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Originally Posted by snodvan
So? I am sure that if the British Isles were upside down then those in Scotland would not give a monkey's about England. I am most certainly NOT a Euorphile (?is that a word) - but I would genrally align the UK clock to Western European time
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Iceland, Ireland and Portugal aren't on Central European Time and frankly there's no argument for putting us on permanent BST just to make us like the rest of Europe - they would still be an hour ahead of us for 6 months of the year because their clocks go forward an hour this weekend too. In terms of alignment with the Greenwich meridian, France should be on the same time as us, not the other way round. And by that measure, Spain, Germany and Benelux should be as well.
Incidentally, it's not just Scotland that would suffer half a morning of darkness if we switched to permanent BST, a fair chunk of the north of England would suffer as well.
But you're right, if things were reversed we probably wouldn't care a fig about you soft southern jessies anyway.
