Northumbrian identity has legs. It can't work in the short term but give it 20-30 years of activist work to build pride while agitating against the south and it'll get there. Mercian identity? Can't ever see it. It's the region most in need of an authoritative paternal relationship to a central power organising it to stop it from being reactionary and adrift. Everything in the midlands is a wasteland, and nobody cares because nobody identifies with the midlands as anything other than "nameless place I want to leave". Ever been to Coventry? Or all the various Birmingham overflow towns? Fucking awful, nobody wants to be there.
The nicest places in it are probably Worcestor and Shrewsbury and both are full of posh twats.
Maybe I'm wrong though, maybe these conditions make it a good target for pulling off some kind of "pride in our place let's make it better and not accept these conditions" campaign, but it'd be starting from scratch.
Northumbrian identity has legs. It can’t work in the short term but give it 20-30 years of activist work to build pride while agitating against the south and it’ll get there.
Oh yeah, NIP does seem like it could become something. But right now it's still not much.
Mercian identity? Can’t ever see it.
lol I called it a shitpost for a reason. It's literally based on the existence of a twitter account.
Yeah I'm not attacking. Just thought-streaming about it really. Some of these midlands towns are literally the poorest and most run down in the country but they voted Tory HARD in the last election and not just because of Brexit. They're really reactionary and both racism and "I don't like wokies" has been catching on. Racism has always been pretty bad here though, it was the worst place in the country for anti-Polish migrant racism.
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Northumbrian identity has legs. It can't work in the short term but give it 20-30 years of activist work to build pride while agitating against the south and it'll get there. Mercian identity? Can't ever see it. It's the region most in need of an authoritative paternal relationship to a central power organising it to stop it from being reactionary and adrift. Everything in the midlands is a wasteland, and nobody cares because nobody identifies with the midlands as anything other than "nameless place I want to leave". Ever been to Coventry? Or all the various Birmingham overflow towns? Fucking awful, nobody wants to be there.
The nicest places in it are probably Worcestor and Shrewsbury and both are full of posh twats.
Maybe I'm wrong though, maybe these conditions make it a good target for pulling off some kind of "pride in our place let's make it better and not accept these conditions" campaign, but it'd be starting from scratch.
Oh yeah, NIP does seem like it could become something. But right now it's still not much.
lol I called it a shitpost for a reason. It's literally based on the existence of a twitter account.
Yeah I'm not attacking. Just thought-streaming about it really. Some of these midlands towns are literally the poorest and most run down in the country but they voted Tory HARD in the last election and not just because of Brexit. They're really reactionary and both racism and "I don't like wokies" has been catching on. Racism has always been pretty bad here though, it was the worst place in the country for anti-Polish migrant racism.