Brexit continues to divide the UK. While many now support staying in the EU, a split remains. This is nothing new. The UK has always been divided in various ways. These maps by reddit user generalscruff take a tongue-in-cheek look at twelve of them.
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Donald Trump is taking a break from offending minorities this week to make an official visit to the United Kingdom. The British public is not pleased. The people of the UK are fighting back with the most effective weapon they have. They are using subtle and hilarious British humour. 1. Low approval ratings written in…
The British Army still uses child soldiers in terrible wartime positions. Veterans for Peace UK points this out in a video that deserves a couple of minutes of your time. Enter Action Man: Battlefield Casualties. As an organisation of ex-service men and women hardened in battles as far back as WWII, Veterans for Peace does…
There’s a fair chance you quoted 1984 this week without noticing. Someone calls a policy Orwellian. A colleague mutters about Big Brother when another camera goes up in the car park. A minister is accused of doublethink and nobody stops to ask what the word means, because everybody already knows. Orwell’s last novel has done…
Nigel Farage has once again let his mouth get the better of him and once again been utterly destroyed by someone who knows what they are talking about. This time the subject was the NHS. Responding to the news that the British Medical Association have warned that a no-deal Brexit will be a catastrophe for…
Were you a Leave voter? Are you sore about Brexit being put off for months, maybe years, possibly forever? Do not fear. Inspired by a similarly helpful list created for Remainers, we have put together 11 top self-comforting strategies to help Quitters deal with their ongoing torment. 1. Name calling Call every person who voted…
Rugby league should include Cumbria
Not remotely funny, alienate the two nations that voted Remain.
Oh dear
I think you might be over-estimating the power of blog posts
South Fife? Civilised? :) :)
i hear they eat their young…..
Nah, Cornwall comes into the ‘hate everybody’ category too.
No the accent thing is rubbish. Birmingham has a repellent accent, certainly not posh. And the Glasgow accent far more signifies imminent violence than Geordie
Never heard such tosh! Imminent violence? This is meant to be light hearted fun but people like you turn it into verging on hate crime!
I fear you know not the meaning of fun.
Looks like Herefordshire and Shropshire are the ‘repellent accents’ bit: ?
This is funny, I come from one of the regions that makes a good target, yet I can appreciate the humour. It’s not an attack, it’s a light-hearted look at old stereotypes that aren’t particularly damaging.
I can’t believe anyone thinks Fife has a pretentious and stuck-up accent. I can barely understand it and I’m from there!
Pretty sure it’s a dig at St Andrews!
There’s a brown blob missing from map #9, in Kent (Medway Towns & Isle of Sheppey!) lol
All I can say is that it seems I’d do well in Scotland #whiskeydrinkerlostinLondon
Why would anyone find this insulting stereotyping funny?
Because they aren’t a boring stuck up twat?
What you said Barry
Seconded
Very funny and spot on .
Whats the shirtless joke about? I don’t get it.
Newcastle
So damn tough they don’t feel the cold ? Maybe ?
Watch a Game of football in winter when the Toon is playing then you will understand :)
Shame we’ll never know the colours of the islands. The Isle of Wight and Outer Hebrides have some special characteristics !
Do they realise they’ve put the Peak District as Postindustrial Depression? Surely that can’t be right!
Or the Yorkshire Dale’s, and or the North York Moors!
And the Lake District!!
Obviously conceived by a public school educated, RP., horse owning, inter bred, upper class chinless wonder, wearing green wellies and tweed hacking jacket, a bored home counties journo’ .. trans gender, advocating compulsory abortion for the north, and a barbed wire fence a north of Watford.
Some of them very accurate!
Good grief, lighten up, people. Nothing in this is meant to be serious. The British sense of humour is typified by an ability to laugh at ourselves. We are the nation of The Goons, Monty Python and The Goodies.
Spot on Chris – the humourless responses here reflect why the country is in such a depressing political mess right now. GET A LIFE YOU LOT – LOOSEN UP AND SMILE FFS!
I love the absurdity of the Scottish Highlands being dependent on Greggs! Maybe 1, 2beyond Inverness but there’s bigger things to worry about
Wot a load of rubbish? Don’t you have anything better to do? Time waster!
Just brilliant! This Welshwoman was not at all offended!
Hilarious! And I am at a total loss to see how anyone could be offended by this.
Ah folks it is humour, not based on research. Unclench your teeth, fists, sphincters whatever and breath in…
I’m not British but lived here for decades. Love the maps and love some of the comments above! Exactly why I fell in love with Monty P. and Faulty Towers and Keeping up appearances… :)
Quite humorous and sometimes fairly accurate. As a dweller of the south Lake District I tend to disagree with your description of depressing post industrial wasteland! Perhaps somebody needs to get out more.
Oh here we go – why are so many people so offended these days – get a life!
Love this. As a geordie girl living amongst in bred farmers im truley not offended. In fact there may be some truth in it