The claim that the Right or far-right have ownership of England’s symbols, the English narrative or English nationalism is an oft-heard trope. The far-right has not taken ownership of these things, it is the left and centre that has abandoned them. The difference between English nationalism and British nationalism does not lie in how attractive the far-right see them, it lies in the fact that mainstream politicians fly the British flag and articulate a plural, multicultural Britishness that prevents a far-right monopolisation of Britishness.