Robin, I can easily understand why your first collection of words 'floats your boat' and your second doesn't - but I don't see what either list has to do with the fact that you think of yourself primarily as English?

England as we know it didn't exist at the time of Boniface or Bede - and John Donne was of Welsh descent. Equally, there is some evidence to suggest that Margaret Thatcher is English, however tempted one is to deny it. So too were quite a lot of slave-traders, ironmasters and bankers. Or are you suggesting that we're English when we behave well but British when we don't (the obverse of the rule that would have applied to Andy Murray had he won Wimbledon)?