[OSM-talk] National borders in the British Islands

[Richard Fairhurst]

Dermot McNally wrote:

> 2008/5/29 Steve Chilton <S.L.Chilton at mdx.ac.uk>:
>> Scotland and Wales are countries.
>
> Only in the same traditional folk-consciousness way that Bavaria or
> Hessen are.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom

thinks it's a bit more than that.

Personally I'm with the villagers of Audlem (where I grew up, oddly enough):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7366006.stm

(To their list of reasons I'd add that Welsh rappers are funnier than  
English ones.)

cheers
Richard