As R.A.Hopkins points out in his letter published in the Western Daily Press on November 9th it is not just Jeremy Corbyn who needs to learn to learn to love England.
English parties must become nationalist.
It is beyond belief that a recent press headline read “Jeremy Corbyn needs to learn to love England”. In what other country in the democratic world would any nation’s MP, leave alone a party leader, have to “learn” to love the country and its electorate that he purports to represent?
However he is not alone in needing such advice for, from David Cameron down, legions of English MPs are no champions of England and its people.
Love of one’s country and promotion of national interests is in the “DNA” of all patriotic politicians affiliated to their own national parties as they are in Scotland, Wales Northern Ireland and in democracies worldwide. .
Since 1999 the post Devolution governments of Blair, Brown and Cameron have put the interests of their obsolete “UK” parties before that of England and its people.
The writing is on the wall – England must now join the real democratic world with our MPs (and MEPs) affiliated to national English parties.
R A Hopkins
Leckhampton, Gloucestershire
Over 70 years ago George Orwell wrote: "England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality. In left-wing circles it is always felt that there is something slightly disgraceful in being an Englishman and that it is a duty to snigger at every English institution, from horse racing to suet puddings. It is a strange fact, but it is unquestionably true that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during God save the King than of stealing from a poor box". This still rings true today!
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