Gordon Brown emphasises British values?

In his Labour Party conference speech yesterday UK prime minister Gordon Brown
emphasised British values. For most people being British is just something on the
passport. The only British institutions seem to be the Royal Family and the Armed Forces. One thing in favour of Scottish independence is that the country is almost
there already with different legal and educational systems. It has been a long
time since Scotland has been referred to as North Britain.
Apparently, the prime minister wants to fight the next election on health. However,
the NHS is not a British institution. In Scotland and Wales there are different
spending levels. If you actually go into a NHS hospital does it feel British? How very
British for the English National Health Service to face claims of £4.5bn for alleged
blunders by doctors and nurses in maternity services. In fact, maternity services
are close to collapse in my part of England because of "reconfiguration" and of
non-British demand.