England Says Yes: Are there any benefits to England if Scotland secedes from the union?

[platinumsage]

Would square sausage be available in Leicester?

In the "world foods" section in supermarkets alongside Morliny Krakowska Sausage Slices.

 

[strung out]

It will be a boost to the flag making industry when we commission them to make new Union Jacks with no blue on them.

Honestly, the amount of piss that would get boiled from having to abolish the Union Jack would be fucking wonderful. I would move to Scotland and vote YES just to see it.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

I think you're forgetting the Gulf Stream's effect on temperatures

until it switches off

Never gonna happen.

 

[krtek a houby]

In England? How?

Oops. Can this be changed to Mad English People?

 

[danny la rouge]

Oops. Can this be changed to Mad English People?

Come on: benefits. It can’t be that hard.

U.K. would have lower concentration of midgies.

 

[maomao]

Hi Stephen,

welcome to Urban.

I think one benefit that’s been overlooked is having an additional country you could go on foreign holidays to.

I've been trying to persuade my wife that a week at my mum's house in Edinburgh counts as foreign travel for over a decade. It is another country, technically.

 

[danny la rouge]

I've been trying to persuade my wife that a week at my mum's house in Edinbrgh counts as foreign travel for over a decade. It is another country, technically.

Oh, Edinburgh is foreign alright. I’m with you there.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Come on: benefits. It can’t be that hard.

U.K. would have lower concentration of midgies.

There would be exactly the same amount of daylight, but it would be more equitably distributed across the year.

 

[danny la rouge]

Nowhere in the U.K. would put “chip sauce” on their fish and chips.

 

[danny la rouge]

The highest mountain would be easier to climb.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

What's 'chip sauce'?

File alongside square sausages in the 'never to be enjoyed' column.

 

[fishfinger]

What's 'chip sauce'?

File alongside square sausages in the 'never to be enjoyed' column.

Brown sauce diluted with vinegar.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Just Scottish bagpipes, or English bagpipes too?

You can have Co Durham, and anywhere else in England that has a pipe music tradition.

 

[danny la rouge]

What's 'chip sauce'?

File alongside square sausages in the 'never to be enjoyed' column.

 

[Espresso]

You'll miss our tattie scones when we're gone. Also see 'cold dead hands' and 'Tunnock's caramel wafers'.

If Scotland leaving the UK means I can't have my Tunnock's fix I might seriously have to consider moving north of the border.

 

[danny la rouge]

Fewer places that are hard to pronounce.

 

[danny la rouge]

Larkhall would be somebody else’s problem.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

I hope Stephen's following this.

 

[Sue]

What's 'chip sauce'?

File alongside square sausages in the 'never to be enjoyed' column.

AFAIK, it's only an Edinburgh thing -- they ask if you want salt and sauce rather than salt and vinegar. I love chippy sauce. Mmmm.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

AFAIK, it's only an Edinburgh thing -- they ask if you want salt and sauce rather than salt and vinegar. I love chippy sauce. Mmmm.

I like brown sauce and I like vinegar. I think I would like it. I also think I would like square sausages. I've missed out on so many things.

 

[brogdale]

No Trident bases?

 

[Sue]

Fewer places that are hard to pronounce.

Milngavie no more...
Kirkudbright no more...
Auchtermuchty no more..
Ecclefechan no more...

 

[ska invita]

It will be a boost to the flag making industry when we commission them to make new Union Jacks with no blue on them.

Honestly, the amount of piss that would get boiled from having to abolish the Union Jack would be fucking wonderful. I would move to Scotland and vote YES just to see it.

What would the union jack look like if Scotland votes for independence?

An association of flag experts, or vexillologists, has created a set of designs it hopes will encourage a discussion, writes Sam Judah.

www.bbc.co.uk

quite good those

would mean changing all the other flags that have the union jack in the corner of them too

 

[cupid_stunt]

Come on: benefits. It can’t be that hard.

U.K. would have lower concentration of midgies.

And, a lower concentration of dog hypnotists.

 

[platinumsage]

England will be home to the fourth tallest mountain in the UK.

 

[fishfinger]

I like brown sauce and I like vinegar. I think I would like it. I also think I would like square sausages. I've missed out on so many things.

Iceland sell square sausage.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Iceland sell square sausage.

That's even further away!

 

[kebabking]

The barracks at Berwick upon Tweed might get a refurb...?

(There's an excellent museum at the barracks, and the town walls are well worth an explore - not by the Scotchists obviously, those traitorous, heathen rebels can stay out at Lamberton).

 

[two sheds]

What would the union jack look like if Scotland votes for independence?

An association of flag experts, or vexillologists, has created a set of designs it hopes will encourage a discussion, writes Sam Judah.

www.bbc.co.uk

quite good those

would mean changing all the other flags that have the union jack in the corner of them too

When did they change the union flag? You used to be able to say "that's upside down" but you can't any more

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

What would the union jack look like if Scotland votes for independence?

An association of flag experts, or vexillologists, has created a set of designs it hopes will encourage a discussion, writes Sam Judah.

www.bbc.co.uk

quite good those

I love the Welsh flag, but not sure about incorporating in with the English flag, seeing as what England's patron saint is most famous for

would mean changing all the other flags that have the union jack in the corner of them too

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