Do we not know who we are?

I think 'we' do know who we are .... it's those over the Channel that have a problem with the GB/UK thing. It's a Brexit thing.

A Department for Transport spokesperson said: "Changing the national identifier from GB to UK symbolises our unity as a nation and is part of a wider move towards using the UK signifier across government.

"We notified the UN of our intention to make these changes in July, and have been working with the sector to implement the change.

I'm personally not bothered at all and don't see it as not knowing who we are? Great Britain is more of a geographical term for me.

I'm more upset that I can't use the old joke about the difference between L plates and GB plates. 

We simply go with a White Rose sticker, a black and white cross sticker, and a chequerboard red and yellow sticker😁 The Northumbrians think we might be Cornish, the Cornish think we might be Northumbrian, and we have home well covered as well😁

GB doesn't include Northern Ireland. UK includes England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Hi TDA, And, if our experience is anything to go by, lots of people will confuse St Pirans with Saltire!

Oh wow! This is dangerous ground. But very, very welcome to avoid blandness.

I could not agree more, especially with your final words, which I could have written myself.

I don’t doubt to be honest. It’s a sad fact, but there are some very ill informed people, reading the wrong kind of information and passing it off as undoubted truths, out there at the moment. Not helped by a general political system that’s is badly in need of reform all round.

Morally bankrupt.

I'm quite proud that we didn't go down the route favoured by EU countries and make ourselves dependent on fuel from a predatory nation, we've gone out alone on this and we should be proud of our stance and our intentions to cut down on CO2. I doubt this has got much to do with the present government so my post is not intended to be political. UK or GB doesn't matter to me. By the way we've been putting up street flags for the Jubilee, ours include the Union Jack, the county we both came from, the present county we live in and the Canadian flag (my Dad's place of upbringing.) Oh and a flying penguin has joined them all, I don't want to get too serious and I don't take these mutterings too seriously either.  🐧