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Came back to this thread to post exactly this. So much English nationalism seems not to want to forge a new, better version of the country, but instead drag it back to an imagined past where 'things were better'. AA Gill puts it better than I ever could.
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A problem with nationalism in England is perhaps that it looks back to the past rather than to the future - it's based on out-dated and fantastical ideas of exceptionalism and has become a refuge for those that dislike the modern, global world.