Brutkey

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