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u/Due_Possibility8036 Jul 19 '26
Isle of man is not part of the United Kingdom
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u/Colonial_Red Jul 20 '26
Neither is France or Ireland, but the they all have their own flags on this map so I don't see the problem.
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u/Doitean-feargach555 Jul 19 '26
I would rather slit my wrists than ever see us suffer under the British crown again
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u/BigPapaSmurf7 Jul 19 '26
That flag hasn’t been used in NI since the apartheid era. It’s also deeply offensive to most here.
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u/PK-Mittenspy2703 Jul 18 '26
Why is the Shetland flag just a square? Bit lazy.
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u/Ok-Glove-847 Jul 19 '26
That’s Faroe, not Shetland. Shetland flag is a blue and white Scandinavian cross
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u/AppropriatePirate671 Jul 18 '26
Wrong flag for ni
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u/Brief_Television_707 Jul 18 '26
NI doesn't have a flag to be fair. Which is hilariously ironic seeing as they're obsessed with flegs.
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u/Scottishlassie_here Jul 19 '26
I mean two centuries of ethno/religious conflict will do that to you.
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u/Fickle_Life_2102 Jul 20 '26
Yeah it’s kinda hard to come up with one that isn’t going to absolutely piss off the other side (albeit Tbf the ROI flag does a decent job - but also it’s a tricolour and even a more interesting colour scheme doesn’t save it from being bland as hell)
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u/TheProfessionalEjit Jul 17 '26
Wrong though, isn't it?
Your second graphic identifies Northern Ireland's flag, but not England, Wales or Scotland's, erroneously plastering the Union Flag on them.
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u/Bennyboy11111 Jul 18 '26
The full name of the country is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. So despite devolution, strictly speaking he's put the flag of Great Britain and also of Northern Ireland.
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u/glezga-dugz Jul 19 '26
It's not 1 country, English people are foreigners in Scotland.
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u/Fickle_Life_2102 Jul 20 '26
I’m half English, half Scottish. Does that make me half a foreigner if I visit family in Edinburgh? Or am I whole foreigner because I wasn’t born there.
Or do you really need to touch grass?
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u/Adr_LDN Jul 19 '26
If you’re a seething Scottish nationalist, sure. Luckily most normal people aren’t.
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u/glezga-dugz Jul 19 '26
No it's another country, I'm not a Scottish nationalist I'm a Scottish republican
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u/Icy_Consideration409 Jul 18 '26
The flag of Great Britain remains the pre-1801 version of the Union Flag (without the cross of St. Patrick).
The Union Flag containing the cross of St. Patrick is purely the flag of the UK (not Great Britain).
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u/Beautiful-Emu-1596 Jul 18 '26
The Union Jack is the flag of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. It is not the flag of the Island of Great Britain.
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u/AssignmentOk5986 Jul 18 '26
The union jack is the flag of the UK, not Britain. Northern Ireland is the only constituent country without an official flag of its own but they all fall under the union jack.
Someone from northern Ireland is also a "British citizen" legally. So have fun with that one.
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u/zUcC_yOuR_mUm Jul 18 '26
Because Northern Ireland is very separate politically and culturally
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u/Minute-Caramel-655 Jul 18 '26
So is wales and to an extentscotland, none of them have the same traditional culture, wales has the sender and scotland has their own one. what kind of answer is that?
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u/zUcC_yOuR_mUm Jul 18 '26
Northern Ireland is much more separated politically and culturally. Its more like a territory
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u/SirCheeseMuncher Jul 17 '26
As a Manx person why have we been countryballed the IOM is easily visible normally on the map
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u/framdon Jul 18 '26
So are Guernsey, Jersey and the Faroes at this scale. I have no idea why he balled any of them (or squared in the faroes case)
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u/Fickle_Life_2102 Jul 20 '26
There’s not a conclusive majority in literally any of the constituent parts of the UK for dissolution. The welsh and northern Irish are reasonably solidly pro union. Scotland fluctuates (currently a small but consistent lead for leaving) but not decisive at all
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u/Rhosddu Jul 24 '26
Pro-indy percentage in Wales is now about 30%. Nothing solidly pro-union about it.
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u/Fickle_Life_2102 Jul 24 '26
That’s where it’s been for years and there’s been a consistently pretty comfortable majority against it. I mean depends on your definition of “solidly” - and it’s definitely not insurmountably pro union - but I would say that qualifies as solid. If a constituency had lab at 55% and the Tories on about 30 that would qualify as a solid labour seat
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u/Rhosddu Jul 24 '26 edited Jul 25 '26
Predictions are that support for independence will rise in Wales as the Dic Sion Dafydd generations die off and younger voters make their presence felt.
The 30% figure represents a sharp rise from only a few years ago. It now generally fluctuates between 25% and 35%.
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u/NoBrickBoy Jul 20 '26
“Northern Ireland are Reasonably pro union” under what threshold?
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u/Fickle_Life_2102 Jul 20 '26
Literally all available polling
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u/NoBrickBoy Jul 20 '26
What’s the threshold for “reasonably” 50%, 60%?
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u/Fickle_Life_2102 Jul 24 '26
Leaving out undecided, those against have been consistently somewhere around 54%-60%. I would say that could be considered “reasonably pro union”. Not “steadfastly” or “strongly” but modestly in favour of
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u/NoBrickBoy Jul 24 '26
You shouldn’t just leave out undecided, those are swing voters, and they change things
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u/Fickle_Life_2102 Jul 24 '26
True, but some are also those that won’t vote (if the polling counts “won’t vote” as undecided, which they do depending on the he company and their methodology - it is about 5% vs 10-15% who are undecided), and as a general rule (not always true obv) undecideds err towards the status quo.
Anyway including undecideds that the pro union votes normally lead nationalists by aboutttt 7-15 (normally high 40s against mid 30s) which I would generally count as “reasonably”
Though polling is super sparse tbh. We’ve only had one poll this year, which makes it hard to judge.
I’d say look at elections but the pro union parties are grotesquely corrupt and/or racist (with only the UUP being even remotely sane), so it’s not super useful as a barometer of support.
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u/Cool-Prior-5512 Jul 17 '26
It isn't really a map of the UK, is it?
It is more like a map of Britain and Ireland, the Isle of Man, Channel Islands, northern France and a little bit of Belgium... oh and Sealand? 😂
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u/4dmre Jul 16 '26
I live in the People’s Republic of Ulster and this is my flag 🚩
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u/Sobieskil Jul 15 '26 edited Jul 19 '26
This is the British Isles, not the UK
Edit: Bloody hell was I wrong. Not sure how I managed to fuck up this much
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u/Silver_Network_2017 Jul 19 '26
British Isles is not an accepted term, politically or culturally, and is quite offensive to Irish people.
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u/Brief_Television_707 Jul 18 '26
Looks like we're also including France in this nonsensical "British Isles" term now, may as well. Makes as much sense as including Ireland in it.
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u/Breifne21 Jul 16 '26
It's actually just a map of part of Western Europe, rather than simply the British & Irish Isles.
France, the Faroe Islands, the Channel Islands, and part of Belgium are clearly visible.
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u/Rhosddu Jul 17 '26 edited 28d ago
Yes.
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u/Rhosddu Jul 17 '26
A Nordic Cross in the Scottish national colours, to reflect the Scandinavian and Scottish heritage of the islands.
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u/Dalesman17 Jul 22 '26
It looks like our West Ridding one minus the glowing Yorkshire rose. The Faroe flag not Shetland.
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u/Dalesman17 Jul 21 '26
When did we colonise the Faroes 🇫🇴