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Originally Posted by Big Brian
If you say so. Chose to join. The English starved the Scots into it by refusing to allow trade with the colonies. There was no choice in the matter at all. However that's a different subject. The point I was making was that it is fine for one but not for the other. The economic threats, if you believe remain are the same. Trade with the EU is the same. Relocation of companies is the same. The arguments they are using are word for word the ones they used in the Scottish referendum.
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Firstly, on the Act Of Union, yes Scots did
choose to join. The Scots barons' seals are on the Union document. You can go on about history all you like, but by then, whether right or wrong, English (Anglo/Saxon) culture was dominate on the island and Celts culture was on the margins.
The Act of Union didn't happen just happen because the Scottish Lords lost the colonies it was because, for all intents and purposes, they were English and the culture on the island had unified.
We have been a unified country for over 300 years and our culture and language became one long before that. To rip all that up with Scotland separating cannot in any way be compared to leaving the EU.
THe EU is trying to merge very different peoples and cultures together, in can only end one way. Badly.
I cannot see how in anytime in the near future British people can be the same as Czechs, Lativans or any one else. On this island we did unify and Scots did choose. It was originally the English who were luke warm on the idea, can't think why....