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The cardinal regions and the farce of the Pays-de-la-Loire
When you look at a modern map of France, you may spot an anomaly in the shape of the regions, and one in particular: the Pays-de-la-Loire, a puppet region created by the French state during the second half of the twentieth century for the sole purpose of weakening Brittany, its neighbouring region with a very strong regional identity.
Scotland re-modelled in the French style
The borders should be redrawn and a new autonomous entity created, comprising Edinburgh, Newcastle and Carlisle, which will be named the “Tweed River Countries”, thus depriving Scotland of an important economic and demographic centre with a consequent reduction of its population from 5.3 to 4.3 million. Popular historians in the media will maintain that Edinburgh never really had a Gaelic or even Scottish culture.