[horsa]

Can you believe that an Australian living in the UK is saying this?

Sounds like some very deft diplomacy to me .
I hope for your sake the Australian thought police are not monitoring your posts.

Actually, now I think about it, one of the lesser known English attributes over the centuries has been the capacity to get other nationals to subtlety do their work for them. Churchill was half American, Wellington was Irish, Waterloo was more a Dutch-Belgian/Prussian affair, Brunel was half French, and the famous archers at Agincourt were Welsh, and lets not even begin talking about the Scots. And if we bring it down to our current topic the most successful member of the England cricket team is Pietersen. There’s no end to it. :hmm: