"Great" Britain?

My dad wrote this mail to SkyNews yesterday.
I have to say that I agree with it completely.

Watch any international football, rugby, cricket  or (I am sure) many other sporting events and one will see England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales representing their own countries in their own traditional colours.   And so it should be!!!
So the question is: “When do these countries combine and take part as Great Britain”?
Answer:  “When it suits them” !!!
How farcical it appears to other participating countries when “Great Britain”  (Yaaaay!!! ???) takes part in the Olympic Games as one entity.   Who are you trying to kid?
Why not take it one step further?  Why not combine all the Commonwealth countries into one participating body?  After all, they supposedly all have the Queen as their sovereign leader.
 Neville Gericke
(A South African – Like most of the English cricket team)

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