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   Mrs Cloudy (cloudymrs@mastodon.scot)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 02:24:52 JST Mrs Cloudy

   Channel 4 news discussing a play called "The death of England". Speaking at length about "The Nation", "The country", "The UK" and "Britain". FFS. England might well be dying, but it still doesn't have a clue what it even is. #EnglandIsNotTheUK #Englandisnotbritain #EnglandIsNotANation

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     Axel Foley (roadwarrior29@mastodon.scot)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 02:26:10 JST Axel Foley

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     @CloudyMrs Shithole...pretty much I think...literally.

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     Mrs Cloudy (cloudymrs@mastodon.scot)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 02:29:17 JST Mrs Cloudy

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     • Axel Foley

     @Roadwarrior29 would be nice if they could pick something more accurate at least.

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     Axel Foley (roadwarrior29@mastodon.scot)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 02:31:25 JST Axel Foley

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     @CloudyMrs UK =England Britain=England

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     Mrs Cloudy (cloudymrs@mastodon.scot)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 06:36:41 JST Mrs Cloudy

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     • Robin Forlonge Patterson

     @RFPatterson it doesn't even seem to have it's own identity. It's pretty sad.

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     Robin Forlonge Patterson (rfpatterson@mastodon.nz)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 06:36:42 JST Robin Forlonge Patterson

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     @CloudyMrs Poor old #England doesn't even have its own #Parliament.

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     billy joe bowers - Harris2024 (billyjoebowers@mastodon.online)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 06:41:08 JST billy joe bowers - Harris2024

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     @CloudyMrs

     Good to know it's not just us and people over there get confused to.

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     Mrs Cloudy (cloudymrs@mastodon.scot)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 06:41:08 JST Mrs Cloudy

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     • billy joe bowers - Harris2024

     @billyjoebowers I think you'd struggle to find anyone from the other three countries that make up the UK, who are as confused as the England based, institutions of the UK. I'm never sure if they are actually confused or if they are just trolling.

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     Mrs Cloudy (cloudymrs@mastodon.scot)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 06:42:04 JST Mrs Cloudy

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     • MostlyTato

     @MostlyTato many are "confused" by design.

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     MostlyTato (mostlytato@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 06:42:05 JST MostlyTato

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     @CloudyMrs
     England, the United Kingdom, Great Britain and Britain, all different things that many seem to think are synonymous.

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     LillyLyle/Count Melancholia (lillyherself@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 17:22:46 JST LillyLyle/Count Melancholia

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     @CloudyMrs Surely England is one of the four nations of the UK?

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     Mrs Cloudy (cloudymrs@mastodon.scot)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 17:22:46 JST Mrs Cloudy

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     • LillyLyle/Count Melancholia

     @LillyHerself Surely, it is. It is not though, The UK, the Nation or Britain. In a piece specifically about England, would it be so difficult to just refer to it as England?

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     Indy Richard 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (indyrichard@mastodon.scot)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 17:25:22 JST Indy Richard 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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     • LillyLyle/Count Melancholia

     @CloudyMrs @LillyHerself I think you make a good point. Prime Minister Sunk claimed that English was shorthand for British. I think many in England are very confused about their sense of where they come from and where they belong.

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     Mrs Cloudy (cloudymrs@mastodon.scot)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 17:54:07 JST Mrs Cloudy

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     • LillyLyle/Count Melancholia

     @IndyRichard @LillyHerself and also confused about the status of the constituent parts of the UK. I don't blame them for their confusion. It's promoted by all the institutions of the UK.

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     Colin Dunn (indyposterboy@mastodon.scot)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 18:21:11 JST Colin Dunn

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     • LillyLyle/Count Melancholia

     @CloudyMrs @LillyHerself Indeed.

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     Mrs Cloudy (cloudymrs@mastodon.scot)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 18:22:56 JST Mrs Cloudy

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     • LillyLyle/Count Melancholia
     • Colin Dunn

     @Indyposterboy @LillyHerself I think they do know. I think their continual efforts to confuse the population is by design.

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     Axel Foley (roadwarrior29@mastodon.scot)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 18:26:13 JST Axel Foley

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     • LillyLyle/Count Melancholia
     • Colin Dunn

     @CloudyMrs @Indyposterboy @LillyHerself England has no national identity so they appropriate the identities of other "nations".

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     Colin Dunn (indyposterboy@mastodon.scot)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 18:28:55 JST Colin Dunn

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     • LillyLyle/Count Melancholia

     @CloudyMrs @LillyHerself With some it’s simple carelessness, with others it’s arrogance. For some it’s a strategy to try to continue to erase the individuality of Wales, NI and Scotland. It’s tiresome in all cases.

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     Mrs Cloudy (cloudymrs@mastodon.scot)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 20:02:08 JST Mrs Cloudy

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     • Colin Dunn

     @TimWardCam @Indyposterboy @LillyHerself when did Cornwall lose its independence? Who to? I've never seen it marked distinctly on any map. How far back would I need to go to find it? Just interested.

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     Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE (timwardcam@c.im)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 20:02:09 JST Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE

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     • LillyLyle/Count Melancholia
     • Colin Dunn

     @Indyposterboy @CloudyMrs @LillyHerself Oh dear oh dear. Someone somehow managed to leave Cornwall off that list.

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     Mrs Cloudy (cloudymrs@mastodon.scot)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 22:18:22 JST Mrs Cloudy

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     • Even Rouault

     @EvenRouault @Indyposterboy @LillyHerself England is part of the United Kingdom of GB and Northern Ireland. Alone, it isn't GB. It's England.

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     Even Rouault (evenrouault@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 22:18:24 JST Even Rouault

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     • LillyLyle/Count Melancholia
     • Colin Dunn

     @Indyposterboy @CloudyMrs @LillyHerself But the ISO code for the United Kingdom is ... "GB" : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-2:GB

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     Colin Dunn (indyposterboy@mastodon.scot)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 22:37:40 JST Colin Dunn

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     • LillyLyle/Count Melancholia
     • Even Rouault

     @CloudyMrs @EvenRouault @LillyHerself Indeed 2.

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     HighlandLawyer (highlandlawyer@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 00:45:41 JST HighlandLawyer

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     • LillyLyle/Count Melancholia
     • Colin Dunn

     @Indyposterboy @CloudyMrs @LillyHerself
     The "North Britain" strategy. Its return matches the change in Unionism: it used to be that mainstream Scottish Unionists accepted that Scotland was a nation with its own culture, etc. but argued the best option for that nation was to remain within the UK. As that argument has become visibly more untenable, it has switched to a British Nationalist position, that the UK consists of a single British nation, administratively divided into historical regions.

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     Mrs Cloudy (cloudymrs@mastodon.scot)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 00:45:41 JST Mrs Cloudy

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     • LillyLyle/Count Melancholia
     • HighlandLawyer
     • Colin Dunn

     @HighlandLawyer @Indyposterboy @LillyHerself and interchangeably called England-Britain-GB-The Country

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     Mrs Cloudy (cloudymrs@mastodon.scot)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 00:46:26 JST Mrs Cloudy

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     • LillyLyle/Count Melancholia
     • Colin Dunn

     @Indyposterboy @LillyHerself agreed.