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by anal_reactor 503 days ago
Voters in Northern Ireland younger than 45 years prefer joining Ireland than staying in the UK, which means that .uk will stop being relevant within 50 years at most, once all boomers die.
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The country would still be called United Kingdom if it contained three constituent provinces instead of four
I think the argument comes from the full title being "The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland". If you drop NI then the other three countries can already be grouped under the Great Britain term.
Rename it to “United Kingdom of England and Scotland” and party like it’s 1707. Problem solved.
[angry Welsh noises]