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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
On the other hand, would "British" still exist long-term without Scotland?
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“British” existed before English, Scottish or Welsh. The Romans called this island Britannia, and by the time they retreated back to Italy the Britons occupied (what we now call) Wales, the far southwest and far north of England and southern Scotland.
Also, unless the SNP tries to declare a socialist republic, the monarch of Great Britain will still be enthroned and a cultural concept of Britishness will continue, and the government of the remaining UK would be entirely at liberty to continue to define British in whatever way it chose and to continue to grant the people of the island citizenship of Britain.
Whatever happens, the idea of anyone who currently holds British citizenship being stripped of it in the event of Scotland separating from the UK is fanciful.