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Well, t_s is correct that the Brits have been having revolution for centuries -- in 1066 they were conquered by the Normans, then invited in a French Dauphin to rule them, then were fighting between Queen Maud and King Stephen, then replaced the Anglo-Norman kings with the Welsh Tudors, then replaced them with Scottish Stuarts, then replaced them with the Dutch King William, then replaced them with the German House of Hanover -- and the German house of Saxe-coburg-gotha has been ruling them since then

Without the Magna Carta, without the Brits standing against slavery, without them deciding to trade with the USA in the 1800s after Napoleon's defeat instead of perpetual war, this world would be different

Present day Brits (most, but not all) are very socialist, but not all

Eaker -- in the late 1700s remember that they were fighting not only us colonialists but also Irish and French and then when they could have taken over the States, we were lucky that they were more bothered with their backyard (the French Revolution and then the Napoleonic wars) -- the Brits spent nearly 700 million pounds in 1800s money to fight revolutionary france for 20 years

The English Defence League has a problem that they have bad press as racists - which they have tried to reverse with Jewish and Pakistani Christian divisions

The SNP are socialists who would want Scotland to be more integrated int he EU

And to bruin -- the Northern Irish are not revolting - they do bathe often :) -- but seriously the troubles are over.