to wish the BBC would stop calling Scotland 'Northern UK'??

[CocktailQueen]

Was reading the BBC weather website yesterday about the weather bomb that hit northern UK.

Drives me mad! Separate country ... it's never been 'northern UK'. Grr.

Oh my god has someone moved scotland and not told me. Where do I live now then? I hope it is somewhere warm

TrendStopper, Scotland should definitely move and moor itself off the coast of Spain. I'd vote Yes to that!

I may have just offended the Portuguese there. I mean "off the coast of the Iberian Peninsular".

oh dear how tedious.

i am hearing echos of 'it's legal tender you know'.

cringe.

Don't worry next week they'll report something in the South of UK and then you can go back to the complaint of the news being "unfairly biased ... all about the south" instead.

Fylde coast is definitely getting it. Brr! Wouldn't mind them moving us to somewhere warmer too.

as a Scot I find this ridiculous. Scotland is in the northern part of the UK as well as a separate country, YABU, get a grip and moan to your fellow 45%-ers.

Perhaps the OP didn't get the memo about the referendum result.

Mind you, presumably if the BBC had said Northern UK but only meant the North of England, that would have been offensive on the grounds of excluding our Scottish compatriots and being Anglo-centric? Perhaps to be on the safe side they should just point and say "this bit".

Perhaps to be on the safe side they should just point and say "this bit".

exactly lol.

OP hasn't come back ...........

She's off buying a handsaw and an outboard motor so she can shift Scotland somewhere else.

Guessing from experience that they are more used to getting their prejudices confirmed and bolstered by their mates on a daily basis than actually putting up a debate.

Elphaba

Exactly OfficerKaren, Unfortunately the quiet majority are too busy getting on with their lives to bother.

Also scottish, but choosing to live in the 'practically france' bit.

Weather's better innit.

Scotland IS the northern part of the UK. Get over it. You had your chance to change that and didn't have the bottle.

But surely scotland is the north of the uk?

The UK being the united kingdom of wales, england, scotland and northern ireland and scotland being the bit that is furthest north? Scotland, incl the islands at the top are the most far north part of the united kingdom. That's right, isn't it? Or am I being thick?

Now, if people were to say scotland is the north when talking about england, I would agree with you, but I don't in all honesty see how scotland isn't at the north of the uk.

Touchy

I live in Cardiff. Should I get Pissed off when our weather is lumped in with the South West of England? After all Wales is a separate country.

Well no, I don't because having also lived in SW England, the weather is very similar and often very different to N Wales.

YABU

JADS - since the stunning (and yet true) revelation that Cardiff is east of Edinburgh, you should be lumped in with East Anglia

Ok I missed the whole Cardiff is East of Edinburgh thing I can't get my head round that

Them East Anglians are a right rum bunch though