>>>lol. Next thing you know the Welsh and Northern Irish will want to go it alone.
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>>Well the Welsh do have their own Assembly now (not like the Scottish parliament) and their Plaid Cymru party has fought for independance for years. Jeez the British Empire will have shrunk if they and NI go, with the Jocks.
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>>At least there's no Welsh componenet to the flag to lose. Funny that the Cornish don't consider themselves English although it's within the borders. They were orginally Celts like the Welsh and they have their own lingo.
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>Well, if dissolutions of Soviet Union and Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia were advertised as so good in the West, I'm not surprised that the idea "dissolution"=="good" took root where it wasn't expected.

Aye but Russia could lose all her satellites and STILL be left with the biggest country in the world. What would we be left with? It's already the case that nowhere in BRITAIN is more than c. 70 miles from the sea. It's only some 600 miles from tip to tail, and that includes Scotland. So, I'm not sure of the dimensions but England is only c 140 miles at its widest, and say 400 long.