Petition calls for 'Wales' to change name...

Relax, Red. I am not being critical in the least, nor am I sneering. I am merely curious about what it is you want English nationalism to do for you. The Welsh and the Scots want independence. What do you want for the English that can't be accomplished already? And what form do you see English nationalism taking, if not independence from the rest of the Union?

By establishment, I assume you mean the social elites who control power, ie the Tory government. While some of the Welsh and the Scots quite rightly feel that their nationalism is regarded with contempt and ambivalence, it is not regarded with any respect from Westminster. Unless you can be very specific about what you want do to that you don't think you can accomplish now, they would think that for you to want to be regarded in the same way as they are is tantamount to asking for less respect, not more. 
I am curious about what form you see English nationalism taking. Unless you want independence from the Union, what will English Nationalism look like? How will you know when you've got what you want? How, precisely, do you feel English Nationalism is being disrespected by the government?

By 'establishment' I don't necessarily mean the government, I refer to social and political elites, particularly those on the left who seem to take great pleasure in showing their contempt to anything associated with Englishness whether it be nationalism, the flag or an English national anthem.

I don't particularly want English nationalism to achieve anything, I just don't want it sneered at by people like Lady Nugee. Why should I as an Englishman not be as openly proud of my flag as a Welshman or a Scotsman, and why cant the English have a national anthem as the Welsh and Scotts have. Why do the aforementioned establishment insist we should constantly thrash ourselves for being English. 

Why cant the English have a national anthem, just as the Welsh and Scots have. Could it be because the political and social elites consider an English anthem would be far too nationalistic. Another example of how we are encouraged to ignore 'Englishness' is April 23rd, St Georges day. We are encouraged not to make a fuss about it, to believe it's nothing to shout about. You are far more likely to see St Andrews day or St David's day mentioned on the BBC than St Georges day. It's just something else that's English that we're not supposed to bother about. Perish the thought some woke thin skinned lefty insist minorities will be offended by Englishness.   

The government have debated the merits of an English anthem at length, people who think the English should not have their own anthem always seem to get their way.  

I know monte is probably saying this tongue in cheek , but we have had this discussion before , and he doesn't seem to get for some reason England isn't a Celtic nation.

The English have never called England Alba , and for most of history , they haven't referred to their country as Britain and British either.

Alba , pronounced `Al-a-Pa` has meant many things over the centuries as the language changed . Originally , as far as scholastic research can penetrate , it meant the whole island of Britain , which the Goidelic Celts named it . This is where the latin term Albion later came from.

As new waves of Celtic speakers came here from Europe , that then changed to Prydain , which the romans went on to bastardise as Britain .

As the territory of the Goidelic Celts was pushed back north and west , eventually the dal riadans on the west coast of Scotland were referred to as the gaels of alba.

By the ninth century , Alba was Scotland north of the rivers forth and Clyde , and by the 11th century , it was modern Scotland and parts of northern cumbria and northumbria , at times as far south as the rivers ribble in Lancashire and the tees in northumbria , before the modern border was settled by treaty in the 13th century.

After the language change in Scotland from Gaelic , to English , post the 15th/16th century , Alba changed to Scotland. Today Scottish gaels still refer to our country as Alba , and the Scots as albannach.

At no point in human history has the country known as England ever been called Alba , and the term perfidious Albion if I recall was coined by the French to refer to the duplicity of the British elite .

so why do you consistently vote for one nation tories? The tories are a British unionist party , and their one nation is Britain.

If you support englishness , as you should , then why aren't you out voting for an English national party , that wants to end the imperial relic that is Britain , give the English people their own English parliament , support an English national anthem instead of that fucking dirge that is GSTK , and in short look out for the interests and well being of the English people?

I think its because many of you want it both ways.

The idea the British establishment treats Scottish Irish or welsh nationalism with respect is laughable. You served in northern ireland , where your brit elite sent you in to put the boot into paddies Irish nationalism with all the might of the British armed forces and you can sit and say this with a straight face?

Come on red .You need to wake up mate , and get real.

The uk is coming to an end. We can help each other , or we can carry on deluding each other by kidding on Britain is going to last and fighting like rats in a sack. The British elite in London , and that includes your tory party , have done more damage to the English nation and nationality than the Scots Irish welsh or any Johnny Foreigner ever has in history.