This site is a patriotic English site.

I appreciate that this will almost immediately label me as some kind of right wing nutcase but if that is your opinion no doubt you will not change it. This is not the site for you.

I am an ordinary person doing an ordinary job raising a family in England. What moved me to write the site nearly 7 years ago was the devolution settlement which brought about the Scottish and Welsh assemblies. As it happens this also coincided with one of Hollywood's less accurate blockbusters in mel Gibson's 'Braveheart'.

On looking around the internet I discovered many Welsh and many more Scottish sites, all of which based their nationalist sentiments on a general dislike of everything English. Even the Government, could not resist their little digs. Jack Straw called the English 'violent' whilst David Blunkett called for the Cross of St George to be reclaimed from the far right.

Blunkett's comment is a little strange, firstly I wonder if all the people flying the flag during football are all 'far 'right' and secondly it is the official embargo on flying it which marginalizes it and takes it away from the mainstream

England is not perfect and there are pages in our history which make uncomfortable reading but we do have a great deal to be proud of., From Alfred the great to the Magna Carta to Blenheim to the battle of Britain this is a story of triumph over adversity, how a motley, group of starving of Saxon tribes forged their own nation in a new land, how they fought off invasion after invasion and started on the road to forming one of the largest empires the world has seen. For nearly 1,000 years since the Norman invasion of 1066 England has remained free and independent.

Dr Johnson once called patriotism "The last refuge of the scoundrel". Which probably explains why the English have never really been as good at being patriotic as some other nations. but in the 7 years since this site became active more and more English sites have appeared, let's claim our flag and our national day on 23rd April, Saint George's day!