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  • Person_one
    Person_one Posts: 28,884 Forumite
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    neverdespairgirl wrote: »
    Scotland isn't a country. Wait for your referendum!

    It is a country, but its not a sovereign state, its a country that's part of the UK. There are 3 and a bit.
  • wiogs
    wiogs Posts: 2,744 Forumite
    neverdespairgirl wrote: »
    Scotland isn't a country. Wait for your referendum!

    Scotland is one of the countries that contribute to the make up the UK.

    And according to opinion polls regarding the upcoming referendum will continue to do so.
  • wiogs
    wiogs Posts: 2,744 Forumite
    Dunroamin wrote: »
    Scotland is not yet a separate country. Most of us, yourself included, are citizens of the UK.

    Did anyone suggest it was a separate country?



    Don't assume that everyone living in the UK is a UK citizen either
  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    wiogs wrote: »
    Scotland is one of the countries that contribute to the make up the UK.

    And according to opinion polls regarding the upcoming referendum will continue to do so.

    Such a shame that the English, Welsh and Northern Irish don't get a vote in the Scottish referendum.
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
  • wiogs
    wiogs Posts: 2,744 Forumite
    neverdespairgirl wrote: »
    Such a shame that the English, Welsh and Northern Irish don't get a vote in the Scottish referendum.

    Why would they? Not even all Scots get a vote.
  • Person_one
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    neverdespairgirl wrote: »
    Such a shame that the English, Welsh and Northern Irish don't get a vote in the Scottish referendum.

    While I would be gutted if Scotland were to leave, its not really on for all of us to get a say in their lives.

    That'd be like every Russian getting a vote on Chechnya's independence.
  • VestanPance
    VestanPance Posts: 1,597 Forumite
    neverdespairgirl wrote: »
    Such a shame that the English, Welsh and Northern Irish don't get a vote in the Scottish referendum.

    And with comments like this some people in the UK are still surprised a percentage of Scottish people want to break away from being part of the UK!
  • seven-day-weekend
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    If they want to go, let them, no skin off my nose.
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  • VestanPance
    VestanPance Posts: 1,597 Forumite
    seven-day-weekend wrote: »
    If they want to go, let them, no skin off my nose.

    If it didn't bother you you wouldn't comment, or like a comment made by someone having a go at the Scottish Referendum.

    Obviously it does stir up some sort of hatred of the Scots in you, or at least unleashes a dark Little Englander/Daily Mail reader complex.
  • seven-day-weekend
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    edited 26 August 2013 at 1:45PM
    VestanPance wrote: »
    If it didn't bother you you wouldn't comment, or like a comment made by someone having a go at the Scottish Referendum.

    Obviously it does stir up some sort of hatred of the Scots in you, or at least unleashes a dark Little Englander/Daily Mail reader complex.

    Wrong on most counts, I have several Scottish friends, I just don't want to be in a union with people who don't want to be in one with me.

    I understand it a little bit. When I lived in Spain, in Andalucia, the Andaluz people wanted to break away from being governed by Madrid, and actually I could see why, as very little that went on there had any bearing on the lives of hill farmers 6 hours drive away trying to eke out a living on marginal land. The Partido Andalucista, PA (The Andaluz National Party) were very strong in those parts.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andalusian_Party


    I do read the Daily Mail though.
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