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re: Did You Know There Are Two Irelands? (European Smugness Anecdote)
Posted on 4/26/17 at 9:15 am to litenin
Posted on 4/26/17 at 9:15 am to litenin
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One of them kept saying that the only good Englishman was a dead Englishman.
This is the stuff that drives me nuts. The Scots have a Braveheart view of history instead of realizing that England and Scotland invaded one another for centuries during the Hundred Years War and the Wars of the Roses.
From the time of King James I until Queen Anne, the Stuarts ruled England. They were a Scottish dynasty. Since the early 1700's, they have been in a political union with England and Wales.
If the Scots are still so pissed about wars that occurred 7 centuries ago, you would think they'd be wary of joining a political union dominated by Germany, a country with which they were at war only 7 decades ago.
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Posted on 4/26/17 at 9:28 pm to SCLibertarian
Actually Brexit might do more for Irish reunification than anything before it.
The pathetic Scottish leadership wants a new independence referendum, thinking if the people vote for independence, the EU will accept them. But the EU has already said they don't want an independent Scotland. And now polls in Scotland are starting to tilt to pro-Brexit.
Ireland and NI fear the reestablishment of a "hard border" between them after Brexit. Unification would bring NI into Ireland and thus into the EU, thus eliminating the border entirely. I am all for it.
The pathetic Scottish leadership wants a new independence referendum, thinking if the people vote for independence, the EU will accept them. But the EU has already said they don't want an independent Scotland. And now polls in Scotland are starting to tilt to pro-Brexit.
Ireland and NI fear the reestablishment of a "hard border" between them after Brexit. Unification would bring NI into Ireland and thus into the EU, thus eliminating the border entirely. I am all for it.
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