Americans React to The Entire History of Britain in Under 5 Minutes 

You misheard the latest research findings about Stonehenge. The altar stone is now attributed to rock from Caithness in the far north of Scotland. The inner circle of "blue" stones come from Southwest Wales. The outer, largest stones are more local. In any case, the Avebury Circle is even more memorable in my opinion.

The industrial revolution is a pretty big thing to miss....

Maybe look into the history of Bletchley Park and Alan Turing for how the war was shortened and modern computers were invented.

An important event which was missed is the Glorious Revolution of 1688. TBF, it's often omitted from history lessons in Britain. Yet again (it happened several times), the English expelled their king, and only invited a new monarch under the condition that the Monarch would in future be subject to Parliament, which continues to be the case today. Thus we have a constitutional monarchy, not an absolute one.

David Starky did a brilliant series called "Monarchy" about all the Kings and Queens. The industrial revolution and the inventor of bridges and the railways changed how common people could finally move across the countries. "The Last Kingdom" like "The Vikings" gives an overview of the times, but historically accurate they are not. From Yorkshire

The Black Death was a major driver of social change

The reason change seems to happen so fast once you get past the 1700's is quite simple knowledge, the more you know, the more you can know. The gain of knowledge is exponential, changing society faster and faster.

I love the victorian era, the industrial revolution and the birth of the railways making long distance travel available to many more people

Hi folks. It always amazes me how little is thought in American schools about the rest of the world. Interestingly, most Americans snap to attention when the Magna Carta is mentioned. The reality is the Magna Carta is regarded in Britain as an interesting but minor event. The spirit of the Magna Carta was short lived and the limitations on the monarchy only really takes effect after the Civil War and the re-insallment of Charles ii in 1660.

It's a bit of a whirlwind thumbnail , the sort of impression you have when leaving school ( if you didn't specialise in history) . Having said that we live with it , most of our towns and cities have castles , forts , houses and public buildings which relate to events taking place hundreds of years ago and new discoveries can be made whenever someone digs a hole in the ground .

Time Team Official youtube channel would be a good place to start your "dig".

Only the "Altar" stone is supposedly from Scotland.

From the Roman Invasion to William the Conquerer in 1066 is a 1000 years , the Romans were here for nearly 500 years . Imagine going back 500 years from now , back to castles ....the timescales compared to where we are now help with how long periods in history were .

The song "Henry the Eighth I am," is not a rhyme about King Henry VIII. It's an old music hall song about a man who married a widow next door. Her previous seven husbands were also called Henry. Hence the lyrics: And everyone was a Henery (Henery) She wouldn't have Willie or a Sam (no Sam. I'm her eighth old man, I'm Henery. Henery the Eighth, I am. It was a hit for Herman's Hermits in the 1960s.

7 year war, American colonies, control over Indian, Industrial Revolution, sports, inventions, the great fire of London, Black Death, Spanish armarda, gunpowder plot, doomsday book, probably a lot of other things.

Stonehenge has stones from England, Wales and apparently it would seem, Scotland. It’s utterly mind blowing.

As Lindsay is such a great reader there is a great auther called Phillipa Gregory who has written a series of historical novels based on the Plantagenet and Tudor periods. They are very historicaly accurate but the writing of the individuals involved really put your mind into the politcs, drama and day to day life of those times around the royal courts.

The Last Kingdom is a brilliant series and yes, it does help a bit to understand that part of Britain’s history. Lynsey (apologies if spelling wrong) might be interested to know that the series is based on some superb books by Bernard Cornwell.

"I'm 'Ennery the Eighth, I am" was recorded by Herman's Hermits 😊

To put things in context when our British Empire was at its height we controlled 35.5 million Kilometers squared, roughly 26.35% of the Entire globe, which was more than even the mighty Mongol Empire managed en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_empires and all from one tiny island that is us.

My dad’s grandfather was born in the late 1800s and saw incredible changes in his lifetime. He went from horse and cart, and people walking in front of cars going 2mph while waving flags to alert people to man landing on the moon.

Both my grandfathers fought in WW1, and my mother's brother-in-law fought in WW2 and was at Dunquerque, then in North Africa, Sicily and Italy. None of them talked about it at all. I was born 8 years after WW2 ended.

Only one stone, the altar stone, came from Scotland at Stonehenge, not all.

"I'm Henery the Eighth, I Am" is a popular Music Hall song dating back to 1910. The 1st recording from 1911 by Harry Champion is on RU-vid. Cover versions were released by Joe Brown in 1961, and the group Herman's Hermits in 1965.

Morning everyone, you must react to what did Britain ever do for us .❤

Please do a video on the Magna Carta! I grew up very near Runnymede where it was signed so I got marinated in the history throughout childhood and there's so much to say about it. The medes are still an open parkland today where people walk their dogs, fly kites, picnic, etc and in 2015 there was a big event to celebrate the 800th anniversary of the signing which is a number that still blows me away even now. May I suggest if you do cover it that you look at the Runnymede Memorial? It's a beautiful and very moving installation, and all tied in to protection of people's rights much like the Magna Carta, after all. Happy days, both and thank you for your entertaining channel.

The current king is King Charles the Third, the one that was executed was King Charles the First. King Charles the Second was the son of King Charles the First and claimed the throne during the Restoration after the death of Cromwell and the failure of the republic.

When he talked about the English Civil War why were US Civil War soldiers shown? Then later on when talking about WWI we see a WWII American aircraft. What else is suspect about this vid?

The victorian period and the wild west period happened at the same time. Crazy how different they were and how similar we all are now.

If you ever visit Marlborough in Wiltshire (my home town), then you will be able to find fields parallel to the London to Bath road towards Avebury from which the Sarsen stones were extracted. They are on the surface of the ground, so no problem in finding them. The Bluestones definitely came from West Wales. It was just the Altar stone, as we are now told, came from northern Scotland.

1066 - The most famous date in British history, the last time this island was successfully invaded.

If you can find a copy, there is a great little book called 1066 & all that. Written around the 1920s it’s a humorous look at the history of Britain including that there are only two memorable dates, 43BC & 1066.

I watched a similar video on the Entire history of America. unfortunately I sneezed and missed it. lol I would recommend that you watch a children's TV show called "Horrible Histories". it is funny/entertaining and full of facts, so it makes things easier to take in. you can also buy the books too (80 so far), which are aimed at 7yrs and up.

Hi guys. Just to clear something up. The expansion of The British Empire was not an Empire of conquest. It was primarily an Empire of trade and commerce. It also brought modernisation to these countries. The wars and fighting came later with us trying to keep what we had.

He missed the Wars of the Roses, Napoleonic wars, Bodica.

I know you like old engineering stuff so I'd recommend looking into the Old Exe Bridge. It was built in around the late 10th century, or at least the stone version. I used to walk past it almost every day. It's also right next to The House That Moved and remnants of the old Roman city walls

As a bit of trivia you may not know, though Salisbury Plain is famous for Stonehenge, in that same area, Salisbury Plain has a huge section owned by the military. The UKs largest military training area is there. It's also got unique wildlife in that area with several things only really being able to exist due to the military vehicles essentially tilling the land, constantly driving around there. I have a video on the wildlife in that area. About 20 minutes "Wild Britain with Ray Mears - Series 3 Episode 4 - Salisbury Plain - 2013 HD"

Lindsey said it right would like to go see but not stay in the past hahah that would indeed be PERFECT💜

You need to react to "All Murray, Name a Country, We Have Defeated Them" Comedy character satyrizing a certain kind of nationalist person, but the comedian himself actually has a masters in History from Cambridge and is a brilliant educator. This sketch gives you history and laughs together.

One of copies of the Magna Carta is in my city Lincoln, at the Castle you can visit it

I literally visited a pub that’s been open 1000+ years 😂

Love the use of American Civil War reenactors for the footage of the English Civil War…

Before the industrial revolution most people lived their lives having learned things when young and when they were on their death beds generally speaking, nothing had changed. The technology was mostly the same, the jobs people did would barely have changed if at all and the skills and knowledge gained would be equally applicable to their grandchildren.

This is not a history of Britain, it’s a history of England. Which is not the same thing. The kingdoms that later became Wales had no mention, nor did Ireland or Northern Ireland and Scotland was only mentioned in regards to James VI being Elizabeth I’s heir. I mean Stonehenge was mentioned and shown but Skara Brae (which is older) was ignored as it’s not in England but is a village where the houses are still recognisable as homes despite being thousands of years old.

Apparently nothing ever happened in Scotland until the Act of Union.

Queen elizabeth 2 gifted America a acre of land near where the magna carter was signed in tribute to JFK it is the only part of Britain that America owns well worth a watch steve

You may also know the song I'm Henry The Eighth from the movie Ghost as Patrick Swayze's character sings some of it to Whoopi Goldberg to annoy her 😊

Only 22 countries haven’t been invaded by us

It wasn't the EU in 73, it was the EEC.

I used to live in Cornwall and often visited Chysauster ancient village, the remains of a stone age village. Fascinating. There is Carn Euny too and plenty of monoliths, etc. Cornwall has wonderful history, not least its trading past.

The last kingdom is a good dramatised reference to that period of British history. Well worth a watch. You would both love the British museum.

We have a Public House near where I live that has had an ale house on the site since Saxon times and the current building was first mentioned in 1213! Our history is awesome.

25th September 1066 Battle of Stamford Bridge. Harold Godwinson defeats the invading Norwegian (Viking) King Harald Hardrada ending the Viking Age… 3 weeks later 14th October 1066 Harold Godwinson is defeated by Guillame the Bastard AKA William the Conquer.. the Norman Age begins…

The Wars of the Roses is my fave part of England’s history

I think he missed the impact of post-WW2 immigration, particularly from the ex-colonies and from Europe, which has had a dramatic effect on UK society.

Historic video, you can't take it back now but with these videos your not only making history but your own history every day so I wish the continuation of your future play your parts on your family tree and make future ancestors proud love your videos their great

England's greatest moment? The break-out in the reign of Henry VIII from Roman Catholic domination of European culture...the chance to think our own thoughts in English, read our own books in English, sail our own oak-beamed ships to trade everywhere & any where...& set our 'sails' away from the continent...& go west, south, east & north (not much north of Scotland!). We even landed on Plymouth Rock in 1620...

"I am Henry the eighth I am" is a song by Herman's Hermits, which came out in 1965. I don't remember the song, but I picked up the first two lines from hearing my Mum sing it...

'Only briefly touched on Brexit' - don't touch it at all.

Steve, Lindsay has a name!...so why keep calling her `she'. Here in the U.K., if you kept referring to someone close as `she', they would say, `who`s she, the cats mother?!..it`s a matter of respect.

I'm disappointed that the video didn't cover the medical and scientific discoveries that were made by the British. Without all of these things the world would be a very different place.

The mind boggling thing about Stonehenge is that it in fact took generations of people to build, people who were involved were born and died before even the first stone was laid and then there children and their children and on ... and it was never really finished because it changed many times over thousands of years - the placing of the stones were arranged and rearranged many times which would have taken decades to do. It literally blows my mind. On the Brexit front, at its simplest being a member of the European Union is an economic agreement with all member countries of the EU for free trade between member states. This meant the free movement of goods and labour between countries. Want to order your widgets from Italy, no problem it's the same as ordering them from within your country no trade tariffs and if might be cheaper. Want to work in France, no problem just apply for a job in the same way you would in the UK, if you get it go and live and work in France no additional visas needed just your passport. Now you can't do this - a big reason for Brexit was it was supposed to limit migration to the UK, or that's what we were told - but turns out it hasn't. In fact net migration has increased and in particular illegal immigration - because consecutive governments of all parties have not been able to get their act together to do something about it.

7:25 The Henry 8th song most Brits in 00s know is this, from Horrible Histories: - Divorced, beheaded and died Divorced, beheaded, survived I'm Henry the eighth, I had six sorry wives Some might say I ruined their lives Catherine of Aragon was one She failed to give me a son I had to ask her for a divorce That broke her poor heart, of course Young Anne Boleyn, she was two Had a daughter, the best she could do I said she flirted with some other man And off for the chop went dear Anne Lovely Jane Seymour was three The love of a lifetime for me She gave me a son, little Prince Ed Then poor old Jane, went and dropped dead Divorced, beheaded and died Divorced, beheaded, survived I'm Henry the eighth, I had six sorry wives Some might say I ruined their lives Anne of Cleves came at four I fell for the portrait I saw Then laid on her face and cried, "She's a horse! I must have another divorce!" Catherine Howard was five A child of 19, so alive She flirted with others, no way to behave The axe sent young Cath to her grave Catherine Parr, she was last By then all my best days were past I lay on my deathbed aged just 55 Lucky Catherine the last stayed alive (I mean, how unfair!) Divorced, beheaded and died Divorced, beheaded, survived I'm Henry the eighth, I had six sorry wives You could say I ruined their lives

Clarifications 1: Stonehenge has multiple phases of construction, stones were shifted around and others were added over time. The only stone which was a permanent fixture over the whole time was the "Heel stone". In its final stages were in the Bronze age where the stones were not changed but barrows were added all around the the site on Salisbury plain. There is also a far larger stone circle complex near Avebury, which includes the "largest prehistoric man-made hill" in Europe. The first studies of the site go as far back as TT he Elizabethan period and it was visited by Charles I after he read a book about it by one of the many Antiquarians (proto-archeologists and philosophical thinkers) 2: Roman Britain is really only in England and Wales, they did go into Scotland but they never landed in Ireland.....so it's not as big as it's made out here. 3: Again the Anglo-Saxons only take parts of England not the whole of the British isles......however they did bring the idea of England as a single Kingdom to the table under Alfred the Great, the project was started under his son Edmund Ironsides and completed by his son Aethelstan who is therefore the first king of a unified England after he defeats a coalition of Vikings and Strathclyde Scottish at the battle of Brunaburgh in 937 (the battle had a poem written about it see www.theanglosaxons.com/battle-of-brunanburh-poem/ in old English about it.....but we don't actually know it's location for certain) this makes "England - land of the Anglo-saxons" as a thing 1086 years old. 4: The Angervins ( as they would have called themselves the Plantagenet tag is about a plant which is on the family crest!) had more land in France than the king of France did in the 13th century! They are named after the city of Angers in France which was the centre of their power; and in the great medieval fortress there is a really large and impressive historical tapestry! (I visited it about 25 years ago) 5: Magna Carta.....oh boy never has a document been so mis-understood than this. It does none of those things described here " for individual rights" what it actually does is -" grant rights to certain individuals" those these being the nobles/barons who opposed King John's unreasonable Autocracy (even for this period of history). They defeat John in the rebellion we call the Barons War and force him to sign a document which says many things.....most of which was to banish John's allies from England and to remove their titles and lands in England from them but the bit that is about rights was that the king could not unilaterally imprison nobles without a trial which had "a jury of their peers" ....so yes it is the start of a fair justice system- but only if you have a title (a peerage). If you want more rights as a common person that really does not come until the War of the Three Kingdoms aka English Civil War in the 1640's between Parlement and King Charles I 6: the "Wars of the Roses" is not about the counties of Lancashire and Yorkshire.....it a family Squabble of the nobles families who hold the titles of the Dukes of York and Lancaster - who are both cousins in the Angervin Dynasty.....it is a series of small wars between the claimants of these houses as to who should be King. It's a mess and really difficult to understand "who is on who's side after" about 1472 (following the Lancastrian defeat at Towton). It ends with the last two claimants fighting it out at Bosworth in 1485 when Henry Tudor (who is Richmond in the Shakespeare plays) defeats Richard III (who was previously known as Duke of Gloucester......Richard Duke of York is a different person who is killed at the Battle of Wakefield in 1460). Henry Tudor who claimed his entitlement through his mother who was of the house of Lancaster, takes the throne by rite of conquest and becomes Henry VII. 7: Hanoverians only become kings of England, because the English Parlement did not want a Catholic King on the throne......James Stuart was a massive idiot; who was the younger brother of Charles II. My James who does not learn the lessons of his father Charles I - the king who gets his head removed because he is an Autocratic Tyrant and create the Comonwealth under Cromwell. By the time the Stuarts had been on the throne for the second time, England had got rid of the influence Catholicism (which started with Henry VIII not getting a divorce from Catherine of Aragon) with the Scots becoming Protestant with James Stuart becoming King on the death of Elizabeth- James being a dependent of Henry's sister Anne ( he is James VI of Scots and future James I of England).....so Catholicism has not been the English state church for about 50 years. James II wanted to be like Louis XIV of France ( to be a Autocratic master of his domain), and he was a not so secret catholic since his exile in France during the Comonwealth under Cromwell. The British Parlement kick James out and invited his Son in law and daughter William of Orange and Mary to be co-regnants in his place, when he tries to arrest members of Parlement- for this James is exiled and they form the Catholic Jacobite faction; but when the Protestants Stuarts run out of heirs does Parlement go over to the Hanovarian princes in Germany ( jumping over almost 200 possible Catholic claimants)....rather than having a Catholic Stuart back on the thrones of both England and Scotland.

It's only the central altar stone in stonehenge that is said to come from scotland, the stones in the small ring aare known as bluestones and come from the Preseli Hills in Pembrokeshire, Wales,

I’m a Tour Guide in York .To get a deeper feel of British History you need to discover the post Roman period. For example St Peter’s School York was founded in year 637 and still exists in York to this day. Then St Leonard’s Hospital York, whilst the current ruined building dates back only to the 1200s, it replaced an earlier hospital called St Peter’s from the 900s. All paid for by local taxation, and everyone treated equally. This way of paying for medical care must seem positively futuristic to Americans!

Scotland has the UK's second biggest stone circle at Callanish on Lewis and the biggest number of any country in Great Britain and Ireland with around five hundred which is more than the rest of the UK combined. The Callanish (Calanais in Gaelic) stone circle is thought to pre-date Stonehenge by about 500 years. There's also significant sophisticated stone rings on Orkney which have been dated to even earlier. So it seems likely that this form of building and cultural originated in the far north of the British Isles and made its way south.

A few things I’m desperate for you guys to check out; • Derry Girls • Horrible Histories • Weakest link - Anne Robinson brutal moments

For a accurate depiction of life in Roman Britain you should check out the TV series Chelmsford 123

Early on in the video it mentions the hunter gatherers, which is the era of "Cheddar Man" - the most complete human remains ever discovered in Britain and given a cave burial in The Cheddar Gorge. Before the building of Stonehenge. But what even most Britons fail to realize is that The Great Pyramids (which were far from the first Pyramids) in Egypt, with all the fancy contents, were already 10,000 years old at that exact moment in time. While Britons were still chipping flints for tools, living a hunter gatherer lifestyle, and only dreaming of a time when they'd drag stones into a big circle, all the treasures of the Great Pyramids, and the power of the Egyptian Empire, was thousands upon thousands of years old. It is one of the most overlooked and under-appreciated facts about Britain - it was thousands of years behind other cultures when Stonehenge was built. The entire history, 10,000 years, since that time to now, is the exact same span of time between the Egyptians building those Great Pyramids, having writing, trade, agriculture, and the kinds of organizational technology to create those Pyramids, and the Britons *starting* to live in Britain as hunter gatherers in the stone age. Britain didn't start ahead. It started far, far behind the massive Empires around the Mediterranean, and in just a few thousand years, developed to become far ahead, not least in adopting and adapting to all the learnings of successive waves of immigration, settling, and invasion, becoming this incredible 'melting pot' of ideas and technologies.

This was really just a timeline of some major events missing out two or three centuries at a time here and there. Did you realise - although it's never said - that Britain was technically responsible for starting WW2. When Hitler invaded Poland, Britain gave him an ultimatum to leave by a certain time - because we had signed a pact with Poland - stating that if he (Hitler) didn't comply, then a state of war would exist between the two countries. Hitler, when he started his expansion eastwards, never declared war on any of these countries. He just marched in and took over, steamrollering whatever little military resistance was put up. Because Hitler ignored Britain's ultimatum to leave Poland then an officially declared war broke out. And it was a declaration by a country that had not been invaded. The French followed suit because they too had signed the pact with Poland, that Britain had. And that was the real start of WW2.

Note the lack of mention of the American revolution, how the loss of 13 colonies wasn't noteworthy in the perspective of British history depite what it ultimately led to. A lot of Americans seem to think that it was this massive moment in world history that everyone should learn about in schools but on the grand scale of things, it was a minor event that snowballed into the rise of the currently most powerful nation

There is a TV series call Britannia. It's set when Rome first invaded. Worth a watch

9:10 It was indeed. The saying "...the sun never sets on the British Empire." was quite literally true at it's peak.

I wanted to say how pretty Lindsey is, her hair is beautiful too, WOW❤❤

'Henry the eighth i am' pronounced as 'enery' and sung in a cockney style. Written by Fred Murray and R. P. Western. It was a signature tune popularised by the music hall star Harry Champion in 1910.

The Last Kingdom is the best show ever made !

Neolithic monuments were built in the Orkney Islands way before Stonehenge and the Pyramids. The stones of Stonehenge came from Wales but the giant altar stone came from the Orkneys. The technology followed a path south through the ancient lands the became Britain.

Yes ..The Last Kingdom......EXCELLENT SERIES!

Play the board game ‘Britannia’ which is a historical ‘recreation’ of the history of mainland Britain from Romans to Normans where the players each pick different factions over time and try to make them succeed (or not) - you won’t get the same results of course, but it taught me a lot about the basic order of events, and how big they were!

Well done guys. Very good reaction to good old Blightys history. 🎉🎉

My parents were born a little over 100 years ago. Horse power was normal in everyday life, steam engines were used for some very heavy jobs, anything using an internal combustion engine was rare. Electric lighting was just coming into widespread general and domestic use. They died around the turn of the century. How much change did they witness during their lives?

Royal Family History - RU-vid David Starkey Monarchy z. Brilliant historical info and docs

Fun fact, there is actually a woodhenge close by to stone henge but not many people know or realise 😅

The Last Kingdom TV series and the follow on movie The Last Kingdom 7 kings must die was awesome. You should 100% watch them.

On the song, it is “she’d” been married 7 times before. This is because the song has nothing to do with the King Henry VIII. The protagonist in the song states that the 7 men his neighbour and new wife had been married to previously were named Henry (“never was a Willy or a Sam”) and that he was the eighth Henry she’s married. Hence he is Henry the eighth.

I find that learnign lists of things (like presidents) is pretty much a waste of time in school history lessons. You can always go and look up a 'list' if you need to know. Much more interesting and informative is to learn about key events or ways of life for ordinarry people at certain times- particularly at times of big change. Obviously the key figures in these stories are worth learnign about - but not as a list.

I live in London and I live in a house that was built in the Victorian era. If you have not been here you realise that even the pipes we get our drinking water through are often from the Victorian era.

Peace love from England ❤

You need to start watching Time Team episodes. They started in the early 90's and have done some amazing digs. Another one to watch for historic material is Lucy Worsley, she covers castles, historic periods and things like toilet paper :).

the last kingdom is such a great show defo give it a watch

The 'red' on that map I believe was the peak of the British empire. The largest in history by far. A quarter of the world at the same time. Truly incredible especially considering the tiny little island.

You should check out the documentary about the victoria cross with Jeremy clarkson gives a bit of it's history and how people earned it. It's basically your medal of honour

My grandmother said she’d lived through the best times. Born in 1902 she said she watch as we went from mainly horse and carts to man on the moon! She was always amazed by this.

You guys are amazing, we were taught British history in school but it was kinda dry with just Kings and dates.. Not anything like this. Thank you lots from England, its a wonderful history with so much to learn.

I've only just found your channel and I think you're both great. I'm a museum manager and would love to give you a tour of the UK :) I'm originally from Warwickshire which is Shakespeare's birthplace (Stratford-upon-Avon). If you haven't delved into Tudor England yet, Warwickshire would be a good place to start! 💖💖💖

Do not rely on the Last Kingdom for visualising, it’s entertaining but not historically accurate at all, it has a fantasy-inspired look, much like Vikings. Plus it’s not that much earlier than 1066 (it’s set in the late 9th century when visually it wouldn’t be hugely different in reality in terms of dress etc).

We have a copy of the Magna Carta in my home town of Lincoln, UK, located in the Castle.

Even the term Brexit is a bit loaded as it implies that the default is being an EU member. It’s our Independence Day - the US don’t call theirs ‘Separation Day’ or ‘Leaving Day’. Independence is about looking to the future. The problem is for us, we haven’t really left. Northern Ireland is still in the worst of the EU apparatus, including the Single Market. Imagine if the US gained independence from the British Empire except that both governments agreed we could keep Texas as part of the deal. That would be completely unacceptable to Americans and sacrificing Northern Ireland should be unacceptable to Brits. As a result of NI still being in the EU, the entire country is subject to the EU’s State Aid laws. Any state intervention that helps an industry in NI has to be approved by the European Commission first, incase it makes that business or sector more competitive than others in the other 27 EU countries. The whole point of leaving was to see how competitive we could be. That binds England Scotland and Wales too. The government would have to be certain that state aid elsewhere in the UK would have absolutely no effect on Northern Ireland, which is impossible to do, due to supply chains and businesses with offices not registered where they trade etc. all the Covid support schemes had to be agreed by the EC and the amounts of support were limited to the amounts given across the EU. So under the current treaty, the UK government needs EC permission to aid UK industry, and they’ll say no if it makes us competitive. That doesn’t sound like leaving the EU to me.

There was also Queen Boudica with was during the Roman Era of Britain. She was a badass! Definitely worth a look