On 2016-06-26 10:38 AM, Janet wrote:

>> Yes, exactly. There are plenty of very practical reasons why the EU is
>> a flawed concept (aside from those who stand to personally benefit
>> from it). Historically, when has this sort of thing ever worked in the
>> long term?
>
> A couple of thousand years between all four nations in the British
> isles; and the many waves of foreign immigrants absorbed here over
> centuries.

When you go back a couple thousand years you see waves of migrants who
basically invaded and took over, The Picts were pretty well established
in the the north at one point and then the Celts came.
The Romans came and exerted their influence, followed by the Jutes,
Anlgles, Saxons and the Normans came too. A united England was a long,
slow process. There were various kingdoms within the land that is now
England.