Description Englishness is an idea, a consciousness and a proto-nationalism.
There is no English state within the United Kingdom, no English passport, Parliament or currency, nor any immediate prospect of any.
That does not mean that England lacks an identity, although English nationalism, or at least a distinctive nationalism, has been partly forced upon the English by the development in the British Isles of strident nationalisms that have contested Britishness, and with much su.
