Like most Sun readers I am intensely proud of being English.

The Scottish aren't embarrassed about their nation, or their flag. Far from it. You can't move in Edinburgh or Glasgow without seeing a blue and white saltire flapping in the wind.But the English ruling classes seem to be embarrassed about Englishness.

We don't celebrate England, and being English, enough.

In every city and town let's see the red and white colours of England flying from court houses, police stations, town halls, even churches.

We can't expect to be re-elected if we have no new story to tell and no new direction.

The government can't, after seven or eight years, say that the policy we had eight years ago is going to be the only policy we can offer to the British public for another eight years.