Cutie *Quite frankly I feel sorry for British people who can't bring themselves for whatever reason to really back Britain. I will never understand it.
The people that are also ashamed to be British, not just because of Brexit, but because of possible political issues in the past. Why do you continue to live in country you abhor?*
Why do you think that being ashamed of the things that Britain did in its past is aligned with not backing Britain? I have been out in the world backing Britain in the sense of representing it and facilitating trade and cultural ties for the best part of twenty years but wherever you represent Britain it really is important that you do acknowledge what Britain did in the past and live down the stereotype of the Brits as an arrogant entitled race. How can you not abhor the division of countries that resulted in millions of deaths, the economic exploitation, the torture and imprisonment, the restrictions on human rights, the destruction of cultural heritage. Whatever we abhor in terms of modern "British values" we surely have to abhor in our own past especially when people in other countries have long memories. If you think they don't then clearly you have not done business with the rest of the world.
I did back the Britain we had become and did my best to represent it. However for me Brexit is, and is certainly seen by the rest of the world, as a manifestation of illusions of superiority, those values of arrogance and entitlement, not to mention bureaucratic and government incompetence. I encounter these attitudes every single working day. My feelings of being British have been undermined but my feelings of being European have actually been strengthened because it increasingly falls to Europe to stand up for those values I thought Britain stood for.
It is not about geography, the channel may only be 13 miles geographically but in terms of my feelings and identity it widens by the day.