To be fed up with the riots being called “UK riots”?

Of course there are!! It's been bad for a few nights, businesses burned out, homes attacked! D'ye really think the knuckledraggers would pass up on the chance of a riot? Pros here ffs!

I hope it doesn't everyone deserves to live in peace.
Those poor people cowering in their home's is a disgusting scenario regardless of which country.

And 3.5% of the population in NI is not white but they are rioting.

The loyalist thugs seem to have overcome their usual hatred of Irish people in a show of racist unity with the racist thugs from Dublin who joined them.

Yes, we are…but I’ve often heard England being said in a way that implies England is Britain, hence my post.

English Riots and in NI sadly because of the unionist sectarian link to England.

The U.K is a nation in itself.

We are all connected.

I'm English and can understand what you are saying, and I agree there is a lot of resentment built up from bad reporting and referencing to each of our countries.

On the flip side, I feel like I'm never allowed to say the word 'English' anymore. People want you to say UK, instead of English.

If I say 'I'm english',
people say to me "don't you mean that you're from the UK.

There is a sense sometimes of us all losing a bit of our national identity.

We are an unusual country in that we are four countries within a country. The UK is also classed as a country.

And we are often made to refer to our collective country, rather than our individual country

If there's been a riot in Northern Ireland as well as the riots in England, then surely they are UK riots? Or has Northern Ireland been removed from the United Kingdom?

Exactly. Some people talk about ‘England’ meaning the UK…as if the the other 3 nations didn’t exist!

Does it really matter anyway.

They call it the UK riots to refer to geographical location.

Not to piss of Welsh and Scottish people

I mean that "Scotland" does not have the authority to call legally binding referenda with regard to its own continued participation in the UK.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-63727562

The 2014 Referendum came about as a result of the Edinburgh Agreement 2012, in which Westminster agreed to permit the Scottish government to hold a one-time, legally binding referendum on the question, which would also bind Westminster and the remainder of the UK into respecting the outcome. It was not, and is not a transfer of that power on an ongoing, perpetual basis, which is why the Scottish Government did not simply call another referendum despite winning back to back elections on the basis of seeking to do so.

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There have also been a lot of riots in Northern Ireland.

Oh, ok stand corrected. It’s been reported in England as one in Belfast (that was linked to local factional grievances). Apologies.

It’s ignorance and written for the world news. I am currently abroad and people don’t know England, Wales, Scotland and NI.

It’s the UK to them. Whether you like it or not

(but YANBU!)

Yeah there were loads of riots in the Republic of Ireland.

I remember people saying at the time that the rioters were all egging each other on online from different countries.

They're all connected on social media

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You do know that Scotland already had an independence referendum?

Yes but only because the Westminster Parliament gave its permission.

They're not pretty much English riots.

There have also been a lot of riots in Northern Ireland.

So calling the riots 'UK riots' is accurate

And by Ireland I meant ROI

We have also had them in Ireland. I think far right inspired riots would do?

What do you mean

"No they do not".

You do know that Scotland already had an independence referendum, yes?

You’re not wrong. They’re pretty much English riots.

Or rather a small number of skirmishes in a few towns by a tiny minority of ignoramus louts.

That's now 2 anti English threads on the go tonight.

We should be standing together to condemn and reject racism if all kinds.

Trying to pretend there is Scottish exceptionalism is misguided, wtong and a slippery slope at best.

What?

Scotland already had one.

Wales and Scotland both have the right to hold independence referendums

No. They do not.