Quote Originally Posted by redgunamo View Post
Right. That's why I blame your sort, claiming to be half Irish, or whatever. It's essentially the rudiments of multi-culturalism and it just encourages all the nonsense.

Surely you are aware that Europeans, for example, believe that the Scots, the Welsh and, yes, the Irish, act as some kind of civilising influence on the English. As though being English is something to be ashamed of. Seriously.
I've never said I'm half-Irish. I'm an Englishman of Irish extraction who supports the England cricket team, the Irish rugby team and doesn't care about the England football team. These are not inherently contradictory positions, since none of these things compromises my inherent loyalty to Queen and Country.

Britain has been a vaguely coherent mish-mash of four different countries (well, three and Wales) as long as it has existed. Irishness, Scottishness and Welshness are as much parts of the British identity as Englishness, so anomalies such as me are bound to result from such a loose arrangement. That's quite different to multi-cultural nonsense.