Here are a few quotations which show how the British Establishment think about England:-

Labour – Jack Straw
“The English are potentially very aggressive, very violent”

Labour
John Prescott – “There is no such nationality as English”

Labour – Gordon Brown
“the Nations & Regions of Britain” [Note he means that Scotland, Wales & N Irleand are Nations – England is only a collection of Regions !]

Conservative & Unionist Dave Cameron
“I’ll take on the sour Little Englanders, I’ll fight them all the way”.

Conservative & Unionist William Hague
“English Nationalism is the most dangerous of all forms of nationalism”.

Liberal Democrats – Charlie Kennedy
Said that breaking England up into EU Regions is good because “it is calling into question the idea of England itself”.