Thread | Brutkey

Why is there a seemingly casual disregard when using terms like the UK? We regularly see stories talking about UK issues on say education or health but dig a little deeper and these stories only relate to England and sometimes to England and Wales. Is the lack of care a symptom of a disregard for Northern Ireland and Scotland? Yet at the same time, suggest that the UK be broken up and the bile we are met with has to be seen to be believed.
Is it time to end the UK?

Bodhipaksa
@bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot

@IndyRichard@mastodon.scot In many cases it's a kind of privilege, I think. People in England can think of the UK or Britain as being "England." They're not far off. Politically they dominate us. Culturally they dominate us. Legally they control us.

For obvious reasons, people in Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland aren't in a position to think of things that way.

Human after all
@humanhorseshoes@mastodon.world

@bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot @IndyRichard@mastodon.scot you see the greed when you realises that to create northen Ireland only six of the nine counties of Ulster were taken, Donegal is too rocky, the land in Monaghan is full of stones and Cavan too is too boggy, it’s all calculated control

Bodhipaksa
@bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot

@humanhorseshoes@mastodon.world @IndyRichard@mastodon.scot I thought it was mostly to do with the proportion of the population that was Catholic. The east was more protestant, which made holding onto it more viable.

Human after all
@humanhorseshoes@mastodon.world

@bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot @IndyRichard@mastodon.scot yes this is where the gerrymandering came in