[Sussex] Is Sussex a county?

[Juan Albion]

They are Martlets. Martlets have no feet.

No point until we get safe standing.

 

[beorhthelm]

Country and State are synonymous terms that both apply to self-governing political entities. A nation, however, is a group of people who share the same culture but do not have sovereignty.

close, a nation can have sovereignty where it matches the geography of a state/country. Australia, Japan for example. and many states are not entirely self governing, part of federal systems. simpler definition is country/state is geopolitical, nation is cultural group. also i've read the nuanced point that a country is geographical and a state political, if we want to split that hair. its a feature of our glorious language we have many terms for similar things then mix them up in common vernacular, bluring definitions.

 

[Triggaaar]

Or two?

Northern Ireland and Great Britain?

No, four.

 

[Notters]

The same argument could be used about Yorkshire, which is covered by three separate administrations and up to 1974 had ' Ridings ' ( x 3 ) and enjoys more than one county town. Like Sussex, though, it only has one cricket team.

There are either four or nine depending how you look at it north, west, south, east plus Hull, Middlesbrough, York, Redcar & Cleveland, Stockton-on-Tees.

Sussex of course has three.

 

[Weststander]

Or two?

Northern Ireland and Great Britain?

I meant that the Scots, Welsh and Irish, consider themselves separate peoples with unique history/culture, as much as a majority also accept being part of the country the UK.

Complex isn’t it?

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

They are Martlets. Martlets have no feet.

I knew that really. I had them on my school badge.....

 

[Garry Nelson's Left Foot]

Don't know the technical answer but no one says they're from East or West Sussex do they? They just say Sussex.

In my experience at least.

 

[Marlton and Hove Albion]

There is a clear, obvious and eternal tie breaker. "Good Old Sussex By The Sea". It isn't, and never will be "Good Old East/West Sussex By The Sea". The Kingdom of Sussex should NEVER have been partitioned and that goes for Rutland as well. There seems to be a global trend of peoples wanting to re-tribalize. You see it damn near everywhere in Europe in it's recent history. Post-Brexit, you'll clearly see Scotland having another go and possibly Wales at some point. Are we ready for the emergence of SIP?

 

[Boys 9d]

If Sussex achieves Independence as a Kingdom, there is a suitable Royal Palace for the Monarch.

 

[RexCathedra]

There is a clear, obvious and eternal tie breaker. "Good Old Sussex By The Sea". It isn't, and never will be "Good Old East/West Sussex By The Sea". The Kingdom of Sussex should NEVER have been partitioned and that goes for Rutland as well. There seems to be a global trend of peoples wanting to re-tribalize. You see it damn near everywhere in Europe in it's recent history. Post-Brexit, you'll clearly see Scotland having another go and possibly Wales at some point. Are we ready for the emergence of SIP?

I have a friend that referred to the post-coalition rump of the Lib-Dems as the SNP -- Somerset Nationalist Party....

They are a bit Bath-and-Wells-ish, aren't they.

 

[Nottseagull]

The same argument could be used about Yorkshire, which is covered by three separate administrations...

There are many more administrations because the conurbations are comprised of unitary authorities (e.g. Calderdale, principal town of which is Halifax).

 

[Return of the Rev]

Nice...

Don't know the technical answer but no one says they're from East or West Sussex do they? They just say Sussex.

In my experience at least.

I have an East Sussex badge on my cycle

 

[Grassman]

How about those of us on the south side of Tunbridge Wells. Geographically we are in Sussex - the border runs along the River Grom splits the Pantiles in two, reaches the bottom of Chapel Place and then shoots off up Frant Rd. Politically though we’re in Kent - the signs being on the Eridge Rd just outside TW. When the revolution comes I expect to see the rest of you outside my house with your pitchforks and hammers, we’ll smash those signs and move them to their rightful place. We could then have a pint in The Sussex Arms - well we could if it weren’t so rubbish.

 

[GT49er]

When you write down your address, do you put East/West Sussex or just Sussex?

I don't write anything for the county, because the postal system works off the postcode so it saves time and ink

When sending anything by post to my relatives I always include 'Sussex' in the address, just to remind those unelected bureaucrats at Royal Mail Group Ltd. that large chunks of Sussex around Bognor are still part of Sussex, despite having a Hampshire (PO) postcode scurrilously imposed on them!