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Northern Irish Protestant loyalists are essentially Englishman cosplayers. Just look at their Orangeman parades, with their bowler hats and Masonic aprons.
Englishmen now? Scotland would like their Presbyterians back 😉 .
I'd suggest that we do not. How about we split the difference, and drop them off halfway between Belfast and Stranraer, say?
In the sea? Deal 🤝.
Nah, they're nutters with very weird ideas about Britishness, Irishness & everything else, but they no more look to the English for ideas about their own identity & how to manifest it than the English look to NI loyalists as a guide.
If anything they tend to rather despise Englishness, seeing their own culture as the one true, loyal holdout to the Union.
The aprons do seek to emulate Masonic regalia, but the ideals of the Orange Order are entirely contrary to those of Freemasonry, which in any case is not specifically English or even British.
This is very true.
As in, Northern Irish cosplaying English or English cosplaying Northern Irish? If it's the latter, Northern Ireland is not made up of English planters contrary to popular belief, nor is it in the UK because it was "stolen" by the English
Northern Irish Protestants playing English, or affecting an exaggerated Englishness to differentiate themselves from the Papists and their ways