Douglas Adams made "belgium" into an intergalactic swear word in The Hitch-Hikers Guide To The Galaxy. Now, mention of Belgium has caused terrestrial trouble [news.bbc.co.uk]. Nigel Farage of UKIP is being ridiculous though. Great Britian or the United Kingdom is surely just as much of a non-country (its contents notoriously difficult to define) and an artificial construction which is splitting and falling apart. Eg giving away Southern Ireland ages ago, still fighting over Northern Ireland even now, with Scotland getting its own parliament and repeatedly calling for independence and (following on from a fake unified Welsh language being promoted) Walse also getting separate provision.