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Despite being of a different era and genre, it has probably been said best by the erstwhile Heavy Metal band Megadeth on their Rust In Peace album, “A country that’s divided, surely will not stand.” It may be seen as pushing the boat out into the storm driven seas even further, of furthering the debate of what exactly Britain, more importantly England, stands for in the modern era, this once Sceptred Isle, a fortress in a sea of troubles, now, as the Bard noted in John of Gaunt’s death bed speech, has “..made a shameful conquest of itself.”