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    Barbados to remove Queen Elizabeth as head of state



    Barbados has announced its intention to remove Queen Elizabeth as its head of state and become a republic.
    "The time has come to fully leave our colonial past behind," the Caribbean island nation's government said.
    It aims to complete the process in time for the 55th anniversary of independence from Britain, in November 2021.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-54174794
    Poor old mum. Her prime minister lies to her, her son is a suspected Epstein sex-traffic client, her grandson's colored wife was rejected by her establishment and fled to Canada and her racist government has broken ties with all her neighbors. Now another former slave state has shown her the door. Who'd be a monarch, eh ?
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    Quote Originally Posted by moon View Post
    England's shrinking empire ....
    The only empire ENGLAND ever had was Jamaica (1655) and a few colonies on the American mainland (don't know what happened to them). After 1707 it was the BRITISH Empire.

    These things matter to us pedants.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tranquillus in Exile View Post
    The only empire ENGLAND ever had was Jamaica (1655) and a few colonies on the American mainland (don't know what happened to them). After 1707 it was the BRITISH Empire.

    These things matter to us pedants.
    Well- you pedants had best accept that there are plenty of Scots, Welsh and Irish that don't want to be associated with the English empire, then and now.
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    I take it you know why the Scots jumped at the Act of Union in 1707. They had tried to start their own empire (see Darien scheme) and failed comprehensively. They were facing national bankruptcy. England saved their haggis.

    The Welsh are different; they love the English, always have done. Just ask Penderyn.

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    I don't believe that Ms. Sturgeon is in any way beholden to an early 18th C error. Neither does a vast majority of Scots.
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