brexit: and what the british think of themselves

Here's a poem:
Jay Doubleyou: the british - a poem

But who are the British?
Jay Doubleyou: identity
Jay Doubleyou: identity in the uk
Jay Doubleyou: english traditions which aren't english...
Jay Doubleyou: eccentric english
Jay Doubleyou: teaching 'british values'
Jay Doubleyou: "drunk stupid brits"

There is the whole Empire thing in India:
Jay Doubleyou: inglorious empire - what the british did to india
Jay Doubleyou: what we think about the british empire - 70 years after the partition of india

And there is the Empire thing of the mind:
Jay Doubleyou: theresa may's empire of the mind
Jay Doubleyou: brexit and history
Jay Doubleyou: in britain we use our history in order to comfort us: this sort of handling of history is dangerous as well as regrettable.

Oops:
Jay Doubleyou: brexit: and punctuation

And there is another bit of history:
Jay Doubleyou: the first world war: triumph and pride ... or ... tragedy and sorrow?

Give us back our Imperial measurements:
Jay Doubleyou: pounds, ounces and yards
BBC Radio 4 - Give 'em an inch... imperial and metric

And give us lots of Olympic medals:
Jay Doubleyou: sport and politics

But perhaps the Brits are not so sporting after all:
Jay Doubleyou: the problem with the english: england doesn’t want to be just another member of a team

We are different:
British ‘exceptionalism’ drove Brexit, but EU media aren’t buying it – POLITICO
LSE BREXIT – Brexit and British exceptionalism: the impossible challenge for Remainers
The British and their exceptionalism | Centre for European Reform

Aren't we:
Brexit News: John Major says British are not exceptional | UK | News | Express.co.uk

There are plenty of Brexit illusions:
Jay Doubleyou: one year to go before brexit
11 Brexit promises the government quietly dropped | Politics | The Guardian

To finish, there are other ways we can think of ourselves - with another poem:
Jay Doubleyou: big british asian summer
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