The English aren’t such a bad bunch

The left needs to make peace with the English if it is ever to stage a comeback.

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In The Guardian on Monday, Channel 4 News's economics editor, Paul Mason, noted that the scale of the SNP victory in Scotland "virtually compels" all the UK-wide political parties "to start centring themselves on a place called England". This would be a bad thing: "as an English person I would like to declare up front: I do not want to be English".

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