What an excellent article by Boris. There are a lot of common sense politicians out there but he's the dominant face of vocalising his views. He hits the nail squarely on the head - it seems that the government are so reluctant to allow any true display of nationalistic pride because they fear a potential backlash. They stick in the the odd token gesture - Brown mentioning Britishness 32,167 times in 2 minutes of his speech - thinking that it will appease the middle classes and backbone of this country. The reality is that they are scared; any true feeling of public pride might spread faster than a leaky research valve virus and allowing our country to actually voice and echo its pride would be unthinkable.
Perhaps my thoughts are not really appropriate for Pprune but it seems to me that the backlash has to come from somewhere? We all do or have done our bit - why the hell shouldn't we shout about it.