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mokryna Mon 21-Sep-20 09:36:49

Not on official official documents of course but in your mind where do you place yourself and in what order?
I think of myself a EuroEnglishFrench person.

Alegrias Mon 21-Sep-20 19:41:28

Scottish, British (because that's more or less what my passport says), European.

DH was born in England but has lived in Scotland for over 50 years, and is sorry that he can't be "officially" Scottish.

52bright Mon 21-Sep-20 19:43:54

Born, bred and rooted in North East England with it's interests stamped in my dna like the letters in Blackpool rock. Then English, British and European.

TheFrugalPiggy Mon 21-Sep-20 19:52:19

English and American.

Juno56 Mon 21-Sep-20 19:57:02

British, English, Londoner. I did not vote for Brexit and wish we were remaining in the EU but I don't regard myself as European even though I suppose I am.

B9exchange Mon 21-Sep-20 20:07:58

Half Scots, half English, but proud to be British!

Urmstongran Mon 21-Sep-20 20:41:16

English ❤️

SueDonim Mon 21-Sep-20 20:47:47

Vichy Scots

Godwin’s law has been invoked. The poster has lost the argument.

mokryna Mon 21-Sep-20 21:03:31

SueDonim I had never heard of Godwin’s law!

Urmstongran Mon 21-Sep-20 21:03:47

Seems to me someone ‘less Scottish’ than the natives is more stridently ‘Scottish’. Strange that.

FannyCornforth Mon 21-Sep-20 21:08:14

Whingingmom

YamYam

Ha ha! Me too!

LauraNorder Mon 21-Sep-20 21:09:42

English but live in Wales so always careful to say British.
Can see why the Welsh don’t feel joined up, we say Queen of England, Westminster politicians talk about England even when referring to UK matters, we talk about the England cricket team when in fact it’s the England and All Wales cricket team.
At heart I’ll always be English.

grumppa Mon 21-Sep-20 21:25:03

British, European, Being half English, half Welsh makes things complicated.

Froglady Mon 21-Sep-20 21:28:20

Yorkshire then British then English!

fatgran57 Tue 22-Sep-20 03:12:30

Australian

cornergran Tue 22-Sep-20 03:34:56

I’m an Essex girl at heart, 43 years since I last lived there, then English then British. Mr C always says he’s a Valleys boy, hasn’t lived there for 55 years.

Ailsa43 Tue 22-Sep-20 03:40:34

Very proud to be Scottish born and raised, but England has been very good to me for over 40 years!.. however when asked, I always say Scottish, then British

Marmight Tue 22-Sep-20 03:51:44

English/Scottish (as I lived there longer than in England) and now English again. If asked from whence I come, I say from the UK. I hope it always will be united ??

PECS Tue 22-Sep-20 08:14:26

British of dual heritage..not particularly proud..place of birth is not an achievement imo!
That is not to say I do not like the UK..I do very much and but pride is not part of those feelings

Pantglas2 Tue 22-Sep-20 08:26:18

Welsh in Britain, British all over the world ?????????

Grammaretto Tue 22-Sep-20 08:53:03

I wasnt going to add my tuppence worth but here it is anyway:
In the words of the song Call it Alba written for and sung by children at a local school
"I belong to the land I live in and the land is in the very heart of me"

It expresses the belief that if you make a place your home (in this case Scotland) you belong to that place. Your place of birth, your colour or religion are irrelevant. The land belongs to you and you belong to it.

mokryna Tue 22-Sep-20 08:58:57

Sorry but I beg to differ, my heart is still in the Surrey hills but the majority of my family is here. I wish my ashes to be spread there not here.

JenniferEccles Tue 22-Sep-20 09:02:24

English, British so therefore part of the continent of Europe.

I voted to leave the EU, not Europe !

JackyB Tue 22-Sep-20 09:28:16

Difficult. I was born in London but wouldn't call myself a Londoner. My great grandfather was Irish, so I have an Irish maiden name and I am fond of Ireland.

I grew up in Newmarket which is neither Suffolk nor Cambridgeshire and yet both. (I think I'll plump for Suffolk there because of the lively coastline.)

On paper I am now also German, but would never give up my British passport.

But to answer the question, and backed up by a cousin's research, I can (and do) unashamedly say I'm English.

JackyB Tue 22-Sep-20 09:30:07

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Lovely, not lively (Suffolk coast)

PECS Tue 22-Sep-20 09:40:34

I like that sentiment Grammaretto