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To: epluribus_2
Scotland has been under UK’s boot since Wallace or thereabouts

Nonsense. The United Kingdom wasn't a conquest or an occupation: it was a voluntary union of two independent nations, in which Scotland was technically the senior partner (in that a Scottish monarch inherited the English throne, not the other way round).

In recent times United Kingdom politics has often been dominated by Scottish politicians, who have exerted an influence beyond what you would expect from the size of the respective populations. The last three British prime ministers have been Scottish, or of Scottish upbringing or origin, as have many senior cabinet ministers.

22 posted on 06/09/2014 12:23:29 PM PDT by Winniesboy
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To: Winniesboy

>>>voluntary union of two independent nations

Uh, I have always been taught that some clan lords were bribed off with land and the rest slaughtered at Colloden. Sort of an ethnic/cultural cleansing ala Ireland and Cromwell. Help me understand if was misinformed about how it came together. I know my ancestors were “cleared” and forced to Canada, those that survived.


23 posted on 06/09/2014 1:23:26 PM PDT by epluribus_2 (he had the best mom - ever.)
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To: Winniesboy; epluribus_2
ep --> yes and no.

The English did invade from the Norman times until the Tudors

Yes, 1707 was a voluntary union, but in actually it was a "buy-out"

25 posted on 06/10/2014 3:22:56 AM PDT by Cronos (ObamaÂ’s dislike of Assad is not based on AssadÂ’s brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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