Posted: Oct 03, 2017 2:43 am
Teague wrote:OlivierK wrote:Sendraks wrote:There are plenty of people who are sufficiently tribal that they identify with their county, rather than being "English." If their county identity neatly overlaps with that of a preferred sports team, so much the better.
It's always seemed odd to me that a country like England with such strong regional identities hasn't adopted a more federal system of government. Having said that, I live in a federal system, whose faults are sometimes extremely frustrating (non-uniform laws, endless buck-passing between state and federal governments over funding of national infrastructure within a state), so I recognise the fact that federalism is not a panacea for regional grievances, but it still seems it could fit well in England as part of a federal UK.
No thanks, I like being British because I'm not a closed minded prick. If we can't embrace our kinsmen in 2017 then when the fuck can we? It drives me nuts this whole Brexit thing - the NI question is retarded - retrarded because when they decided to give the plebs the vote they were so stupid they saw none of this coming.
Orrrrrrrrrrr.....
They knew exactly what they were doing, it's a bid for power and to make us more like America so we can have a pay equality gap just like they do and less rights and regulations. I thought Corbyn was ok, he's better than the Tories but ffs, he hates Europe too and we're only 30 miles off the coast!
I'm not sure how a federal system would be incompatible with feeling British. I live in a federal system, and I feel Australian. The fact that a state government decides funding allocations for schools in my region, or even what proportion of the state budget is needed for health/education, etc doesn't change that at all - I really don't have much sense at all of feeling New South Welsh, although I do tend to support my home state in interstate sport. That's about the limit of my state affiliation, and I'm not sure that's a recipe for small-minded-prickishness any more than someone from Somerset following Somerset's cricket team, or a Liverpudlian following the Reds.
