What do the terms, Brexit, British and Britain mean to you?

Brexit means economic collapse; people with savings getting poorer as we decline into negative interest rates; the loss of any sort of environmental regulation and the loss of our remaining civil liberties

Britain is widely used as a synonym for the UK, and politicians use it that way all the time, so that's what it means to me. British is the adjective relating to the UK, and that's what it says on my passport - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on the front, and British Citizen inside. Brexit = British exit, as coined by the media. Great Britain, whatever Edward thinks, is very clearly the name of the largest British island.

The legacy of the British Empire is why there are six kinds of British nationality, only one of which gives citizenship of the UK. The other five have no right to live in the UK. This has changed in the last few years with British Overseas Territories Citizens having a virtual right to be British Citizens. (This kicked off after the Falklands War in 1982 when the thought arose that though we sent a fleet halfway round the world to get the Falklands back, the islanders still didn't have any right to move to the UK because they are BOTCs.) The rest are largely remnant categories which should eventually die out. BN(O) was specifically created for residents of Hong Kong so they had the right to move out when China took Hong Kong back in 1997.

So rather unusually, there IS a difference between British nationality and British citizenship - for most countries it amounts to the same thing,

Only the UK is in the EU. The Crown Dependencies and the overseas territories are not. It meant some complex sorting out to determine exactly what the Crown Dependencies' relationship with the EU is, as being only small, they rely on the UK for some things, such as foreign relations and the manufacture of passports and currency. This has an interesting effect... when I visited Jersey some years ago, there was no passport check but there WAS Customs! As far as I'm aware, nobody has bothered thinking about the relationship with the overseas territories.

We shall see what the Brexit negotiations come up with, but they will have to wait until the UK has a new Prime Minister. The front runner seems to be Theresa May, who was actually not in favour of Brexit, but of course she wouldn't be standing without knowing she would have to negotiate it. I'm not a party member so I get no say but she looks like a good safe pair of hands to me.

I somehow doubt the Sark option! Only 600 people live on it, which poses certain problems. The BBC programme "An Island Parish" recently did a series on Sark, which illustrated the problems for the churches. The Church of England were having trouble getting a priest to move there any more than temporarily, and the Methodists were basically functioning with a lay preacher who had dispensation to do Holy Communion - she's a probationer minister now so in due course Sark will actually have an ordained minister living on the island.

"Queen of England" is a touchy phrase and should be avoided, because she's Queen of the rest of the UK as well.

"What do the terms, Brexit, British and Britain mean to you? "

Brexit...the anagram coined by the media of the UKs exit campaign and the result of the vote

British = Nationality

Britain = the name of the island that 3 countries out of the 4 UK countries contain