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To: GailA

If you don’t know the difference between Britain and England, you will struggle from the start. England is not the same as ‘Britain’, ‘Great Britain’, the United Kingdom, UK, GB etc.

Britain/United Kingdom is England, Scotland, NI and Wales (or some perm of the four). We Scots ARE British.

We ARE FREE!. We have never been unfree, we JOINED THE UK, of our own free will. And even by union in 1707, we retained much of what makes us Scottish. We don’t need freedom, we already are. Rejecting separation and staying in the UK on Thursday dosent change that one iota. Its because we are free, that Scots can reject the YES vote, and freely and proudly remain Scottish and British. They are not mutually exclusive.

Scotland has the right to raise its own taxes (funny that the SNP govts at Edinburgh in seven years have never used the option once), and after Thursday and a NO vote, will get even more tax and other powers. Scotland already has control of its own affairs (Westminster handles national issues of the UK as a whole) and will get more powers. Whilst remaining a strong part of a strong UK.


11 posted on 09/14/2014 9:00:04 AM PDT by the scotsman (UK)
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To: the scotsman

Don’t be silly, Scotsman. You Scots, like us English and the Welsh and northern Irish too, are all being oppressed by the horrible Brits!


12 posted on 09/14/2014 9:23:43 AM PDT by WilliamTells
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