A suggestion to change the name of this forum to Britain and Ireland
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danny la rouge
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What? Does that even make sense?
The archipelago (including Skye/Wight/Isle of Dogs
and all the rest) is the British Isles. Great Britain is the big bit. That's the geography.
England is the bottom of the big bit, but not the lump on the left. Plus the little bits close by. Scotland is the smaller section at the top of the big bit, plus all the little bits close by. Wales is the lump on the left, plus any little bits off its shore.
That's the historical countries.
danny la rouge
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With that spelling?Anyway, this thread/
In the diagram, which of the "minor islands" are show as being in the UK?
danny la rouge
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It doesn't detail them, but shows that there is a set called The British Isles, a sub set of which is the UK, a subset of which is Great Britain, which itself divides into England etc.
This is where I said the diagram fell down, because one might infer the island of Great Britain is all there is to the constituent countries.
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lewislewis
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I would find British Isles acceptable but it seems a bit wierd when the UK and Ireland is simple and correct.
lewislewis
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The diagram should also box off Wales and England within their own bubble. The bubble for England and Wales is correct as they share a legal system etc (unlike Scotland), but there is now a body of Welsh-only law, so Wales and England should be rendered appropriately.
I find UK and Ireland acceptable .. politically yes it is correct ..
but i don't like it .. i don't associate nor like the idea of a UK .. wheras i like and am happy with living in a geographical British Isles and Ireland
danny la rouge
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No, no. I don't think that's required.
yes to sub forum for ireland but they are general .. i want to bring the BI/B/Uk and Ireland together in a politics forum as it is to the benefit of all of usUK politics is fine, I dont think you need to split them between England, Wales and Scotland
a sub forum for Ireland maybe?
lewislewis
Lumumba Cymru
At the risk of sounding flippant, what is correct and logical is more important than what you 'like' or are 'happy living in geographically' (and i'm hardly pro-UK!).
nino_savatte
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You continue to [deliberately] miss the fact that Ireland is: a)not in Britain and b) not British. Either there is a massive gap in your historical knowledge or you're being a tit. which is it?
nino_savatte
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The United Republic of Ireland and Britain?
Don't tell the Irish that...well, some Unionists and Loyalists might like the idea.
Fedayn
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However, i think there should be a Reading forum
Alongside a writing forum?
He hasn't missed the fact at all. Either you are unable to read properly or you are being a tit. Which is it?
yes that is true
isn't it better to define geographically than politcially though?
nino_savatte
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He hasn't missed the fact at all. Either you are unable to read properly or you are being a tit. Which is it?
Oh, really?
how about it gets chnaged to the 'the google map refference northen hemispehere G.P.S equater reference xxxxxxx .xxxxxxx politics forum'
nino_savatte
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You wouldn't really want to see or discuss the minutiae of Irish politics, outside of life or death politics in NI its really just very woeful down south.
You're not kidding. FF or FG...what a great menu.
butchersapron
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I doubt anyone wouild post about domestic Irish poltics of that sort tbh JP.
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