I don’t dislike Brits, I dislike ultra nationalists who pontificate about the glory days of Empire and how UK will once again be “great” and doesn’t need Europe, because the EU is an unelected body that steals from and rapes Britain and other such patent nonsense. etc etc etc
I dislike those so blinded by the Union Jack, they make up stories to justify their positions and see England as the savior of the world, neatly forgetting that during the wars, without allied help, Britain’s war effort would probably have ended sooner - and with somewhat different result....
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In much the same way as I feel antipathy for the Spanish Vox supporters who see “Spain for the Spanish only”, neatly forgetting Spain’s own chequered history of forced religious conversion and mistreatment of both Jews and Muslims.
I dislike the German nationalists who would see a return of the Fourth Reich, and French Nationalists who want to tear France apart to “make it great again” - doubtless Italian Nationalists too.
You’ll see a common theme here. Nationalists. As Matthew said, you are entitled to be proud of your country, but the problem for me comes when pride turns to blindness to its faults and a desire to see other nations / projects fail. UK has left the EU. Goodo. There’s now no need, except for unreasoning and wholly uneducated hatred to desire the breaking apart of the European project. You are now separate from it (and this is NOT aimed at you Andymac, so please don’t take it personally) so why care what it does and how it goes about it’s business? It is definitely a cheek to be English, desire Brexit, then live in Europe and desire its breakup. It’s. Not. Your. Country. People. Live here, fine, but then live within the structure that exists.
How would you feel if a Spaniard moved to England, took residency then started motivating for the breakup of the United Kingdom? Justifiably pissed off is my guess.
I am integrating here, I own a business with a 99% Spanish customer base, my customers don’t speak English, we are members of the Moros y Cristianos Asociación Cultural de Vera etc etc. I consider myself an EU Citizen and look forward to the successful court challenge that says such citizenship cannot be taken away simply because of Brexit.
What irks me most though, about those who look back on the “glory days” when UK was “better off without Europe” is that they have heavily rose tinted glasses and notoriously short memories and completely fail to recognise that the global conditions that gave Britain it’s pre-EU “Glory” have completely changed, making such a return to those halcyon days (if they ever actually existed!!) utterly impossible. And that’s the biggest problem with Nationalism, it narrows your view and prevents you seeing anything outside that narrowed, blinkered “Britain is great” view.
The world has changed and Britain will one day realise you can’t turn back the clock, only go forward in unity or become small and irrelevant.
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