I live in Yorkshire.
Conservative governments have shat upon the North for a long time, devastating it.
It is rebuilding itself, yet still does not garner the funding London does.
Hardly anyone in the north votes Conservative these days (save a few southern exclaves, lol).
FYI, there are roughly the same number of people living in Yorkshire as Scotland.
Would we like independence a la Kingdom of Northumbria? Aye, we are arrogant like that, why not!
Do we really want it, no.
A few more powers would be nice, restablish the Council of The North, set up by Edward IV please (no, not that shitty abortion that was the Yorkshire Assembly a few years back).
And there you go.
'Second class citizen'? At least you have some powers, don't get greedy now :P
And, haven't vast swathes of Westminster MP's been, you know, Scottish passing the laws that make their own country men, 'second class'?
Oh wait, that is exactly the gamble the SNP are trying to pull off, devo-max.
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The language was a little childish in places but what makes your crystal ball more reliable than his?
Do not forget, whatever you may believe, the 50+ million people of England, Wales & NI might just choose to be offended by Scotland leaving the Union.
A happy divorce would be nice, but the mud slinging has not even started really yet.
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Soemthing, something, Confederate States of America? Annexation of Hawaii? Annexation of all Aboriginal nations?
Just be careful, because your politcians aspouse the be the freedom mongers of the world, does not mean that is or has been the case.
The UK certainly doesn't, some secretly crave spending trillions on armed forces and invading a few old colonies
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Hundreds of years of propaganda on both sides.
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But they don't vote SNP. Would they be able to stay in the UK?