Wales ‘a region of England’ on Westminster elections website
Wales is a region of England, according to a Westminster web page archiving the results of the 2019 General Election.
On visiting a page showing Wales’ 2019 election results data, readers are greeted by a message saying that it “shows the general election results for Wales, which is a region in England.”
The web page includes data such as the share of the vote by party, party results and changes and seats won by party.
The error seems to be a bug, as when Wales is chosen from other parts of the website it is listed as “a country in Great Britain”. However when accessed directly by googling ‘general election results Wales 2019’ the first option offered a page where it is described as a ‘region’.
Scotland also has both web pages, one describing it as a region and another as a country.
The mistake was stumbled upon by Welsh poet Meirion McIntyre Hughes and prompted an angry response on his social media feed.
‘Wales, which is a regon of England’ pic.twitter.com/GRgnCTwrbI
— Mei Mac (@MeiMacHuws) May 6, 2022
Einir Kirkwood described it as “incredible and disgraceful”.
Another user suggested that the bug had been caused by the web designers “treating England as the default in some way”.
Others tagged in Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle and asked him to change the website.
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Yesterdays Daily Mail said the same thing..No bug to blame there.Its a Tory rag and done deliberately.
Even in the most generous reading of the facts, it is clear that Cymru is nothing but an afterthought, at best we are that bit stuck to England at worst, just some backwards region.
It makes me jolly cross, I’m not a nationalist, but I do love Cymru and I hate that we face such insults….and often when we draw attention to the various assaults on decency, intelligence and reason that the people of this country have suffered and still suffer under we are often met with ridicule and ignored.
Being a Welsh nationalist is nothing like being a British nationalist. We are left wing unlike the far right British.
Oh some of our fellow independence minded Welsh people are right wing. This was why Yes Cymru was so successful. We are united by one thing. A desire for a self – governed Cymru free from English (read UK Conservative) interference. Once that is achieved, we may have differing opinions on how it should be run. Whatever our political flavour, we stand together for independence. We don’t kneel for the master’s favour.
Unless our name is Hart or Cairns.
Just a thought from my possibly imperfect reading of history. How about reframing/reclaiming the terms Britain and British to their original meanings? Y Brythoniaid vs y Saeson. Would be an interesting embarrassment to those who say they are British. Comments welcome
“ I’m not a nationalist, but I do love Cymru” give it a try, you won’t start goose stepping up Queen Street
Still not a Nationalist after all that? Why not for heavens sake?
A patriot perhaps, not a nationalist?
Yes, it has become something of another N-word being based — at least in popular perception through media misuse — on hatred of somewhere else. ‘Patriot’ still carries a connotation of love for my own country and is how I describe myself.
That isn’t a bug. That’s deliberate. Pure scumbags, we were there before they even existed and we will still be here after they stop existing.
It’s not a bug. The perfidious unionists are trying to eradicate us by stealth.
This kind of c***u happens way too often to be anything other than deliberate
Two web addresses. Chrome &Google pull up the “region” version.
Opera & DuckDuckGo lead to the “country” version.
Bizarre. I suspect an examination of the sites’ histories would show that “region” was corrected but the original, mistaken site was left in place.
Typical Westminster mistakes. Just like their abuse of the word “comprise”, and tgeir inability to count counties.
https://electionresults.parliament.uk/election/2019-12-12/results/Location/Region/Wales
https://electionresults.parliament.uk/election/2019-12-12/results/Location/Country/Wales
Comment with links awaiting approval. In the web address, substitute ‘Region’ for ‘Country’ to bring up the alternative.
This is deliberate. This issue was raised on a Scottish Independence website just over a year ago. The author – I think it was one called Stuartb – wrote this about the Commonwealth website: “At that time, in April 2020 it (the commonwealth website’s description of the United Kingdom) stated explicitly that the UK is a union of four countries: England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Given the queen is head of The Commonwealth that ‘endorsement’ of Scotland’s status was significant. I’ve just checked: the website of The Commonwealth no longer has this. It now has this, IMHO odd description:… Read more »
Not too dissimilar to the way Putin used to describe Ukraine before his invasion of the latter. This sort of language is common among colonialists and imperialists.
Bearing in mind that all the words and sentences are inputted by human beings, it is certain that a number of bugs have caused this problem. They are called Ignorance, Arrogance, Antagonism and Disrespect. Education is the cure for it but those who have been found to be resistant to it display a common symptom which confuses one island with one nation. Maybe the next brighter generation will finally get it.
As we’ve been saying for 800 years: “no, we’re not!”
No doubt the Westminster & English establishment will say this was a simple mistake. But don’t believe them. It was done deliberately. This is what the English Conservative party really think of Wales.
Putin playbook. As references to Ukraine are being replaced by “New Russia” (Novorossiya), so Wales is becoming an English region in Westminsterspeak.
We are not England we are CYMRU!
You English should join that idiot Putin as clearly you disrespect and hold disregard to your neighbours identity. Get it in your thick skulls Mr Englishman, we are not English.