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Re: Sheb's European Politics Megathread
« Reply #4695 on: April 15, 2014, 08:46:49 am »

The United Kingdom of England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Cornwall should be in there too but that would probably be much later on.
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Re: Sheb's European Politics Megathread
« Reply #4696 on: April 15, 2014, 09:19:48 am »

It'd just be sad, like if they had continued calling themselves the British Empire
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Re: Sheb's European Politics Megathread
« Reply #4697 on: April 15, 2014, 10:48:03 am »

It still would be the United Kingdom, as there are still kingdoms united within it. If Scotland broke, it would simply be one less kingdom in the Union, but not the end of Union.

And we don't need more empirical evidence on the British Empire before we can build a conclusion on whether or not the Empire is empirically still there.
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Re: Sheb's European Politics Megathread
« Reply #4698 on: April 15, 2014, 11:17:43 am »

And we don't need more empirical evidence on the British Empire before we can build a conclusion on whether or not the Empire is empirically still there.
The Empire's just a theory.
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Re: Sheb's European Politics Megathread
« Reply #4699 on: April 15, 2014, 11:25:08 am »

And we don't need more empirical evidence on the British Empire before we can build a conclusion on whether or not the Empire is empirically still there.
The Empire's just a theory.

Precisely. And therefore it is non-empirical. It probably isn't deductive, most certainly is inductive and the conclusion is assuredly synthetic.

Therefore, we conclude it is a weak theory. The Empire isn't empirical. It is undeserving even of being used in the Leaky Bucket Analogy, in which many weak theories together form a stronger theory (Except the analogy proves it doesn't.

So, this non-empirical Empire theory isn't believable at all.

Britain is not an Empire.
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Re: Sheb's European Politics Megathread
« Reply #4700 on: April 15, 2014, 12:50:46 pm »

Shouldn't it be England-Wales Kingdom?
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Re: Sheb's European Politics Megathread
« Reply #4701 on: April 15, 2014, 12:53:29 pm »

It's Great Britain (Scotland, England, Wales) and Northern Ireland.

It's the U.k. (Northern Ireland, Wales, England, Scotland)

Therefore, it's three united into (sort of) one, should Scotland leave. Until Scotland leaves, it's four countries united in (sort of) one Kingdom.
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Re: Sheb's European Politics Megathread
« Reply #4702 on: April 15, 2014, 12:55:05 pm »

Kingdom of Fairly Large Britain and North Ireland.
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Re: Sheb's European Politics Megathread
« Reply #4703 on: April 15, 2014, 12:56:44 pm »

But....that makes no sense whatsoever, lol.
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Re: Sheb's European Politics Megathread
« Reply #4704 on: April 15, 2014, 12:57:32 pm »

I'm all for digging a channel between Scotland and the rest of Britain if it means the naming shenanigans can be skipped.
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Re: Sheb's European Politics Megathread
« Reply #4705 on: April 15, 2014, 12:59:56 pm »

As in, the Scottish no longer be called British?
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Re: Sheb's European Politics Megathread
« Reply #4706 on: April 15, 2014, 01:06:31 pm »

I'unno, I never put that much thought into my jokes.
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Re: Sheb's European Politics Megathread
« Reply #4707 on: April 15, 2014, 01:13:58 pm »

Even if Scotland leaves, they'd arguably be a part of the new non-united kingdom, still, since they'd still have the same monarch.
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Re: Sheb's European Politics Megathread
« Reply #4708 on: April 15, 2014, 01:30:30 pm »

Soooo the "Ununited Kingdom of England, Wales, Northern Ireland, and Scotland. And Cornwall too, I guess"
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Re: Sheb's European Politics Megathread
« Reply #4709 on: April 15, 2014, 01:42:33 pm »

Even if Scotland leaves, they'd arguably be a part of the new non-united kingdom, still, since they'd still have the same monarch.

No, they'd be another Kingdom, in a Personal Union with the rUK.
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