'Don't call me English' JOIN THE ONLINE DEBATE.

On Caerphilly council's decision to advise staff not to use the term "British" in case it offends Welsh people HMM that's funny because with this pointless and unnecessary exercise they seem to be doing exactly the opposite.

What is it with public funded quangos in this country... they have the most harebrained ideas of how to waste money and time I have ever come across! We are in severe danger of looking like a pathetic bunch of insecure spoilt brats to every other country in the UK!

What are we supposed to do for these supposed people who get offended by being called British? Tippex over the offensive word on their passports? Not that they probably ever need them!

- llew99

VALREC have been infiltrated by the usual Guardianista suspects and are now a wing of the liberal politically correct obsessive establishment... how sad. They should be scrapped immediately and the money be allocated to real Valleys problems.

- Eastwalian

I DON'T mind being called British because that's what the law of my country says that I am. But I don't like being called English, by an idiot who equates England to mean the UK. So can I suggest that anyone who dislikes being called British, go and live somewhere else, like Cyprus.

- Ed Crowe

MANY people in modern Wales regard themselves as Welsh first and European second. To those abroad are we Welsh, English, British UK-ish? The UK is regarded as England by Jonny Foreigner and far too often they are not corrected.

- JimmyMc

ONCE again, an abysmal ignorance of histories is being demonstrated by those who should know better.

The Welsh ARE the British.

The term "Welsh" is actually derogatory and was meant as an insult. The Angle people in their Angle Land are not British, but adopted the name from Britannia, the Roman corruption of the island's old name. Britannia was Brutus' land, and named for him. The invading Angles, Saxons, Norsemen, Vikings and Normans drove the British back to the west of the island, then subsequently, by conquest, marriage and alliances, took over everything but this little bit on the western seaboard which we call Wales. The Welsh therefore are the British; the English are not.

- Ouldbob