On Wed, 16 Apr 2014 14:31:23 +0000, Tim Streater wrote:

Which means that, ultimately, you're OK with there being no England,
Wales, France, etc, but a bunch of regions.

England and Wales haven't been independent countries since the 13th
century. England was only united about 300 years before uniting with
Wales, and spent half of that time under French rule.

And if you really think that the French or the Germans or the Italians
have less patriotism than we do, and want their countries to be subsumed
into some US of EU, then you've clearly never been past Dover in your
life.