nonnie I know perfectly well you also meant all the other nationalities, but on this thread I reply for Scotland.
On a thread entitled Scotland/Sturgeon you put a post saying "Stop slagging the English off all of you. I am sure we will manage nicely when Scotland breaks all ties, and I do hope that includes monetary ties."
All ties means those who work in England - and that includes a vast number of Scottish people, many of them doctors - one of Scotland's biggest traditional industries is training doctors and surgeons to serve the rest of the UK (and the world)
and elsewhere "If you really don't like us then bugger off." so consider yourselves evicted.
You say you are very fond of your Irish neighbours - you don't sound it. Could they, do you think, be doing the kind of chaffing that goes on between friends? Smiling sweetly at them and saying nothing in return could be the wrong response, they think you are with their joke - show them your post and let them know that you are hurt.