Despite your Orwellian attempt to change history, the quote is completely accurate, it is in my copy of The Collected Essays 1940-1943 - Journalism and Letters of George Orwell Volume 2 My Country Right or Left. It is in the essay ‘The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius – Part I: England Your England’.
In it he also says that:
“There is little in them except the irresponsible carping of people who have never been and never expect to be in a position of power. Another marked characteristic is the emotional shallowness of people who live in a world of ideas and have little contact with physical reality … And underlying this is the really important fact about so many of the English intelligentsia – their severance from the common culture of the country. In intention, at any rate, the English intelligentsia are Europeanized. They take their cookery from Paris and their opinions from Moscow. … England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality. In left-wing circles it is always felt that there is something slightly disgraceful in being an Englishman and that it is a duty to snigger at every English institution, from horse racing to suet pudding. It is a strange fact, but it is unquestionably true, that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during God Save the King than stealing from a poor box.”
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