I think maybe someone missed the joke?

When I've been in England, I was corrected by a couple of Welshmen when I called them English. (I confess to a great deal of ignorance as to the finer details of the political actualities of the UK. Please forgive; it's rather like the Brits who didn't quite understand how states work in the US.) I was told by the Welsh that Wales was a separate country and not England.