irateplatypus: ?
highthief: I don't know how well you know the situation in the UK, Scotland particularly, but the Scots have their own legal system, a hefty and growing measure of home rule, Nationalists in power in said parliament with growing support.
This wave of nationalist feeling only really started in the 50's for Scotland (forming of the SNP) and late 60's/early 70's for Wales (with language protests). Their tides are still rising, at least by any possible metric.
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Just to put some meat on those bones:
Scottish Parliament - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"I do not agree that the dog in a manger has the final right to the manger even though he may have lain there for a very long time. I do not admit that right. I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place." - Winston Churchill, 1937 --{ORLY?}--
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