting emblem, the CoSG became more and more prevalent and more and more relevant as Blair and co discriminated against England at every opportunity, and began the process of dismantling the country into unelected regional assemblies.

And the flag's return all started with the beautiful game. Footie has done us a great favour.

Come on, England. Both on and OFF the pitch.

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England Under Threat...

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Everybody that can possibly make it to this meeting please contact Stephen Gash.

For all those that can't, please check out the CEP and English Democrats sites.

Don't just fly the Cross of St George for the football. By the time the next World Cup rolls round, there probably won't be an England - we must act NOW to protect the interests of every English citizen.

It doesn't matter who you are, nor how far back you can trace your various family branches in England. Pre-1066? Post 1066? 1986? 2006? Who cares! "English" is a nationality, not a race and everybody living here permanently is entitled to be English.

This is a call to everybody.

Please get involved.

For democracy's sake.

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The England Flag To Be Flown At Downing Street...

What do you know? Apparently, Tony Blair has backtracked and the Cross of St George is to fly from 10 Downing Street when England is playing in the World Cup.

Well, I'm stunned!

I was going to write in my last article on the subject: If Blair ever agrees to the flying of the Cross of St George for any reason, I'll eat the underpants I'm wearing at that moment.

So glad I didn't.

Thanks to Tommy English for pointing the way to this article by Boris Johnson in the Telegraph, too.

Interesting times.

There's just one thing: win, lose or draw, whatever the outcome of the World Cup for England, the people of this country must continue to campaign for England afterwards.

To campaign for a fair settlement now that democratic devolution has been granted to Wales and Scotland.

England, it must be remembered, has, by contrast, been chopped up into unelected regional assemblies.

We must all campaign for our own national parliament to represent us, the people of England.

Like dear old Scotland.

If not, the abolition of England via New Labour dictate lies just around the corner.

Our ambulance services have been regionalised.

Next our police forces will be.

Then our county councils will be abolished.

Over 1,000 years of history will be abolished as our counties cease to exist.

"She's a lassie from Lancashire"?

Not any more.

In England's place will be nine EU regions, bordering on the far better financed and democratically represented "proud, historic nations" of Scotland and Wales.

This is truth and it's going to happen if the people of England decide to put England to the backs of their minds until the next World Cup.

Don't let it.

There's much more to England than just a football team.

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Why Tony Blair won't fly England's flag...

According to Tony Blair's spokesperson, he will not be following UK Culture Minister Tessa Jowell's lead in flying the England flag from his car because of his "particular circumstances".

What are these? Is it because he's Scottish? (yes, he is - you can't deny it!).

Is it because he's PM of the whole of the so-called "UK"? If so, as he's declared his own country, Scotland, a "proud, historic nation," and given it its own parliament, and Wales its own assembly, both with First Ministers avidly supporting those countries' sports teams, the least Blair could do is fill in here and fly the flag for the England.

But no. Obviously, consideration for his own country, as always, comes first. No matter that he's already given Scotland its own parliament and Scots MPs are dictating government policy in England. Blair knows that a minority of his fellow country people will be outraged if he flies England's flag and he doesn't want to upset his own.

And he has no loyalty to us.

Blair won't even wave a little flag for England. Underneath it, lies hatred and contempt for our country. We need our own First Minister. Our own parliament.

The break-up of England, entirely undemocratic "regionalisation" of this country, lies just round the coorner if we're left in the hands of the Nu Labour Project.

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PC Trendy Janet Street-Porter, Anglophobe Yasmin Alibhai-Brown and the joys of "Desmond's"...

I have just seen a video of the comedy series, Desmond's, which first hit our screens in January 1989. Ah, nostalgia! I enjoyed this series, which ran until the mid-1990s, the first time round.

Depicting life at a Peckham barber shop run by a West Indian family, headed by Desmond Ambrose and his wife Shirley, and with a predominately black cast, Desmond's spoke of cultural differences not just between black and white characters, but also amongst the blacks only. However, the black and white clasped hands in the opening titles spoke of a greater unity.

In one episode, Shirley's sister, on a visit from the West Indies, questioned Desmond's desire to retire home. He ate fish and chips! Hadn't he became rather "English" (note: not "British"). Desmond's English-born son rapped about being the best - because he came from Peckham!

Desmond's was funny, but often thought provoking. It didn't shy away from issues like racism. But at the back of it was a sense of optimism - of people being people. Of hope.

Compare that to nowadays, with New Labour and its assorted politically correct morons doing all they can to destroy unity with their "multicultural" claptrap. Yes, we must respect each others' cultures, but you cannot have various groups living in a vacuum. There has to be integration too. And why does the indigenous culture of England have to be denigrated by the PC crowd at every opportunity? Morris dancing? "oh dear," (sneer); fish 'n' chips? "I prefer a curry," (sneer) - and so on.

What is it with the PC crowd? We know some PC folk are members of the Scottish Raj, so their stance is self-explanatory. But what about the likes of Janet Street Porter? What motivates her to infer that people flying the St George's flag are oiks? Rank snobbery? Surely not left-over Imperialist guilt? The Empire was British and its flag was the Union flag!

Trevor Phillips, of the Commission for Racial Equality, spoke out a couple of years ago, claiming that the concept of multiculturalism had not worked and was now a thing of the past. The government, terrified at the prospect of any increased unity in England, quickly announced that changes may be made to the CRE.

This was a thinly veiled threat, effectively silencing the organisation, and turning it into a another government propaganda agency, squeaking "Britishness!" or "Multiculturalism!" at every opportunity.

Mr Phillips, who a few years ago described himself as a black Englishman, proud to wear a rose on St George's Day, does not speak out like that nowadays.

Meanwhile, New Labour encourages Scottish and Welsh culture and discriminates against England at every opportunity.

Yes, if you live in England you will endure lower public spending than in Scotland, Northern Ireland or Wales.

Yes, if you live in England, Tony Blair will appoint people to key English ministries who are not democratically accountable to you.

Yes, if you live in England, New Labour will carve up your country into non-democratic Regional Assemblies, despite the massive "NO" vote in the North East, the only area of the country allowed a referendum. The government will also, for good measure, regionalise your ambulance services and police forces, making both into much larger, distant and more unaccountable services. You won't be consulted, either. You will be fed a load of nonsense that the police forces must regionalise because of the threat of terrorism. But in Scotland police forces are becoming smaller. Surely, we shouldn't be leaving Scotland open to the threat of terrorism?

Or is the "terrorism" claim just another load of clap trap, to force us to have what we do not want at the behest of the Scottish Raj currently ruling England?

If you live in England, New Labour will allow Scottish MPs to overturn the votes of your MPs (as with foundation hospitals and top-up fees) and force legislation on you.

It seems to me that the politically correct ramblings of the likes of Janet Street-Porter, Vince Cable and resident Anglophobe Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, are simply designed to cloud the issues and create hatred and division. Alibhai-Brown is particularly vehement, having elected herself as spokesperson for immigrants to this country. She goes around claiming that they are more comfortable with a "British" than an "English" nationality tag, and slagging England and the English off at every opportunity.

We're to blame for everything - the British Empire, the lot. Alibhai Brown's knowledge of our history is of bog standard, it would seem. She comes across as opinionated but uninformed. An anti-English bigot, in fact. She never attacks the Scottish or Welsh, although the Scots were disproportionately involved in the Empire and a recent BBC show, Scotland's Empire, was certainly no apologists' piece.

Alibhai-Brown hysterically demonises Englishness and England only, because she is a devout coward and knows that the Scottish and Welsh would not tolerate her attacks.

So, no unity for England. And increasingly non-democratic government, too.

Whoever you are, whatever your race, creed or colour, if you are a citizen of England get wise. This abuse by the British state has gone on long enough.

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The Commission for Racial Equality - We Don't Have To Answer Your Questions! We Are Accountable Only To The Nu Labour Project...

I can't fault the promptness of the Commission for Racial Equality in replying to the e-mail that Drew and I sent to them on Saturday, which included a link to this WENAP post. But the content of their reply leaves a lot to be desired.

Thank you for your comments which have been duly noted.

If you require further information or assistance please do not hesitate
to contact us.

Regards,

Information and Assistance Centre

So, why can't people in England be English at the library? Why is the CRE ignoring government discrimination (lower public spending, the West Lothian Question, non-representative MPs etc) against the people of England? Why are inclusive Scottish and Welsh civic identities allowed, but not English?

The CRE does not see fit to answer our questions. What an accountable government lapdog... er, sorry, I mean "body" it is!

Apologies. Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit. But I do love it so.


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BBC - The Office Site - Scottish and Welsh bias?

Had a very funny e-mail from Dave in Slough last night - all about the BBC's Office website. Remember that show - Ricky Gervais as David Brent, emotionally needy and all-round pain of an office manager, Peter Purves as Peter Purves, star of a cheesy, 1980s training film, and Ben Bradshaw as somebody in the background who once had his trousers removed?

Excellent. Well, Dave thinks that the BBC's website on the Office theme is great, but the featured map is perhaps evidence of Little Scotlanders and Little Walesians on the design team. Why? Because of the Tartan Bitter "Brewed In Scotland" ashtray featured in the smoking room and the empty Welsh water bottle in Dawn's bin at reception shown above.

Dave suggests that it's highly odd that the only two distinctively British products featured on the map are from the "nations" of the "UK". Couldn't there at least have been some indication of the fact that the show was set in England? A faded "Come On England" sticker on Jamie's computer, for instance?

Don't be silly, Dave - this is the BBC!

Hmmm... I'm not absolutely convinced that this particular incident IS evidence of the BBC's Scottish and Welsh bias (which undoubtedly exists), Dave, but then I'm an innocent and trusting soul.

Who knows?

Anyway, thanks for the e-mail.

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The Commission for Racial Equality is Racist!

I am indebted to ELERF for highlighting this article on the Spalding Today site:

'British Other'?... No, I'm English!...

A HOLBEACH woman was outraged after being told she could not call herself English by library workers.

June Booth, whose details have not changed in decades, was asked her ethnic origin when she popped into a Lincolnshire County Council-run library to find out if her card needed renewing.
Having said she was English, Mrs Booth was told she must fit into the category of either "British White" or "British Other". Mrs Booth, of Cedar Drive, said: "I think it's all wrong. I'm not going to have my nationality taken away from me. I don't think it's a small matter - it's being said that there's no England."

When she refused to acknowledge herself as anything other than English, the library worker classed Mrs Booth as "British Other".

She said: "It was ridiculous and embarrassing because other people were there. It seems you can call yourself Scottish, Irish or Welsh but you can't call yourself English. I feel like everything is being taken away from me."

Mrs Booth believes it is something many other people feel strongly about and refuses to allow the matter to be brushed aside.

What really horrifies me is that the article goes on to say that the library form, common to libraries throughout England, uses criteria from the Commission for Racial Equality . Large numbers of people in England consider themselves to be English, but the Commission somehow considers that nationality unfit to be listed. However, the Commission considers "White British" perfectly acceptable. Why should colour come into the equation? Surely that is far more racist than giving all people in England the option of listing themselves as British or English?

Amusingly, the home page of the CRE currently contains a link to a CRE Scotland article (there is no CRE England) on fears that the World Cup could lead to an escalation of anti-English racism. This is ironic, as the CRE routinely practices anti-English racism, as seen in criteria provided for ethnicity listings at libraries across England!

Also on that home page is a link to a completely useless report on how "Britishness" has been portrayed at recent general elections. All this is simply to reinforce the government's brainwashing for the people of England that we must be BRITISH. We must not question devolution. We cannot be English. English is nasty. But the Scottish and Welsh can be Scottish and Welsh.

The Commission for Racial Equality is simply an anti-English government puppet. Much of its current role revolves around supporting the government's unfair devolution settlement, by keeping the people of England divided.

30 years since it was formed, the Commission for Racial Equality is a corrupt department of a corrupt government, dedicated to a racist, elitist cause: the provision of democratic devolution to Scotland and Wales, and the dissolvement of England via regionalisation without consultation.

The effect of this would be: a continuation of lower public spending in England; a continuation of non-representative MPs in key English ministries; a continuation of the West Lothian Question; the possibility of a largely democratically unaccountable Prime Minister in the near future.

The woman who found "English" was not listed as an ethnicity option at her local library and was distressed, matters not a jot. By submerging England and ignoring or demonising the concept of Englishness, the CRE serves the government well. The hope is that, by keeping the concept of "Britain" and "British" to the forefront in England, hopefully not too many people will get wise to this government's dreadful discrimination against every man, woman and child in England.

The corruption of the CRE in its attitude towards England and Englishness is quite a recent thing. A few years, ago Trevor Phillips, the Commission's head, was actually saying how proud he was to be a black Englishman. He was thrilled that it was now accepted to be black and English, and cited an experience he'd had on holiday in France when a Frenchman had referred to him as English. This was featured in the Sun (it may have been the Star or Mirror, but I think not) a few years ago on a St George's Day (I'm almost certain that it was during the Cross of St George frenzy). Sadly, I didn't keep a copy, but anybody who has a Sun newspaper archive should be able to find the article.

Phillips later stated his concern that English children were not fed positive images of themselves compared to the Welsh and Scots. Ominously, the Government then commented that certain changes might be made to the CRE, and from then on the Commission has towed the anti-English line.

The Commission for Racial Equality is an outdated and now highly racist tool of a government determined to prevent an inclusive, English civic identity; determined to prevent the people of England from uniting against the current system of divide, deprive and rule.

Devolution for Scotland and Wales, an undemocratic nightmare for the people of England.

I don't know how CRE staff sleep at night.

Drew and I have e-mailed the CRE, asking for a comment on their anti-English stance. It shall appear on this blog if they condescend to contact us. Why not drop them a line yourself? The E-mail address is info@cre.gov.uk

Oh, and if anybody has a copy of the Trevor Phillips Sun newspaper article, I would really appreciate a scan of it.

Update...

Here's the reply

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The Battle of Trafalgar Commemorative £5 Coin info: The Royal Mint Joins The Push To Airbrush Englishness Out Of Existence...

As we all know, the great and the good - the Prime Minister, the vast majority of MPs, the Guardian, etc, have all decided that "British" is good, "English" is bad.

Gordon Brown, a man of great ambition, makes an exception for our national football team. But he has his reasons.

Why is "British" good, "English" bad? If anything, doesn't "British" smell of ye olde Empire? That's beside the point, badly thought-out and unfair devolution has made the continuation of a "British" civic identity in England essential to New Labour and the repression of "Englishness" is an absolute must.

In the sales info for the Royal Mint Battle of Trafalgar commemorative coin I received this morning (see above), I read that:

The commemorative Trafalgar £5 coin has been struck at the Royal Mint, as have all British circulation coins for the last 1,100 years.

Er, there was no "British" nation and no "British" national currency 1,100 years ago. Shouldn't the blurb actually read "English and then British circulation coins" or some such?

But no, the Royal Mint has decided to join Tony and his cronies in attempting to airbrush England out of existence. Then. Now. Forever.

The Royal Mint's little effort is part of a much bigger drive aimed at ensuring that every man, woman and child in England will continue to think "British", thus sealing their fate as second class UK citizens.

Wakey, wakey!

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Blackpool Bans England Emblems From Its Taxis, The Scottish Raj Dictates And It's All Our Own Fault...

Interesting mail from a person apparently called "McCisco"...

I reckon you lot are in a hell of state. You're being ruled by a Scottish Raj - and let's not forget the Welsh contribution - Prescott's assemblies and Hain's love of apartheid. You deserve better. 'Course you do. Here's Blair giving you another unaccountable transport minister and putting his old buddy boy John Reid in as Home Secretary... now how many top jobs are occupied by folks from my little Tartan Acre now?

Blackpool council tells its taxi drivers not to fly the national flag of England, nor even wear clothing with the word "England" or the three lions emblem on.

Yeh, you're in a state. And it's Scotland's fault. Wales' fault. You're victims. Helpless victims.

Well, I beg to differ. I'm not excusing my lot (the "jocks") from making hay and abusing the Union left right and centre since 1997. Yeh, we're undemocratic. Yeh, we stink. But the English just sit around, doing nothing about it!

What is it with your MPs that they do bog all to address the situation? Where's the Opposition? What is it with these taxi drivers that they let the local Council tell them that their national emblems are unsuitable? Unfit?

Yeh, we Scots are dictating to you. But the worst culprits in all this are your own upper and middle classes. It's the English class system which causes Blackpool council to wrinkle its nose at the wearing of England emblems by taxi drivers and dictate that they should not do so. The council would only treat forelock-tugging English peasants in this way - no other cultural group in the country would take it. Or be expected to.

From the taxi drivers comes the odd grumble, but they accept what might even be an illegal ruling.

Meanwhile, your MPs sit on their arses, riding the gravy train and not giving a sh** what it's like for you lot down there on doggy-do street.

Since John Major arrived, the electorate in your country has grown more and more indifferent to what its governments do. Insular. Meanwhile, we "Jocks" and your Polly Toynbee and sparkling-EU-career-aspiring type MPs let you fry.

Sure, I accept that Scotland takes some of the blame. But it would never have been allowed to get this far if the English ruling class gave a sh** about its underlings - you know, the people who elected them, and the English peasants kept in touch with events, questioned them and got out there and raged.

It's odd that the government denies English civic institutions and an inclusive English civic identity, as your main man at the CEP blog says. It's odd that Blackpool Council should feed the fear of racism by saying that the England flag is a bad thing, and that is what they are saying with the ban for taxi drivers. But they're only doing it because they can. Because the people won't speak up and say "NO!"

I was reading that it's (apparently) interesting how St George's flags are being flown earlier than ever this World Cup season. Is it to do with a rising sense of injustice at the democratic deficit? No. It's because the English want 1966 all over again. That's all. They don't know or don't care about what's happening politically. And don't blame the media. There's plenty about the issue on the internet if people care to look.

A lot of the fault lies with your own smug, politically correct top brass and the English peasant tendency to tug forelocks and say "aye, sir!"

I'll need to think about all this, but you make some interesting points, McCisco! Thank you.


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Sainsburys - "Official England Supermarket" and Gigantic Hypocrite

Sainsbury's - "OFFICIAL ENGLAND SUPERMARKET"? What?!

This is one of the "big two" supermarkets (Tesco being the other) which won't even acknowledge England's existence the rest of the time! Remember the Sainsbury's casserole packs - with: "carrots from Lincolnshire, UK; Onions from Lincolnshire, UK; Swede from Fife, Scotland; Turnip from Fife, Scotland..."

Check out how Sainsbury's submerges England as "UK", yet acknowledges Scotland across its various lines. And then tell me how it qualifies to be "official supermarket" of England's national football team?

And as for Tesco - that store will not feature the Cross of St George on English products, but is happily raking in the profits selling St George's flags and other items to cash in on football fever.

I'd actually feel very disloyal to England, buying any football-related merchandise from either Sainsbury's or Tesco.

Both stores are actually England-hating hypocrites.

Think about it. Don't buy.

UPDATE...

England The Land Equal Rights Forgot takes a look at Asda's inspired but completely illogical World Cup money spinner here.

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GMTV Report on Scotland's Lack of Support for the England Football Team...

I was roused from my slumbers this morning by the phone ringing. It was an old pal of mine, reporting that ITV 1's breakfast telly channel GMTV was covering the "issue" of Scotland's lack of support for England in the coming World Cup.

I'm not a great footie fan, and I have enough trouble coping with a bowl of muesli to ever bother with breakfast TV in the morning, but my pal's news interested me. I personally don't think it's at all odd or wrong that most people in Scotland don't support the English football team. Why on earth should they? It's the way many folk north of the border buy the opposing teams' strips I find childish. But, to return to the GMTV report, it seems to me that the media in the past didn't pay much attention to the attitudes of Scots regarding English football. This year seems different. I have read several articles on the subject.

I wonder what it all means?

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