This is not to deny 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿’s often subordinate position within the Union. Unreflective narratives of ‘partnership’-esp within the domestic nation state/economy-is in some ways an olde echo of the ‘colony’ trope. Historians rightly talk of 🇬🇧 in its formative phases as ‘Anglo-Britain’