If you could live anywhere in the UK...

Davesnave

Tammykitty wrote: »

However, I am guessing you probably don't want to move from Britain to NI.....

Err, I know Boris is a total dipstick and upsets people, but I didn't realise his visit the other day had resulted in the collapse of the Union already! :eek:

MoneySeeker1

Davesnave wrote: »

Err, I know Boris is a total dipstick and upsets people, but I didn't realise his visit the other day had resulted in the collapse of the Union already! :eek:

I was thinking "Huh???! Northern Ireland is Britain."

Tammykitty

Davesnave wrote: »

Err, I know Boris is a total dipstick and upsets people, but I didn't realise his visit the other day had resulted in the collapse of the Union already! :eek:

MoneySeeker1 wrote: »

I was thinking "Huh???! Northern Ireland is Britain."

No it isn't - Northern Ireland is in the United Kingdom but not Britain


Britain and NI make up the United Kingdom (The full title being the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)

Slithery

mufi wrote: »

After what I said yesterday about never going to Wroxham in the school holidays, we're just back from sitting at a riverside hotel there, drinking coffee, eating scones, and watching the holidaymakers trying to get their boats under the bridge.

It has many amusements, even in high season.

I know exactly where you were sitting, it's always very amusing

ripplyuk

Tammykitty wrote: »

No it isn't - Northern Ireland is in the United Kingdom but not Britain


Britain and NI make up the United Kingdom (The full title being the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)

It is British but not technically the land mass of Britain. In day-to-day usage most people would describe it as part of Britain. In official forms here the options for nationality are British or Irish. There is no U.K-ish.

Smodlet

Britain and Ireland are, and have always been, separate countries, at least since we broke off, physically, from mainland Europe back in the day. Is it not all moot?

Either we will or we won't. To Brexit or not to Brexit, that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune... And all that BS, what will be, will be. "Que sera, sera, mate" as I was once informed by a Finance Director.

Tammykitty

ripplyuk wrote: »

It is British but not technically the land mass of Britain. In day-to-day usage most people would describe it as part of Britain. In official forms here the options for nationality are British or Irish. There is no U.K-ish.

I thought most people knew that Northern Ireland was not part of Britain or Great Britain - I used the term Britain as it was easier than saying England/Scotland/Wales!


Nationality wise - you are correct, we are British citizens (if we choose to be)- although personally It has always bugged be having to state my second nationally as British - when it geographically incorrect.




Even those that consider themselves to be British in Northern Ireland object to the use of Britain or Great Britain - when they actually mean UK


https://www.telegraph.co.uk/olympics/2017/06/09/democratic-unionist-party-insist-team-gb-killed-favour-team/

Smodlet

Ireland (all of it) is one of the British Isles; physical geography has always made more sense to me than political geography. Other than that, Ireland is Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. The degree to which any Irish person does or does not choose to be British should be entirely their choice, imho.

I would like to be able to state "English" as my nationality rather than "British". I don't feel I should have to field accusations of racism for feeling this way. I am English; I am not Scottish (sorry, should it be Scots?) Irish or Welsh. Why this should be an issue, I have no idea.

ripplyuk

Tammykitty wrote: »

I thought most people knew that Northern Ireland was not part of Britain or Great Britain - I used the term Britain as it was easier than saying England/Scotland/Wales!


Nationality wise - you are correct, we are British citizens (if we choose to be)- although personally It has always bugged be having to state my second nationally as British - when it geographically incorrect.




Even those that consider themselves to be British in Northern Ireland object to the use of Britain or Great Britain - when they actually mean UK


https://www.telegraph.co.uk/olympics/2017/06/09/democratic-unionist-party-insist-team-gb-killed-favour-team/

I don’t! I have no objections at all. No one in my archery team seems to have any issue competing as team GB either.

The DUP do not speak for everyone here. Thank goodness. They always seem to be looking for reasons to be offended :rotfl:

mufi

Slithery wrote: »

I know exactly where you were sitting, it's always very amusing

Hotel Wroxham, much improved since new owners took it on a couple of years ago.:beer: