The Scots, the Northern Irish, the Welsh, even the Cornish have all expressed a desire to have more autonomy from the United Kingdom in recent years. The announcement came this week that the Scottish referendum is now scheduled for the fall of 2014, but the Christian Science Monitor says that the latest group to be feeling its oats a bit is the English themselves. Public opinion in England proper is beginning to show a bit of resentment towards the other nations, particularly Scotland, for the amount of money the national government spends to support them, and a bit of old-fashioned John Bull-ism.
