What If The United Kingdom Broke Up? 

Would you want the UK to break up? And do you think it could happen?

Then, people calling the UK England would finally be factually right

Imagine being the queen, born into an empire and living long enough to watch it collapse

Would Wales passports have dragons if they were independent?

3:26 Good to see 110% of Wales going to vote, truly something we should try to emulate

Just to clarify, the Isle of Man is already mostly independent, it’s a crown dependency, and is not part of the uk

If the UK survives to the end of this century intact, I will rise from the dead and play the banjo at the Royal Variety performance.

If Scotland (or any of the UK counties) wish to leave the Union that is their right. Although it will be sad day - seeing the break up of my country. But democracy and the right to choose is most important. I just hope we could then become strong allies.

In the section about Wales, he said the Welsh resent Brexit because it led to a loss of funding from EU. Actually, UK was always a net contributor to the EU, so every Euro spent by EU in Wales was funded by the UK tax payers. Also Wales voted to leave EU.

as a Scottish person this is a very interesting video (also it makes my skin crawl when people pronounce it "edinburg")

I'm no math expert, but somehow 110% of welsh people were polled on independence

You made me happy by saying the Welsh flag looks cool🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

10:34 while it is mostly not recognized as it's own country, many residents of the Isle of Man consider it to be not part of any UK country. I live on the Isle of Man, and we have a separate government and laws. It would be cool to be internationally recognised as a country because most people don't know we exist

It will then be called “ Divided Kingdom “

Ah yes, 22% no and 88% yes. 110% in total 🤣

10:10 absolutely not. England alone would still not let Argentina have the falklands, they’re never getting those.

Well, in football they’re already separated, so that’s the important stuff taken care of. The rest is just details.

Small error on the map: Isle of Man is shown as part of England, when it is in fact a separate Crown Dependency (somewhat analogous to Puerto Rico's relationship to the US).

Me: Let’s see what this guys knows... Him within the first 10 seconds: “EdinBERG”

Actually India has the biggest breakup First they broke up with Africa and joined Asia then after millions of years later split into 3 countries.

I think Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic should unite to form the Celtic Union.

I bet in less than 5 years there's gonna be a comment saying "well, this aged terribly"

When a place in the Uk ends in, "burgh," it sounds like, "buruh" or to some people "bruh". So Edinburgh is pronounced edin - buruh or how most people in Scotland pronounce it, "edin - bruh." Also this was a very good video.

I gotta say I saw the joke on "O Acre não existe" Good going dude

It'd be very helpful if you would list your sources for this video!

I love how Ireland sitting there like : 🤭

Which software did you use to make this video?

I hardly watch the video any more, I just read the comments... is that just me?? Great video BTW!😁

5:46 Just btw, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 isn’t just a blue background, it also has a white diagonal cross. The diagonal cross in 🇬🇧 is half-white and half-red, the red being St Patrick’s saltire not the Ulster Banner.

The current census went live today! Catholics expected to be named a majority in Northern Ireland. You should revisit this when the results come out.

Well from my point of view I wouldn’t look at any of us English, Scottish, Welsh or Northern Irish lot any differently. After all we still share the same group of islands

I guess you missed the point partially - that poll in N.I. for separation from UK had also a follow up pointing to, if anything, both decoupling/separation from UK and joining/unification with Ireland under a single banner/country, so it's not like N.I. would separate itself to form a "new" country as is, it'd just separate from a union with a distant relative to play better with their close neighbours from the south. And then and thus N.I. separation could be far easier than the others discussed herein with the proviso that N.I. could be easily incorporated with extra seats into I's governing structures and that the religion variants acceptance do not ignite any wars - the newly formed united Ireland gov should manage to ease any difficulties as a lot of people nowadays are lessclose-minded than before ;) The GBP to EUR transition could be easy for N.I. as already a lot of companies and people closer to the border deal with both currencies in their wallets due to Ireland's being in EUR zone. Opposite could be said about Wales as it's far more tightly bound to England and UK as a whole due to geo-political and economic reasons (though culturally and linguistically there are disparate roots clearly evident in Welsh names) - as such the risks and costs of separation very much outweigh possible benefits from standing on their own for the Welsh. Scotland is more of a mixed bag, but it's both geographically and politically, and for that matter historically, more separate/independent-capable from England and UK as a whole - it has more land, it has more people and is better suited to standing on its own within EU than the other member countries outside of England, but there are always mplications and socio-economic aspects such separation could entail - contrary to N.I. that is quite separated from the rest of UK byt the sea, here we have a border that would have to be managed and currency that would have to be chosen - those in favor of Scottish independence are often also for joining EUR zone and that would result in a situation similar to what N.I. and I. are facing now, thus the costs of running a separate country would greatly increase due to UK, and by extension England, not part of EU anymore. So again, it's the spirit and costs that need to be weighted and contemplated on for Scotland with the separation bills harder to cover from country's own wallet even if spread over years or generations...

3:33 That was really clever of the pollsters to ask 110% of people in Wales.

Even if just Scotland left and Northern Ireland joined with The Republic of Ireland (which I believe to be the most likely scenario out of all the ones possible). It certainly would be the end of an era and a important point in history.

The Celtic families (Ireland, Scotland, Isle of Man & Wales) should join and bring about a Gaelic language revival in their respective states! England should Cuir méar I do thóin

Im not from UK. but I love uk. Specially every nations people of uk. United and strong great britain. don't break up. You all together beautiful and better country.❤

The greatest suspense is which will be independent first : Scotland, Catalonia or Québec?

I see Russian polling, 22% independence and 88% stay =110%

ayo what about passports? will there be individual passports for wales, scotland, england and northen ireland? how would it work out?

Honestly, it would be great to see this happen. The Scots, Welsh and Irish already have their own nationalists in power in their areas. It really comes down to how to divvy up the assets. As England pays the most taxes, they obviously get to take the lions' share of the military etc. However the English parliament should not be guilted into paying anything else. The English can go nuclear in order to meet their energy requirements. Move the nuclear subs to Devonport. The welsh and scots and N.Irish have the military establishments and training areas that are currently built under the British Army. They have their own home grown regiments. The economies would recover and blossom. The green socialists in Scotland would have to recover from their angst over having to use oil to fuel their energy needs, the English keep the pound, The scots and N.Irish have their own currencies so they can keep those. The welsh would have to sort something out for themselves. At the end of the day, why would the English want to stay in a Union,l with other member counties who majority hate the Union. The English pay for the other countries to survive. Time for them to pull on their big boy shorts, stop suckling at the English teat, and go out there and make it on their own.

Using just GDP figures for international comparisons are a bit unfair. Wales' GDP is about the same as Kenya or Ethiopia yes, which sounds bad. However our GDP per capita its slightly less than Italy and higher than Portugal and Spain as Ethiopia's population is more than 30x higher than ours and Kenya's is almost 10x higher

"no difference in religion". oh boi idk those protestants and catholics can really have a go sometimes

As a danish person I’m really fond of British people, culture and history and I really love Britain and hope they stay together. It’s just very sad that they screwed the selves over with brexit.

Something else to address is the issue of citizenship. Does one with a UK passport choose where their citizenship will be? Is it based on location? What about those attempting to gain citizenship? Will it be the same UK passport under a new name such as "Confederation of the Isles" or something like that? Much more to think about in that sense

3:26 I think staying in the UK should have gotten 78%, not 88%. Otherwise we would get 110%

5:33 Oh, dude... Ain't no way the Ulster Banner would the flag of an independent Northern Ireland. It's got far too many ties to the Unionist movement to ever be fully accepted by the Nationalist population. Flags are serious business in NI!

As a Manx person (Isle of Man citizen) I got excited at the mention of it's existence at 3:52 because so few people, even in the British isles, know of it's existence. Edit: and 10:34

15:05 nope. Considering Russia has a GDP almost *half* the GDP of the U.K., it would not make sense to kick England off the UN Security Council.

Well then it wouldn't be the "United" Kingdom, wiseguy. Double dislikes. I'm just pulling your leg, you know we're pals.

I very much doubt that Northern Ireland would go independent! The choice really would be to stay with us, or join the Republic of Ireland!

May i know where to surf on those interesting facts?

Key point you should talk about as well is the demographics of the different countries. Scotland is markedly older and has a far, far lower birth rate than England and Wales. This puts massive pressure on their economy as they would have a greater pension burden and less people to replace those dying.

5:17 Northern Ireland probably would not keep the Ulster banner, it’s not an official flag and it has a crown on it. If it were to secede, likely it would adopt either a new flag or if it joined Ireland the Irish one.

he must like this idea Cuz his profile picture is Napoléon. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👍👍👍👍 Edit: Thanks for the likes

you had me there with "4 new countries?"

As of now, there’s other independent movements/parties: Cornwall, Kent and Northumbria. So, if the main 3 leave and the others leave too then the south of England and the north of England will/might also be independent from each other. We are basically going back to the 800 when we had kingdoms..

"No key religious difference" 7:44 Are you aware of the issues in Northern Ireland

Union of the crowns was 100 years before Acts of Union.

This is no longer a matter of if, but a matter of when.

Also I don't get why England, as the largest post-union entity, wouldn't get the seat on the UN security council. Russia kept the Soviet seat after all.

The Isle of Man isn’t part of England, you shouldn’t have included it at the start. If Wales was represented in 🇬🇧, it would include St David’s Cross, not 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿.

England would likely keep control of the overseas territories. The Falkland islands and Gibraltar would likely remain overseas territories.

the ideal solution would be: England and Wales United, Scotland being independent and a United Ireland.

My idea is after a Irish unification to create a new federation of a united Ireland and Scotland with a population between 12-13 million, will have more people than Belgium or Greece. And at least that federation will stay part of the EU because Ireland are.

The British: Everyone hates me ruling them Hong Kong: Am I a joke to you?

The isle of man is already an independent country, it isn't an overseas territory it is a crown dependency, which means it relies on the UK for military protection, but aside from that its not part of the UK.

I really don't want this to happen but I fear it is inevitable.

5:29 I am now loyal to you, for saying that about my country’s flag 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

I live near the Welsh bored, starting to learn Welsh just in case they invade

Can we all agree that wales has the best flag

Northern Ireland's part in the Union flag is the St Patrick's Saltair, the diagonal red cross inside the white cross of Scotlands St Andrews Saltair. Not the Ulster Banner.

Just imagine getting independence then using the euro as your currency 🤣

There’s no way Gibraltar would want to break away from the UK/England. That’s because, at the moment, it is largely its own place allowed to do pretty much whatever they want without British interference. It’a unique place, not truly British but certainly not Spanish. That would change if they joined Spain as the Spanish would put a pretty brutal Spanish imprint on the place by way of an example i.e. you’re now Spanish. The unique character of the place would almost certainly be rubbed out and that would be an awful thing to witness being imposed on Gibraltarians.

How do you learn all this without knowing how to pronounce Edinburgh?

I can't understand what you mean by "What if the United Kingdom broke up?" The UK stared breaking up long ago and the first big fissure was in 1922 when the London government recognised the secession of 26 of the 32 counties of Ireland, which became the Irish Free State, going on to become the Republic of Ireland in 1949. It's a slow inexorable process.

You should consider that UK's oil reserves in the North Sea in Scotland's and England's economies. It's a Scottish resource that is currently funneled through England with Scotland getting a vastly smaller share of a resource they would legally own if there were a breakup.

TLDR: Everything gets smaller, no one gains anything, and it all gets worse for everyone

“Argentina might look at occupying the Falklands again” yeah because that worked so well for them last time...

People forget the Isle of Man is a crown dependency not apart of the UK

The Northern Ireland flag on your thumbnail is innocent, it's the flag of St.Patrick which had a red X.

It would be cool if the different Guard Units returned to serve their respective countries.

why wales should be independant: they got a cool flag that isn't even part of the jack

I haven't completed watching the video but I already wonder what could happen to the coutntries with the Union Jack in their flags, or to their flags to be precise, if the union splits

It will happen What Brit Nats fail to realise is their union is a take over of the Celtic nations, by Anglo Saxonia. What they also failed to realise is the EU is a partnership where nations have a say. English / British nationalism has killed the union that never was a union.

The Isle Man used many tears ago belonged to Scotland, ruled by Olaf the Black King of Man,his son Leoid the founder of the Mac Leoids. Manx Gaelic and Scots Gaidhlig are almost the same language!

The best way for Scotland to get their own country is to give the English the vote on the subject. John

noticing a distinct lack of cornwall

Why are you playing a Prussian March during this video?

I was with you until you mentioned that Gibraltar could “finally cave and join Spain”. A referendum held in Gibraltar resulted in 99% voting to remain British! I’m sure that if the UK itself broke up, the Gibraltarians would rather be under Scotland than Spain!

What if England becomes an independent Country from Great Britain, leaving Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland behind?

@General Knowledge, I don't think you'd be eligible for a visa to the UK

Gibraltar doesn't really have an option to become independent. Spain would pounce on it, feeling especially legitimised by the fact that while the Treaty of Utrecht gave it to Britain in perpetuity, it also mentions that it would return to Span should it ever cease to be British. Given the minuscule appetite for joining Spain that exists in Gibraltar, it would definitely opt to continue its links with whatever remains of the UK.

It always confuses me when people complain about England having the most power in the UK. England has over 6x the population of the other 3 combined, ever heard of democracy?

Who is this much-discussed man, and why does he get his own Isle? (I know what it is. Just can't resist a geopolitical pun.)

This would be so very sad…

Hi, on currency, just for your information, Scotland and Northern Ireland already has it's own currency (Google Scottish or Northern Irish Pounds), so they have that already.

They could call the English/Welsh rump state "former United Kingdom", or "fUK" for short :p

There are so many errors in this video. Where do I start?

6:04 Welsh wanted any type of reprensentation (Coat of arms, their own flag or flag on the union jack), since they didn't have one until 1959, when they got their own flag. And beforre that they were just a principality Edit: spelling

England's 3 girlfriends left him and one returned to her initial boyfriend