Comments by "Dave Sisson" (@Dave_Sisson) on "The development of the Naval Shell - Stop poking holes in my ship!" video.

@bluemarlin8138 Places like Bermuda, Falklands, Gibraltar, etc all have their own elected governments and the UK has no power over them. So not really imperial territory. Actually the UK tried to bribe Bermuda to go for full independence but that lost in a referendum. The Falklands are one of the richest places in the world, so they could easily afford independence, but they can't go that way "because of the obvious military threat" as one of their politicians put it. Gibraltar can't become an independent mini state like Monaco or Andorra because the treaty where Spain ceded it to Britain over 300 years ago states that if Britain surrenders sovereignty, then Gibraltar goes to Spain.
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@bluemarlin8115 Yeah, I picked three "territories" with full democratic self government and the wealth to be rich independent countries if they had to be. But one of them refused independence and It's impossible for the other two to be independent, even if they wanted to be. But of course small isolated places with less wealth like Tristan da Cunha (population 270) and Pitcairn (pop 43) are heavily subsidised by the UK and their officials are mostly appointed rather than elected.
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