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Well, if you're going to go down that route: > the British isles Many in Ireland[1] would consider that a rather loaded political term rather than neutral geographic one, and wouldn't use it to refer to Britain and Ireland. > Secondly, Ireland doesn't even have a blue line, which implies it is connected by land to Britain It's connected by land to the UK. Maybe there should be an additional blue line to denote the Ir…
You misunderstand the status of these countries, which are countries. They have their own football teams. The only reason that they are largely ruled from Westminster is due to the the military strength of England.
They’re not sovereign states though. Having a football team doesn’t make something a country, I hope you realise how ridiculous that sounds.
And that last sentence is an extremely revisionist view of British history.