What if Great Britian and Tazmania exchanged places
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Buba
A total creep
I hope you will stay your cruelty somewhat and flip Britain - otherwise the balmy SW of England will become the frozen sooth ...
It may not look so on the map, but Tasmania is minimally larger than Ireland
And has maybe 8% of its population - 0,5 vs 7M. TODAY.
In 1900 the difference prolly was an order of magnitude greater ...
As to Ireland - insta Home Rule or rather - Dominion?
While Australia and New Zealand become parts of UK?
It may not look so on the map, but Tasmania is minimally larger than Ireland
And has maybe 8% of its population - 0,5 vs 7M. TODAY.
In 1900 the difference prolly was an order of magnitude greater ...
As to Ireland - insta Home Rule or rather - Dominion?
While Australia and New Zealand become parts of UK?
I hope you will stay your cruelty somewhat and flip Britain - otherwise the balmy SW of England will become the frozen sooth ...
It may not look so on the map, but Tasmania is minimally larger than Ireland
And has maybe 8% of its population - 0,5 vs 7M. TODAY.
In 1900 the difference prolly was an order of magnitude greater ...
As to Ireland - insta Home Rule or rather - Dominion?
While Australia and New Zealand become parts of UK?
Ok we flip it so what do you think this changes?
This is great Britian
80823 square miles of land
this is Tasmania
(26,410 sq miles of land
so lets say in 1900 the two islands switch places, how would this change world history would this save the empire.
WW1 happened,becouse germans feared that Allies would become too strong.Now,they could wait,so possible no WW1 or about 1930,when Russia become too strong for germans to ignore.
Ireland would eventually become free.
England - could remain Empire in tis scenario.
Buba
A total creep
I expected changes to climate. I was wrong. Britain is too small for N-S flips to make any difference. Also, Britain gets pushed closer to the equator and - while still windy and wet beyond reason - gets warmer.
British industry lost some share of European and American markets as its wares are now dearer. Europe and maybe USA take up the slack. But maybe UK manufacturing becomes more competitive in Asia? Still, there should be contraction and maybe relocation to Ireland and/or NBL Tasmania. And a reorganisation - it may be cheaper to make some previously goods at home.
Europe - prolly mainly Russia for grain, plus USA and Canada lose part of the UK food market. I imagine Australia, NZ and Argentina (SA? Burma? SEA?) to gain from UK's new, better location. I'd expect substantial emigration from Britain to rest of ANZUK.
Same applies to various raw resources. An example may be pit props - a big import from Norway, here probably replaced by timber from New Zealand, maybe Chile, the Russian Far East or Canadian (US?) Pacific.
Of course the Big Question is how does UK feel about Europe.