AHC: These days, you can't say you're English without being arrested and thrown in jail.

[Kimkatya]

Challenge for you all: Stewart Lee's famous bit of course was represented as a piece of unreasonable conservative wittering. But can there be a modern (Say, after 1900) situation where that would be a reasonable statement? Maybe in Ireland, after a more violent war of independence?

 

[Charles EP M.]

If you want people arrested for saying "I am English" who'd otherwise be walking around you want something to happen where a national identity is changed from on high, either in the UK or the dominions - a revolution or coup or something where they've decided being English (or British, or English and Scottish etc) is Bad and Reactionary. Then saying "I am English" is an act of defiance against the regime.

Insert your own Northern Independence Party joke here.

 

[OHC]

Amish Fascism.

Sorry

 

[Jared]

"I am English. Johnny English."

"Sir, our orders are to arrest you on sight."

 

[Radac]

Challenge for you all: Stewart Lee's famous bit of course was represented as a piece of unreasonable conservative wittering. But can there be a modern (Say, after 1900) situation where that would be a reasonable statement? Maybe in Ireland, after a more violent war of independence?

Socialist policies in a revolutionary Britain leads to heavy-handed leadership which leads to ideological developments in the vein of composite British nationalism?