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> Another posted a picture of some ham in Sainsbury’s, moaning: “We presume not meeting EU food safety standards. Good enough for little Englanders who thrive o
by tivert 3y ago
> Another posted a picture of some ham in Sainsbury’s, moaning: “We presume not meeting EU food safety standards. Good enough for little Englanders who thrive on second-rate everything though.”
Not sure exactly what a "little Englander" is (I presume some political faction); but whenever someone throws in a contemptuous dig like that, I feel a little schadenfreude, like their unhappiness is deserved.
- harimau777 3y agoIt sounds like Little Englander means a Brit who is a Euroskeptic and has nationalistic tendencies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Englander https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Englander
- tgv 3y agoHowever, the current Brexiteers favor a powerful Britania that rules the waves. That does not seem to rhyme with independence of colonies, which is what that wiki entry describes. It might be that the writer thought it meant something else, though.
- jcranmer 3y agoIt's an ironic appellation of the term. The Brexiteers may want to be a world-striding UK, but the UK doesn't have that clout. In leaving the EU, they left one of the entities that did have that clout (in the rare moments that the EU could find a unified voice).
- harimau777 3y agoIt sounds to me like maybe there's an older use of the term that emphasized independence from the colonies and a newer version that maps more or less to "right populist". I don't live in the UK, but it seems like this might be similar to how the new populist/Trumpist Republicans are still called "Republicans" even though they don't support a lot of things that previously were associated with Republicans (foreign intervention, state & local rights, etc.).
- ben_w 3y ago"Little Englander" is a derogatory term for English nationalists and British people who are xenophobic or naïvely nationalistic — for the latter, those who think England is "better than all other countries", and that England should only work together with other countries when there is a direct advantage for England rather than for the benefit of humanity as a whole.
- rcxdude 3y agoWhich is a large part of the sentiment behind brexit, though not the only one.
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- swarnie 3y ago> "little Englander" Mostly used by flag accounts on twitter to dismiss the political right, the working class, home owners... Any one they don't like that day really....
- itishappy 3y agoWhat's a "flag account"?
- crotchfire 3y agohttps://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-support-the-current-thing https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-support-the-current-thing
- Vecr 3y agoProbably pride flag/Ukraine/Palestine/Israel/what ever the "current thing" currently is. Though, there's the other side of that as well, the "I'm against the current thing" flags, US, Russia, etc.
- TMWNN 3y ago> Not sure exactly what a "little Englander" is (I presume some political faction) Expanding on others' answers, it's the sort of thing uttered by the sort of people who do this sort of thing: <https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-30148768 https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-30148768>