English identity?

[ramAnag]

Â…all of which you are entitled to do

As I’m entitled to consider the original post to have been a thinly veiled dig at a member of a political party you dislike which has misfired somewhat and prompted a discussion that has shown that, complicated as it is to pin down, there is still an ‘England’ and there is still ‘Englishness’ despite your efforts to demean it

Have it your own way, Anführer. Of course it’s true I don’t have much time for Jenrick but the thread was/is just an attempt to identify what being English actually means.
I’m not sure how it’s backfired, it’s provoked discussion which is the point of a forum, or what I can do to make you believe me - or that I actually care for that matter - but I do object to you accusing me of attempting to ‘demean’ Englishness…that was never my intention and tells me more about the chip on your shoulder than it should anything about me.

Incidentally, for what it’s worth, I play quite a significant role in our village fete - which doesn’t appear to have changed for years and is like something out of ‘Midsomer Murders’, but that’s all part of its charm. I have made no attempt to make it more ‘diverse’ although curiously it was cancelled this year, not certain why…we were away.
I also have a part to play in a number of local music events where, in the absence of an alternative venue, we use the local church. We’ve had a number of very well established folk/bluegrass performers along with some music from the Balkans and the Middle East. I didn’t actually have anything to do with booking the latter but our thoroughly pleasant vicar - as committed a Christian as you’ll find - seemed to enjoy it all enormously. Maybe he’s a little less blinkered than some.

P.S. Thanks MA…appreciated. My thoughts on Farage are…it has always been his intention to seek a higher profile. I believe the current candidates for the Tory leadership are far from outstanding and that, given the size of the Government’s majority, they will be on a hiding to nothing anyway. It reminds me of the ‘lame ducks’ the Tories were led by between Major and Cameron. IMO we now have a similar scenario and there are many of those on the right of the Tory Party who would welcome the intervention of a ‘personality’ politician like Farage to ‘rescue’ them. Hope I’m wrong.