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I suspect the quickest way for Scotland, Wales or NI to break away from the UK would be to give England a vote on the matter however I think we're perhaps getting a little off topic here.

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I suspect the quickest way for Scotland, Wales or NI to break away from the UK would be to give England a vote on the matter however I think we're perhaps getting a little off topic here.

Going off topic on x404!!! How strange? :shock::grin:

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davrosG5 wrote:
I suspect the quickest way for Scotland, Wales or NI to break away from the UK would be to give England a vote on the matter however I think we're perhaps getting a little off topic here.

Going off topic on x404!!! How strange? :shock::grin:


I don't know what you mean :lol: :lol: :lol:

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Can you link to any of these opinion polls? I'm not having a go, I just can't find any.

Also, how are you so certain the rest of the UK doesn't want us? You know the North/South links with Scotland alone go a lot further than tribal football support, right? ;)


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There is significant support in Great Britain for Ireland to reunify as a political entity. A poll conducted by ICM for the The Guardian in 2001 revealed that 26% of Britons supported Northern Ireland remaining a part of the UK, while 41% supported a united Ireland.[6] The British Social Attitudes Survey in 2007 found 32.25% supported Northern Ireland remaining part of the UK, and 40.16% supported Irish reunification.[7] The poll has been run 19 times between 1983 and 2007, with each result being in favour of Irish unity. The highest support came in 1994 with 59.36% of the respondents supporting Irish reunification, while 24.09% supported Northern Ireland remaining in the UK.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Ireland

Present UK government policy seems to be "ask everyone but England". Of course England should never be able to force another country to stay in the union, but it should definitely get a say in whether it still wants to be tied to the other countries of the UK, be that NI or Scotland.


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It'll unlikely to happen though - it makes no strategic sense for a British PM whatsoever now and probably ever. It's not a goodwill winner never mind votes, Stormont is still an experiment at this point with an all-new IRA growing by the day, the RIR wouldn't take kindly to it, the PSNI is still 'half-British' to over-simplify it... Long story short, you'd be calling the UN over a desire to unite two countries with a history of uber-violence whose politicians want very little to do with each other. All for a spot of political housekeeping.

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The poll has been run 19 times between 1983 and 2007, with each result being in favour of Irish unity.

I wonder if anyone asked them "why?"

I suspect most people on the mainland know nothing of life in Ireland and just think it would make the map simpler, which isn't really a good enough reason to go changing other people's lives.

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Shame no-one on the mainland was asked what they think. Personally I'd rather see Ireland reunified under the banner of the Republic.

Why?

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