i\'m english but hate this country because of the government, big brother etc. hating the english tho for things that happened years ago is pretty lame tho. it\'s like saying i hate the germans for ww2 but i don\'t cos i\'m not a racist bigot, living in the past. get over it. you cannot tarnish everyone with the same brush. this country was last great during the thatcher years. she wasn\'t scared of any country or waht they thought of us. it\'s no just cumbling away into a pathetic country where prices for everything are higher than anywhere else in the world, full of eastern europeans bleeding our economy dry and awful politicians taking the piss out of the honest worker. real shame. i for one will be emigrating at soon as possible. too much has happened for this country to get back on its feet again and i am fed up with the whole situation. anyway, too the irish on here, get over it and don\'t take things so personally. it really is pathetic.