Zachariah

Banned
I'm not sure how you get seven new nations out of a Balkanised UKGBI full stop.

Now, five, I can see (England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Southern Ireland), but you have to split England into pieces, which is hard. I could, maybe, see seven de facto nations, if there is a multi-sided civil war for some reason, or multiple warlord states following WWIII.
Well, that's the main challenge. And neither the Isle of Man nor Gibraltar (nor the Channel Islands, nor Malta, nor any of the British Imperial colonies) count, because they were never formally part of the UKGBI. When it comes to English fragmentation... How about Cornwall? They've had their own nationalist movement going for long enough, firmly backed by the Welsh and the Celtic League. And Yorkshire nationalism's also been gaining a fair bit of ground recently. How about if they both broke away from England?
 
Well, that's the main challenge. And neither the Isle of Man nor Gibraltar (nor the Channel Islands, nor Malta, nor any of the British Imperial colonies) count, because they were never formally part of the UKGBI. When it comes to English fragmentation... How about Cornwall? They've had their own nationalist movement going for long enough, firmly backed by the Welsh and the Celtic League. And Yorkshire nationalism's also been gaining a fair bit of ground recently. How about if they both broke away from England?

Cornish had been extinct for over two centuries before it was revived, and its remaining Celtic-ness is thin at best.

A map of the %age of people who self-identified as Cornish in the 2011 census:


516px-Cornish_National_Identity_2011_Census.png

Mebyon Kernow barely has a presence in local authorities, never mind anywhere else.

As for Yorkshire, well, it really depends on the PoD.
 

Zachariah

Banned
Cornish had been extinct for over two centuries before it was revived, and its remaining Celtic-ness is thin at best.

A map of the %age of people who self-identified as Cornish in the 2011 census:


516px-Cornish_National_Identity_2011_Census.png

Mebyon Kernow barely has a presence in local authorities, never mind anywhere else.

As for Yorkshire, well, it really depends on the PoD.
Of course, the Cornish people are practically extinct and have been for centuries. But if the rest of the Celtic League members were strong enough, and what remained of England had been weakened enough, they could support the Cornish breaking away to become independence. As for the POD with Yorkshire- maybe the "Socialist Republic of South Yorkshire" mightn't just be a disparaging tag given to the region by the Thatcherites, eh? What better place for a communist uprising?
 

shiftygiant

Gone Fishin'
The Scottish Home Rule Act goes through in 1914, perhaps with the First World War delayed a few years or something. First World War hits after the Scottish Parliament is set up, and Britain loses (idk). Scot!Parliament is dominated by Communists and Socialists and Nationalists in the aftermath of the war who decide to secede alongside Ireland, whilst the Ulster Protestants, seeing Britain as being unable to help them, decide to form a quasi-autonomous state that is linked to Britain by flag, eventually seceding proper into it's own nation.

So we have Scotland, Ireland, Ulster, and England (and Wales). Splitting Wales off is tricky, though a nationalist revival in the wake of Scotland leaving and a greatly weakened English Government could lead to Wales leaving in a generation or two.
 
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