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[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I think I have a nice thing to say: It's not gonna last much longer.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The UK is not anywhere close to collapse?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That was a passing fancy, a dream of good government.

Reality has hit hard and they've moved on

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Many Scottish people were convinced to stay in the UK so they would have access to Europe (an independent Scotland wouldn't automatically get that).

Now that argument has vanished there is much less holding Scotland in the UK.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

The UK is not just England and Scotland.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Not going to happen for a long time

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ireland reunification first, then Scottish independence.

Can't see the Welsh going it alone.

Maybe a few villages in Cornwall will try something.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I don't think Wales has the economy to survive as an independent nation as much as some of the Welsh love the idea.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I give it 50 years

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Instance checks out