Do you love Britain? If you were at the Ambassadors ball, would you be proud to be British?

Very much so.
We have a lot of diversity and multi-culturalism which I am very proud to be a part of.

Yes we have had (and still have) problems, no nation is perfect.
However if someone said am I proud to be American (if I was) then that may be a different story!

Proud and lucky to be a Brit.

No other country can hold a candle to us.

I would definitely fight for her freedom if I was required to do so.:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

I'm as Patriotic as the next bloke.

IMO the only major problem with this country is that the Labour government are a bunch of hypocritical nob jockeys.


For example they said they wouldn't introduce student top up fees in their 2001 election manifesto, and what do they go and do?! Just that! Lying tosspieces... They also decieve us on a regular basis, Iraq anyone? Bush and Blair KNEW they'd never find anything, yet they both insisted on sending troops from both sides of the Atlantic to possibly die in a war that should never have happened.

Originally posted by Rich
I'm as Patriotic as the next bloke.

IMO the only major problem with this country is that the Labour government are a bunch of hypocritical nob jockeys.


For example they said they wouldn't introduce student top up fees in their 2001 election manifesto, and what do they go and do?! Just that! Lying tosspieces... They also decieve us on a regular basis, Iraq anyone? Bush and Blair KNEW they'd never find anything, yet they both insisted on sending troops from both sides of the Atlantic to possibly die in a war that should never have happened.

Yes i love Britain. It's not perfect, but where is?

The tuition fees won't be introduced until the next parliament and a manifesto is only for the duration of one parliament, so they haven't lied. I am against them though.

Yes, proud of being British.

I'm also proud of my 50% Welshness, and 50% Englishness.

George Orwell once commented that it was adistressing habit of the British Intelligentsia to damn the country at the drop of a hat. I fear he was corrcet. Britain has it's flaws like everywhere else but we're often too keen in this country to put ourselves down.

If I wasn't a Brit (didn't someone once say that being British was winning first prize in the lottery of life?) then I'd like to be a US Citizen (again, has faults but not as bad as they're painted) or a Canadian.

I have to be a dissenting voice here - I'm not proud to be English - its an accident of birth not something I have any controll over so I don't see it as something to be proud of - any more than being proud of being male or white (which I also am!) That being said I am very appreciative of living in England - there are few places in the world I would prefer to live and certainly many I would prefer not to...

when i go on holiday to Spain and see the behaviour of drunken yobs (both sexes and girls are worse than boys these days) from this country, it certainly does not make me proud to be English/British. embarassed or ashamed would be nearer the mark.

Originally posted by Killian
when i go on holiday to Spain and see the behaviour of drunken yobs (both sexes and girls are worse than boys these days) from this country, it certainly does not make me proud to be English/British. embarassed or ashamed would be nearer the mark. Have to say though Killian we had some Spanish students staying with us and beleive me they can be a bit lairy when they are away from home. Maybe its Young + alcohol+ away from home= madness