ENGLANDISM

Sort of but not really. It’s about celebrating a cultural, civic, identity rather than ethnic supremacism. Shared citizenship, attachment and, daringly, a commitment to England.

Essential characteristics of being English include self-deprecation with a contradictory blend of being unnecessarily rude about others. Especially the French but also very inclusively, the Scottish and occasionally the Welsh.

No. Put your left foot in, take your right foot out and shake it all about. Shaking it about is the objective. Like James Bond’s Martini but shaken and stirred by relentless attempts by the British Government to divide and rule the English identity within a devolved United Kingdom.

The Heptarchy, or seven kingdoms, refers to the territories of England that evolved and unified into the founding components of the English nation in 927. The people and culture that gave birth to England are broadly characterised as Anglo-Saxon, developing and assimilating over the centuries from the 5th century onwards.

This process is called ‘nation building’, a common language, religion, shared traditions and a sense of identity which culminated in the formation of a state in 927. Anglo-Saxon means the dominant culture that emerged, not as an excluding ethnicity, but as a shared sense of place.

The Twelfth is already a bank holiday in Northern Ireland commemorating Protestant William III’s victory over Catholic James II at the Boyne in 1690. Also known as Orangemen’s Day with a few rather awkward issues arising.

But, don’t panic, the Glorious Revolution also saw the introduction of the English Bill of Rights so oranges were not the only fruit. The chances are good, there is a campaign building across the political divide in England but, His Majesty’s Government, has an obvious problem reconciling the desire to divide and at the same moment, celebrate English identity in 2027.

No. Just equality of representation within the union of the United Kingdom. Scotland, Wales and Northen Ireland have their own ‘governments’ to promote the interests of their home nations.

England has no independent executive and legislative representation to defend the interests of England, specifically the allocation of government funding.

One loves to have a tank, who doesn’t? However, only the big beardy bloke off World’s Strongest Man seems to have a road legal tank and he might not lend it for mass-marching-based shouting.

Instead, let’s street party like it’s 927. On July 12th 2027 with cakes and diluted ASDA orange and mango squash. While wasps flap about on your egg and cress sandwiches and Eddie ‘The Beast’ Hall flattens your mum’s wallpapering table with his Combat Vehicle Reconnaissance tankette.

12th July, 927 at Eamont Bridge, south of Penrith, Cumbria. After the conquest of Northumbria, Æthelstan of Wessex assembled an assembly of various rulers including Constantine II of Scotland, someone called Hywel of Wales and another chap from Strathclyde before it was demoted to Glasgow.

King Æthelstan: Rex Anglorum “King of the English”. England was unified under one ruler. One nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all but mostly the king until Magna Carta sorted out the king being above the law thing.

Sussex. As in South Saxons. Wessex being West Saxons and Essex as in the only way is East Saxons. Nothwithstandingly, add a gold cross to the budgies and you have the Wessex royal banner of Edward the Confessor (1003 -1066).

The budgies then became two lions, then three lions (on a shirt) in anticipation of three budgerigars on a shirt having less marketing reach when converting the world to Englandism.

Following Tony Blair’s devolution push, 1997 onwards, there was a problem. What to do about England: given that most of the UK population is English, 85% of the union, England would dominate if devolved with an English parliament.

The solution was to carve up the English into regions and cancel England as a nation. Devolution by default into artificial strategic authorities cancelling not only England as a nation but the shires, the traditional counties of England.

Yes. The English Devolution and Community Empowerment Act 2026 splits Yorkshire into pieces of eight. Divided into eight competing strategic authorities so that by 2028 Yorkshire, God’s own county, will have eight separate administrations.

The founding kingdom of Wessex has been blocked as an option because the Heart of Wessex was not developed enough. Despite developing the English nation. In 927. In Cumbria.

By pure coincidence, of course, the UK is joining the EU in a year-long celebration of the fall of Anglo-Saxon England in 1066. The birth of England is not being celebrated at all.

William the Conqueror was born, vaguely, around 1027. To commemorate this unspecific possibility, the UK has imported the Bayeux Tapestry and it will be at the British Museum on 12th July 2027.

Coincidentally, the fall of Paris in 1871 during the Franco-Prussian War was commemorated by a celebratory exhibition in 2015, also in London. It marked 200 years since the birth of Otto von Bismarck.

englandism.co.uk was originally broadcast in 1999 until 2009 when it closed due to parental pressure. It was originally established to object to the lack of an English parliament in the devolutionary UK settlement imposed by Tony “Box of Frogs” Blair.

The only partial achievement was to stop the BBC dividing itself into Nations and Regions to the exclusion of England but the BBC did it later anyway.

You can view the original website via the links below and, to be fair, the Irish and particularly the Welsh, much enjoyed the gibber-gabber but the Scotches went a bit full tonto postal on us. So mummy told us to stop. But we’ve started again from August 2026.

Yes.