England is "not a valid country".

JReacher1

Frankly I think people would get on better in this country if England, scotland, and Wales had never existed and the country had always been called Great Britain.

The actual individual countries offer no benefit but cause trouble and are meaningless.

SevenOfNine

Edwood_Woodwood wrote: »

I dislike using the term British and never refer to myself as such, it is always Welsh.

I thought Edward Woodward was English!

trukdiver

JReacher1 wrote: »

Frankly I think people would get on better in this country if England, scotland, and Wales had never existed and the country had always been called Great Britain.

The actual individual countries offer no benefit but cause trouble and are meaningless.

They are not sovereign states and not really recognised as countries internationally. They would be classed as provinces or states in a lot of countries. For example, Bavaria was an independant kingdom until the unification of Germany in the 1870's. It's just a state now but I wonder what Bavarians consider their nationality to be?

Scotland was an independant country before 1707 but Wales, as a country, was invented by the English. Even the name "Wales" comes from an Anglo Saxon word for "foreigner" - referring to the native population of southern Britain.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/culture/sites/aboutwales/pages/history.shtml

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I got my wrist slapped by my old dentist before when I was filling out a new form after they'd moved premises and needed to update their system - I wrote 'English' under nationality, and the receptionist upon looking at it barked out 'that's not a valid option, I can't put that on the system, why didn't you write British!?'

I just replied with 'because I was born in England, Christened in England, and have lived on the south coast of England all of my years in existence. I'm about as English as you can get, and have no Welsh, Irish or Scottish blood in me, to the best of my knowledge.'

She just huffed and shuffled off. I have however since discovered I'm about 1/4 Scottish, so I wasn't wholly right either!