Elections
Are now over thankfully! Politics, dirty and otherwise, has filled our TV screens here in New Zealand in the lead up to the general election for over a month now. After all the kerfuffle we've ended up with the incumbents re-elected for a third term on a slightly bigger majority!
We've also had pretty big coverage of the Scottish bid to sue for divorce from the UK. However, when it comes to nationalism and self identity, part of the reason given for wanting independence, Scotland and indeed Wales never seem to me to have any lack of it. You only have to cross the border into Scotland and you are made immediately aware that you have now left England, ditto Wales. In fact of all the countries in the UK, or indeed Great Britain, England appears to be the one that that is left floundering on the question of what exactly it means to be English as opposed to British, except when it comes to sport. There again, is nationalism something that we should be encouraging anyway...