The Crown Dependencies - British Regions Outside the UK...
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Not too far from the island of Great Britain sit three crown dependencies - Jersey, Guernsey, and the Isle of Man. These are places that have a significant amount of autonomy, but are not fully sovereign, independent countries. They are formally under the control of the British monarch, but are not considered part of the United Kingdom. Today on That Is Interesting - a brief look at Britain’s crown dependencies, and how they came to be...
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Awesome video!
My grandmother came from Jersey and when she married my grandfather, she told her parents she was marrying a foreigner from England!
5:10 small correction: In 1707 England and Scotland merged to form the Kingdom of Great Britain, NOT the United Kingdom. The United Kingdom was formed in 1801 when Great Britain merged with Ireland.
When That Is Interesting starts talking about the Isle of Sodor
*It was time for Thomas to leave, he had seen everything*
A man of culture as well
Thomas the Tank engine a true legend.
Very excited for the rest of the US Explained series, but I'm psyched that you're still doing other stuff in between!
I've just binged through so much of your videos, every single one of them genuinely earning a 'like'. So impressed and still shocked at how you can be this informative at such a young age! Aroha from Aotearoa - New Zealand
Great video! I can definitely see ur going to become a big channel!
I've been with this channel since around 1k. Glad to see it growing!
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Love the videos. Thanks for taking the time to do the research and sharing the information with us.
I been to the Isle of mann it is a really beautiful place. It’s like the classical place for an end of year school trip if you live in the North West.
I'm Manx by birth and blood and I appreciate your kind words 😃
Thanks for sharing!👍🏽
That is interesting
I'm from the Isle of Man - some good factual information as well as some beautiful clips of our island (çheer my ghooie! 🇮🇲) however one thing: in the thumbnail the island is further northeast than where it's shown on the thumbnail
Moghrey mie! Kys t’ou Moghrey jiu :)
What do you mean Portugese is a language in the Channel Islands? Im from Guernsey and Ive never heard of that. True, we did have quite a few Portugese working in the tourist industry / catering back in the 1970s and 80s. But they were only guest workers and had to speak Emglish. Since then we have had many from the baltic states and very much doubt that eg Latvian is an official language - even in Jersey! 😉
As a total outsider that got me interested in thinking, could giving crown dependency status to Scotland be a magical compromised solution to its independence issue?
Very interesting and factually correct. Despite having lived all of my life in Great Britain I have never visited any of these crown dependencies. Maybe one day I will.
If an isle can decide what it is, so can we answer this very important question.
Are we a MAN or a MUPPET?
Fantastic video 👊🏼
Great video. Just wanted to offer my help with your upcoming video on DC if you need info. Willing to give personal anecdotes and slight history/cultural lessons if you need my g. Nothing but love fr hope you do my city justice🥴💯
Thank you so much ❤️❤️❤️
Greetings from the Isle of Man 🇮🇲 - great video
Channel Islands TV is actually itv Channel TV (an itv region) as well as BBC One's Spotlight Channel Islands - it also receives all other UK's TV networks & channels
Do they recieve French TV as well?
@@biggusd8813 I'm guessing so with their closeness to the French coast
people in the crown dependencies are British citizens and have British passports and are free to live and work in the UK (England Wales Scotland and Northern Ireland)
They could also live and work in the Republic of Ireland due to Ireland and the UK having an old agreement where anyone from these Isles can live and work freely
And this still stands post brexit
Shetland and Orkney should choose this status before Scotland becomes independent
You can’t choose it. Why? History…
Too interesting for the small amount of attention, keep doin what ur doin!
Omg. You guys actually collabed!
You mention Isle of Man but no mention of the motorcycle race? WTF?
Hey what’s the status with the Connecticut video?
Hopefully this weekend!
Don't forget: Cornwall, Fife and the City of London.
When is the next US explained i love that series
Hopefully it will be up this weekend!
@@ThatIsInterestingTII im so exited for it
That Is Interesting
I do understand British overseas territory and the Commonwealth. But really confused about self-governing of Crown Dependencies while under UK defense and foreign affairs.
You are correct, the UK is responsible for their defence and foreign affairs. However, Crown Dependencies can also conduct their own foreign policy, with the permission of the British government. Jersey, for example, has a foreign relations office in Normandy and Brussels.
Do the city of London
The Queen's representative on the Isle of Man is the Lieutenant Governor. It's pronounced "left-tennant". Please get this simple one right! Some people and place names baffle even the locals, but this is a well-known pronunciation and universal in the UK.
In short, all of the crown dependencies can be best understood in one phrase..."tax haven"
Canada and Australia dont forget it
Any US explained video soon? Plss
Yes, Connecticut will be next
@@ThatIsInterestingTII when
Wait what happened to the state series? I was looking forward to Connecticut!!
It's still happening, don't worry
@@ThatIsInterestingTII thank god! That series is amazing
Who decided to Covet and sell and conquer and discover and poke a flag made in China there?
proud to be a guern
Being Irish, I appreciate you saying "the archipelago sometimes known as the British Isles". For obvious reasons, we don't really like the term.
Although technically the Channel Islands are not part of that archipelago - they're only geopolitically British, not geographically.
They should create a NEW Jersey. No wait, nevermind.
We did. You ruined it and now even we don't want it back.
Ireland is not a British Isle/Island. Its 2023 this is an outdated Imperialistic and Possesive term that is not recognised by the Irish Government and the majority of Irish people living in Ireland.
And England doesn't have its own government. I wish it did, but no 😔😔
Tribal tribunals??
No one is the leader of nothing
It would be so simple of all the just part of uk
Wait, so one of the Queen’s titles is ‘Lord of Mann’? I think it’s time we bump the Isle of Mann up to an Empire, for the sole purpose of there technically being an Emperor of Mann.
The Queen is also Duke of Normandy, which gives rise to the non-binary toast "“La reine, notre duc"
Why not join the Isle of Man with the United Kingdom and the English Channel Islands, the British Virgin Islands and the Falkland Islands and jersey and Gurensey ????????????????????
Yo
God owns everything
Island of men 👎
Island of girls 👌
First
U KNOW WHAT..........
Noice
The sound quality of this video is disappointing. You can literally buy a decent mic from Argos for £10. Please do it.
there is far more to good sound quality than microphone alone. you clearly have no idea.
Seeing the UK still not letting go of their colonies...
Now That is Sad!
🚫🇬🇧🚫
those are not colonies
by the way france has a lot territories around the world as well the US and netherworlds.
For anyone wondering why these microstates still exist, it's because they're tax havens. A lot of very rich people get to stash their loot close by without too many awkward questions.
I can confirm that this is true as many rich people live in houses near the main road with one house being almost famous for the cars shown off in the driveway
We have offices for a lot of international finance companies in Guernsey. Think KPMG, Credit Suisse etc
*Rubbish video full of errors*
0:45 Guernsey is actually Guernsey, Alderney and Sark
0:58 This is VERY wrong. They are not under the control of the British Monarch. They are dependencies of the United Kingdom (for different historical reasons) and are so by choice. The Monarch is represented by a Lieutenant Governor they appoint (sorry I forgot the correct titles/designations in English and I am on a phone so can't be bothered to search the words). The Monarch of the UK AND Crown Dependencies are constitutional Monarchs, so they have no real direct political power. They can refuse royal ascent (but never do) and that is about it. The Crown Dependencies have their own democratic governments (if you consider British "democracy" as as democratic (I'm looking at you British House of Lords and Guernsey Feudal System)).
1:23 They did not make a good video on the Scottish independence movement, it was full of errors and misconceptions like this video.
2:00 Citizenship is misleading. British Citizenship is complicated and there are 6 classes (and something called a "belonger status"). Peoples of the Crown Dependencies are British Citizens - YES (except the few British Subjects still alive in the Isle of Man due to being Irish Orangemen). However people from the Crown Dependencies were not EU citizens and had all EU branding removed from their British passports UNLESS one of their four grandparents was born in the UK mainland - even if they were EU citizens from an additional EU nationality. Their passports are different from the UK and unique to their dependency - the cover was stated BRITISH ISLANDS instead of UK... and which Bailiwick/Island they are from. Their passport said clearly on the inside that although they were British Citizens with rights to abode in the UK, they were NOT entitled to the benefits of EU citizenship and finally where a UK passport is issued in the name of the queen/secretary of state, theirs is issued in the name of the lieutenant governor (see inside cover/wikipedia for the actual text).
2:06 THIS IS SO **FUNDEMENTALLY WRONG**. The British Government CANNOT pass laws governing them. They can only take responsibility for international relations, defence and a third thing I can't remember off the top of my head. The Crown Dependencies have their own governments and are in an agreed association with the UK. That is all. The situation is very different to the cook islands. These are not comparable.
3:50 Again this is all so wrong. Some of these people are US nationals NOT us Citizens, and these are independent states with an agreed level of association with the USA and their situations are not really comparable to the Crown Dependencies.
5:00 What you say about England finally being victorious is *FACTUALLY WRONG*. At it's end Man was neither part of England or Scotland but at that last point was independent and part of neither. You are correct in saying that the island regularly alternated between being part of England/Scotland up to that point.
5:20 The Isle of Man never *gained* high levels of autonomy and self government - it had these before it became a Crown Dependency. You're making it sound as if the Isle of Man became independent from England or something then gained a status as a Crown Dependency. No it was independent and became a Crown Dependency.
5:25 The Isle of Man is not under the rule of the British Monarch, the British Monarchy is the head of state. Those are two very different things.
6:35 Oh good you discussed the passport. However I want to point out that many Manxmen are Irish decedents and choose to have an Irish passport rather than a British one for identity reasons. They can do this due to the common travel area. This is not due to not identifying as Manx, but due to identifying as not British (due to the oppression the Irish faced). Irish and Manx languages are to an extent mutually interlegible. I speak Irish and can understand some Manx though lots of words are different.
7:20 The Manx pound DOES NOT have the same value as the British Pound issued by the Bank of England. For a normal person this sounds correct but the fact is the Manx pound is traded at par with the British pound, that is an exchange rate of £1=£1 as the currency is guaranteed/backed up. I wont go into more of this as I will go on a tangent. Many currencies are slightly lower than what they are interchanged with (e.g. Hong Kong dollar and Macau, Singapore dollar and Brunei Dollar, these are accepted in shops as $1=$1 but exchanged at say $1=0.99999 so there is a small margin for the bank or trader to cover the cost, as the Macau dollar is not wanted in Hong Kong/Brunei Dollar in Singapore). These have historical reasons that I won't get into but the Manx pound will be accepted at £1=£1. For those who are interested the GIP (Gibraltar Pound) is also £1=£1 but is not backed up in the same way. I will not get into this here.
8:08 No the UK government can't pass laws affecting the Isle of Man (on **domestic issues**)(e.g. they CAN make decisions relating to specific things such as defence, that's it). It is in the tile - SELF GOVERNING.
9:20 the history of the Normal conquests, English possessions in France etc goes on and on and requires a 1h video so I won't comment on your summary here.
10:00 Good you mentioned Alderny and Sark and the fact that they have autonomy with autonomy. Most people ignore this. Well done. There are also some private islands that no one is allowed on and other quirky things that I won't get into.
I wont bother to watch the rest of the video. Good day.
Thank you for posting this! I was part way through commenting much of the same stuff, but thankfully I don't have to now lol.
Thanks for injecting that much-needed not of utter boredom.
Free Scotland!!
Home rule might still return them into the EU, that would be much more personal freedom (of movement) but not that significant political freedom.
It's already free ❤