Heid the Ba wrote:Wee Nicola puts the case for another referendum, which Boris rejects because EU control bad, Westminster control good.
Lianachan wrote:The UK is supposed to be a union of already existing countries though, so it’s not really making any new countries based on territory or anything like that. It’s splitting up a union where one partner can outvote and totally control the others, no matter how against their interests it is.
Heid the Ba wrote:If Wales wanted to be independent they should have fought harder in the thirteenth century.
Heid the Ba wrote:If Wales wanted to be independent they should have fought harder in the thirteenth century.
Lianachan wrote:Heid the Ba wrote:If Wales wanted to be independent they should have fought harder in the thirteenth century.
We fought the fuckers off in thirteenth century, but it didn’t ultimately do us any good.
Lianachan wrote:Yup, that’s about it. Secured by bribery and blackmail. The general population, who didn’t get a say, responded by rioting extensively. A key factor in the Jacobite uprisings of the 18th C was the desire to revoke the union. This isn’t often discussed, but there are surviving swords with “no union” engraved on them, for example.
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