To Be English means not to be English. What a relief. 32 Favourite Choices of the English.

We, the English,

clearly prefer a non-English way of life.

1. Our favourite  hot drink –  a cuppa tea (from Sri Lanka/India)
2. Our second favourite hot drink –  a coffee (Africa, Arab nations, South America, Italy)
3. Favourite alcohol – lager Scandinavia
4. Favourite short drink – whisky Scotland
5. Most popular fruit  –  oranges Mediterranean, India, Brazil
6. Most popular fruit – bananas. Caribbean
7. Favourite Restaurant – Indian
8. Favourite plant-based recreational drug – marijuana. Asia
9. Favourite Cars – EU/Japan/South Korea
10. Favourite Mind/Body class – Yoga, India
11. Favourite Holiday destination – Spain
12. Favourite long-distance holiday – Thailand
13. Favourite workers – Polish
14. Favourite Institution – NHS (National Health Service) staffed by many internationals
15. Favourite alternative education – Steiner School, Montessori School  Germany, Italy
16. Favourite major football team – owned by billionaires from overseas
17. Favourite top football manager – from EU or South America
18. Voted Footballer of the Year (2018) – Mohamed Salah, Egyptian
19. Voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year (2018) – Geraint Thomas, Tour de France winner. Wales
20. Favourite Airline – Singapore Airlines
21. Favourite furniture flat pack – Sweden
22. Favourite cheap clothes store – Primark, Ireland
23. Favourite music – rock. Afro-American roots
24. Favourite self-help technique – Mindfulness, Buddhist Tradition, Thailand.
25. Most printed book – The Bible
26. Favourite junk food – McDonalds, USA
27. Favourite large kitchen appliances – EU, Japan, Korea
28. Most popular mobile phones – China, South Korea
29. Most popular TV detective series – Scandinavian
30. Fastest growing religions – Islam and Buddhism
31. Favourite complementary medicine – acupuncture,  Ayurveda, herbal medicine. homeopathy Asia, Germany
32. Favourite Films – Hollywood.

FINAL WORD

We can offer Monty Python humour. a precious commodity.

We still carry on singing that great song of that much loved English rock band Queen

‘We are the Champions of the World.’

Oh, wait a minute, beloved lead singer of Queen, Freddie Mercury (Farrokh Bulsara) had Indian parents and was born in Zanzibar.

We, English, have no self-existence. What a relief. We are made up of a composition of internationals.

Despite shadows of economic colonialism over the country, we live through our receptivity to what the rest of the world offers us.

THANK YOU.  Diversity is good for us.

Parliament votes on BREXIT today (15 January 2019).

BREXIT?

I think I’ll go and put the kettle on and have a cuppa tea.

That’s what we, the English, do in a crisis.

And this country is in a crisis.