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.
mannycalavera@feddit.uk 3 months ago
Englishmen now? Scotland would like their Presbyterians back 😉 .
addie@feddit.uk 3 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?
mannycalavera@feddit.uk 3 months ago
In the sea? Deal 🤝.