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Toon: Brexit from the Welsh, Scottish, Cornish, and Northern Irish perspective (Original Post) geardaddy Jun 2016 OP
Good one! TreasonousBastard Jun 2016 #1
Ouch! Iggo Jun 2016 #2
Ooopsie Hekate Jun 2016 #3
Gotta love Polandball comics! Odin2005 Jun 2016 #4
touché elmac Jun 2016 #5
Wales voted to leave. iandhr Jun 2016 #6
Yes, Wales voted to leave, but the areas of Welsh speakers voted to Remain geardaddy Jun 2016 #7
I noticed that! REP Jun 2016 #9
Yn wir - Indeed geardaddy Jun 2016 #10
Buuuurrrrrrnnnnnn! nt Ilsa Jun 2016 #8
Cool elleng Jun 2016 #11
Flanders and Swann sang about this in the 60's GoneOffShore Jun 2016 #12
Pimp and slapped. Feeling the Bern Jun 2016 #13
Kind of like the US position on West Virginia in 1863. malthaussen Jun 2016 #14
Scotland and I believe Northern Ireland also voted remain. lark Jun 2016 #15
Yes, indeed they did. geardaddy Jun 2016 #16

REP

(21,691 posts)
9. I noticed that!
Fri Jun 24, 2016, 04:55 PM
Jun 2016

I was looking at the areas my family is from - all Welsh-speaking areas still - and they were all Remain.

A lot (not all) of the Leave areas are heavily Anglicized.

geardaddy

(24,927 posts)
10. Yn wir - Indeed
Fri Jun 24, 2016, 05:35 PM
Jun 2016

Monmouthshire is heavily Anglicized as is Y Bro Morgannwg (Vale of Glamorgan), and Cardiff, but they voted to Remain

malthaussen

(17,194 posts)
14. Kind of like the US position on West Virginia in 1863.
Sat Jun 25, 2016, 08:57 AM
Jun 2016

US government to CSA: secession is not allowed and will be stopped with all necessary force.
US government to WVA: secede from Virginia? Welcome to the USA!

-- Mal

lark

(23,099 posts)
15. Scotland and I believe Northern Ireland also voted remain.
Sat Jun 25, 2016, 12:33 PM
Jun 2016

Would serve England yahoos right if they left the UK.

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