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| Britain |
| Majority support partition of troubled country |
| 2006-11-27 |
| The United Kingdom should be broken up and Scotland and England set free as independent nations, according to a huge number of voters on both sides of the border. A clear majority of people in both England and Scotland are in favour of full independence for Scotland, an ICM opinion poll for The Sunday Telegraph has found. Independence is backed by 52 per cent of Scots while an astonishing 59 per cent of English voters want Scotland to go it alone. There is also further evidence of rising English nationalism with support for the establishment of an English parliament hitting an historic high of 68 per cent amongst English voters. Almost half – 48 per cent – also want complete independence for England, divorcing itself from Wales and Northern Ireland as well. Scottish voters also back an English breakaway with 58 per cent supporting an English parliament with similar powers to the Scottish one. |
| Posted by:Nimble Spemble |
| #10 I've forgotten this part of Brit history, but isn't SCOTLAND technically already a independent sovereign nation, or supposed to be, that just happens to wilfully "freely associate" with England and is allowed to observe-participate in the English Parliament. SCOTS "FORGOT" THEY WERE INDEPENDENT + SOVEREIGN, THAT LEGALLY/TECHNICALLY THEY HAVE THE RIGHT TO UNILATER LEAVE THE ANGLO-SCOTTISH "UNION" AT ANY TIME THEIR LOCAL GOVT CHOOSES??? The conquering English monarchs may had meant "unification" but instead wilfully proliferated the use of ambiguous, CONFEDERATIST diplom language and terms??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2006-11-27 22:58 |
| #9 Gorgeous, Querent! Where'd that come from? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2006-11-27 19:34 |
| #8 first came the Welsh who prayed on their knees and on their neighbors next came the Scots who took communion and anything else they could get their hands on then came the Irish who fought valiantly for a cause long after they'd forgotten what it was and lastly came the English who had always thought of themselves as a self-made nation thus relieving the Creator of an awful lot of responsibility... |
| Posted by: Querent 2006-11-27 18:58 |
| #7 That's mine. /Crazy Stephen, Braveheart |
| Posted by: .com 2006-11-27 18:38 |
| #6 But what about North Sea oil? |
| Posted by: Sneaze Shaiting3550 2006-11-27 18:31 |
| #5 Free the whales ! |
| Posted by: wxjames 2006-11-27 18:22 |
| #4 What about the Welsh and the different islanders? Oh and when they break up can we have Diego Garcia? |
| Posted by: 3dc 2006-11-27 17:46 |
| #3 frozen al---that's right it IS a Quagmire™. However, only one quagmire at a time is recognized by the MSM. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2006-11-27 16:24 |
| #2 Does this mean it's worse than Iraq? Al |
| Posted by: frozen al 2006-11-27 15:39 |
| #1 This Scotland independence thing has been going on for a long time. So where will they get the money to run the country. Who gets dibs on what is left of North Sea oil? The devil is definitely in the details. And what happens to the muzzies? How do they fit into the perloo? Heh. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2006-11-27 15:34 |