No, they wouldn’t. They wouldn’t last a week before being assassinated by the Republicans.
Northern Ireland would probably collapse into a Bosnian War type situation if Britain went communist.
The Northern Irish economy is already dependent on British subsidies as it is, it wouldn't be capable of paying for the upkeep of the British Army or dealing with insurgency.
There are complications for this. Among them is the fact that the islands were (like they still are) demilitarized through a multilateral international treaty. The islands also would hardly have the population base and the economics to support a viable independent nation. IMO the most likely outcome of Red victory in the Finnish civil war and a White withdrawal from Finland through the Ålands would be a Swedish annexation of the islands in the aftermath of WWI, perhaps through *League of Nations mediation.
The government could also be exiled to Singapore or Penang Island to fit the 'city-state in exile' theme, but that really depends on the timeline.*is a city-state*
Uhhhhhhhhhhhhh... I'll take the easy way out then. Peninsular Malaysia is overrun by the Malayan Communists, forcing the government in Kuala Lumpur to set up a government-in-exile in East Malaysia (Sabah and Sarawak), on Borneo. Of course, this assumes that Indonesia under Sukarno doesn't just finish the job, even though I believe they probably would have a lot of trouble trying.
Plus it has the good luck of having a language that is closer to Ancient Roman than Italian is. Though Italian apparently is mostly Tuscan and most dialects of Italian counted as their own languages. I suppose that is understandable when you have over a dozen highly educated areas competing with and loathing each other, using Latin for official stuff while the language of th epopulace diverges further form other republics and towns. I imagine Sicily might be just as good a choice, though it might partially be Italy not wanting to conquer them.Well, it's hard.
Sardinia is the only island far enough from the mainland to be able to avoid annexation.
In this scenario, could you possibly see the House of Windsor “going native” instead, becoming an English-Canadian monarch? How would this impact Québec, I wonder? (For that matter, might the Quebec Act then become a basis for removing the exclusion of Catholics from the throne? The “Church of England” would be a moot point, after all...)
Canada falls into a communist revolution somewhere in the early 1910s after we endured much worse losses in WW1 (alt), a French (Fashoda War escalates) supported Quebecois insurgency, and strikes across the country. The Canadian government flees into Newfoundland, Baffin Island and Prince Edward Island. US border is now as militarized as the Korean DMZ. kinda implausible but eh
The 1856 treaty on demilitarization would probably just be declared null and void since the Russian party would be considered legally dissolved and the British would undoubtedly side with the whites. The modern treaty was made only in 1921. I don't think the Swedes would be so cynical as to annex the islands, especially if the majority of the population was now upper class refugees. Instead, Sweden might give the islands economic and military support, being therefore able to get all the advantages of holding them without conceding the moral high ground. Although since the Finnish elites that made the island their new home would probably quite heavily Swedish-speaking, it might be that their ties to Finland would weaken rapidly.
Well, it's hard.
Sardinia is the only island far enough from the mainland to be able to avoid annexation.
The Republic of Greece is suspiciously looking out from Crete (and a handful other islands and later Cyprus) at the people's Republic of Greece that took over the mainland in 1944.