Un-United Kingdom

[Jacob(smooth)]

Why would we lose our nuclear capability?!

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Because all of your nuclear capabilities are now in Scotland. Moving the bullseye back home is not only extremely costly, but could puts the potential penalties of nuclear deterrence into sharper relief.

Um...
No.
The bit of our nuclear capability that is public knowledge, and I'm fairly sure that's not all of it, Is on submarines and they are pretty easy to move about. In fact there is always at least one Nuclear sub on patrol, so nobody really knows where our nuclear capabilities are at any given time.

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Oh and small gripe. The great bit of great Britain is not us bigging ourself up. It was to distinguish us from the other Britain (brittany) after the Norman conquest.

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I think not. The 'Great' was the union of the English and Scottish crowns in 1707.

Depends how far back you want to go.

Geoffrey of Monmouth in his pseudohistorical Historia Regum Britanniae (c. 1136) refers to the island of Great Britain as Britannia major ("Greater Britain"), to distinguish it from Britannia minor ("Lesser Britain"), the continental region which approximates to modern Brittany, which had been settled in the fifth and sixth centuries by Celtic immigrants from the British Isles.[25] The term Great Britain was first used officially in 1474, in the instrument drawing up the proposal for a marriage between Cecily the daughter of Edward IV of England, and James the son of James III of Scotland, which described it as "this Nobill Isle, callit Gret Britanee."