I have often wondered if someone could form a seperate country within the UK and declare it as an independent state. Just how would you do it?
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there is a very tiny town in the usa that has done that about 20 years ago, kinney minnesota
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Hello,\n\nThis is one of those questions were I believe the answers could be both Yes! and No!. \n\nOn the one hand Britain is an island nation that has seen successive invasions & Conquests from numerous different races & peoples (the romans, the saxons, the vikings,etc). Britain had a massive empire & much of our historic wealth has come from slavery, expliotation & trading. In the second world war many people escaped from the devastation that was going on in Europe and came into the UK. So you can see we've always had immagration and migration, you cannot say immagration is a new experience for us.\n\n**The problem I think is more about the fact that we ARE an island (all be it a reasonably sized one!) and being an island means we do have limits on space & resources.\n\n**The other paradoxic part to this issue, is do you see immagration as adding something to the whole, i.e. bringing benefit to our society or do you see immagration as mainly a draining of resources. In other words is the glass half empty or half full, that I believe is closer to the core of this question.\n\n**The UK involment with the EU has seen the problem become worse, the dilemma increase. why? as poorer states & countries jioned the EU club they wanted to gain the benefits of EU membership and improve their living standards. EU labour laws allow for workers to move from one EU country to another and thats yet another part of the concern about immagration. Our government wildly underestimated the number of workers who would come into the UK seeking work (I think the orginial estimate was about 10,000 in reality its been 245,000 or there abouts).\n\n**The polish workers coming into the UK are not entirely welcomed why? because they are very hard working and prepared to take lower wages than most UK workers, why? because even though badly paid by our standards by polish standards they're well paid. \n\nSo polish workers can fulfil jobs that UK workers dont want to do, but some people feel polish people are putting a strain on jobs & the jobs market. How true that is, is yet another question and hard to answer. Non of this has clear cut or black & white answers, the answer I suggest is always going to be relative or subjective.\n\nIR
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Because United Kingdom, as its name implies, is a unified group of nations.... Northern Ireland, England, Scotland, Wales.  Just as "Russia" is really a collection of several republics and the US is a collection of states.\nEngland is only one of these (but the most powerful).
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Hmmm ... yes and no ....\n\nThe United Kingdom has a large population of muslims, mainly from what was once part of the British Empire ... untold millions from Pakistan for example ... the majority of them are peaceful, but there's no doubt they are on a mission to take over the country ... and with the influx of the Eastern European countries into the European Union, Britain will also have to deal with any number of Romanians, Bulgarians and Polish people ... all out to create a "better life" for themselves ...\n\nIt won't be long before Britain, as we know it, will be but a fond memory, and it's all due to spineless governments who are desperately afraid of not being PC enough ....\n\nWe don't have the same problem in the U.S. YET ... but give it another few years of unhindered illegal immigration, and we'll soon be there ... as another respondent pointed out, it really is only a matter of time ....\n\nAs for the Mexican population being docile ... well, don't know about that ... it's not in their interest and in their religion to murder "infidels", granted ... but they're not above destroying this country with gangs and illegal drug smuggling, not to mention taking over office ... appears to me that what they want to achieve with this mass invasion is not so much to become part of the United States, but rather make the United States a part of Mexico ... give it time, and that will be achieved.  In years to come, you will indeed still be able to live here, and work, as long as you speak Spanish and do the jobs the Mexicans won't do ... :)   The United States will have become a Third World country of course, but nobody seems to be willing to look that far ahead ... \n\nSay goodbye to good quality education, healthcare and a pension ... and if you're a blue collar worker, say goodbye to even having a job ... and if you're not, chances are your job will be outsourced ... \n\nPersonally I think it's sad to see traditional Western cultures go down the drain, but that's inevitable if we continue on the same course ... I think the Canadians had better look out, because it won't be long before sh*t hits the fan up there ... I foresee an influx of disgruntled Americans, followed by another influx of Latinos, who by then will be tired of not being able to cream off the by then non-existent welfare system in the United States, and will look to creaming off the Canadian welfare system ... \n\nBut hey, why worry, main thing is that people can go and live where they like, uncontrolled and unhindered, right?
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no esp if you live in the uk, we are all under dictator tony. i think i should stand in my own party would anyone vote for me, at least there would be on wat under me. i say make love and not war. \nand i would let all the fit girls into the country. yum
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The United Kingdom is a country that consists of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. In fact, the official name of the country is "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland."\n\nGreat Britain is the name of the island northwest of France and east of Ireland that consists of three somewhat autonomous regions: England, Wales and Scotland.\n\nTherefore, England is part of Great Britain, which is part of the United Kingdom. The U.K. includes England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland. England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland are not countries but the United Kingdom is. The remaining portion of the island of Ireland (that which is not the U.K.'s Northern Ireland) is an independent country called the Republic of Ireland (Eire).
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The answer to your question would be none, unless you consider Great Britain living under the provisions of the Magna Carta (1215) as living under the same government.
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I hope Scotland will be independent. It will be as succesful as Ireland.
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volunteer !!!! haha.\n\nSorry i am not even from england. NOt the Britain.nor from Europe nor from the uk. nor from that part of the earth. i am in Antric.
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How can you say 'everyone would be happy'? Nationalists would still be living on a divided island, and unionists would no longer be part of the UK. FYI this idea was mooted in the 1940s, when the Unionist government was unhappy about the left-wing social programmes being imposed on them by the UK Labour government, but it was a non-starter then and is a non-starter now.
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not many countries have a government UK style. It's pretty unique. It's quite an undemocratic democracy. Find out more from the House of Commons website. I think the only other country that has a similar system is Japan. Definitely not Canada/Australia/India. I repeat! Definitely not Canada/Australia/India!The UK gov has special intricacies that mark it out as v.unique, for e.g. we have no written constitution. Check out the uk.gov. website!
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If they choose to compete as separate nations, that's fine.  Besides, a UK team would be dominated by the English, so what benefit would Scottish, Northern Irish, and Welsh players get?
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Let not your imagination run fast.\nIntodays world the smaller a nation the more merry for all the rest. See USSR it has been split. \nSo the days of any two power joining to swallow another power are over. \nRemember the culture of each area varies and the people living therein want their independence. So some type of PANCHAYAT RAJ\nat each village level under the over all control of a joint head may work well. \nEven in the worst of dream no INDIAN would wish anything happence to the independence of PAKISTAN or AFGANISTAN or CEYLON or BANGLADESH.or NEPAL
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I am glad you ask for help on Yahoo! Answers. Well, I would tell about yourself, & your family history. Tell how you believe in government and how you would help the country (state,city,etc.).
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I think those who don't live in one of the countries within the UK should not keep saying that the UK is a country. I expect that those who actually live in a place would know whether it's a country or not. Anyway, in answer to your question, it's probably because they are American sites. Many Americans, as has been proven here, think that the UK is a country. As for the map thing. If you look on a map of Britain or the UK which is printed in one of the UK countries, you will find that it mentions each as a seperate country. Maybe maps made in America or wherever represent them as one.\nI am offended that stupid Americans(or wherever else you uneducated people are from) insist that MY COUNTRY is not a country. Why do you dumb people keep trying to tell English(and Scottish and Welsh) people that our country is not a country?
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i'd like to. does that help you?\nwarmest part of britain! you can have that fact!
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Yes it is possible\nWhat you need to do is build your own island, and declare it a new country. Then you can have your own laws -- even the ones that will let you eat watermelon.\n\nHowever there is always a risk that some other country will invade your island and annex it.\n\nsee:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Minerva