'GUEST,sorefingers' is not very accurate about the United Kingdom either. The 9 counties of Ulster were all members of the United Kingdom before 1921, 6 were kept in the UK as 'Northern Ireland'.

Still as long as people can be sidetracked into matters of ethnicity, language, religion and nationalism they won't be thinking about the areas of politics that really matter. Beware of any narrow-minded so-called politician who promotes/opposes in these areas. Voters should be able to vote on policies that really affect the electorate.