Dunno, I quite like the idea of cutting Essex adrift, to the great benefit of the purity of the English language. Maybe we can give VT a passport to the UK though as she speaks American not estuarine.

I appreciate the lightness of your touch, mayomick.

I was previously given to understand that although the sides in the "troubles" largely line up on religious lines that is a happenstance and the real internal strife is historically based on possession not belief.