Comment on The trouble with England – why rioting in the UK has not spread to Scotland and Wales

AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• mannycalavera@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Englishmen now? Scotland would like their Presbyterians back 😉 .

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  • addie@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’d suggest that we do not. How about we split the difference, and drop them off halfway between Belfast and Stranraer, say?

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    • mannycalavera@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      In the sea? Deal 🤝.

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• apis@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Nah, they’re nutters with very weird ideas about Britishness, Irishness & everything else, but they no more look to the English for ideas about their own identity & how to manifest it than the English look to NI loyalists as a guide.

  If anything they tend to rather despise Englishness, seeing their own culture as the one true, loyal holdout to the Union.

  The aprons do seek to emulate Masonic regalia, but the ideals of the Orange Order are entirely contrary to those of Freemasonry, which in any case is not specifically English or even British.

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• Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  As in, Northern Irish cosplaying English or English cosplaying Northern Irish? If it’s the latter, Northern Ireland is not made up of English planters contrary to popular belief, nor is it in the UK because it was “stolen” by the English

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  • AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Northern Irish Protestants playing English, or affecting an exaggerated Englishness to differentiate themselves from the Papists and their ways

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• Emperor@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is very true.

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