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    155 months ago

    This chart: “England, Scotland and Wales are in Great Britain”

    Wight, the Scillies, Anglesey, Sheppy, Anglesey, the Shetlands, the Orkneys, the Hebrides, and thousands more: “Are we a joke to you?”

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        25 months ago

        I’m trying to remember though, aren’t the Jersey, Guernsey, and Man somehow closer to Scotland or Wales status than say Sheppey or the Orkneys?

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          65 months ago

          Yeah, the channel islands and the Isle of Man have more autonomy. Officially they are “self-governing British Crown Dependencies”.

          Jersey and Guernsey have different VAT rates for instance. For years, play.com was based in Jersey solely so they wouldn’t have to pay VAT on most of the cheaper stuff they sold to the mainland.

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      75 months ago

      Aren’t those all part of one of the other three? The orkneys and Hebrides are part of Scotland.

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        5 months ago

        That’s my point: they’re all part of England/Scotland/Wales, but they aren’t part of Great Britain.

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      45 months ago

      None of those are in Great Britain, because they are islands and therefore not part of the island of Great Britain.

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        15 months ago

        But they are all part of England, Scotland or Wales which, according to the diagram, are within Great Britain…