Originally Posted by right-track

To me, what it really means to be British is what happens when all that is British is challenged, or threatened.
Down come the class divides, the provincial tribalism and national borders. Away go the differences of over a thousand years of conflict and distrust.
And what's left is a brotherhood. A union unlike any other in the world, where an Englishman will stand shoulder to shoulder with an Irishman. A Scotsman with a Welshman and willingly die for a common cause. And after the dust is settled...get right back to hating each other again, like nothing ever happened.
Unstoppable and unbeatable.