Would you support English independence?
Would you support English independence?
Charles Jones
Elijah Kelly
Yes and let us join your commonwealth
Zachary Rogers
>Londoners don't even identify as English
The absolute state :(
Dylan Stewart
Anything if it makes england weaker
Noah Hughes
Based Hillingdon does
Oliver Morales
i'm surprised welsh identity isn't the strongest where welsh is actually spoken
Jonathan Wood
The capital adopting the national identity instead of the regional one is common everywhere. They either identify with the city itself or with the whole country.
Xavier Phillips
emmm. actually 60% of Scotland identifies as british...
Evan Hughes
the welsh are truly cucked they will be the only ones stuck with little Englanders in their Union cause they cant afford to leave
Xavier Howard
Absolutely
Josiah Jenkins
it's because it's filled with non-white minorities
Oliver Murphy
England is a national identity, it's not just regional like Bavaria or something
Oliver Edwards
I identify as British as a native of Britain but I don't support the UK. Britain and the UK are two different things.
Jack Cruz
It's not only that. Dwellers of the capital often never leave the city, they don't have strong ties with the rest of the region. Also regions like Île-de-France and Lazio have no regional identity, they're just made of satellites of the capital.
David Taylor
Equating British to the UK is like saying a Swede who calls himself a Scandinavian is a Scandinavian unionist
William Evans
That's very, very debatable.
Liam Morris
according to whom?
Mason Gray
According to the rest of the world. The only reason why Bavarian is not a "national" identity is because it's part of Germany, and even then it has much more autonomy that the British home "countries"
Nathaniel Bennett
> The only reason why Bavarian is not a "national" identity is because it's part of Germany
Yup.
Logan Peterson
most of the world calls Britain "England"
Dominic Torres
>those norn iron cucks calling themselves British
>while they don't live on the island called Britain
They are so pathetic, worse than the Druze in Israel.
Grayson Evans
do you remember when Bavaria played Scotland at the last world cup
Noah Martinez
Remember when Team England was a thing at the olympics?
Owen Hughes
Team GB is a convenience -- we could field separate teams if we so wished. It just means we get more medals.
Lucas Perry
>we could field separate teams if we so wished
We couldn't, it's one per sovereign state
Thomas Brooks
yeah we could
Evan Ross
No retard, the IOC wouldn't allow that. The reason why you're allowed to have multiple teams in soccer is because historically that was the only way there was to play """international""" games before it got popular in other countries.
In other games like rugby unifying the British team would mean killing off top international competitions.
Nolan Wood
they would tho
Jayden Adams
Brayden Campbell
England is more than 1000 years old and London has been it's capital for almost all of it, the UK is only 300 years old.
Brody Cox
People in Northern Ireland can play for GB or Ireland, so it's clearly not entirely divided amongst nation-state lines
Josiah Young
Not independence, but devolution. English votes for English laws.
Grayson Kelly
That's something that de facto predates the Good Friday agreement and even then Norn Irons always have the choice between the UK and the ROI.
300 years are more than enough to change the identity of one place. London got people from Scotland, Ireland, Wales and the former colonies, it's normal for it to identify more with Britain than with England.