British day

[matteus the inbred]

Britain is not the artificial creation

i meant Britain as in the post-mediaeval political union of its various states including the oddity that is Northern Ireland, rather than the geographical (and, as you correctly point out, racial) entity that was pre-Roman/sub-Roman Britain.

my Norman ancestors were instrumental in bringing about the earliest unification processes of modern Britain, maybe British day should be on October 14th!*







*Battle of Hastings, don'cherknow

[Ianofsmeg16]

i meant Britain as in the post-mediaeval political union of its various states including the oddity that is Northern Ireland, rather than the geographical (and, as you correctly point out, racial) entity that was pre-Roman/sub-Roman Britain.

my Norman ancestors were instrumental in bringing about the earliest unification processes of modern Britain, maybe British day should be on October 14th!*







*Battle of Hastings, don'cherknow

Ah! I must have misunderstood you, yeah Britain as a country can only be traced back to the Act of Union, but as a geographical and racial entity to way before then... It depends on Which Britain Mr. Brown was talking about

[The_Doctor]

I agree with EA, et al.

I say we all watch Red Dwarf and Doctor Who. British Sci-Fi at its best.

[Duke Malcolm]

i meant Britain as in the post-mediaeval political union of its various states including the oddity that is Northern Ireland, rather than the geographical (and, as you correctly point out, racial) entity that was pre-Roman/sub-Roman Britain.

Scotland came about as a result of union between the Scots and Picts, the Scottish kingdom of Dalriada came about as a result of the Scots settling in what is now Argyll. USA came about as a result of the Declaration of Independence which united the 13 colonies. Canada came about as a result of the British North America Act. A country is not made up unless it is a mere figment of some people's imagination or unrecogised by other countries, such as Transdniestr, Sealand, and the country of the Citizens Required scheme thingy.

my Norman ancestors were instrumental in bringing about the earliest unification processes of modern Britain, maybe British day should be on October 14th!

The Battle of Hastings was an English battle, not particularly crucial to Scotland.

[Taffy_is_a_Taff]

I imagine if there were no battle of Hasting then the Scottish nobility wouldn't have had its ranks filled with Normans, Bretons and Flemings and I imagine that Gaelic culture would be in a more healthy state than it is.

[Duke Malcolm]

Yes, it may have had such effects on Scotland since it was a new major foreign power to the south, and King Malcolm III Canmore wouldn't want war, so married a Saxon princess and made the official language of the court Saxon, but it was not a British event: it was a quintessentially English event, with no relation to Scotland.

[Taffy_is_a_Taff]

yeah, but it definitely had a significant delayed impact on Scotland, like it did on Wales (I've got a feeling that the Welsh Chronicles barely even note that Hastings occurred) and Ireland.

[Papewaio]

Why not have a Britain Day? Celebrate what is good about Britain, the unifying features of a modern Britain.

Or have you become so EU'ed that you can't even if you wanted to?

So what does modern Britain have to offer?

[Taffy_is_a_Taff]

Pape:

tea and chavs

Edit: I mean proper tea with milk and sugar. And some biscuits for dunking.