"Its my flag too and I want it back"

The Olympics has been great and Team GB has been in the news just as much as Union flags have been on the streets.

But careless throw away lines like this "Who needs the symbol of the English Defence League and the English football fan?"  in the Telegraph today show some who want to suppress England grasping their chance.

"the idea of 'British' implies a false sense of unity" - Valleys Race Equality Council

The Telegraph has just run this story here.

What appears to really offend is the Anglophobia which the Telegraph article implies. ( Since I haven't read the report I could accept that the quotes give the wrong impression ). See extracts quoted below:

New guidelines for town hall workers state that "many Scots, Welsh and Irish resist being called British" and says people from ethnic minorities should be called "British Asians" or "Chinese British".

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"the idea of 'British' implies a false sense of unity"

No mention of the English here ( not that anyone gets called British English - ever, nor can I see any point in doing so ). This looks like the typical Anglophobia present in many of the home nations.

Of course the irony here is that the Welsh are what's left of the British tribes after the Roman and Anglo-Saxon invasions. So of all people you would think they would stick up for the idea of being British ?