[Benji]

scotland has already left england, as its a seperate country.

[MR.K!]

scotland was NEVER ENGLAND !! scotland is scotland and always has and will be !! scotland has a union with england (the uk)

[spacebandit]

Originally posted by Benji
scotland has already left england, as its a seperate country.

Scotland is now, for all intent and purpose, a seperate country with most of its bills being paid by English taxpayers.

With members of parliament allowed to vote in two Parliaments, and who have voted one way for certian things in the Scottish parliament and another way in the English parliament : for example student fees to be done away with in Scotland, whilst student fees were raised in England, and the English bill was only passed becasue of the Scots MP's votes, yet the English taxpayer foots the Scottish bill - Scotland cannot support itself with its own internal taxation without such a massive hike in taxes that you would hear the sound of them running for the border if you were in the south of France


So the English Taxpayer pays

The same English taxpayers they like to piss on at any available opportunity

[Sophii3x]

Omg, I can't tell you how much I hate people refering to the UK as England! It's one of the most annoying things for me.

People ask me where I'm from, I say Wales and it's always 'Oh, that's in England right?' GRRR

I'd rather Wales to just be an independant country, and not a part of the UK

[Shaun]

Originally posted by Sophii3x
I'd rather Wales to just be an independant country, and not a part of the UK

Yeah...and I'd like pigs to fly.

No, sorry, I don't mean to be rude haha - but Wales as an independent country would be in a worse economic and political situtation than it is as part of the United Kingdom.

[geoking66]

With Americans, England is synonymous with the UK. I don't like it; the only acceptable use is when talking about European history before the UK in its present form existed. Also, when people say [Great] Britain it's really irritating because [Great] Britain is an island. Also, England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland are not technically countries. They're constituencies, in itself self-governing and self-divided "states" that form one country. You can't have four countries make one country, it doesn't make sense, does it?