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End of the UK? Boris in hot water amid calls for independent Scotland and united Ireland
Daily Express ^ | 23 January 2021 | Simon Osborne

Posted on 01/27/2021 4:35:18 AM PST by Cronos

THE UK could soon be broken apart as the majority of voters in Scotland and Northern Ireland demand referendums on their future, a new survey has revealed.

The survey for the Times found a LucidTalk poll in Northern Ireland revealed a majority of 51 percent to 44 percent wanted a referendum about the border within the next five years.

It showed unionists held a lead over supporters of a united Ireland with the figures suggesting a 47 percent to 42 percent split.

But it found another 11 percent remained undecided - a high enough figure to threaten the future of the UK.

The Scottish poll, conducted by Panelbase, suggested the SNP was on course for a huge landslide in the Scottish parliament elections in May.

Scots voted 55-45 percent against independence in a referendum in 2014 but Brexit and the Government's handling of the Covid-19 crisis have bolstered support for the SNP, with most polls showing a majority now favour breaking away.

First minister Nicola Sturgeon would insist a crushing local election victory represented a mandate for a new independence vote.

...YouGov polls in England and Wales found support for Welsh independence has grown to 23 per cent from the teens just five years ago.


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We live in interesting times.

The end of the 101 year old United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and devolving into its constituent nations is a momentous occasion in world history. Now would be also the time for a free Basque state and Catalonia as well as Brittany and perhaps Bavaria

1 posted on 01/27/2021 4:35:18 AM PST by Cronos
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To: Cronos
A free Tibet would be nice too. But Biden would never push for such a thing. It would make his boss Mr. Xi angry.


2 posted on 01/27/2021 4:42:05 AM PST by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: Cronos

I do think we would be better off with more, and smaller, nation states. It seems like the best way to push back against Globalism and the One World Government crowd.


3 posted on 01/27/2021 4:42:31 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (I'm sorry the Q thing didn't work out. We were wrong about that.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Correct.


4 posted on 01/27/2021 4:44:13 AM PST by Cronos
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To: Cronos

So both want freedom from the UK while submitting to the EU...

Boy, they don’t make Celts like they used to.


5 posted on 01/27/2021 4:45:03 AM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds. )
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To: Cronos

Meanwhile, don’t forget Texas.


6 posted on 01/27/2021 4:45:05 AM PST by sanjuanbob
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To: Leaning Right
A Free Tibet is actually more critical than either Irish unity or Scottish independence --> the two parts of Ireland are free to interact with no real border. The only difference is political and that too is a minor inconvenience at best. For Scotland as well, independence is nice and may push them to be better.

But for Tibet it is a matter of life and death - they are a very distinct nation and would be assimilated like the Manchus into Han China

7 posted on 01/27/2021 4:46:11 AM PST by Cronos
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To: Cronos

Bavaria belongs with Austria.


8 posted on 01/27/2021 4:46:16 AM PST by Jim Noble (Lo there do I see the line of my people, back to the beginning)
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To: mewzilla

That image of Celts is 2070 years out of date. The Celts as the noble savage whether Gauls or Galatians or others was wiped out when they were settled down.


9 posted on 01/27/2021 4:47:50 AM PST by Cronos
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To: mewzilla

It’s kind of pathetic when you realize that “freedom” now means nothing more than having a say in which totalitarian bureaucracy rules over your life.


10 posted on 01/27/2021 4:49:30 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("There's somebody new and he sure ain't no rodeo man.")
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To: sanjuanbob

“ Meanwhile, don’t forget Texas.”
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Speaking as a NBT (native born Texan) this train left the station about thirty ~ forty years ago. Too many blue state refugees here now.


11 posted on 01/27/2021 4:52:45 AM PST by snoringbear (,W,E.oGovernment is the Pimp, )
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To: Jim Noble
As someone who has traveled across Germany and Austria, I agree with you -- there is far more in common between the Austrians and Bavarians in terms of culture and language than either have with northern Germans.

Incidentally truly speaking the Austrians and Bavarians speech should really be classified as a language rather than a dialect. I have friends who speak fluent Standard German but are lost with Schwabian or Bavarian or SchweizerDeutsch. And a friend who is a linguist and speaks fluent Swiss German (native) with Standard German and also Russian, Polish, Czech, Slovak and Ukrianian told me that the differences between Czech and Slovak or Ukrainian and Russian are far fewer than between Bavarian and Swiss German. and the differences between Bavarian or Schwabian and Standard German is similar to that between Polish and Russian.

12 posted on 01/27/2021 4:54:23 AM PST by Cronos
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To: mewzilla

The thing is that the EU is more accommodating of Irish needs than Westminster is of Scottish needs.


13 posted on 01/27/2021 4:55:25 AM PST by Cronos
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To: Cronos

Back in the early to mid-90’s the UN had a map for North America; the USA was divided into 5 geographical locations.

Below is the 1972 MAP Nixon was faced with:

https://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n1179.cfm

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA OFFICIALLY ABOLISHED THE INDIVIDUAL STATES IN 1972!
President Nixon, via Executive Order, quietly reorganized the United States’ 50 individual states with a 10-Region Plan. The implementation of this Regional Plan awaits only the right moment in world history, and the right set of crises.
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14 posted on 01/27/2021 5:00:19 AM PST by Jumper
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To: mewzilla

Sure don’t. Didn’t they use to eat their dead? Those were the good old days.


15 posted on 01/27/2021 5:11:26 AM PST by scottiemom (As a retired Texas public school teacher, I highly reccommend private school.)
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To: Cronos

And after the Bavarian-Austrian anschluss, the resulting entity can join the Visegrad group and accept Western Ukraine.

Everything old is new again.


16 posted on 01/27/2021 5:31:29 AM PST by Jim Noble (Lo there do I see the line of my people, back to the beginning)
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To: Cronos

FREE KURDISTAN!!!


17 posted on 01/27/2021 5:39:21 AM PST by rfreedom4u ("You may all go to hell and I will go to Texas")
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A Kurdistan would be essentially Iraqi Kurdistan plus Irani Kurdistan plus parts of south-west Turkey. And it would then inevitably align with or merge with Iran


18 posted on 01/27/2021 5:42:59 AM PST by Cronos
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To: Jim Noble; Cronos

Plus the South Tyrol


19 posted on 01/27/2021 5:47:36 AM PST by Winniesboy
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To: mewzilla
If Scotland became independent (or, more accurately, left the UK with the intention of joining the EU), several hundred thousand illegal American immigrants could take it over and make it a free country.

Look out Scotland - here we come! lol

20 posted on 01/27/2021 5:57:58 AM PST by TimSkalaBim
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