1. In Bold, is really utter nonsense, Britain is nothing like Austria-Hungary in any way
2. Its not really a union of different peoples.
3. So because the UK has a monarchy and house of lords its automatically A-H?
4. Ireland has only really been a modern, secular nation since the mid 1990s, and even now I wouldn't say Ireland is noticeably more or less progressive than the UK
This OP is quite frankly offensive and insulting to me, as a British person.
You clearly don't live in the UK because you don't think it is a union of the English, scots, nor thenorthern Irish and Welsh. You offend me because by saying it's not a union of peoples', you pretend the non-English parts don't exist. So you're the offender.