what do you mean by "little englander psyche"? i don't understand the term.
Isn't the crass stereotype that Scousers are dodgy and comical something that is more widespread?
I'm thinking it were that monkey Harry Enfield that was partly/greatly responsible for that with his scouser/calm down routine in the 80s.. made it into every lounge in the country..
The little englanders would include fans of maggie thatcher and probably bojo today.
They'd be tory , often southern , as well as other s*n readers who believe that all things english are superior to foreigners(despite the evidence of their own eyes).
They look for confirmation of this with people to look down their noses at and we were given to them on a plate by Thatcher(some people darn sarf actually refer to Liverpool as the capital of Ireland and scousers as paddies).
In the 60's and 70's scousers had the larrikin reputation but it wasn't seen as a bad stereotype - a lot of comedians on the TV were scouse so we were seen as people who enjoyed life and liked a laugh(and of course we produced the Beatles).
When Thatcher came to power and Liverpool rejected her economic plans she set about her political assassination with the help of her media cronies(of course the s*n was a major player ..."there's nothing in Liverpool but football and strikes").
There was constant propaganda in the media(at one point they were proposing to settle all Hong Kong residents in Liverpool as our population was indolent). We were always on strike(even though factories that had good industrial relations were also shut down) and we didn't want to work but were happy to rort the welfare system and rob what else we could.
The entertainment media was complicit in this(for their own financial gain or for something more sinister). The likes of the Bread "comedy" perpetuated the myth of scousers robbing and driving jags when on the dole and the Harry Enfield show also confirmed the scousers as work shy scroungers but we were also portrayed as criminals and unemployed in other programs.
Today, you will never see a scouser in a positive role on the T.V. If they want a criminal or dolite they will pick somebody with a scouse accent.
This constant reinforcement is now accepted as fact - speak with a scouse accent darn sarf and watch people quietly pull their possessions closer(and it won't help you going for a job interview as they know what type of person you are).
So a whole city is stereotyped because we disagreed with Thatcher politics(so much for democracy).
Anyway this is a bit off topic but just explaining what most scousers understand automatically.
Come on you mighty reds! Lets twat these plastics with the dodgy accounting practices!
