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Old February 10th 14, 08:44 AM posted to uk.sci.weather
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Default Coastal flooding

On 10/02/2014 00:08, Alastair McDonald wrote:
"jbm" wrote in message ...
It has been widely publicised that England is sinking whilst Scotland is
rising. Has anyone done a recent study to ensure that this effect hasn't
accelerated, adding to the problems being experienced in Somerset and the
rest of the south of England? I can't find anything official on this later
than 2009.

jim


Don't worry. When Scotland becomes independent all we exiles will fock back
and Scotland will sink and England rise (provided you do cut back on all
those other immigrants :-)

Cheers, Alastair.



Michael Bentine demonstrated this memorably decades ago.
A model of mainland Britain surrounded by water. He moved
representastive hoards of people from outer fringes of Britain , to
where they all migrated to, the over-populated South East. At a critical
point the south of Britain sunk and Scotland rose up