HeadingNorth Posted April 26, 2011 Share Posted April 26, 2011 Country or not, we are all UK nationals. We do dont have seperate English, Scottish, Welsh and NI passports. Would you say that the USA is not a country? The USA is a single country, as specified in its constitution, made up of states. The UK is a single political entity made up of three countries and one principality (which prefers to call itself a country, and not many people nowadays would argue.) For the sake of concision, it's usually referred to as a country; it's still made up of other countries. Therefore, "which country do you live in" has two 'correct' answers; you live in England, in the UK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sccsux Posted April 26, 2011 Share Posted April 26, 2011 Country or not, we are all UK nationals. We do dont have seperate English, Scottish, Welsh and NI passports. Would you say that the USA is not a country? The United States of America is a collection of states. The United Kingdom is a collection of countries. How do you explain that Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales and England all have different National football teams? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rupert_Baehr Posted April 26, 2011 Share Posted April 26, 2011 Poor Nick is finding to his cost that if you hitch a ride on the back of a scorpion it will sting you, because that is its nature. ... Would he have been better hitching a ride on the back of a snake? A one-eyed snake, at that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noob Posted April 26, 2011 Share Posted April 26, 2011 Clegg is a bloke just doing his job, very well I might add. The flak is undeserved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sccsux Posted April 26, 2011 Share Posted April 26, 2011 Therefore, "which country do you live in" has two 'correct' answers; you live in England, in the UK. Not true. The United Kingdom is not a country. Where's it's recognised capital city? All the four countries that make up the union have their own. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wednesday1 Posted April 26, 2011 Share Posted April 26, 2011 Poor Nick is finding to his cost that if you hitch a ride on the back of a scorpion it will sting you, because that is its nature. Some of the vitriol, personal attacks and anti AV claims from the Tories and others (eg Baroness Warsi's claims about AV being a boost for the BNP, despite them being firmly in the NO camp) must have really brought home to Nick just how unpleasant some of his coalition "colleagues" are. Spot-on. Though I too am opposed to AV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeadingNorth Posted April 26, 2011 Share Posted April 26, 2011 Not true. The United Kingdom is not a country. Hence my quotation marks. There is no common word to describe what the United Kingdom is; "country" is the best fit. Although the UK does indeed have its own capital city - London, where its Parliament resides. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msmouse Posted April 26, 2011 Author Share Posted April 26, 2011 How do you explain that Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales and England all have different National football teams? How do you explain that we compete as Great Britain at the Olympics? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobthebobs Posted April 26, 2011 Share Posted April 26, 2011 How do you explain that we compete as Great Britain at the Olympics? It's more financially viable to work as a whole, can you imagine Northern Ireland or Wales putting out a full strength squad in the olympics, given the amount of different sports? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msmouse Posted April 26, 2011 Author Share Posted April 26, 2011 It's more financially viable to work as a whole, can you imagine Northern Island or Wales putting out a full strength squad in the olympics, given the amount of different sports? Northern Ireland is not classed part of Great Britain even though it is part of the UK, so I am not sure about who it's athletes compete under during the Olympics. Anyway .. this whole discussion about countries is detracting from the OP. Can we just agree to refer to the UK as a 'nation' and be done with? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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