From: "Mark" 

This seems an interesting brief read (to me anyway) so I thought Adam and
Phil might want to peruse it:

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/contentions/index.php/johnson/390
"The 300th anniversary of the union of England and Scotland fell on
Tuesday, May 1-in a sense, the birthday of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain. The Act of Union of 1707 provided for the amalgamation of the two
parliaments at Westminster, the Hanoverian-hence Protestant-succession, and
the creation of a single flag, the Union Jack..."

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