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To: Cronos

Scotland has never been a colony of England. It pretty much forced the Union on England by threatening to bring the Jacobite heirs to the Scottish throne and allying itself with France and threatening her national security, extorting money from England as a bribe to join the Union. England didn’t actually want to share her markets with the Scots. Scotland actually did better out of the Union than England did. The only benefit England received is the security of her northern flank from imported continental enemy armies, a factor that is utterly irrelevent now. Even now, if Scotland left, England would benefit from losing a money pit that is net dependent on English taxpayer’s subsidy, same with Northern Ireland (same with Wales incidently but they’re not daft enough to have anything like a significant constituency in support of independence). The majority of Britons don’t give a damn about Britain being some kind of world superpower, that is a conceit of the elite, which is why they are so pro-EU because it gives them the means to strut on the world stage as an equal to the US and China. The people just want power over our own rulers and to look to ourselves. The EUro-fanatics are welcome to their imperialist willy waving. I’m sure you can appreciate as a Pole that it is better to have control over who rules you than having some false sense of power at being a subject of a superpower over whose government your power is virtually nothing.


44 posted on 05/23/2019 4:59:45 AM PDT by sinsofsolarempirefan
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To: sinsofsolarempirefan

That’s why the inverted commas

And I may be a dual polish citizen but I’m not polish by blood. I do feel for it’s history yes and that’s why I wouldn’t want it to be part of a place where it has no say - yet that’s not the EU today. Poland can and does have a say in the EU


45 posted on 05/23/2019 5:06:51 AM PDT by Cronos (Obama hated Assad as he wasn't a Muslim but an Alawite)
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