{"id":143394,"date":"2026-02-19T08:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T13:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=143394"},"modified":"2026-02-19T18:24:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T23:24:57","slug":"express-the-bishop-of-blackburn-on-what-the-people-in-lancanshire-were-thinking-about-europe-and-the-brexit-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=143394","title":{"rendered":"(Express) Bishop Philip North of Blackburn\u00a0on what the people in Lancanshire were thinking about Europe and the Brexit vote"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Asked whether enough has been done to build a sense of pride in nation since Brexit, Bishop North said: &#8220;No, I think I see almost the same division now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I see it lived out and played out in different ways. But I still see many people who feel embarrassed to speak about pride in nationhood, pride in the Royal Family and in the Armed Forces, as if that is somehow a language of the past.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He added: &#8220;So I think we still have a really important national conversation about what it means to be British in such a complex global backdrop.&#8221; Bishop North urged leaders in the Church and in Westminster to do their bit to restore national pride as he called for Britons to have the courage to &#8220;reclaim&#8221; national symbols.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He urged people not to be ashamed of &#8220;some of the traditions around Britishness and Englishness, and for that not to be a source of embarrassment anymore.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/politics\/2172529\/people-voted-brexit-pride-nation-not-racism-bishop-blackburn\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#x1f4c4; Bishop of Blackburn defends Leave voters<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KSLLqgMEIE\">https:\/\/t.co\/KSLLqgMEIE<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AJNewbury94?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AJNewbury94<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OSbDGXWSMx\">pic.twitter.com\/OSbDGXWSMx<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Daily Express (@Daily_Express) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Daily_Express\/status\/2024607933611348472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 19, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asked whether enough has been done to build a sense of pride in nation since Brexit, Bishop North said: &#8220;No, I think I see almost the same division now. &#8220;I see it lived out and played out in different ways.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=143394\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[389,635,199,200,133,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-england-uk","category-europe","category-history","category-politics-in-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=143394"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143398,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143394\/revisions\/143398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}