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Jan 2020
3:39pm, 14 Jan 2020
11,837 posts
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Cerrertonia
Also has a bigger population than NI or Wales, and not far short of Scotland.
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Jan 2020
3:42pm, 14 Jan 2020
10,470 posts
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Markymarkmark
Trying not to chuckle at DeeGee's comments on Lancs. Especially since I am an expatriate (Wessex) Southerner living in Yorkshire.....
If you remember a long time back (in the exciting days after the Brexit referendum result was announced) I did predict the possible "Balkanisation" of Britain along these lines- a Celtic Union of Scotland, Wales, Cornwall and possibly Ireland, and/or a Council of the North (with the North starting in Leicestershire). It was tongue in cheek then. Now i'm not so sure.
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Jan 2020
3:42pm, 14 Jan 2020
10,008 posts
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larkim
Indeed DeeGee. Hence my instinct that Scotland is not really much different to a county in the context of the UK as a whole. Though it never had a monarch, just a Duke, I think.
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Jan 2020
3:46pm, 14 Jan 2020
6,708 posts
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paul the builder
Lark - "a Catholic in Northern Ireland might very well have an issue with declaring that they are "British" on an official document".
You're right of course - but it generally doesn't arise, because they are probably Irish (by 'feel', but also legally). Anyone born here can choose either Nationality, and hold either passport.
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Jan 2020
3:47pm, 14 Jan 2020
3,466 posts
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mr d
Time for the Iceni to claim back East Anglia.
Romani ite domum.
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Jan 2020
3:50pm, 14 Jan 2020
3,467 posts
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mr d
Also think Scotland had some Monarchs, one of whom we may have borrowed to start this all off.
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Jan 2020
3:50pm, 14 Jan 2020
10,009 posts
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larkim
Ah yes, of course - I'd honestly never thought that through properly. So most NI Catholics will not hold a British passport, and instead hold RoI one?
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Jan 2020
3:51pm, 14 Jan 2020
1,602 posts
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Surelynot
Larkim - you're doing the Scottish independence cause much good. Keep it up.
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Jan 2020
3:52pm, 14 Jan 2020
10,010 posts
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larkim
Yes, Scotland had plenty of Monarchs - it was Lancashire I was saying had none (though the House of Lancaster did of course).
There's no argument that for close on 800 years there was a Kingdom of Scotland with a clear divide between that Kingdom and that of England.
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Jan 2020
3:53pm, 14 Jan 2020
19,050 posts
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DeeGee
I'm raising the flag of the White Horse Rampant!
Not even conquered by William the Bastard, where I grew up.
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Fantasy General Election
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