UK Politics

[lost]

4 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

So..is N Ireland a country?

You can identify as anything you like nowadays.

[steviewevie]

6 minutes ago, lost said:

You can identify as anything you like nowadays.

Ok. N Ireland is a cat.

[Neil]

3 hours ago, Paul ™ said:

Complete tosh 

What is tosh is that Scotland is on a par with real countries like Germany. Its more like Luxemburg or lietenstien.  definitely as it's talked about being a  similar tax haven)

[Neil]

20 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

Ok. N Ireland is a cat.

Out of upvotes

[cellar]

42 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

So..is N Ireland a country?

Yep, same classification as Wales, Scotland and England

[steviewevie]

1 hour ago, Neil said:

What is tosh is that Scotland is on a par with real countries like Germany. Its more like Luxemburg or lietenstien.  definitely as it's talked about being a  similar tax haven)

Like other Scandinavian countries.

[Guest]

 

[Neil]

7 hours ago, Paul ™ said:

Complete tosh 

same as Bavaria then - used to be a country  and isn't now but was always subservient to its more sucessful neighbour.

Edited March 16, 2024 by Neil

[steviewevie]

[Ryan1984]

46 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

Any reason? The Tories still have a lot of love for her for carrying that for an hour or so…

[Neil]

10 minutes ago, Ryan1984 said:

Any reason? The Tories still have a lot of love for her for carrying that for an hour or so…

not as sh*t as sunak

[Guest]

Penny Mordaunt has squashed that rumour today. Why would she want to be PM for 6 months anyway?

[Crazyfool01]

1 minute ago, Ozanne said:

Penny Mordaunt has squashed that rumour today. Why would she want to be PM for 6 months anyway?

money 

[steviewevie]

20 minutes ago, Ozanne said:

Penny Mordaunt has squashed that rumour today. Why would she want to be PM for 6 months anyway?

Not a bad thing to have on your CV.

[Guest]

A totally normal democracy. 

[Neil]

8 hours ago, cellar said:

Pointless has long established that only Sovreign Countries are acceptable answers when they ask for countries as an answer. In real life, Wales is by definition a country.

Wales has never classed as a country always was a principality.

Cardiff wasn't even the capital until last week.

[cellar]

33 minutes ago, Neil said:

Wales has never classed as a country always was a principality.

Cardiff wasn't even the capital until last week.

So mad to still be debating this, but bringing up principality status is at least more relevant (but still wrong) - Wales was classed as a principality by the International Organisation of Standardisation until 2011, when it was reclassified as a country.

[Neil]

6 minutes ago, cellar said:

So mad to still be debating this, but bringing up principality status is at least more relevant (but still wrong) - Wales was classed as a principality by the International Organisation of Standardisation until 2011, when it was reclassified as a country.

so, last week. 😛 

[cellar]

3 minutes ago, Neil said:

so, last week. 😛 

Close enough I suppose

[Neil]

Just now, cellar said:

Close enough I suppose

i think we need to use the Pointless definition of: "recognised as a sovereign state by the UN".

[Neil]

9 hours ago, cellar said:

Wales is by definition a country

its defined by the UK* as a region of the UK, same as Scotland, England and NI. are!

(* that's in legal definitions the UK has sometimes had to give, to the  EU and others)

[cellar]

21 minutes ago, Neil said:

i think we need to use the Pointless definition of: "recognised as a sovereign state by the UN".

Is Wales a Sovreign Country? No. Is Wales a Constiuent Country? Yes. Is Wales classified as a country by the IOS? Yes. 

Anyway, I really need to stop talking about this and sleep 😂

If you need any more info, Google is your friend. Literally just Google "is Wales a country?" and see what comes up.

[Neil]

15 minutes ago, cellar said:

Is Wales a Sovreign Country? No.

correct, never really has been.

[Neil]

17 minutes ago, cellar said:

If you need any more info, Google is your friend. Literally just Google "is Wales a country?" and see what comes up.

what came up was mostly holiday lets.

[steviewevie]

The obvious answer to this is to cut taxes.