So, until now, I actually don't really know how to respond to the new updates...since I think I need to do some rereading of something...so let's see
It was Heath's attempts to lead the United Kingdom in to the EEC which led to constitutional reforms and the concept of the "British Realm" which would be law which applied to the entire United Kingdom - as such a "British Law" (sometimes called "Law of the Realm") referred to a law of a national basis affecting the full union of England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland & Overseas Regions - as well as the remaining Empire overseas. This was as opposed to "English Law" which would continue to be used for matters specifically pertaining to English & Welsh affairs (similar to Scots Law for Scotland and Irish Law for Northern Ireland).
Yeah...I think as the devolution evolves... IMO perhaps the Law of the Realm could perhaps be the dominant name since there would be a probable that eventually there would be proper terms based on the a tiered system of laws, from top to bottom
The European Communities Law- Basically the EEC law
The British Realms Law- The one applied to the whole Britain union...
The Home Nation Law - This term is applied for the English Law, Scots Law, (Northern) Irish Law, Malta Law etc...
The Local Laws - This term would probably applied to local authorities (GLC, MCCs etc...)
Handing in his intent to resign, Heath’s time in politics was over as he handed over the reins of the Conservative Party to new blood, and waved goodbye to Number 10.
Hopefully it won't be a Thatcherite that succeed Heath.....
Re UK deals with India: the latter may have greater confidence in the UK because of the UK's stronger position in the Mediterranean (integration of Malta and Gibraltar) and in the western Indian Ocean (integration of the Seychelles with air and naval presence there).
It would probably worry them a bit especially since the UK will probably have ships going up and down the African coast and out into the Indian Ocean and further. Though probably closer ties to a degree since there will be a lot RN visits and
Err...by the time the independence (and the partition) of India is done...the OTL path of India-UK relations had been set...as in frosty as the highlands of Kashmir, since IIRC India was
(and somehow still is) calling for a demilitarization of the Indian Ocean (and probably will definitely opposed the integration of the Seychelles into the UK), and while the UK is not as close to the US ITTL, it is still having a close relationship with the Portuguese, and as such, didn't really take well of the fact that India decided to retake Goa....
perhaps
a change could be made in 1971, with the UK having presence at the Indian Ocean knows about the atrocities in Bangladesh immediately decided to aid India & Bangladesh (just on humanitarian aspect though, more on that later)...of course, this would only change the relationship in terms of diplomatic and military...since as for
I am not joking...I think you have forgotten
the major reason why, up until the 1990s India didn't really have
any significant economic ties with any country really, and unless things would seriously change before that...I doubt there would be any changes here....
Standardising on English as a working language - often attributed to the strong US position in the market, the project elected for metric measurements and instrumentation in the face of existing French standards and British efforts to convert to the metric system. This is often quoted as a major reason why European airline systems are today all in metric units, which was later also adopted almost the entirety of Australasia, Asia and Africa (*7).
(*7) I might rewrite this based on feedback if needed, but as far as I can tell, the aviation market uses imperial measurements due to the widespread use of American planes in the infancy of the aviation market. The introduction of this early Airbus, based on UK-French co-operation - with the French already metric, and the UK at this point going metric, might swing much of the market. As far as I can tell, the Soviet Union and China at least used to use metric aviation measurements, so I figured that with the UK-French attempt, the Soviet Union, China and their exports of Airbus planes, it might swing the market in Europe, Africa, Asia, Australasia to metric aviation. If anyone can dig up more detailed information which would invalidate this, please let me know, but that's as far as I could get.
So unless Airbus ITTL definitely double down on the Silk Road strategy (perhaps lobbying
the Australian government to relax its regulated domestic air transport policy, try to swoop in and somehow persuade China to try their new plane rather than
the Boeing 707 {Hawker Siddeley should play a huge role in this, that being said the aforementioned Bangladesh issue [since China is a closed ally of Pakistan] could present a problem}, Vietnam, FPDA etc...) and decided to neglect any attempts in market its plane to America, while at the same time, the European pressured on the ICAO to call for metrification earlier and more louder, I kinda doubt that could potentially happen...in fact IIRC, IOTL,
the determination to break into the American is so huge that they decided to designed the plane itself entirely on imperial measurement and using American components...