A British journalist has suggested that Ireland is not a 'real' country. Melanie Phillips, a columnist for The Times , has written an article antagonising and undermining Northern Irish Republicans and Scottish nationalists for seeking independence from the UK. Phillips' writes that Ireland's claim to independence is "tenuous" as "...Ireland itself has a tenuous claim to nationhood" whereas Britain is "authentic". WTF? Ireland and the United Kingdom have had a fraught history before and after Ireland's independence in 1922.
Better together my fat hairy arse, we have apparently never been a nation. #MelaniePhillips #indyref2 pic.twitter.com/kKR8MAgNd5
— Weebs 🏴🍻🦄🐓🇫🇷 (@W_e_e_b_s) March 7, 2017
Phillips mocked Northern Ireland's possible independence from the UK as "...the bit that got tacked on to Great Britain to make the UK". To add fuel to the fire, with an obvious urge from Phillips to commit social suicide, she continues: “Faced with the contemporary resurgence of regional or tribal uprisings, it’s the ancient British Isles that must hold itself together to take its place once again as a sovereign nation in the wider world.” Sorry, who is tribal exactly? Hold my earring!
Phillip's previously wrote for the Daily Mail and became conservative after feeling her liberal beliefs had "...mugged my reality". If it's any consolation Philips believes climate change is a hoax. Yep.
Here are some Twitter reactions to the Phillips controversy:
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#MelaniePhillips to head St Patricks day parade in Dublin.
— Brendan Laird (@bacdub14) March 7, 2017
1/2 As Ambassador I cannot ignore @MelanieLatest's outlandish claim @thetimes that Irish nationhood is 'tenuous'. 100 years of independence.
— Daniel Mulhall (@DanMulhall) March 7, 2017
2/2 @MelanieLatest Irish nationhood based on strong sense of identity, distinctive culture & shared values and interests. Nothing 'tenuous'
— Daniel Mulhall (@DanMulhall) March 7, 2017
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#MelaniePhillips criticises Scottish & Irish identity as 'rooted in romanticism & myth' yet does exact same for 'Great Britain' in her piece
— Christopher Moore (@Moore_27Chris) March 7, 2017
Breakups are hard. #indyref2 #MelaniePhillips #EnglishScotsforIndyref #English4Indyref pic.twitter.com/vhFOBW4t9a
— Clare Ferguson (@SaltireComic) March 7, 2017
I was initially furious until I discovered author was pathetic controversialist #MelaniePhillips who last wrote anything relevant in 1997. https://t.co/Q4rHRZJi1u
— Elizabeth Byrne (@zilbyrne) March 7, 2017
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